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6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read bv PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
by Anthony Smith long wave only
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BBC correspondents around the world cast their collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER long ware only
NEM.pl7; O love, how deep, how broad, how high
(BBC HB 73); Psalm 111;
ISamuell6.vvl4-23 (Rsv)i City of God. how broad and far (BBC IIB 173) long wave only
Jacob's Ladder by MARIE BARTON
Read by Elizabeth Proud
followed by travel long wove only
from Stirling University
Current and controversial issues are put on trial before Chairman
Geoffrey Robertson and an audience of jurors
In Stirling and London. Today's motion:
The pope Should Be
Given a Hearty Welcome By All the Churches. Proposer:
Canon Kenyon Wright The Rev Jim Salmond
Two advocates will each call supporting witnesses; the jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN long wave only
Pipits are small, brown, inconspicuous birds which catch the eye in open moorland but they are also found in much of lowland Britain. Jim Flegg cocks his ear towards the meadow pipit and the tree pipit.
BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced from Manchester by Marjorle Lofthoute
A monkey with measles or a porpoise with polio are just part of the job for
DAVID TAYLOR. international vet, who travels 300.000 miles a year to treat the world's rare and exotic animals.
Artist and Crusader:
Sylvia, second daughter of the remarkable Pankhurst family, was born in Manchester 100 years ago this week.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
The Time, the Place and the Loved One (2) long wave only
The Art Student by ANGELA PENROSE
The head of an art college in an African state is excited by the raw talent of a new girl student. but he soon learns that this talent will prove a threat to her unless he can provide the necessary help.
Directed by GERRY JONES
4: Sheila Holdcn transportation engineer.
A six-part series
Language is always changing as people themselves change the way they speak over the years. But there's more to it than that, as Brian Redhead finds out with the help of recordings from around the country.
Catalina (5)
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
Clive Jacobs brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, and Tom Boswell tests the Volvo 345 CL.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Written by JAMES ROBSON (Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
Janet Cohen has been looking at the life of Roy Lancaster, gardener, explorer and plant hunter. Producer DAVID POWELL
Sir Henry Plumb John Arlott
Anne Mallalleu and Jack Higgins tackle the issues raised by the audience in Guernsey
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Includes reviews of On the Rocks, a political comedy by Bernard Shaw , at the Chichester Festival Theatre: and Bill Brandt 's Portraits.
Including photographs of Graham Greene , Pablo Picasso , Harold Pinter and Benjamin Britten , at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer ANNE WINDER
with Alexander MacLeod
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steaf el and Chris Emmett
Written by BOB SINFIELD TONY SARCIIET ,
JAMES HENDRIE , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK, ALISTAIR BEATON , PETER HICKEY ,
JOHN REVELL , DAVE DIXON , ANDREA SOLOMONS and others
Producer JIMMV MULVILLE (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Challapln
An autobiography as told to MAXIM GORKY compiled and edited by NINA FROUD . JAMES UANLEY abridged in ten parts by CAROLE ROSEN by BRYAN PRINGLE (10)
Producer DAVID JOHNSTON long wave only
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An Imaginary sale of the BBC Sound Archives attracts Nigel Rees to browse through a catalogue and choose the recordings he would most like to own.
Producer ANNE MORRISON long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude