Followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers.
Producers TIM FINNEY and DYLAN WINTER
A meditation for the beginning of the new day with THE REV GRAHAM COOK BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
A look ahead with Simon Vance
reflects on the Spanish connection when he sets sail into the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JULIAN HALE
Producer KAYE COLEMAN. Stereo
with Jeanine McMullen
Aunt Lil Goes to Hollywood by RICHARD ROWE
Read by George Layton Producer SHEILA FOX
Great God of wonders; John 4, vv 4-26; Jesus, name above all names; The light of the morning BBC Wales
Beccles
Stanley Ellis, John Grundy and Dr Juliet Barker explore a town of knapped flint and crinkle-crankle walls. They also visit the home of some of the world's best-known reference books, Britain's first cattle breeding centre, and take a bird's-eye view of Beccles, by helicopter.
Producer GEOFF SARGIESON BBC North East
11.30 Open Forum: University Magazine
11.50 The Classical Orchestra
Presented by Fleur Adcock Readers GARARD GREEN and ELIZABETH BELL
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR
A Nation of Volunteers
Debbie Thrower looks at the history of voluntary work in Britain today. The National Council for Voluntary
Organisations, the umbrella body for many of these agencies, this year celebrates its 60th birthday. But who are the people working in these groups? What areas are they working in? What's the general public's impression of them and what does the future hold? Producer CHRIS BURNS
A nationwide general knowledge contest
Chairman Robert Robinson Third Semi.Final:
North, Wales and Scotland Paul Monaghan (retired teacher)
Michael Sandiford (crown prosecutor) Will Sugden
(retired accountant) lain McTaggart Campbell (wine waiter)
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Question set by LAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor MARTIN cox
This week: Come Along on a Caribbean Cruise with Me! RUSTIE LEE and BILL TORRANCE go island hopping.
Script written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN. Stereo
Sticky rock and slippery rocks, neon arcades and dusky discos ...the daily charabanc ride for women visits Britain's holiday resorts to see if there's more to being beside the seaside than being beside the sea.
Serial: The Healing Art by A.N. WILSON abridged in 13 episodes by MEG CLARKE
Read by Alwyne Taylor (13)
(Music: Franck's Prelude. Chorale and Fugue)
Presenter Dilly Barlow Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
A play by George Baker
Hong Kong: Golden Harvest and Young Shoots
Christopher Cook explores two contrasting areas of Hong Kong arts.
Presented by Robert Williams and Gordon Clough
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 PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Presented by Derek Cooper
by NICK FISHER with and
Jeanne Duval is most commonly known simply as the black mistress of the 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire. Her portrait was painted by Manet and she was a friend of the pioneering photographer Nadar. Yet little is actually known about her life - even her place of birth and death remain a mystery.
What connection can there be between this and a conversation today between an English private detective and his client over a couple of bottles of whisky?
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY . Stereo
Michael Oliver presents the arts magazine which tonight includes a revival of Man of Mode by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and a report on events marking the William and Mary tercentenary.
Producer SALLY MARMION
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
The Bible in Spain by GEORGE BORROW abridged in 15 episodes by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by John Franklyn-Robbins (1) Dispensing religious tracts from an old carpet bag,
George Borrow spent the years 1835-40 adrift in Spain on behalf of the Bible Society. These years - 'the most happy of my existence' - were filled with his adventures among the gypsies, bandits and the liveliest of travelling companions. Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
FM joins at 12.10
