Producer TIM FINNEY
With GENERAL EVA BURROWS , International Leader of the Salvation Army. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Peter Jefferson
by A.A. Milne
Read by Alan Bennett
(R)
('Winnie-the-Pooh' and 'The House at Pooh Corner' album and cassette available from retailers)
It has to start somewhere, so it's off with a bang - and perhaps a few whimpers.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo
A Question of Money (2)
More questions on personal finance sent in by listeners and answered by the panel.
The panel Louise Botting , Christopher Gilchrist and Philip Hardman.
In the Chair Vincent Duggleby
Finding Out by ELIZABETH EVANS
Read by Mary Wimbush
When a letter comes from the bank, with some alarming news, Loma only laughs. But then the suspicions begin.... Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 9; 0 worship the Lord
(BBC HB 267); Psalm 65; Ephesians 3, w 1-12;
Lord of all hopefulness (BBC HB 309). Stereo
Cardiff, a great sea port city on the Bristol Channel and the capital of Wales, is Brian Johnston 's destination as Down Your Way celebrates its 40th birthday.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Readers TIM PIGOTT-SMITH and DIANA BISHOP
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR
The trousers made from bottles, the silent lavatory and flavoured hard-boiled eggs.... In the first You and Yours of 1987, Malcolm Stacey looks back at the more bizarre consumer news of the year gone by. Producer CHRIS VAN SCRAICK Editor KEN VASS
by JIM ELDRIDGE starring and 1: Priorities featuring and There's a superstition 'Troubles always come in threes'. Mr Beeston wouldn't disagree, in what is a hectic start to the spring term.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
Stories from Piggery Green by VALERIE WILDING Read by TREVOR HARRISON Today: Here Comes Piper! (R)
Introduced by Jenni Murray
Divorce: the legal and financial implications examined by a solicitor, a barrister and an accountant.
Serial: Equal Rites by TERRY PRATCHETT abridged in ten episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Sarah Badel (1)
When the wizard Drum Billet dies, and bestows his magic staff on a new-born child, centuries of hallowed custom are sent tumbling. For the baby isn't, as supposed, the eighth son of an eighth son, but a daughter. And everyone knows 'Women can't be Wizards'!
(Music: Grofe's Aviation Suite) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
A Bullet in the Ballet. Stereo
Michael Oliver samples paperback books, including
Rudyard Kipling 's work which comes out of copyright this year; plus some new volumes of poetry and music guides.
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
"The most striking thing about the city of Venice is the complete absence of the smell of horse dung.'
A further round of quoting and unquoting, with Nigel Rees putting the questions to
Sir David Hunt , diplomat and Mastermind, Miles Kington , humorist of The Times, Peter Jeffrey , actor, and Freddie Trueman , great fast bowler Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Grace Hurditch was 26 in 1903 when she met The Rev Henry Grattan Guinness. He was a widower of 67. It was love at first sight and within a fortnight they had agreed to marry. Michele Guinness, their granddaughter-in-law, tells their love story with the help of their letters. With Brigit and Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
The Royal Institution in London has a dual role: to conduct science and to communicate it. The Institution's famous
Christmas lectures were started by its best-known director,
Michael Faraday over 100 years ago. Today they are televised and the nature of the science they communicate has changed. Peter Evans explores the latest research developments. Producer JENNY WALKER
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
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In the Venn Country by JOHN HALL
'Ruin is all my tale,' says the Narrator - ruin certainly is the tale of the Venns, who are faced with the loss of their Somerset farm to the bailiffs unless the young Rev Ron Vole can come to the rescue....
Narrator PHILIP BOND
Other parts by IAN MACFARLANE. PHILIP BOND and DAVID JACKSON Directed by BRIAN MILLER
'Glasgow had the edge over everyone else,' said Arts
Minister Richard Luce when he announced that the Empire's Second City was to be the European City of Culture for the year 1990, beating eight other British contenders, including the arch-rival Edinburgh. What makes a city a cultural centre? Presented by Paul Allen Producer HANS PIETSCH Editor ANNE WINDER
The Hottentot Room by CHRISTOPHER HOPE abridged in 12 episodes byjOHNSCOTNEY
Read by Jack Klaff (l)
It is to the Hottentot Room that exiles, expatriates and drifters flock to be reminded of Africa. Run by the eccentric and beautiful Berliner, Frau Katie , it is a club with no application for membership: you are chosen.
Produced and directed by A. J. QUINN
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Josephine Tey the novelist,
Gordon Daviot the playwright and Elizabeth Mackintosh the physical training teacher from Inverness were one and the same person. Joanna Hickson traces the career and the personality behind the three identities.
With contributions from Sir John Gielgud ,
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies and Allan Massie.
Reader VIVIEN HEILBRON Compiled by TINCH MINTER Producer BRUCE YOUNG (R)
followed by an interlude
