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Presenter John Timpson With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With PEGGY MAKINS
Ascension Day hymn
7.0, 8.0 Today's News head by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
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' This dulcimer here is made from a lavatory door, a lot of nails, clothes-peg heads ana some old piano wires.' Dave Arthur travels to Glasgow to meet tne
Cooper family, dulcimer players since 1919.
Producer NICK HUGHES tong wave only
NEM, p 38; The eternal gates lift up their heads
(BBC HB 131); Canticle 12; Philippians 2, w 1-11 (iv); All hail the power (BBC HB 117)
The Secret House of Death (12): long wave only
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A series of talks on people, places and things with a style all of their own.
Ton! Arthur takes a grown-up look at school-teachers.
Producer BRIAN cook long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers. Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
of the Printed Word
Watch the misprints fly as David Jason looks at thE Printid Werd, corrected by his team of scribes
Sheila Steafel Gordon Clyde and Jon Glover
Music by DAVE COOKE Lyrics by ALl STAIR BEATON
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK -SMITH, ANDY HAMILTON. GUY JENKIN, RORY MCGRATH , MARTIN BERGMAN , BRIAN BETHELL , CHRIS STRATFORD and DAVE MORLEY
Producer JILMMY MULVILLE
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Oxford or Cambridge: royal architect, the DUKE or GLODUCESTER, discusses his new photo-history of Britain's two great universities with MIKE SHEILS. Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
Seventy Stalls from 60 Countries: today's spring fair of the International Social Service is the result of a year of international co-operation. BERNARD JACKSON has been following the preparations, and talks to people on whom the money is spent.
Your Holiday in Italy: STEPHANIE PONSFORB, travel writer, offers some advice. Greek Fire (6) long wave only until 2.45
Story: The Giant's Birthday Present by VAL ANNAN
Half Time by ROSE TREMAIN and Colin is refereeing the weekly school football match. The same morning his wife, Lizzie, has announced that she is leaving him for another man. Halfway through the match - halfway through his life - Colin contemplates the 13 years he and Lizzie have spent together ...
Head teacher.JOHN ABINERI with PUPILS OF ST BEDE'S school, Lawrence Weston , Bristol
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
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
(Series 3) from All Souls' Church, Langham Place, London.
Celebrant the REV HUBERT HOSKINS (Senior producer. Religious Broadcasting, Radio), assisted by other members of the Department
Preacher the REV DR COLIN MORRIS (Head of Religious Broadcasting)
Old Testament Lesson: Daniel 7. w 13-14 (NEB) Epistle: Acts 1, w 1-11 (NEB)
Gospel: Luke 24, vv 44-53 (ma)
Hymns (Anglican Hymn Book): Hail the day that sees him rise (243); The head that once was crowned with thorns (297); Where high the heavenly temple stands (212)
Anthem: God is gone up (William Croft : Part 1)
The service sung to the setting by Peter Hurford THE NEW LONDON SINGERS directed by GEOFFREY MITCHELL
Organist BARRY ROSE
by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
Read by Jill Fenner
BBC Scotland
with Robert Williams and Janet Cohen
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson 14: Scotland (2) Brian Blench
(Museum curator)
James Maxwell (Solicitor) Dr John Gosden
(Medical researcher)
Andrew Ross (Teacher)
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by SUSAN HILL Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Birds and Beasts of Prey ' Such beauty and such cruelty were hers '
In the first of seven programmes Michael Flinch considers how poets have written about wild animals. Readers
Rosalind Shanks and Colin Baker Producer
SHAUN MACLOCCHUN BBC Bristol
Being some of Thurber's published writings realised for radio by LESLIE GLAZER 3 with and Sheila Steafel Blain Fairman Peter Marinkcr and Leslie Glazer
Including the original text of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Producer JOHN BROWELL
direct from St Nicholas Church. Newbory
Emma Kirkby (soprano) Academy of Ancient Music director
ChristopherHogwood
Part 1 Mozart
Symphony No 35, in 9 (Haffner) (K 385)
Concert aria for soprano and orchestra: Voi avete un cor fedele (K 217)
Symphony No 35, in D continued
Derek Parker introduces recordings from the BBC Sound Archives in which people describe a meeting which has remained imprinted on their memory.
Part 2 Mozart
Divertimento in D (K 136) Symphony No M, in c (Lini) (K 425) BBC Bristol
Presented by Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Faithful Ruslan (8)
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