6.25 Shipping forecast lung wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day CANON BARNEY MILLIGAN
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAM
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Read by JIM NORTON (3)
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people. Including The Week so Far by Russell Davies Producer JILL FREEMAN
visits Worcestershire. where members of the Stoulton and Wadborough Women's Institute put their questions to: CLAY JONES
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
NEM. p 21; The Saviour died, but rose again (BBC HB 497); Psalm 15; Acts 2, vv 22-33 (AV); Ye holy angels bright (BBC HB 286)
Village Diary. 5: May
Richard Baker oners a recipe of popular classics on records; the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests. Producer RAY ABBOTT
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breekon
Today: a report on public inquiries
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A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which Kenneth Williams, Peter Jones, Clement Freud and Kenny Everett endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55 Weather: programme news
(long wave only)
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Richard Rogers , international architect
Creative Circles : reporting on the arts and crafts countrywide.
The Bush Negroes of Surinam: isolated in the South American forest, maintain their West African traditions. BOB CHAUNDRY investigates.
Nothing Missing But the Samovar and other Stories 3: Varty
Story: The Green Grobbiop by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
Neil Filzpatrick as Edward Searle in The Great God Mogadon by BARRY OAKLEY
Edward Searle , an amateur actor, bears a remarkable resemblance to the ailing Prime Minister and is forced to impersonate him in order to save the country from collapse.
Other parts played by COLIN GIBSON and MICHAEL GOW
Directed for the Australian Broadcasting Commission by MICHAEL INGAMELLS
from Lichfield Cathedral
Versicles and Responses (Byrd)
Psalms: 136, 137, 138 (C.H. Lloyd; Henry Ley)
Lessons: Isaiah 55, vv 6-11; 1 Corinthians 12, vv 1-13
Canticles: Verse Service (Michael East)
Anthem: Dum complerentur (Palestrina)
Organist and Master of the Choristers
JONATHAN REES-WILLIAMS Assistant organist PETER KING
BBC Birmingham
The Songwriter by JENNY STEBBINGS
Read by David Ashford
A songwriter can't stop writing songs," they argued, and all I could say was, '' But why can't he? " '
with Robert Williams and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A musical quiz 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: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice. Presented by Roger Cook (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
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Derek Robinson chairs the weekly phone-in discussion and invites you to exchange views with guests who directly influence your lives and attitudes. Producer PETER windows BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 6.30 pm
investigates and analyses current events and issues, at home and abroad, with reports from Steve Bradshaw and David Henshaw
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Presenter Chris Fowling Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
with Alexander MacLeod
of Law and Order
David Jason puts forward his case this week with help from the following exhibits: Sheila Steafel , Malcolm Terris and Mike Grady.
Music by DAVE COOKE
Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON Script by COLIN BOSTOCK -SMITH, ANDY HAMILTON , GUY JENKIN. RORY MCGRATH , MARTIN BERGMAN , BRIAN BETHELL , CHRIS STRATFORD and DAVE MORLEY
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE 'Repeat)
The Lost Domain (8) long wave only
long wave only
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late-night listening. long wave only
Weather report; forecast long waxe only followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am
Shipping forecast and Inshore forecast
