A meditation for the beginning of a new day
With Brian Wilson
BBC Northern Ireland
Presented by John Humphrys and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With Bob Finigan
7.00, 8.00 Today's News
Read by Brian Perkins
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Andy Smith
7.45* Thought for the Day
with John Livesey
by the Duke of Pirajno abridged in ten episodes by Jane Mays
Read by Julian Glover
The Duke of Pirajno first landed in Africa in 1924. Italy was a colonial power and the young duke had been posted as a medical officer to a camp in Libya. His patients included a man with an unshakeable belief that a snake was lying curled up in the pit of his stomach.
BBC Pebble Mill
(R)
with Russell Harty and studio guests, indulging in some lively speculation on the week ahead.
(Stereo)
(Broadcast on Saturday at 12 noon)
by John Maher
Read by Dermot Crowley
from St Andrew's and St George's Parish Church, Edinburgh
Led by Michael A. Simpson
Hymns: Every valley shall be exalted; Be not afraid; Give ear unto me;
Reading: Matthew 9, vv 9-13Ã
Organist Tom Laing-Reilly
Choir director Peter Douglas
BBC Scotland
Presented by Anne Stevenson
Readers Peter Jeffrey and Lin Sagovsky
BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! [address removed]
Presented by Susan Rae
Twenty-five years since 1962 edition
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Bob Table
Accompanied by Colin Sell
Chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake
(Broadcast last Friday)
1.55 Listening Corner
This week: What a Lot of Noise!
Presented by Bill Torrance
Today's story: Noisy Natalie Goes Shopping, written and read by Wendy Craig (Stereo) (R)
2.05 Playtime: Let's Go to the Seaside
Presented by Janet Palmer and Tony Aitken
(Stereo) (e)
(Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.20am VHF/FM)
2.20 Science Scope: 1: Shirley Holmes and the Case of the Disappearing Salt (Stereo) (R) (e)
2.40 Whirligig: Unit 1: Animal Corner: 1: Rodents
Terry Nutkins shows how to care for pets at school and at home.
(e)
Back Pages: 102
Introduced by Jenni Murray Good For You?
Are you eating what you should? Jane Suthering looks into some shopping baskets to see whether what we're buying adds up to a well-balanced diet. Serial: Prenez Garde by TERENCE DE VERE WHITE abridged in 11 episodes by JANET HICKSON
Read by Robert Hickson (5) Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
0 RECIPE TIMES: page 94
The Fancy Man by MIKE STOTT
Stereo
The East is Read
Christopher Cook talks to writers and translators to chart the long march of Chinese literature.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Bill Frost
Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
In the Kent resort of Margate,
Doris Pargeter looks back on 25 years of providing a home for the men no one wanted. Narrator Gordon Cooper
The Kite Flyer by ROSE TREMAIN
Anthony is the vicar of a country parish.
'If he had never discovered God, none of the events I shall relate to you would have happened.
Although it is a strange way of expressing it, you could almost say that God was an accessory to the crime he was eventually to commit.'
Directed by PENNY GOLD . Stereo (Re-broadcast next Saturday)
On the occasion of the Jewish New Year. the Chief Rabbi,
Sir Immanuel Jakobovits. talks to Trevor Barnes about mankind's conquest of nature and the implications of scientific experiments and medical research on our future. Producer CAROLINE DONNE. Stereo
Presented by Paul Allen Producer SALLY MARMION Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
Behind the Wall
Written and abridged in 12 parts by COLIN THUBRON
Read by John Rowe
6: Malaise in Shanghai
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS. Stereo
Presented by David Sells Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
English Resources 1
12.30 School Friends and School Days, including Hiding Out by IRENE RAWNSLEY and at 12.50 What Have You Got On? by DAVID WILLIAMS Stereo (e)
