6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter John Timpson and Mike Wooldridge including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV IAN GATFORD
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
George Axelrod
Malcolm Bradbury Tina Brown and Patrick Garland are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous.
' The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas ' (GEORGE MOORE) Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS long wave only
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In this first of fmir pro grammes, David Arthur meets a tin whistle player, singer, storyteller, drover, cattle-dealer. horsebreaker. circus hand and dance band saxophonist ... his name is Packie Byrne.
Producer NICK HUGHES long wave only
NEM, p 114: The race that long in Darkness pined (BBC HB 496); Psalm 29; St Mark 3, w 7-21 (Av); 0 dear and heavenly city (BBC HB 251)
The Secret House of Death (3): long wave only
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Glyn Worsnip looks at broadcasting cliches. Producer BRIAN COOK long wave only
May Day: Mayday!!
The traditional celebration of labour? Or an sos for this year's thousands of new school leavers?
How many will find a job? A special BBC/Manpower Services Commission campaign starts on Radio 1 next week. Today You and Yours explains, and offers advice to parents, on how to point your teenager in the right direction.
Margaret Korving introduces Dave Lee Travis and Geoffrey Holland of the msc.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM Editor DAVID HARDING
(Dave Lee Travis on Radio 1 next week Tuesday to Friday 7.0 am)
of Religion
David Jason takes the pulpit and solemnly pronounces on the more off-beat aspects of religion. His mission is hampered bySheilaSteafel
Malcolm Terris and Jon Glover
Music by DAVE cooke
Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON Script by COLIN BOSTOCK -SMITH, ANDY HAMILTON , GUY JENKIN, RORY MCGRATH , BRIAN PILTON, MARTIN BERG -MAN, OWEN BRENMAN and BRIAN BETHELL
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Your Holiday in France: JEFFREY MILLS, travel journalist.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Entertaining at Home: EVELYN ROSE offers advice to aspiring hostesses. 4: Adding Something Special. Blue Barry and Blue Genes!: MINE SHEILS reports on San Diego Zoo, which hopes to add the rare blue bear to its successful breeding record. Never Cry Wolf (7) . long wave only until 2.45
Story: The Very Special Washing by VAL ANNAN
Presenters ALISON MCMOR LAND and CHRISTOPHER SAUL Written by ALISON MCMOR LAND and MOIRA MILLER Producer DAVID BELL
by ALEXANDRE SERGEVITCH PUSHKIN, dramatised for radio by JANE BEESON
It is Midwinter's Eve of 1811 - Napoleon's army is advancing through Russia. A young soldier and the daughter of a wealthy landowner are furtively planning their marriage - her parents will not give their consent and the secret ceremony is to take place at midnight in a tiny chapel miles from anywhere. But a severe blizzard plays havoc with their arrangements....
With EVE KARPF and JOSIE KIDD
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(Mary Wimbush is a National Theatre player)
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
Animal Experiment by DEREK PHILLIPS
Read by John Prior
Suddenly I felt funny. Buzzing in my head, sweaty around the collar. I looked up and there it was. A dome-shaped object 20 feet high.'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
with Robert Williams and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Repeated; Fri 1.40 pm) Written by JAMES ROBSON Cast for the week:
A personal selection by Dannie Abse
Readers Brian Carroll, Freda Dowie
Producer Alec Reid
leader and soloist RONALD THOMAS conducted by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
Vivaldi Overture: Armida al Campo d'Egitto
Bach Violin Concerto in E (bwv 1042)
Boccherini Symphony No 17, in c minor (G 519)
Derek Parker introduces recordings from the BBC Sound Archives in which people describe a meeting which has remained imprinted on their memory.
Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
Haydn Symphony No 95. in c minor
(A public concert on 14 February at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth) BBC Bristol
The southern China province of Fujian, opposite Nationalist-ruled Taiwan, has been closed to foreigners since 1949. The BBC's Peking Correspondent, Philip Short , who recently spent a week there, talks about the province and its people, and the differences which separate them from their dour cousins farther north.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Anthony Howard reporting
The Death of the Heart (14): long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am
Shipping forecast and Inshore forecast
