6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with John Timpson and BRIAN REDUEAD
6.45* Prayer for the Day With CANON DAVID ISITT
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30, 8.50 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people. Including The Week So Far by Russell Davles
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE long wave only
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Indoor Gardening: p 21
NEM, p 54- Breathe on me. breath of God, BBC HB 148); Psalm 143; John 8. vv 21-36 cav); All my hope on God is founded (BBC HB 299)
by E. ARNOT ROBERTSON (3) long wave only
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with Richard Baker
IBroudcast Sat 7.35 pm) long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Plays from the series Just Before Midnight
"The Cellar" by R.D. Wingfield
'There is a cellar sir, yes but we can't get to it The previous owner had it bricked up.'
"End of the Line" by Betty Davies
Mary arrives back from America and is more than delighted by the flat her brother has found for her. Then the telephone rings...
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: David Lane Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality.
Travels with Fortune: across Africa with CHRISTINA DODWELL - today, results of cookery on the move. Reading Your Letters.
New Pianos from Old: LYNN TEN KATE meets the SHEARGOLD family, who have been reconditioning pianos for four generations.
The Lost Stradivarfus (6) long wave only
Story: Red-Blue-Green by DONALD MATTAM
Night by ELIZABETH TROOP Pauline Letts as Erika
' was a hot day. just like this one. The studio was in the suburbs of Vienna - I went by myself, on the tram, which was unusual because I was never allowed out alone - the studio was in the garden - full of green leaves, it was like being underwater.'
A once aristocratic Austrian woman, who now works as a cook on a Canadian ferry boat, reminisces about the past including the time when, as a young girl, she was drawn by Klimt.
Other voices: TREVOR COOPER and ELIZABETH LINDSAY Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
from Hereford Cathedral Versicles and Responses (Hunt)
Psalms: 69, 70 (Battishill, Elvey, Day, Bennett)
Lessons: Genesis 23; Romans 8, vv 18-39
Office hymn: Hail, gladdening light (A and M Rev 18)
Canticles (Sumsion in D) Anthem: They that go down to the sea in ships (Sumsion)
Organist and Master of the Choristers ROY MASSEY Assistant organist ROBERT GREEN
BBC Birmingham
Thunderbolt by FRANK TL'OHY
Read by David Ashford
5.5t Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
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. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Action Desk Edition
In which the Checkpoint team take on bureaucracy and business to solve listeners' problems.
Presenter Vincent Kane
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 ant)
HELP: page 23
in Amsterdam
W.L. Brugsma looks at the past and present of the city with the help of: FER ABRAHAMS, ANTONY AKERMAN, MEL ANDRINGA , ANURAGO, CHARLES BAT-CHELOR, JOOST BLAAS, HANS DULFER. JANGO EDWARDS. ADAM GATEHOUSE, GLENNITO HANN , HAROLD THE KANGAROO. WIM KUNKENBERG , GUILLOME ' GILLY ' KOSTER, PROFESSOR LOU DE JONG. HANS VAN MANEN. JOHN PEEREBOOM. NF.IN VAN ROYEN. PIET TREUMANN. SIMON VINK-ENOOG, BOUKE VAN DER WAL, KEN WILKIE and people in Amsterdam.
Reporters MARTIN CLEAVER and TONY WILKINSON Technical assistance
BASIL NEWMAN. Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
by Anthony Smith
The Men from the North
Tomorrow, the British Museum opens its doors to reveal the strange, brutal, but also strikingly beautiful world of the Vikings. As a prelude to the exhibition, Michael Oliver goes ' a-Viking ' to 'the kingdom dependant upon Yorvik ' to discover at first hand something of thatculture,undisturbed for over 1,000 years, which is now being uncovered in the great Coppergate excavations in the centre of York.
Reader David March Producer JOHN POWELL
(Visit the exhibition tomorrow 2.2 pm R4 UK, and 10.15 pm BBC2)
Douglas Stuart reporting
A nine-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra and the society whose tastes it has always mirrored.
1:Invitation to the DanceWith a panoply of sounds from the Renaissance to the present day. tonight's programme ventures where angels fear to tread and asks: What precisely is an orchestra?
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records
Mrs Reinhardt (3) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
