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Northern Ireland by John Johnston A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
BBC Northern Ireland
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Presenters Libby Purves and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day CANON BARNEY MILLIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Peter Donaldson
sallies forth into the BBC Sound Archives in search of the sublime and the ridiculous.
and his colourful guests for 55 minutes of stimulation to help dispel those grey moods.
Producer PETER ESTALL.
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NEM, p 84; Lord, as to thy dear cross (BBC HB 293); Canticle 4; John 21, vv 15-22 (RSV); The Son of God goes forth (BBC HB 235) long wave only
New Every Morning, £1.75 hardback, £1.25 paperback, from bookshops
Room Fourteen by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty ' Giovanni stood there. arms ineffectually waving, rooted like a stunted tree. A terrible sound came from his mouth. It broke into the roar of a beast at bav.' Producer MITCH RAPER
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' Edward VII was quite fond of gambling and it evinced itself by me being allowed to start two pieces of bread and butter, butterside down, on his trousers and betting on which one would get to the bottom of the trousers first. Of course it depended on which was the most buttery.' (SONIA KEPEL) It was Theodore Roosevelt who said ' kings and suchlike are just as funny as politicians
But are they as human (or even more so)? What have they said and what has been said about them, to reveal them as ordinary mortals? And why can we never quite convince ourselves that they really are,
Basil Boothroyd ventures a sidelong glance at the mystiques of the monarchy.
Producer JOHN knight long wave only
News. views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
Murder Must Advertise by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON starring with and 4: Inexcusable Invasion of a Ducal Entertainment
Producer MARTIN FISHER (First broadcast in 1979) 12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Reading Your Letters.
Flat Sharing: was how JOANNA BOGLE and her husband solved their housing problem.
An Insane Ensemble?: 72 cellists playing together was a sight and sound BOB PRIZEMAN couldn't resist.
A Comfort of Cats (9)
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The Country House Murder by GUY MEREDITH
This was the description of his master by ABDULLAH, Malayan clerk to
Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, born 5 July 1781 and now remembered by Michael Stewart.
Illyrian Spring by ANN BRIDGE . abridged for radio in 13 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by ROSEMARY LEACH (4)
Producer DAVID JOHNSTON
Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell on VHF until 5.55
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including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
by PATRICK GALVIN
Ireland 1939. A frightening level of sexual and religious violence is uncovered when Franklin, a lay-teacher and veteran of the Spanish Civil War, arrives at a boys' reform school run by Christian Brothers.
BBC Northern Ireland
includes the BOB DYLAN concerts at Earls Court in London; the film director LINDSAY ANDERSON 'S homage to the great
American director About John Ford : and HUMPHREY CARPENTER 'S biography of the poet W. H. Auden.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The Moving Toyshop by EDMUND CRISPIN abridged in ten episodes by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Hugh Burden (1) The toyshop in the Iffley Road contains the strangled body of a greyhaired woman when a friend of Gervase Fen 's enters it one night. The next morning the toyshop has vanished and a busy grocer's store occupies the site....
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
