Producers TIM FINNAY and REBECCA POW
With THE REV STEPHEN OUVER Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Laurie Macmillan
shifts the BBC Sound Archives for news of the past with a meaning for the present. Producer HELEN FRY
Live and lively conversation as Russell and his guests anticipate the week ahead. Producers ELAINE BEDELL and IAN GARDHOUSE. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
Every week Money Box reports on the latest developments in the fields of investment, insurance, mortgages, social security and tax, and helps to sort out the type of financial problems that crop up in everyone's life.
Change in the Air by ELIZABETH EDWARDS
Read by Sheila Donald Producer LOUISE DALZIEL BBC Scotland
from St George 's Church, Belfast
Conducted by THE REV TREVOR WILLIAMS with the CHOIR OF ST DOMINIC'S HIGH SCHOOL conductor GERARD O'RAWE
0 come, 0 come Emmanuel; Psalm 121; Lord what love have I (Croft)
BBC Northern Ireland
Presented by Vernon Scannell Readers MARTIN JARVIS and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Susan Rae EditorPATTAYLOR
Write to: You and Yours, BBC, London WIA 4WW
In the last programme of the present series,
Sheila Hancock 's guests are
Dinsdale Landen , Lynda Baron , Joss Ackland and Liz Smith. They answer questions about theatre, tell us what advice they'd give to a young actor, and talk about their favourite and least favourite roles. Researchers JENNY BAYNES and BRIAN HAYWARD
Producer BILL DARE. Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor MARTIN COX
1.55 Listening Corner This week: Where Do You Live? Presented by SHEELAGH GILBEY Storyteller CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP Today's story: Old MacDonald Had Some Flats by JUDITH BARRETT Script written by LEE PRESSMAN Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.05 Playtime Let's 's Go to Buy a Present Presented by JANE HARDY and iain LAUCHLAN. Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.20am VHFIFM)
2.20 Science Scope
10: Furs, Fibres and Fabrics Stereo (R)(e)
2.40 Whirligig Unit 2: Nuts and Bolts 5: HAZEL O'CONNOR in 'Beryl and the Brainstomers' i: Light as a Feather j: Success or Disaster Stereo (e)
The programme that invites men to eavesdrop on what women talk about - and to join in. Presenter Jenni Murray
Serial: Harriette Wilson 's Memoirs abridged in 15 episodes by HARRIET SMYTH
Read by Patricia Hodge This week: episodes 1-5
'I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of 15, the mistress of the Earl of Craven....' Thus begin these deliciously scandalous 19th-century memoirs, which the great Duke of Wellington dismissed with the phrase 'publish and be damned!'
(Music: Vivaldi's Oboe Concerto) Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
by EMLYN WILLIAMS (1905-87) adapted by BARBARA COUPER with The faith which began in the hills of Palestine is re-kindled in a small Welsh village at the end of the Crimean War.
Directed by ENYD Williams . Stereo (R)
Playing the Great Game
Graham Greene 's predicament in the 1950s - when his depiction of the secret service nearly brought him to the Old Bailey - underlines the extent to which spy fiction takes its cue from the real world. But, given the current climate of dissolution in the espionage trade and the spirit of glasnost with its promise of new openness, have the spy writers anything more to say?
Richard Mayne reports.
Presented by Michael Woodhead and Valerie Singleton Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Presented by Derek Cooper
by FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER freely translated by STEPHEN SPENDER with and Earl of In 1587, the dank, gloomy castle of Fotheringay holds prisoner
Mary Stuart within its walls. To the world - one of the most fascinating and romantic figures of the age, but to
Elizabeth Tudor she is a threat to her throne and even her life. The play, which is being broadcast to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Mary's death, portrays this tempestuous relationship as it moves inexorably to its tragic conclusion. with CHRISTOPHER WILSON (lute)
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT Editor ANNE WINDER
Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse The first of five stories by MURIEL SPARK
Read by Phyillida Hewat
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Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Biotechnology Presented by LIZ WICKHAM Producer PETER WARD
12.30 What IS Biotechnology? Stereo (R)(e) and at 12.50 Protein Manufacture (RV) The story of the development and manufacture of mycroprotein written by TIM HAINES Stereo (R)(e)
