Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
with Gerald Priestland
6.55 Weather; travel; programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.55 Weather: travel; programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
The sports magazine programme introduced by Tony Lewis
Today's main events, like the 100th Scotland/ England football international and The Sun Alliance PGA
Championship won't be forgotten, but we'll also be searching for the unfamiliar, the off-beat, the ' different ' stories. Producer DAVE GORDON Editor DEREK MITCHELL
8.57 Weather; travel; continental travel
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with help from IAN LYON and SUSAN MARLING. Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD
with Matthew Coady
Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG
A specially-composed serviceto welcome Ills Holiness Pope John Paul II on his pilgrimage to
Canterbury.
Gerald Priestland
Robert Hudson describe the scene at Canterbury Cathedral.
Order of Service
Procession of Canterbury Gospels. Laity and Clergy Hymn: Blessed city, heavenly Salem (transc John Mason Neale , Henry Purcell )
The Welcome Fanfare
Procession of Anglican and Roman Catholic church leaders
Choir: Let the angelic choirs of heaven
(Giovanni Gabriell ) The Lord's Prayer
Hymn: All people that on earth do dwell (Old 100th Genevan psalter, Psalm 100. Daye s psalter)
Archbishop's Address Collect
A Common Faith Procession
Choir: Psalm 84
Epistle: I Corinthians 12, vv 4-13; read by The
Archbishop of Canterbury Gospel: John 17, vv 20-26 read by His Holiness
Pope John Paul II Intercessions
Pray that Jerusalem may have peace and felicity (York Scottish Psalter 1615)
Pope's Address Renewal of Baptismal Vows
Giving of the Peace
All present are invited to greet their neighbours Choir: Te Deum Laudamus
(brass, arr Peter Naylor, Walton)
A Common Vision Procession
Seven representative church figures place a candle in a seven-branched candlestick. naming a particular martyr Prayers
Hymn: For all the saints (Vaughan Williams , arr Peter Naylor. Bishop William Walsham-How ) Blessing
An Antiphon in honour of St Thomas Becket Choir: Recessional (Alan Ridout )
POPE JOHN PAUL II and the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY leave the Cathedral
Hymn: Praise the Lord! (Cyril Taylor)
Organ DAVID FLOOD, assistant organist of Canterbury
Choirs CANTERBURY
CATHEDRAL and ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL
Brass THE PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE
Director of Music of Canterbury Cathedral ALLAN WICKS
Presenter Louise Botting A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated.- Spring Bank Holiday at 10.2 am)
Another nail-biting contest in which Willie Rushton and Tim Brooke-Taylor attempt to bite their nails faster than Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer Chairman
Humphrey Lyttelton With COLIN SELL at the. piano Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Postponed from 3 April)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Nicholas Fairbairn , QC, mp Ian Mikardo. MP Michael Winner and Suzanne Lowry
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
by Paul Angelis
with Tom Wilkinson as ANdy, Barbara Flynn as Sharon and Kate Binchy as Sue
Mixing your work up with your love-life is never a good idea. and all it's meant to Andy is that he can't escape from emotional pressures, even when he's shut away in the security of the cab of his bus.
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Repeated: Tues 11.3 am)
A history in 26 parts 20: The Dreadnought Navy
The Navy's high imperial noon stretched from the 1880s to 1916. It was an age of revolutionary naval technology and patriotic poets. But ratings were often preoccupied with different matters. Readers ANTHONY HALL, STEVE HODSON. MICHAEL SHANNON , CAROLE BOYD and LEONARD MAGUIRE
Consultant and presenter Henry Baynham. Series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
Novelist Joseph Hone tells the eight-part story of his travels through the Soviet Union.
3: Odessa - Bread and Circuses
A visit to the famous circus and a journey beneath the city of Odessa, through the catacombs in search of other Russian virtues. Producer Joy HATWOOD
A magazine of interest to disabled listeners Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Sue MacGregor talks to the seventh Marquess of Anglesey, biographer and historian of the British cavalry, about his life and work and invites him to reflect on both.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; travel; programme news
including Sports Round-up
Roy Plomley's castaway is founder of the BBC's Natural History Unit Desmond Hawkins. Show more
Desmond Hawkins, founder of the BBC Natural History Unit.
(Details: Fri 9.5 am)
Amiably competitive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
Music by INSTANT SUNSHINE Producer MICHAEL EMBER
with Richard Baker
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
The Hampdenshire
Wonder by JEFFREY SEGAL adapted from the novel by J. D. BERESFORD with and Ginger Stott's overriding ambition was to father a prodigy. When their son Victor was born - and became known as ' the Hampdenshire Wonder ' - Ginger and Ellen Mary discovered qualities in him they. and society. found disturbing.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
A tribute to
Ludwtg Koch Born in Germany over 100 years ago, LUDWIG KOCH pioneered tire recording of wildlife sound and became one of Britain's best-loved broadcasters. Desmond Hawkins looks back over his long and eventful life with tire help of those who knew him. as well as recorded excerpts from his broadcasts.
Written and produced by JOHN BURTON
BBC Bristol
Libby Purves reflects on an eventful day for Pope John Paul II - at Canterbury
Cathedral and later at
Wembley Stadium.
Producer DAVID WINTER
followed by an interlude
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
