including a five-day weather forecast. Producer TIM FINNEY
withDR PAULA CLIFFORD
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 DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*,8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
with Peter Jefferson
goes into the BBC Sound
Archives to investigate the habits of island people. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
Producer ELAINE BEDELL. Stereo
Louise Botting with the latest news from the world of personal finance.
The Box File by JEREMY TIPTAFT Read by Kim Wall Producer SHEILA FOX
from
St George's Church, Belfast conducted by THE REV NOEL BATTYE with the PRIORY SINGERS directed by HARRY GRINDLE
Father of heaven, whose love profound (BBC HB 290); 0 Lord, give thy Holy Spirit (Talhs); Christ whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137) BBC Northern Ireland
Presented by Charles Tomlinson Readers DIANA BISHOP and PATRICK ROMER
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS. BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Debbie Thrower Editor KEN VASS
Chairman Robert Robinson First Round: North
Brian Dentoh (civil servant) Michael Sandiford (crown prosecutor)
James Hollingsworth (teacher) Jorge Johnson
(laboratory technician)
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
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Presented by Brian Widlake Editor MARTIN COX
1.55 Listening Corner This week: Busy Places, Quiet Places Presented by JANE HARDY and ALVIN STARDUST Today's story: Sophie Gets a New Puppy by ALTHEA BRAITHWAITE Script written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN. Stereo (R)
2.05 Playtime The Enchanted Forest Presented by ALEC SABIN and SANDRA KERR. Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.20am FM)
2.20 Science Scope Conservation Matters by STEVE ROBIN With FRED HARRIS and JULIE RICHMOND. Stereo (e)
2.40 Whirligig Unit 5: Maths Pack 9: Moving Moggie 10: Puzzle Corner Stereo (e)
The programme that celebrates the struggles and achievements of women marks the centenary of the match girls' strike, led by the remarkable social reformer Annie Besant.
Serial: The Phoenix Tree (9) Presenter Jenni Murray Editor CLARE SELERIE. GREY
A play by MICHAEL Z. LEWIN
Stereo
Christopher Bigsby talks to
Kazuo Ishiguro , author of An
Artist of the Floating World, the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year award winner, and of A Pale View of Hills, which won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Prize.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 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 programme)
Science on 4 with Peter Evans plus reports from Geoff Watts , Georgina Ferry and Alun Lewis. A Radio Science Unit production
by STEPHEN DUNSTONE
A young girl's ex-fiance discovers that she has become a member of a quasi-religious sect living in retreat in the country. Persuaded by her parents, he tries to reclaim her but finds his mission is not as simple as he had supposed. With and MUSiC by NICHOLAS BANNAN PAUL cox (cello)
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Presented by Michael Oliver including a review of the Royal Film Premiere, an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust. Producer LIS EDWARDS
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
Riceyman Steps by ARNOLD BENNETT abridged in 15 parts by DOREEN MAHON
Read by Martin Jarvis (11) (R)
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
FM joins at 12.10
