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presenter Brian Redhead with PAUL BURDEN
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV JOHN CONGDON
7.0 8.0 Today's News
Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
The Price of Oil "» Shetland
In the heart of the Shetland archipelago lies Sullom Voe terminal - the most up-to-date oil port in the world, and the largest Civil engineering project in Britain. But Shetland also harbours some of the richest sea bird colonies '" Europe, and acts as a "tal stepping stone for Jountless migrant species. How fares life in the face Of oil? Presented by Derek Jones. Producer
BRIAN LEiTH. BBC Bristol
Even in these days of economic gloom, enterPrise can still pay off and this 12-week series concentrates on the success stories of people who come out on top.
2: Young Enterprise
"alter Salomon created Young Enterprise in 1963 as an exciting way of helping youngsters to make the transition between school and work. Today over 300 companies Of teenagers manage real businesses in their spare time, sponsored and advised by professionals In industry.
Presenter Derek Robinson Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 62; 0 praise ye the Lord (BBC HB 279); Psalm 107, vv 31-42; 1 Corinthians 2, vv 6-16 (AV); Father all-seeing <BBC HB 385)
Dragonflight (14)
A dozen cautionary tales from phil Smith , based on his own (usually disastrous) attempts to beat the economic crisis. 7: Killer Instinct BBC Manchester
Including Jill Todd and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenters Jenni Mills and Bill Breckon
A quiz game with Larry Adler Susan Hill
Spike Mullins and Molly Parkin
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Talking Point.
A Student at 35: CHRISTINE HEWITT decided to take a degree in religious studies.
Reading Your Letters.
' Small probably, powerful certainly - and difficult! : ALISON PACKER helps build an impressionistic picture of fairies.
SmaUbone Deceased (7)
Story: The Monster in the Wood by VERA RUSHBROOKE
The Pot of Gold
A Roman comedy by TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS translated and adapted in a modern version by MARTYN WADE
Euclio, a miser, pretends to the outside world that he's a pauper. But hidden away in his house is his precious pot of gold and he spends most of his time keeping a very careful eye on it. Not careful enough, though, for on his daughter's wedding day Mars is in conjunction with Venus - which can only spell disaster, and what with all the dreadful people coming and going something is bound to go wrong ...
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
with David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Innocence Abroad by EDWARD SALMON
Read by Gareth Armstrong Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
with Gordon Clough and Robert Williams
5.56 Shipping forecast long wave only
including Financial Report
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham
Poems presented by poet and novelist John Wain
Readers DIANA BISHOP ,
GEOFFREY COLLINS , JOHN WAIN Producer ALEC REID
leader JANOS ROLLA
ANDRAS SCHIFF (piano)
Mendelssohn String Symphony No 10, in B minor
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, in G (BWV 1048); Keyboard Concerto in D minor (bwv 1052)
'After all these years, what do you know? ' American lecturer Michael Meyers explains and illustrates the significance of this question, from which he has compiled radio programmes, both here and in America.
Producer MARY PETT
Part 2
Handel Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6 No 4
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in c
(Given in the QEH: 18 Apr)
The Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection
' My mad friends are the actors' passport to eternity ' said DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE about Mander and Mitchenson, and indeed, their unique theatre collection. founded in 1946, became the largest comprehensive theatrical collection in private hands. It's achieved an international reputation with items ranging from the gold cigarette case Gertrude Lawrence gave to Noël Coward in 1932 and fulsomely inscribed in bad grammar, to every known prompt copy of Sweeney Todd.
Colin Ford visits them and their collection at Sydenham, and also goes to the Georgian mansion at Beckenham where plans are in hand to rehouse the collection under the direction of the new curator, Colin Mabberley.
Also in the programme: the Royal Shakespeare Company's new production of Hamlet at Stratford-upon-Avon.
Producer JOHN POWELL
Anthony Howard reports
The Sign of Four (4)
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
