6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Libby Furve * and Hugh Sykes
1.45. Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.8,11.8 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.M News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
10: Ezra Pound
8.5S Continental Travel Information
Bernard Braden takes up your comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers and management.
Producer JENNY DE YONG
Please write to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W1A 4WW.
Some of the world's major cities are in deep financial trouble. New York, for example, relies on government money to prevent it going bankrupt, and Jerusalem spends money it hasn't got to keep services operating. Kevin Ruane examines the problems facing the big cities. A Radio News Production by JOHN ALLEN
NEM, p 93; 0 king enthroned on high (BBC HB 158); Psalm 11; Mark 5, w 35-6, v 1 (RSV); Lord of all hopefulness, lord of all joy (BBC HB 309)
Missee Lee (7)
A weekly series of variations on a wildlife theme.
In six programmes Phil Drabble enjoys his favourite wild animals.
BBC Bristol
11.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Marjorie Lofthouse from Manchester
Getting History Taped: MARION BOWMAN finds Out what's in store at the Northern Sound Archive. York Street Band: SUE MARGOLIS talks to a group of women buskers.
Rocketing Along: actress Fanny Kemble 150 years ago rode with George Stephenson on the first passenger train and wrote about the experience in her diary. BBC Manchester
Skin Deep (4) Gifts
Story: The Happy Little King's Cook Has a Holiday by MOIRA HERITAGE
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN. Written by VALERIE MCCARTHY Producer DAVID BELL
by Don Webb The new manager of a Third Division football club sinking rapidly towards relegation believes there's more to his team's appalling record than bad playing. His investigations prove he's right but the question is who is getting at his star player and why?
BBC Manchester
Five programmes introducing the ingredients, recipes, methods of preparation and cooking, the customs and rituals.
Presenter John Tidmarsh 1: Chinese Cuisine Chinese restaurants and take-away shops are found all over Britain offering a large number of dishes. What is the attraction of eating Chinese and can a wide range of Chinese dishes be reproduced in the British home? Series producer FRANK WARWICK
by Christine Gardener
Read by Janet Clark
BBC Bristol
Presenters Gordon Clough and Janet Coben
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Richard Hudson - Evans looks at the Post Office's vast transport network - using everything from aircraft to shoe leather to deliver the mail, including Continental Travel Information
Producer STEPHEN phelps Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts. Producer MADELINE JAY
A personal portrait
A series of five programmes on people who have played an important, sometimes decisive, part in the life and work of a famous man or woman.
4: Rainer Maria Rilke and The Lady of Duino
Written by MARY BENSON and narrated by Isabel Dean with Dinah Sheridan as Princess Marie John Carson as Rainer Maria Rilke and Gordon Reid as Herr Kassner
Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis owned a castle at Duino. She befriended the Austrian poet, Rilke. and through her help and encouragement he was able to complete some of his most important work. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VEKNINC
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Sheridan's films: page 18
Stephen Milligan reports
The brand-new comedy show presents a tribute to Lassie.
Written and performed by Robert Bathurst, Martin Bergman, Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville and Emma Thompson
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
In Patagonia by BRUCE CHATWIN
Abridged in 10 parts by ANGELA THOYAE Read by TIM PIGOTT-SMITH (18)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long ware only
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the art and artifice of making oneself understood. Four programmes 2: Floundering into Port Producer SIMON ELMES
Dilly Barlow up-tempo
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
