With THE REV JOHN DAVIES Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
3: Baked Beans. Stereo
Dr Anthony Clare 's subject is Leslie Kenton. author of such current bestsellers as The Joy of Beauty and Ageless Ageing. Researcher RONNI DAVIS Producer MICHAEL EMBER
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Written and read in five parts by Brian Wright 4: DIY or Die
DIY devotees are evangelicals, fundamentalists. They believe that everybody can and must be converted to the one true religion, the worship of household gods.
Producer MATTHEW WALTERS (First broadcast on Radio 3)
Jeanine McMullen with a programme full of the surprises to be found in the countryside.
There's up-to-date news on laws, fashions and information affecting those who live in rural Britain and What's On offers a guide to this week's shows and demonstrations.
Producer MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol
The Laying On of Hands by ELIZABETH MCGREGOR
Read by Jennifer Piercy Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM. p118; Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC hb 323); Psalm 67; John 4, vv 43-54; Give to our God immortal praise (BBC HB 6) Stereo
Forty Years of Indian Independence
A five-part series in which the BBC's Delhi correspondent, < Mark Tully. charts India s progress over four decades.
Ranging from the corridors of power to the teeming pavements and villages outside, his view of the sub-continent combines archive material and personal anecdotes with the sounds and voices of contemporary India. 3: Old Godsfor New..
The dilemmas of modernising a deeply traditional society, and especially its attitudes to religion, caste and the role of women.
Producer ZAREER MASANI
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 7.40pm)
Five forays beyond the farm gate, in which Phil Smith catches a whiff of the everyday dramas of agricultural life - at livestock level. 4: Being Bovine
Compiled by PHIL SMITH Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Pebble Mill
tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day affect you and your fsmilv
Presented by John Buckley
Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. 7: W.C. Fields
Professor Eustace McGargle , Ambrose Wolfinger and T D Frothingwell Bellows were just some of the comic characters Fields played in films. But he didn't act, he represented an attitude which hardly ever change. It was that of someone who considers himself the only sane man in a world of unfriendly interlopers or evident lunatics. Either way, they are out to do him down - and, if possible, must be done down first.
Producer WENDY CLAY
Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
BEN BAZELL reads Mr Antonio Goes to the Fair (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the week: Peter Imbert Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force Serial:
Charters and Caldicott (10)
The Frog Princess A modern fairy tale by ANNE GORING with and A beautiful princess, from a faraway land, is bewitched as a baby by a wicked godmother and transported to the dreary suburbs of a dreary industrial city. But, as Brenda enters middle age, she discovers within herself a talent that might, after all, take her back to Fairy Land.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo (R)
Dannie Abse presents seven programmes of poetry about music 2: Musicians
Readers ANDREW SACHS and JUNE barrie
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
By Yourself
British actor John Sessions and Canadian Robert Lepage devise and perform their own shows. These soloists talk to
Christopher Bigsby about how they are trying to change the language of theatrical performance.
Producer RACHEL YORKE
Presented by Bill Frost and Nick Worrall continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
by ROBIN BELL
The time: night
The scene: a suburban home The action: a burglar quietly ransacks the house.
There is a special reason for his being there.
Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland
Stereo/Binaural (R)
The full binaural effect can be heard only through stereo headphones
In the fourth of eight programmes, Fritz Spiegl offers examples of some of the music that used to be played at seaside resorts - on bandstands, in palm courts and in concert halls. Producer RAY ABBOTT Stereo
The patient is a young woman who's suffered from severe epilepsy since childhood. Performing the operation is Bob Weekes , one of the country's leading neuro-surgeons.
Vincent Kane guides you through one of the most complex and delicate operations known to medical science. Producer MARTYN INGRAM
(First broadcast on Radio Wales)
Clockwork by COLLIN MARTYR with Why is Roebuck sitting on Wimbledon station at midnight with a bar of chocolate and a brick? Is he finally going to discover the awful truth about the 8.11 to London Bridge?
Directed by BERT COULES Stereo (R)
Adventures in the jazz trade byJeffNuttall
'In 1959 our band moved to London and became
Jeff Nuttall 's Exhuberant Seven. We played in scout huts. parish halls and clubrooms to pimply hoardes in Acker Bilk bowlers and exquisite schoolgirls with a black-stockinged crime-provoking St Trinians look....' Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition which includes a report by Paul Allen from the 1987 Edinburgh Festival. Producer SALLY makmion
(Revre-broadcast tomorroicat 4.35pm)
In Custody (8)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news. background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report: market trends
followed by an interlude
