Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Rev John Rackley BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
with Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Canon Eric James
Three stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner, abridged by Sally Skrimshire.
Reader Edward Petherbridge.
(First broadcast in 'Woman's Hour')
Join Melvyn Bragg and guests for a special edition from the Concert Hall at
Broadcasting House. Research Tony Phillips Producer
Manna Salandy-Brown . Stereo
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The Figure on the Cross by Aidan Mathews.
Reader Dermot Crowley. Producer Marilyn Imrie
direct from Cotham
Parish Church, Bristol, with members of the Bristol Singers led by the Rev Stephen Lynas. Were you there when they crucified my
Lord (an- M Archer); John 20, vv 1-9 (NIV); 0 filii et filiae (C Wood, arr Walford Davies );
The day of resurrection (Ellacombe).
Director of Music
Malcolm Archer
Organist Anthony Pinel BBC Bristol. Stereo
with Simon Rae and guest Andrew Sachs who reads
Matthew Arnold 's
The Scholar Gypsy and other poetry requests. Producer Susan Roberts BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presenter John Waite
A nationwide general knowledge quiz with Robert Robinson in the chair.
First round-London.
Iris Barry (archaeologist) Neil Hitchins
(finance clerk)
Tim Folan (librarian) Thelma Leach
(company secretary) Devised by John P Wynn Questions Ian Gillies
Producer Richard Edis
Stereo
with James Naughtie
This week Bill Torrance reads stories by Valerie Wilding. 1: The Station Manager's Spectacles Stereo
How successfully do novelists write about the opposite sex? Do artists make good political leaders? What does it take to bluff your way through literature?
In a special programme from London's Royal Festival Hall, Jenni Murray welcomes novelists Penelope Lively,
Deborah Moggach and Howard Jacobson , journalists
Blake Morrison and Jill Tweedie , and the MP Joyce Quinn. Also on stage,
Judi Dench reads
The True Primitive by Elizabeth Taylor , from the Woman's Hour Book of Short Stories. Music Toots Sweet. Producers Mary Sharp and Janet Lee
Editor Clare Selerie-Grey
by John Peacock.
In the Cariboo gold
-fields of the 1850s there is no law - even murder can go unpunished. But in 1858 Judge Begbie arrives to bring justice to the land. His enquiries into the death of Gold Commissioner Hicks lead him to a group of concert performers, known as the Jenny Wagon
Pianist Mary Nash Director Jane Morgan Stereo (R)
Ray Brown spent three beguiling months exploring Yugoslavia. BBC North
Coming to Griff
Technical adroitness yet emotional truth; precision timing yet reckless spontaneity:
Griff Rhys Jones talks to Paul Allen about the serious business of comic acting. Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Bill Frost
Editor Kevin Marsh
Stereo
with Derek Cooper
The Bogeyman by David Calcutt.
'They think they can hide me away in the dark for ever, but they can't. I've been waiting a long time, Martin....'
Director Nigel Bryant
BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo (R)
Christina Dodwell on the final expedition through the past. The Truth Within
Producer Simon Elmes (R)
Van Gogh : 1890-1990 Vincent Van Gogh died 100 years ago.
Waldemar Januszczak discovers more about the man and what has happened to our view of him and his art since he died.
Producer Tim Dee. Stereo
4.30pm)
with Peter Biles
with Richard Kershaw Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
In the Red Kitchen by Michele Roberts abridged in ten episodes by Yvonne Antrobus.
Reader Sue Jones-Davies (part 5).
Producer Alison Hindell BBC Wales
Wacky comedy starring Christopher Barrie Steven Frost and Nick Wilton Script Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
Music Peter Brewis
Producer Alan Nixon Stereo (R)
Fifth of six programmes. Julia Langdon of the Sunday Mirror and Julian Critchley , MP, v Sir George Young , MP, and Austin Mitchell, MP. With
Patrick Hannan in the chair. Writer Michael Dines
Producer Harry Thompson Stereo (R)
