6.25 Shipping forecast long leave only
Brian Redhead reporting from the SDP Conference In Derby; in London John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FR MICHAEL HOPLEY
6.55,7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25", 8.25* Sport
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.40* Yesterday in Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel
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When Harry Chilton bought a few shirts for his local football club he didn't realise that he was at the beginning of a new career. Demand snowballed and soon he started his own business making personalised sports and leisure wear. Today Snowball Sports Ltd continues to grow, despite the recession and intense foreign competition.
Marjorie Lofthouse discovers why. Producer JULIAN HITCHCOCK BBC Birmingham long wave only
The Graip by ANGUS MACVICAB
Read by Phil McCall
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland long wave only
NEM, p 5; Songs of praise the angels sang (BP 77); Psalm 95, vv 1-7: Luke 10. vv 1-16 (NEB); Lord. who in thy perfect wisdom (BBC HB 231)
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Hector Munro - pen-name, Saki - died in action in 1916. His life can never be fully documented, and his character remains a riddle. In his stories, the author's mask of elegant, malicious wit is occasionally twitched aside to reveal something disquieting. Brian Gear presents his own view of Munro. with readings from ' Saki by Charles Kay. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol i Repeat) long wave only
We all have queries. quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always Ue unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Nell Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out the answers.
Producer KATE FENTON long wave only
with PATRICIA WENZ and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Romance, Romance: PAT MCLOUGHLIN launches a competition designed to seek out new literary talent.
Palette Talk:
John FITZMAURICE MILLS talks about the basics of oil painting.
The Ballad and the Source (9) long wave only
by Bill Naughton
A 60th Anniversary Commission
with John Bolt, Katherine Parr, Gabrielle Daye, George A. Cooper
Maudie and Joe have enjoyed a happy and fulfilled life, but events have changed for the worse and forced them to reassess their values. Suddenly, just as things begin to pick up, they are involved in a calamity totally outside their control.
FRITZ SPIEGL considers the careers of some musicians who were not entirely single-minded.
3: Borodin and Co
Lady on the Burning Deck (7)
Presenter Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
With DILLY BARLOW
Including Financial Report
More raucous fun performed by the youthful Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson together with Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulvllle and Griff Rhys Jones, three men for whom the sands of time are fast running out.
Written by RORY MCGRATH, JIMMY MULVILLE, JON CANTER and others
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
Written by MARY CUTLER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Jeremy Slepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
leader DESMOND BRADLEY conducted by Paavo Berglund
Igor Oistrakh (violin) direct from St David 's Hall, Cardiff Part I
Walton Overture: Portsmouth Point
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, in r. minor. Op 63
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 7. In A major BBC Wales
When David Jones , in a Radio 4 broadcast. flippantly suggested a new hypothesis for why Napoleon's hair should contain arsenic, he hardly expected to be able to test it. After all. Napoleon died 161 years ago. But a listener responded to the broadcast and this led to a whole chain of detective work - and a brand new scientific theory.
This is the full story.
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
includes reviews of two Royal Shakespeare
Company productions at Stratford, featuring two famous couples: Alun Armstrong and Sinead Cusack take on the roles of Petruchio and Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew in the main theatre, while in The Other Place. Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren are Antony and Cleopatra.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JANE STENNING
John Morgan reporting
Child's Play (4) long wave only
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Joan Bakewell talks about three of her favourite humorous characters from fiction. Readers LIBBY MORRIS and HUGH DICKSON
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