With THE VEN NOEL JONES Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and John Humphrys
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
Five programmes in which Kerry Shale performs selections from WOODY ALLEN 'S s three volumes of thoughts on love sex, death and herring. 1: MrBig
New York private detective Kaiser Lupowitz is hired to find a very special missing person ... God.
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
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Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Cut-out Scraps by ARTHUR APPLETON
Read by Gerda Stevenson
Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG BBC Scotland
NEM, p110 0 praise ye the Lord (BBC HB 279); Psalm 15; Mark 8, vv 27-37; Take up thy cross (BBC HB 369) Stereo
Introduced by Penelope Lively from Boston, Massachusetts, where writers Jane Langton and Betty Levin discuss US children's books and publishing. Producer SALLY FELDMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2. 47pm)
Presented by John Howard For Factsheet No 24, write to:
You and Yours, BBC, London WIA 1AA
with Derek Cooper
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Sophie Meets a Clown. Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In Wiley, His Mama and the Hairy Man Black American folk tale retold by VIRGINIA HAMILTON with music by TOBY SIMS. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree Drums, Dragons and Dreams (6) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (e)
2.40 Folk Dance Wales
6: Twmpath (A grand folk dance) Script by PATRICIA HOLLISTER Stereo (e) (First broadcast on BBC Radio Cymru)
from Manchester
Two major exhibitions of traditional crafts have just opened in Manchester. Do they represent the work of women at their most submissive or something a little more subversive?
Serial: The Phoenix Tree (13) Presenter Lesley Judd
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE dramatised in eight parts by DAVID SPENSER
2: Sir Felix Carbury has become a director of the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway Company: he sits on the same board as the great merchant prince, Augustus Melmotte. His mother, Lady Carbury, is determined that her son shall marry Melmotte's daughter.
Narrator ALAN DUDLEY
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo
A series of six conversations with Cliff Morgan 3: Baroness Seear
Life peer, deputy leader of the SLDP, guru of British personnel management, author, and 'mother' of the 1975 Sex
Discrimination Act,
Nancy Seear has debated with vigour through four decades of British politics, armed always with an unbudging determination to 'sock 'em with the facts'.
Has she observed any heroes along the way?
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS. Stereo
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20* Test Match Report
5.25* PM Letters; 5.31 City News continued on FM5. 550-5.55
With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report
The weekend starts here with Barry Norman. Mike Dicken is on his phone with the Code
Cracker clues. 'You'll find me this week in Bristol, where the cream of the world's drivers will be racing for the grand prize.
You could win a prize too, if you find the key to where I am.' This week's Code Cracker symbol: X ->
Producer IRENE MALLIS
Written by GRAHAM HARVEY Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Margaret Howard Producer JULIAN HALE. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Rt Hon Sir Rhodes Boyson , mp Frank Dobson , mp
Charles Kennedy , mp
Jean Denton , deputy chairman Black Country Development Corporation
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm) Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door of 1963
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Cooke recalls the moment when the segregationist George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, attempted to prevent a black student enrolling at the University of Alabama in 1963.
The topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament. Presented by John Eidinow Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Paul Allen talks to British director Peter Brook , for many years one of the most influential figures in world theatre. His treatment of some of the great classics like
A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the creation of new works like the Mahabharata, currently nearing the end of a world tour, have left indelible impressions on audiences in locations ranging from the African bush to a Glasgow tramshed. Producer MIKE GREENWOOD (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Riceyman Steps by ARNOLD BENNETT , abridged in 15 parts by DOREEN MAHON Read by Martin Jarvis (15) Producer GERRY JONES (R)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
with Bill Wallis
David Tate and Sally Grace Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON , JOHN OFARRELL PETER HICKEY , BILL MATTHEWS ROBERT LINFORD , MAX HANDLEY GED PARSONS , DAVID BADDIEL
ROB NEWMAN , ALISON RENSHAW
SIMON BULUVANT , MARK BRISENDEN PAUL B. DAVIES and others
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm L 99