With Fr Cormac Rigby
(Stereo)
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
In a series of five programmes, Frank Whitford meets the personalities behind some well-known signatures and discovers how seriously they take the art of humour. 1 Bill Tidy
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Fergus Keeling climbs the Ecuadorean Andes to see brightly coloured hummingbirds and the last remaining Pasachoan palm. Producer MILES BARTON
BBC Bristol
introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
Sue MacGregor talks with the Welsh poet Gillian Clarke about her life and work. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
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A series of 13 talks from first-time broadcasters. 9: Hugh John
Peaked hat securely in place,
Hugh John makes a special plea for an endangered species - the BBC commissionaire.
Presented by John Waite
For information about this week's 's programme, write for Factsheet No 47: You and Yours, BBC London WIA IAA
Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Corner Dumplings in the Rain (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature - Goes Science: Snow TIMMY MALLETT and ROBIN ROBBINS explore the problems created by snow. Stereo (e)
2.20 Slambash Wangs of a Compo Gormer by ROBERT LEESON (9) With REECE DINSDALE as Arnold and Dornal. Stereo (e)
2.40 Science for All Up, Up and Away by TONY JAMES Join STEVE BLACKNELL up in the clouds. Stereo (R) (e)
Gaye Maxwell , headmistress of the school at Guy's Hospital in London, describes how she deals with human biology, discipline and the national curriculum.
Serial: The Gipsy's Baby by ROSAMOND LEHMANN abridged in four episodes by ANN REES-JONES
Read by Emily Richard (1)
When Rebecca Ellison was a privileged upper middle-class child in the early part of this century, there lived in the back lane behind the Ellison home a very different sort of family - the Wyatts.
(Music: Vaughan Williams's
Six Studies in English Folk Song) Presenter Jenni Murray
by COUN DOUGLAS with Paul Young as Mr Bell
In Room 5 Mr R. T. 'Tinker' Bell teaches, in his idiosyncratic way, the great poets; meanwhile, in the outside world, the Suez Crisis looms.
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland. Stereo
A disabled and disturbed parent is the central character in Helen Flint 's novel Return Journey; child abuse is the subject of David Cook 's Crying Out Loud. Nigel Forde talks to them about their choices of subject, and also examines the world as portrayed in fiction by ex-ambassador
Richard Parsons.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
(Revised repeat of yesterday programme at 9.45pm)
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Stereo
Introduced by Brian Gear
Producer LAURIE MASON. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Laurie Taylor with news about radio and its programmes. Researcher ANDREA GRAHAME Producer KEITH JONES
(Broadcaston Sunday at 3.30pm)
by Anthony Smith (R)
(Details tomorrow at 11.00am L W)
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC, London WIA 1AA
Ephat Mujuru , one of Zimbabwe's leading musicians, talks to Anne Catchpole , to the accompaniment of the mbira - or 'thumb piano' - whose music can be heard all over Africa. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
The story of Christina Bielenberg , the Englishwoman who married a German aristocrat on the eve of the Second World War, is now being shown on BBC2 in a dramatised version by Dennis Potter.
Christopher Bigsby discusses the Potter treatment, and looks back at the London Film Festival.
Producer NOAH RICHLER
A Far Cry from Kensington 9: The Investigation
Presented by Richard Kershaw
Sounds Inventive (2) Stereo (R) (e) at 12.30. 2: Improvising and at 12.50.3: 3: Arranging
