With FR CORMAC RIGBY. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Letters
with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
Clay Jones calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips to solve gardening problems sent in by listeners. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
The Last of the Mohicans by TED MOORE
Read by Paul Copley Producer SHEILA FOX (R)
NEM p 50; We have a gospel to proclaim (Bp 94); Psalm 111;
Ezekiel36 vv 22-28; Ye servants of God (BBC HB 287) Stereo
Three programmes in which Bernard Keeffe muses on the mysteries of learning to sing. 1: Giving Your All for Art producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
Presented by John Waite
A serial in eight episodes by PETER LING and JULIET ACE starring Jane Asher
Gayle Hunnicutt , Polly James , Barbara Leigh-Hunt , Margaret Rawlings , Dinah Sheridan ,
Martin Jarvis , Richard Pasco and Dominic Rickhards
4: When Nicholas came home on leave he realised that Jenny and Richard were having an affair, although Old Bea had done her best to put a stop to it. Lady
Edith discovered unexpected happiness; Alice went night-clubbing, and Jenny was shocked to learn that Richard was engaged to be married.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
by the Social Democratic Party
1.55 Listening Corner The Hungry Crows
(Stereo) (R)
2.05 WPFM
The weekly live radio magazine for the under-20s. Presented by Jo Whiley.
(Stereo) (e)
Use the helpline to access database information on all available courses and training options throughout the UK. Phone [number removed] (free) Lines open from 2.15-3.15pm
If Shakespeare had been a regular listener, he'd have known why the Wives of Windsor were really so merry. Serial: Memory by MARGARET MAHY , abridged in 11 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Peter Wickham (11) (Music: Rachmaninov's Vocalise) Presenter Jenni Murray
by KEVIN ELYOT with Marian Diamond as Molly and Betty Marsden as Muriel
A weekend in the West Country would seem to be the ideal way to celebrate an engagement, but staying in a hotel can present problems - tables are not always as separate as they might be.
COLIN SELL (piano)
PERRY MONTAGUE MASON (violin) Directed by JANE MORGAN. Stereo
The first of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks with Liz Lochhead about her life and poetry.
Reader JANETTE FOGGO Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo
Nigel Lawson says that interest rates will stay as high as it takes for as long as it takes.
Felicity Goodey reports from the Chancellor's own Midlands constituency on the effects of his policy.
Producer COLIN PHILPOTT Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
Shooting Pictures
British film director Derek Jarman 's latest project is a visualisation of Britten's
War Requiem. The film is part diatribe against war, part biography of Wilfred Owen , whose poems figure within it. Mark Steyn visits the set in a disused hospital and talks to Jarman, the producer
Don Boyd , and actors Tilda Swinton , Owen Teale and Nathaniel Parker who plays the poet. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
Iain Johnstone hosts the celebrity panel show that brings you magic movie moments.
This week's panel are Dick Vosburgh, Liz Fraser, Angela Douglas and Bernard Cribbins
(Stereo) (R)
A series of four programmes about Antarctica with Bernard Jackson. 1: The Shadow of Heroes
It's 80 years or so since the great days of Scott and Shackleton, and 30 since the crossing of the Antarctic continent by Sir Vivian Fuchs. Although today's Antarctic visitors are more likely to be concerned with the hole in the ozone layer, the temperature of the ice cap or the breeding habits of seals and albatrosses than with exploration and discovery they are constantly in the debt of the earlier pioneers.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN. Stereo
by SUE LIMB. An eight-part sequel to her novel starring Imelda Staunton as Izzy
6: You Shall Go to the Ball
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am L W)
A radio portrait, in conversation, recollection and anecdote
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A play which caught the anger and despair of the young unemployed opens at the Royal Court Theatre in London this week, after making its initial impact at the Edinburgh Fringe - it's The Conquest of the South Pole by East German playwright Manfred Karge.
Presenter Christopher Bigsby Producer NOAH RICHLER
(Revised repeat tomorrow at 4.35pm)
A Far Cry from Kensington 8: Suicide
with Alexander MacLeod
12.30 Sounds Inventive (1) 5: Getting it Together Stereo (R) (e)
12.50 Sounds Inventive (2) 1: Inventing Stereo (R) (e)
