followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers
Producer TIM FINNEY
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with ROSEMARY WAKELIN
BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
Presented by Chris Lowe and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COL VILE .
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Harriet Cass
seeks enlightenment in the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9. 30pm)
What has the week ahead in store? Anticipation and speculation with special studio guests.
Producer ELAINE BEDELL. Stereo
Incident at Merrymans Lane by PETER HORRIDGE
Read by Peter Sallis Producer SHEILA FOX
Rejoice, the Lord is King;
Acts 2, vv 1-11; Come down, 0 love divine; Jesus is Lord BBC Wales
Presented by Sean Street Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE and BONNIE HURREN
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR
The only daily consumer programme on network radio Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS
If you are concerned about health, education, housing or financial matters, or if you are the victim of incompetent or unhelpful traders or authorities, write to: You and Yours, BBC London W1A 1AA
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman Robert Robinson First Round - North West Alan Coates
(retired industrial chemist) John Wilson (civil servant) Olive Behan (peripatetic remedial teacher)
Anthony Martin (librarian) The programme includes Beat the Brains.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor MARTIN COX
1.55 Listening Corner This week: Rain, Snow and Winds Blow Stories from the Listening Corner weather house Today's story: Winston's Sunglasses by GUY HUTCHINS Weatherman IAN MCCASKILL Weatherlady MOLLY WEIR Presented by JOANNE ZORIAN Script written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN. Stereo (R)
2.05 Playtime Dream of Dragons Presented by VICKY LICORISH and IAIN LAUCHLAN. Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast Friday 11.20am FM)
2.20 Science Scope Out and About - Fieldwork by STEVE ROBIN with FRED HARRIS and JULIE RICHMOND. Stereo (e)
2.40 Whirligig Unit 5: Maths Pack Mathematical plays, stories, games and puzzles 5: Tall Story
6: Thinking about Shapes Stereo (e)
The programme that puts a female perspective on politics, places and people, finance, fashion and food. Serial: B-Movieby STAN BARSTOW abridged in eight episodes by JANET HICKSON
Read by Christian Rodska (5) Presenter Jenni Murray Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
A play by CHRISTOPHER REASON Stereo
Tate of the North
Albert Dock, in Liverpool, is surrounded by Victorian warehouses. The latest addition, adapted by James Stirling , is the Tate Gallery. Richard Cork reports on the birth of the gallery and talks to curator Richard Francis and others who brought the project to fruition.
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Presented by Frances Coverdale and Valerie Singleton
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters Letters to: PM, BBC London W1A 1AA
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Presented by Derek Cooper
(Revised re-broadcast of last Friday's 's programme)
Science on 4
by the Brazilian playwright ALFREDO DIAS GOMES translated by OSCAR FERNANDEZ adapted by DENYS HAWTHORNE and WALTER ACOSTA with and A peasant is determined to fulfil a religious promise, but the priest denies him entrance to the church.
Directed by WALTER ACOSTA. Stereo
(R)
Mark Steyn presents tonight's arts magazine which includes a report on the winners of the Cannes film festival. Producer JULIAN MAY
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
Nights at the Alexandra by WILLIAM TREVOR abridged in five episodes by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Denys Hawthorne (1)
'I am a 58-year old man - a cinema proprietor without a cinema - yet when I sit among the empty seats, memory is enough.'
Harry remembers how Frau Messinger and her German husband changed the course of his young life when they brought the magic of the silver screen to his provincial Irish home.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Photography (RV) With GEOFFREY BAWCUTT and BRIAN COE Chaired by LAURIE MACMILLAN (R) (e) at 12.30 The Science of the Lens and at 12.50 The Chemistry of the Film
