News, weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Wendy Jonei and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
plus Lfbby Purves with a birthday interview of the week and laminar and unfamiliar figuresto enliven and enrich your Wednesday morning. Producer JENNY DANKS
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NEM.p97: Blessed Jesus at thy word (BBC HB 257);
Psalm 119, pt 6: Jonah 4. vv 1-11 (NEB); Christ is our corner-stone (BBL HB 258) long wave onlu
The Visitor by ZORINA ISHMAIL-BIBBY
Read by Elizabeth Proud Producer MITCH RAPER
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Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
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1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor, including:
Guest of the Week: Dr Anna Mann, Executive Search Consultant.
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue - or Are They?
Pamela Callaghan looks at some of the problems facing people with defective colour vision.
A Portrait of Julie (12)
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The Overnight Man by PETER TERSON adapted by the author from his stage play The Night John.
In a silent. carpeted. hygienic and soulless motel, a one-time manager reminisces about his rise and fall In the hotel trade,
The Overnight Man is played by ; eter Bafdwin, who created the role in the stage production. Directed by MARGARET ETALL
in which the poet George MacBeth presents poems about animals: Pets
Readers JILL BALCON RONALD PICKUP PETER WICKHAM
Producer ALEC REID
(Postponed from 14 April)
reflects on Paperclips and Tension
Lady on the Burning Deck (6)
Presenters
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A special Scottish edition of the popular quotation game in which Jllgel Rees
Invites John Byrne. Anne Lorne-Gillles .
Clifford Hanley and Jimmy Reid to share their favourite quotations and identify some others.
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A ser,ies of weekly
Investigations into the problems of listeners. Presenter Roger Cook
Eight documentaries
6: Where the Industrial Action Is
With the world economy deep In recession, trade and industry in both the rich North and the poor South are in turmoil. In the North unemployment is higher than it's been for years. But in some newly-
Industrialising countries the economy is growing steadily - particularly around the ' Pacific Basin '.
What is the impact on North and South of new industries such as microelectronics? And how does a traditional industry, such as British textiles, react to the challenge from its competitors?
Written and presented by Emanuel de Kadt and Daniel Snowman
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
A Ride into History with Julian Pettifcr The Orient Express, scene of perhaps Agatha Christie 's most famous detective story, produeed a frisson of excitement in even the most blasé traveller as it clattered across frontiers to the far corners of Europe. Now its sumptuous carriages and matchless cuisine have been revived in a new regular service that runs from London to Venice - from where JULIAN PETTIFER reports at the end of its inaugural run.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER UACDONALD
Ian Fells , Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University. examines Britain's nuclear energy policy by talking to leading members of the nuclear industry and their opponents.
Contributors include on WALTER MARSHALL , SIR JOHN HILL , WALTER PATTERSON. SIR ALAN COTTRELL.
DR MICHAEL FLOOD and SIR MARTIN RYLE.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
includes reviews of Britannia Hospital, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and Missing, directed by Costa-Gavras - two films entered for the Cannes Festival which closes today; and the opening production of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera - The Love of Three Oranges by Prokofiev, with designs by Maurice Sendak.
Presenters Natalie Wheen and Iain Johnstone
with Alexander MacLeod
The Quiet American (3) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
