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Presented by Tnhn Timpson in Margate for the Liberal Party Assembly and Hugh Sykes in London
6.45* Prayer for the Day
THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7 30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
9: Merchants of Venice
with regulars
Dr Anthony Clare and Russell Davies taking a look at the week so far, and talking to some of the people who have made the news.
Songs from SANDRA KING Producer SALLY THOMPSON long wave only
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NEM, p 84; O God , thou art my God alone (BBC
HB 468):Psalm 51; Wisdom of Solomon 6. vv 1-2,
6.21 (RSV): Rock of ages cleft for me (BBC HB 296)
The Stray by DIANA MARTIN Read by Herbert Smith producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester long wave only
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Story:Abigail Plays snakes and Ladders by MOIRA MILLER long trace only
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Jill Cochrane
Slowly but Surely a Start: NATALIE WHEEN talks to mezzo-soprano SARAH WALKER , whose career is spiralling steadily upwards.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Cutting the Crotod Scenes: eventually, ROSEMARY EVANS 'S holiday ' snaps ' were just like those in the brochures.
More Than Just a House: HELEN PALMER Visits ' Charleston ' in Sussex, and discovers its links with the Bloomsbury Set:
A Pause for Breath (8) long wave only
The weekend's listening en Radio 4UK
8: Hardy Memories....
In the final edition of the series Tom Vernon visits Dorset, the county linked inseparably with the writing of Thomas Hardy , but also with Fielding, Ralph Wightman and T. E. Lawrence.
Readers SHEILA ALLEN and PETER TUDDENHAM
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Encounter on Shieldrock by JONAS ARNASON adapted for radio by RODNEY M. BENNETT from the English translation by ALAN BOUCHER
The year is 1941 and the British are in occupation of Iceland. Major Stone is awaiting the arrival of a new Intelligence Officer at Reykjavik - an arrival that's going to give him quite a surprise.
Press Officer.....GORDON REID Directed by GERRY JONES
(Allan Cuthbertson is in 'Charley's Aunt' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
All Done from Memory (4)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
iBroadcast Mon 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by ALAN BOWER Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Thirteen programmes on the theme of childhood to mark the International
Year of the Child
Compiled and introduced by David Davis
11: Love Locked Out Readers Betty Hardy and Michael Williams Producer GRAHAM GAULD 'Repeated: Sat 4.30 pm)
Richard Baker introduces a concert at the Vienna State Opera, celebrating Vienna's new status as one of the three cities where the United Nations has its headquarters.
Singers: Placido Domingo Montserrat Caballé Rene Kollo
Edita Gruberova Sherrill Milnes
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Music by Rossini. Donizetti, Verdi and Wagner Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Horst Stein Miguel Gomez-Martinez and Placido Domingo
(ORF Vienna recording)
(A sound recording of the programme shown on BBC'2 on 1 September)
Presenter Richard Cork Producer CLARE SELERIE
Douglas Stuart reporting
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
The Drowned World (4) long wave only
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On the eve of the Pope's visit to Eire, Rosemary Hartill looks at the way religion and history have shaped the destiny of the Irish people. How much influence does the Church still have on Irish political life? How do Irish Roman Catholics understand ecumenism? What is life like for the Protestants?
Producer DAVID WINTER
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
