6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.59 Continental Travel Information
with Tom Vernon
Producer JOHN SKRINE
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Why are the rail networks which help build modern industry now diminishing in the West. while they are still crucial to developing countries?
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL long wave only
NEM, p 42; Hark. the glad sounds. the Saviour comes (BBC HB 490); Psalm 98; Acts 16. vv 32 to 17. v 3
(AV); To Christ the Prince of peace (BBC HB 94) long wave only
The Watch by ELIE WIESEL Read by Robert Rietty ' We were digging feverishly in the courtyard, the garden, the cellar - consigning to the earth the belongings accumulated by several generations.'
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For the last programme in the series. Jim Flegg turns to the Manx shearwater.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Presenter Bill Brcckon
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced from Northern Ireland by Margaret Percy
Studio Guest: DEREK BELL , multi-talented and versatile solo musician and member of the internationally acclaimed folk group The Chieftains. Lagan College: against a background of increased polarisation The All Children Together
Movement plans to open an integrated school for Catholic and Protestant children.
Linen Revival: WENDY AUSTIN reports on new prospects for one of Ireland's most famous traditional industries. BBC Northern Ireland More Work for the Undertaker (3) long wave only
Shellshock by CAROLYN SALLY JONES with and 1945: ' The German war is at an end. We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing.' But for Len. Rafe and May, recovering from the war will be a matter of years.
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM
Geoffrey Smith talks to
Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden. Producer KEN FORD BBC Manchester
Six glimpses of the Victorians and their society presented by Antony Miall , through poems and songs.
4: Everything's Got a Moral
The Victorians frequently used songs and poems to preach morality and often found morals in the most unexpected places. Producer DAVID EPPS
Illyrian Spring (8)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs bringing you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, including Continental Travel Information
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated: Mort 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC programmes.
Producer JEREMY BIRCHALL
Carl Sagan drives a mock space-ship for TV cameras in the big American television series Cosmos. He turns the evolution of the universe into a popular story and believes there is life on other planets. He is also a serious scientist, Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies and David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell
University. Rodney Smith talks to him in this week's Profile. Producer
GWYNETH WILLIAMS
(Repeated: Sat 4.10 pm)
(Cosmos is on BBC1, Wed,
10.15 pm)
Sir Peter Parker Terry Wogan
Peregrine Worsthorne and Susan Hill tackle the issues raised by an audience from Watlington, Oxford.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
includes a new look at the Arthurian legends in JOHN BOORMAN 'S film
Excalibur; the West End opening of PETER SHAFFER'S Amadeus, with FRANK FINLAY as Salieri and RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN as Mozart: and a preview of BBC2's Festival of Music which begins on Sunday, with A Taste of Death on My Tongue, a documentary on the last year of Mozart's life. Presented by Michael Billington
Producer RICHARD DUNN
John Morgan reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news
Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel Chris Emmelt and the music of David Firmin Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON RICHARD QUICK . JEREMY BROWNE , BOB SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL ,
TONY SARCHET and PETER HICKEY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
A Moving Toyshop (5) long wave only
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
