with JUDITH O'NEILL. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON GOMI 'ERTZ
7.00.8.00 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*,8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
10: The Journey North. Stereo
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from & 00am
Three weeks in the lives of a group of Lichfield GPs.
A critically injured road-crash victim makes a miraculous recovery; tea in the garden with a terminally-ill young girl who is moving away, and a round of golf with the vicar.
Producers BRIAN KING and SARAH ROWLANDS. BBC Pebble Mill (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 8. 15pm)
by John Latham. Read by John Branwell
BBC Manchester
New Every Morning, page 79;
Father, hear the prayer we offer (BBC HB 352); Psalm 121;
Exodus 16, vv 1-4,13-15; Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140) Stereo
Or Sink Like a Stone (1) by LEIGH JACKSON
Directed by MARILYN IMRIE
Stereo (Part 2 Thursday 11.00am)
The last of six programmes presented by John Gribbin
Living in the Global Greenhouse If the earth's atmosphere is warming up, how come Britain has very cold spells after winter should have finished?
The answer, it seems, is in a 'blocking' high. BBC Bristol
Presented by John Waite
Hosted by Iain Johnstone
This week's panel: Dick Vosburgh, Susan George, Simon MacCorkindale and Barry Cryer
(Stereo)
Presented by Nick Worrall
Donald and the Smokey Smell Stereo (R)
In the programme that meets the women who hit the international headlines and those who write them, Jenni Murray talks to
Edna Buchanan who, as a top police reporter, comes face to face every day with the real Miami Vice. Serial:
The Colour of Murder (10)
by MICHAEL BUTT
A political prisoner has his journal published. The
'authorities' from both East and West are alerted to the danger, and a certain Mr Faulkner receives an unexpected call.
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
Rustic rhymster Pam Ayres shares with Brian Kay some musically magical moments. Producer ANDREW MUSSETT. Stereo
Presented by Peter Day Researcher SIAN JARVIS Producer ROD POUNSETT
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 7.20pm)
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report
by John Le Carre adapted in seven parts by Rene Basilico
Starring Bernard Hepton as George Smiley
with John Quayle as Oliver Lacon, John Bennett as Mendel, Ann Lynn as Mrs Pope-Graham
and featuring Rosemary Leach as Connie Sachs
There is a Russian double agent operating inside the 'Circus', if Irina's story is to be believed that is. A matter for immediate investigation. But how, exactly? And by whom?
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast Thursday at 12.25pm)
o (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
4: The Gittlesons
In the last of four family portraits Michael O'Donnell explores how shifting social and moral attitudes in Britain have affected family life.
This week, a family of East Enders, the Gittlesons from Wapping. Three generations with community roots would be the envy of many - and the fear of some. But the Gittlesons jolt many prejudices about 'relative values'.
Producer SHARON BANOFF (R)
(A new series of 'Relative Values' begins next week)
Willy Russell
In company with Elizabeth Estensen and Mark Kingston , the playwright Willy Russell presents, before an audience in the Liverpool Playhouse, some of his favourite poetry and prose. Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol. Stereo (R)
Presented by Peter White Producer ANNE THEAKSTONE
Questions and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8.30and 10. 15pm. For weekly factsheets or quarterly bulletins summarising broadcast information, send a large sae, approx 13" x 9", to: [address removed]
Paul Allen and Michael Oliver report from this year's
Edinburgh Fringe Festival while, in London, Lucy Neal presents a review of a biography of Truman Capote. Producers
SIMON BROUGHTON (Edinburgh) and RICHARD BANNERMAN (London) (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
The Countrywoman by PAUL SMITH abridged in 12 episodes by PATRICK GALVIN
Read by Kevin McHugh 12: Endings
Producer JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
FM joins at 12.10
