with Moira Stuart
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
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Richard Baker considers the lives and characters of some great composers as revealed in their letters and music. 5: Carl Maria Yon Weber and Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
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Presented by David Willmott Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY
NEM, p 106; Loving Shepherd (BBC HB 146); Psalm 23; Colossians 3, vv 1-11 (NEB); Thou to whom the sick (BBC HB 383)
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Millennium Also-Ran by H. E. BATES
Read by Hugh Dickson Producer MICHELL RAPER
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A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne , qc, and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London.
Today's proposition: The British people have not been told the truth about Northern Ireland. It is proposed by Jonathan Dimbleby and opposed by The Rt Hon William Deedes , Editor of The Daily Telegraph. Producer DAVID ANTHONY TURNER
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breekon
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme new* VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Actress Joanna Lumley
2.0-2.2 News
The Cambridge Buskers: TONY BARNFIELD meets two unusual musicians who try to 'keep the audience guessing
Recollections of my Father - S: from CATHERINE JAY.
' Who Cares? ': ANN HEYNO talks to children, past and present, who have lived in local authority homes.
A Late Phoenix (6)
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Story: Amy Kate 's Lion by JOYCE WILLIAMS
Peter Barkworth in Redford Glass
A play by NORMAN CLARE
A story of big business, blackmail, deception, intrigue and murder.
Directed by DAVID H. GODFREY
from Wells Cathedral
Introit: Ubi caritas et amor (Durufle)
Responses (Ayleward)
Psalms 41-43 (chants: S. Wes ley, Hast, Armstrong)
Lessons: Jeremiah 31, TT 1-14; James 1, vv 1-11
Canticles (Collegium Magda lenae Oxoniense: Leighton)
Anthem: Tenebrae factae sunt (Poulenc)
Hymn: 0 Christ who art the light and day (Gonfalon Royal) Organist and Master of the Choristers ANTHONY CROSSLAND
Assistant organist DAVID COOPER Third organist PETER GILKS BBC Bristol
The Flame Trees of Thika 8: Conflict and Change
Presented by Brian Widlake
Conversations with Cooper
Amid all the controversy about immigration at the moment Olga Franklin , who is the grand-daughter of one, tells DEREK COOPER about her researches into the earlier immigrants and what happened to them.
Producer DENNIS LOWER
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news, weather
Devised by EDWARD j. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. BBC Birmingham (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by STEVE BRAD-SHAW and DAVID HENSHAW. Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
died 5 March 1778
Written and compiled from contemporary and newly-discovered sources by Robin Langley
The composer of 'Rule Britannia', the founder of English opera, Thomas Arne was the most important 18th-century English composer. The colourful life he led, amply documented in Garrick's letters and the writings of Arne's pupil, the historian Dr Burney, encompassed the theatres and pleasure gardens of London.
Other parts played by ALARIC COTTER.
Specially recorded songs sung by SYLVIA EAVES (sop)
Producer ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENE
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CHRIS SWANN
John Tusa reporting
In which the earth is unexpectedly destroyed and the great hitch-hike begins.
An epic adventure in time and space including some helpful advice on how to see the Universe for less than 30 Altairian dollars a day.
Starring Peter Jones as The Book
The Slave (8)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
