Listings
: Farming Today
An interview with a leader of the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers "OducerTIMFINNEY: Prayer for the Day
A meditation for the Beginning of a new day with FR MICHAEL HARDINGBBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
: Today
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
Contributors
Presented By:
Peter
Hobday
Presented By:
Sue
MacGregor
Unknown:
Bob
Finigan
Read By:
Pauline
Bushnell
: Barry Fantoni's Chinese Horoscopes
Year 12: The Buffalo Personality - hard working, authoritative and a born leader.Lumbering through the BBC's sound Archives with comments from two famous Buffalo guests.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
(Re broadcast on Thursday at 9.30 pm)
Contributors
Producer:
Andrew
Parfitt
: News
: Start the Week with Richard Baker
A host of relevant studio guests help to preview some of the forthcoming attractions. Producers ROD MCRAE and MARINA SALANDY BROWN Editor MICHAEL EMBER. StereoContributors
Unknown:
Marina Salandy
Brown
Editor:
Michael
Ember.
: Morning Story
The Audition by JILL NORRIS Read by Shirley DixonThe small American town is holding auditions for the TV talent-show, and the young narrator is determined to win. Producer MITCH RAPER
Contributors
Unknown:
Jill
Norris
Read By:
Shirley
Dixon
Producer:
Mitch
Raper
: Daily Service
New Every Morning, page 21; Awake my soul (BBC HB 403);Psalm 32; Galatians 1, w 11-24; Praise my soul, the king of heaven (BBC HB 15). Stereo
: For Schools
11.0 Music Makers A Midsummer Nightmare (2) with IAN HUMPHRIS and HELEN SPEIRS (R) (e)11.20 Let's Move! 2: Shoes Written by KATE HARRISON Stereo (R) (e)
11.40 The Music Box Written and presented by SANDRA KERR Stereo (e)
11.50 See for Yourself Mind Out! by FRED HARRIS (R) (e)
Contributors
Unknown:
Ian
Humphris
Unknown:
Helen
Speirs
Written By:
Kate
Harrison
Unknown:
Fred
Harris
: Down Your Way
visits Wokingin Surrey: Poetry Please!
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listenersPresented by Dannie Abse Readers RONALD PICKUP and JILL BALCON
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Contributors
Presented By:
Dannie
Abse
Presented By:
Readers
Ronald
Presented By:
Jill
Balcon
Producer:
Margaret
Bradley
: You and Yours
Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASSContributors
Presented By:
Susan
Rae
Editor:
Ken
Vass
: King Street Junior: 4: Problem Parents
by Jim EldridgeStarring Peter Davison as Eric Brown, and James Grout as Mr Beeston, the Headmaster
News of an impending retirement leads to general rejoicing in the staffroom - though Miss Lewis has other things on her mind.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
Contributors
Writer:
Jim
Eldridge
Producer:
John Fawcett
Wilson
Eric Brown:
Peter
Davison
Mr Beeston,the Headmaster:
James
Grout
Mr Holliday, Deputy Head:
Tom
Watson
Mrs Stone, School Secretary:
Margaret
John
Mr Long:
Paul
Copley
Miss Lewis:
Marlene
Sidaway
Mr Ross:
Nick
Stringer
Constable McGuiness:
Andrew
Branch
Danny:
Aaron
Carrington
Jason:
David
Crane
: The World at One: News
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWISContributors
Presented By:
Brian
Widlake
Editor:
Derek
Lewis
: For Schools
1.55 Listening Comer This week Scrub a Dub Dub Presented by FRED HARRIS Storyteller WENDY CRAIG Today's story: Harry the Dirty Dog by GENE ZION Script by RUTH CRAFT Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)2.5 Playtime Growing and Changing Presented by UZ WATTS and TONY AITKEN Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.20am VHFIFM)
2.20 Science Scope 2: On the Move Stereo (R)(e)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) The Wolf Mother by ZOE BAILEY (R)(e)
Contributors
Presented By:
Fred
Harris
Unknown:
Wendy
Craig
Unknown:
Gene
Zion
Script By:
Ruth
Craft
Producer:
Mary
Kalemkerian
Presented By:
Uz
Watts
Presented By:
Tony
Aitken
Unknown:
Wolf
Mother
Unknown:
Zoe
Bailey
: Woman's Hour
Introduced by Jenni Murray Teaching English'Shakespeare never saw an English grammar!' Should today's children parse, learn poetry by heart and study the classics of English literature?
With the views of the Secretary of State for Education in mind, Jenny Cuffe investigates what constitutes a modem English lesson.
Serial: The Beiderbecke Affair by ALAN PLATER abridged in ten episodes by PAT MCLOUGHUN
Read by James Bolam (1)
Trevor Chaplin, woodwork teacher at St Quentin High, has a passion for jazz, football and beautiful platinum blondes - enthusiasms not shared by his girl friend, the English teacher Jill Swinburne. She's more into conservation and local politics....
(Music: Frankie Trumbauer 's Trublology)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Contributors
Introduced By:
Jenni
Murray
Unknown:
Jenny
Cuffe
Unknown:
Alan
Plater
Unknown:
Pat
McLoughun
Read By:
James
Bolam
Music:
Frankie
Trumbauer
Editor:
Sandra
Chalmers
: The Afternoon Play
Our Sister, Water by URSULA TIGHE HOPKINS. Stereo: PM
Presented by Gordon dough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pmContributors
Presented By:
Gordon
Dough
Editor:
Derek
Lewis
: The Six O'Clock News
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report: The News Quiz
It's back! The programme that reveals everything you never wanted to know about the past week.The wizened former Editor of Private Eye, Richard Ingrams , and his spritely young successor, Ian Hislop , take on Punch's Editor Alan Coren and the BBC's own Martyn Young - with Chairman Barry Took the only barrier between them and fair play.
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo
Contributors
Unknown:
Richard
Ingrams
Unknown:
Ian
Hislop
Editor:
Alan
Coren
Unknown:
Barry
Took
Unknown:
John
Langdon
Producer:
Harry
Thompson.
: News
: The Archers
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm): Kipling and the Sea
2: Men of the SeaReaders GARARD GREEN and HENRY STAMPER
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
Contributors
Unknown:
Henry
Stamper
Producer:
Pamela
Howe
: Science Now
Presented by Peter EvansWhat is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer JULIAN BROWN
Contributors
Presented By:
Peter
Evans
Producer:
Julian
Brown
: Basingstoke It Is!
Ian Bradley celebrates the centenary of Gilbert and Sullivan's tenth opera,Ruddigore, which survived a disastrous first night....
'Take off this rot' shouted the audience.... 'Give us The
Mikado' ... to become a firm favourite.
Readers ANN ARIS and DAVID MAHLOWE
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Contributors
Unknown:
Ian
Bradley
: Dorset's Other Poet
A centenary tribute to William Barnes (1801-66) written and presented by Hilary Townsend Poems read by DOUGLAS LEACH Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol Stereo (R)Contributors
Unknown:
William
Barnes
Presented By:
Hilary
Townsend
Read By:
Douglas
Leach
Producer:
Margaret
Bradley
: The Monday Play
After the First Death by RICHARD STAYTON A searing light! The unthinkable has happened. A nuclear war. In the blackness of a shelter, a boy blinded and a girl crippled, play games to blur reality. The 12-year-old, Jimmy, knows he must prepareAnnalee, his 8-year-old sister, for survival on her own. As the radiation eats into him he weakens. Annalee must learn fast - but she is so young and just a little crazy.
Directed by PETER KING Stereo
Contributors
Unknown:
Richard
Stayton
Directed By:
Peter
King
Jimmy:
Caleb
Fernandes
Annalee:
Mei Lu
McGonigle
: Kaleidoscope
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition.Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT Editor ANNE WINDER
Contributors
Unknown:
Michael
Oliver
Editor:
Anne
Winder
: A Book at Bedtime
The Quarry by FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT abridged in five parts by ANDREW SIMPSONRead by Gavin Campbell (1)
Police Commissioner Barlach, with little more than a year to live, suspects that the good Dr Emmenberger, head of a private clinic in Zurich, was at one time an infamous concentration camp surgeon and uses his own body as a trap.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Contributors
Unknown:
Andrew
Simpson
Read By:
Gavin
Campbell
Producer:
Maurice
Leitch
: The World Tonight
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSONContributors
Presented By:
Richard
Kershaw
Editor:
Blair
Thomson
: The Financial World Tonight
Radio 4's international business report; market trends: * am News
followed by an interlude: Schools Night-time Broadcasting
Radio Geography: Our Changing World Slide resource pack available12.30 Perceptions of China Written and presented by ASTLEY JONES Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (e) and at
12.50 Population Written and presented by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK Producer DAN GARRETT (e)
Contributors
Producer:
Geoffrey
Sherlock
Presented By:
Geoffrey
Sherlock
Producer:
Dan
Garrett
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