6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Keeping Fit
Is exercise good for you? Is it safe? If you want to increase your strength, stamina and suppleness or simply learn to relax. should you take up body-building or aerobatics or yoga, or one of the many other forms of exercise available?
Al Murray , an exercise specialist, and Penny Yendell, who trains relaxation tutors, join
Sue MacGregor to answer your questions on all aspects of exercise. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
NEM, p 42; Immortal love (BP 37); Psalm 122; Acts
14, vv 27 to 15, v 12 (rsv); In Christ (BP 38) long wave only
-Sunday Night Fever by KEITH GOODALL
Read by Andy Rashleigh Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
followed by travel
The Call for George Riley by ROB GITTINS
Bitterns are well known in East Anglian reed-beds, but is it usual to see them in the treetops of Dorset? Valerie Brown , Ian Presst and Humphrey Greenwood tackle more of your questions about birds, fish and insects.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)
Presenter Bill Breekon
by A. G. MACDONELL adapted in six episodes by BARRY TOOK
2: Huggins, Harcourt and Other Horrors with Other parts played by WENDY MURRAY , SPENCER
BANKS and CRAWFORD LOGAN Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
The Price of Prostitution: TESSA SHAW reports on a research project into why young girls are going on the streets.
She sent me out for Cutlet Frills! SUSAN MARLING meets cooks who cater for your party by delivering all the food to your door or cooking it in your kitchen. The Book of Ebenczer Le Page (7)
by NEIL GUNN , the last of five parts adapted by TOM MCGRATH withand
Catrine now knows her husband to be dead, and feels free to solemnise her friendship with Roddie.
But Finn has other ideas.
Directed by TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
Derek Jones recalls past conversations with Bing Crosby, Humphrey Lyttelton and Roger Whittaker.
BBC Bristol
Last year 20,000 rabid cows, horses, dogs and foxes were slaughtered in Europe. In Britain, rabies-free for 60 years, but with twice the urban fox population of continental countries, and people still smuggling pet animals into the country. are we ready to face this fast-approaching and most terrifying of human diseases?
Presented by Jenni Mills
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Voices in the Garden (5)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Details: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Barry Cunliffe examines the life and work of six pioneers of archaeology 4: Tradition Meeting on Common Ground with Robin Bailey as Sir Leonard Woolley Compiled from contemporary sources by PETER JAMES
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer PAUL CAMPBELL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)
Four Hundred and Fifty Years of Royal Births
A documentary chronicle compiled and written by James Munson
Narrator GARARD GREEN ' The 27th day of May 1537 being Trinity
Sunday, there was a Te Deum sung in St Paul 's for joy of the Queen's quickening of child, and also the same night was divers great fires made in London and a hog's head of wine at every fire for poor people to drink.'
God Give Good Life looks at some of the more notable royal confinements of the past 450 years, beginning with those of the wives of Henry VIII.
With DAVID GOODERSON , DAVID MARCH,
ANTHONY NEWLANDS , ELIZABETH PROUD, JOHN RYE, STEPHEN THORNE. and PATIENCE TOMLINSON Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (Repeated: Fri 11.3 am)
News for visually-handicapped people.
Peter White reports on how public libraries cater for large-print readers. Presenter Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL
includes reviews of Alan Parker 's new film of Pink Floyd's The Wall, with designs and animation by Gerald Scarfe ; the first in a new series of ' Acquisitions in Focus ' - ' The Enchanted Castle ' by Claude at the National Gallery; and looks forward to the sale of a lost Turner masterpiece at Christie's. Presenter Paul Allen Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Stephen Milligan reporting
Another dose of raucous fun from
Robert Bathurst , Jimmy Mulville , Rory McGrath Emma Thompson and Griff Rhys Jones
Written by RORY MCGRATH , JIMMY MULVILLE , JON CANTER and others
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
Mother and Son (7) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
