with CANON DAN HARDY Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8,00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Christopher Dunkley , of the Financial Times, airs your comments about the BBC. Producer JEAN SNEDEGAR
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Write to: Feedback. BBC London WIA 4WW
Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Hit and Run by BARBARA HORROCKS
Read by Sharon Baylis Producer LUCY LUNT BBC Pebble Mill
NEM, p38; Jesus shall reign where'er the sun (BBC HB 60);
Psalm 67; Colossians 1, vv 11-20;
Come ye faithful, raise the anthem (BBC HB 123) Stereo
Leonard Barras reads two more of his fairly likely stories:
Find Truthfor Yourself and The Turnip in the Night.
'She consulted Dr Duncan, who said this might be a psychic experience, but he was not prepared to rule out
Wengelfurst's Syndrome, which he had read about only that morning in the Daily Herald
Home Doctor and was anxious to pin on somebody.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
John Howard with the latest news and advice for consumers
Derek Cooper with his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Wee Chick and Big Eddie Meet the Pirates Stereo
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Headmaster with the Big Red Nose by MARJORIE NEWMAN Producer COLIN SMITH. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree The Amazing Secret Music-Mazed) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR with PYEWACKETT Written and produced by BARRY GIBSON Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Scottish Traditional Dancing From Shetland to the Borders Scottish country dancing is still very much alive and kicking! BILL TORRANCE invites enthusiastic country dancers to a variety of social occasions which focus on some of the most popular traditional dances. This week: The Laird's Annual Ball, Inverness Producer PAM WARDELL BBC Scotland. Stereo (e)
from Birmingham
Introduced by Dilly Barlow
The programme that's topical and timeless, practical, personal and political.
Serial: Fiela's Child (10)
JOHN BUCHAN 'S classic tale of romance and adventure, dramatised in three episodes by TREVOR ROYLE. 2: The First Battle or How a Middle-Aged Crusader Accepted a Challenge
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland. Stereo
Four programmes looking at film versions of famous novels 2: Pride and Prejudice
A film is not a book and when Pride and Prejudice is translated to the cinema no one expects Hollywood to mirror faithfully Jane Austen 's novel. But Christopher Cook illustrates just how much of the English writer's irony finds its way into the MGM movie, with soundtrack highlights and readings from the book by Anna Massey. Producer WENDY CLAY
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Gordon Clough continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report
Tom Boswell puts an extra spark into the Going Places charabanc, expertly steered by Clive Jacobs with a little extra direction from Alanah Martin. Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
with Margaret Howard
Producer ANNE HOWELLS. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke ,
QC, MP
Minister for Trade and Industry The Rt Hon Gerald Kaufman , mp Tariq Ali , author
Sue Slipman , Director, National Council for One-Parent Families tackle the issues raised by an audience in Cambridge. Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
Geoffrey Goodman casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers. Producer SHEILA COOK
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
McCarran-Walter Act repealed
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Congress repeals embarrassing Act which banned visitors from the US because of their political beliefs. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Gentle Roar
'I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove.'
Bottom stated the power and versatility of the actor's voice to his fellow mechanicals.
Michael Billington talks to the Voice Director of the Royal Shakespare Company, Cicely Berry, and to actor David Suchet and actress Fiona Shaw about the range of the instrument.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Bevis(lO)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
It's hard-hitting, it's side-splitting, it's something else ending with 'ing'.
Week Ending: a satirical view of the week's news will Bill Wallis David Tate , Sally Grace and Royce Mills
Written by MARK BURTON
JOHN O'FARRELL. PETE SINCLAIR PAUL B. DAVIES . STEVE PUNT
RICHARD QUICK . MIKE COLEMAN
BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT LINFORD MAX HANDLEY , PETER HICKEY GED PARSONS and others
Producer JO BUNTING. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)
followed by an interlude
Help Yourself: Very Small Business Presented by DILLY BARLOW (e) at 12.30
5: Start-Up at 12.40
6: Advice and Assistance at 12.50
7: Advertising and Promotion and at 1.00
8: How Is It Going?