News. weather, papers and sport
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What Britain is getting uVto. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with CHTRIDA CAMPION
7.0, a Today's s News
Read bv PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Read by DAVID MARKHAM (4)
and other regulars taking part in a live talk show that each week features a celebrity birthday interview as well as intriguing personal stories and musical interludes. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
NEM, P 30; Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (BBC HB 369); Psalm 31; Matthew 18, vv 12-22 (av); Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC HB 519)
A Summer Encounter Written and read by Tom Coyne
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
2: The Story of Victor Jacquemont with Ian Ogilvy as Victor Jacquemont Narrator John Rowe with Leonard Fenton and Garard Green
Victor Jacquemont was a naturalist who had been disappointed in love. To try to forget he accepted an invitation to undertake a botanical tour in India. He arrived in Calcutta in May 1829 and charmed everyone he met, including, eventually, the wily and lascivious Sikh Maharajah Ranjit Singh. Jacquemont's experiences, described for the most part in letters to his family, provide one of the most entertaining chapters in the history of exploration.
This new series, adapted by JOHN KEAY from his book When Men and Mountains Meet, recounts the adventures of the extraordinary band of men who, early in the 19th century, were among the first Europeans to explore the Himalayas.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Repeated: Fri 8.30 pm)
Story: From the Cabbage Patch to Australia bV MARY HIGSON
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket
George Axelrod
Malcolm Bradbury Tina Brown and Patrick Garland are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by NIGEL REES
Producer GEOFFREY PIRKINS
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Presented by William Davis
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with Sue MacGregor
Twin Towns: chris RILEY reports on a visit by Bristol schoolchildren to their French ' twins ' in Bordeaux.
Books That Helped Cushla: DOROTHY BUTLER describes their effect on her handicapped grandchild. Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
Dr Nina and the Panther (12)
The weekend's listening on Radio 4UK
Pasties, piskies, pilchards and piracy....
In the first of a series of eight programmes Tom Vernon visits Fowey in South Cornwall to find out who has been moved to write about this medieval fishing port and discovers some surprising literary connections: not merely the great 'Q' - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, but such diverse writers as Kenneth Grahame, John Betjeman, Leo Walmsley, the Du Mauriers and A.L. Rowse.
Readers SHEILA ALLEN and PETER TUDDENHAM
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
The Legend of Mickey Ball by DAVID HOPKINS
A rural feud, an annual contest, and a champion riding out of the sunset - that's how legends are born. 'Mickey Ball , city slicker ' is not sure that he fits the part, but this year's race is the decider, so ... Directed by MARGARET ETALL
A Rogue's Life (9)
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Thirteen programme* on the theme of childhood to mark the International Year of the Child
Compiled and Introduced by David Davis
4: Up the Ladder and Dotcn the Wall
Reader Anna Massey
Producer GRAHAM CAULD
(Repeated: Sat 11.20 am)
Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Iona Brown (violin)
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, director Iona Brown
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, in G major - John Toll (harpsichord continuo)
Bartok Divertimento for string orchestra
A short series in which Robert Dougall presents an anthology in verse and prose of the facts and folkloresurroundingsome familiar species of British birds.
Part 2
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3, In G major (K 216)
Mozart Symphony No 29, In A major (k 201)
(Part 2 of this concert can be seen on BBC1 next Sunday)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
During the last 50 years doctors, psychologists and others have attempted to harness the beneficial effects of talking about one's problems into the practice of psychotherapy. In a series of six programmes Dr Anthony Clare gives his personal assessment of the present state of psychotherapy in its many forms.
1: What is it Trying to Dot
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Fritz Spiegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said.
BBC Manchester
An Unfinished Woman (4) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Edward Cole presents a selection of music for late-night listening.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
