Producers TIM FINNEY and REBECCA POW
With THE REV STEPHEN OLIVER 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 CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Eugene Fraser
For the peoples of the East, an individual's animal sign plays a central role in the formation of their relationships.
With help from the BBC's
Sound Archives and comments from a well known animal couple, Barry Fantoni tests the accuracy of this ancient game. Producer ANDREW PARFITT
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
What has the week ahead in store? Anticipation and speculation with special studio guests.
Producers ELAINE BEDELL and IAN GARDHOUSE. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting News from the world of personal finance and impartial advice for all those trying to make the most of their money.
Camel of Zayid by STANLEY WILSON
Read by Garard Green Producer MITCH RAPER
Malachi 3, v 16 to 4, v 6; Worship the Lord; Wele cawsom y
Meseia; The Lord will come
BBC Wales
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 Malcolm Stacey Editor PAT TAYLOR
Write to: You and Yours. BBC. London WIA 4 WW
A serial in three parts by JAMES FOLLETT
2: Harbinger of Death ...
Sacked from the laboratory in Antarctica, Glyn and Julia try to convince the authorities that the world is in danger from an iceberg half the size of Holland. Narrator SEAN BARRETT
Other parts played by STEPHEN HATTERSLEY. KIM WALL and RACHEL GURNEY Directed by ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo (R)
Presented by Nick Worrall Editor MARTIN COX
1.55 Listening Corner Old Songs, New Songs Songs and rhymes with SANDRA KERR and TONY AITKEN Today's songs: Rise and Shine Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R) English Resources (2) at 2.05 People Speaking Extracts from broadcasts for use in the oral communication section of GCSE
1: Speaking for Effect Compiled by CATHY DRYSDALE Producer PETER FOZZARD. Stereo (e) and at 2.45 Introducing, The Village by the Sea by ANITA DESAI Producer MICHAEL BARTLETT Stereo (e)
The programme that puts you in touch with finance and fashion, politics and poetry, and the lives of women past and present, today examines the history of the courtesan - including the subject of the current serial,
Harriette Wilson.
Her memoirs, read by Patricia Hodge , have been abridged in 15 episodes by HARRIET SMYTH. This week: episodes 11-15. Presenter Jenni Murray Editor CLARE SELERIEGREY
by ROY APPS. Stereo
Traditional Heirs (part 1)
What's happened to traditional music in Britain since Cecil Sharp roved out in the early years of this century?
Andy Kershaw finds out.
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Presented by Derek Cooper
(Revised re-broadcast of last Friday 's programme)
by MARTYN WADE
Classical Greece is the setting for this rumbustious comedy based on elements of four works by Aristophanes. The playwright himself guides us through the intricacies of the plot, which centres around the plight of Dicaiopolis, an impoverished farmer trying to save himself from financial ruin brought about by the war with Sparta, and not helped by his gambling son and dissolute father.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Eritrea was federated to Haile Selassie's Ethiopia in 1952. Guerrillas have been fighting for independence for the province since 1962, first against the Emperor, then against the Dergue. The writer Jeremy Harding recently travelled to the war zone.
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer MIKE GREENWOOD Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
Jackdaw Cake by NORMAN LEWIS abridged in 12 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Ray Smith (6)
Producer PETER KING. Stereo
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
