6.55 Weather; travel; programme news long wave only
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7.19 Sunday Papers long wave only
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajniye for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham long wave only
7.45 Bells: long wave only
7.50 The Shape of God
MGR TIMOTHY FIRTH with a meditation for the 16th Sunday of Pentecost: Luke 16 v 19-31 long wave only
7.55 Weather; travel: programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Religious news from home and abroad
Presenter Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID COOMES
BERNARD HEPTON appeals on behalf of The Royal
Star and Garter Home for disabled sailors, soldiers and airmen and reminds us that actions such as the Falklands and Ulster mean that the need for a home for disabled ex-servicemen is as great as ever.
Donations, by cheque or PO to: Rear Admiral
Bill Cook , [address removed]
Surrey TW10 6RR
8.55 Weather; travel; programme news
9.10 Sunday Papers
Mass for the 25th Sunday of the Year from St
Edmund of Canterbury's Roman Catholic Church, Beckenham, Kent
Celebrant and Preacher FR DAVID GUMMETT
Choirmaster TOM FULLER Organist HARRY GREGORY Setting of Mass: Festival Responsorial Mass, by PHILIP DUFFY , With responsorial antiphon and acclamation arr fuller. Psalm arr mccrimmon and MURRAY.
Hymns: (Celebration Hymnal) Come Lord
Jesus (51. Mayhew); Oh, the love of my Lord (231. White); Peace, perfect peace (257. Mayhew);
ChristisourKing (43. White)
Omnibus edition
Directed and produced by WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer . who meets Michael Levy. Director of the National Gallery, and his wife Brlgid Brophy , the writer and crttic; and presents some highlights from Woman's Hour.
Round the Horne starring Kenneth Home with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee
Announcer DOUGLAS SMITH
THE FRASER HAYES FOUR, THE HORNBLOWERS conducted by EDWIN BRADEN
Written by BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN
Producer JOHN SIMMONDS
(First broadcast in 1966)
Chris Serle opens the door on the housing world. With the help of financial expert Tom Tlckell , Chris looks at the latest developments. the newest ideas and the costliest problems that houses and homes can produce.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
(Details: Wed 10.2 am)
Herman by STEWART CONN with and The legend of Moby Dick , the great white whale. has fascinated readers and scholars alike. But legends If taken too seriously can come to seem almost real.
Rtngrope/Ziggy/SaHor/
Second man.siMON CALLOW
Thrummings/Boss/Perth/
First man .HUTON MCRAE
Sal TAMMY USTINOV Directed by TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
King Lear
The BBCtv Shakespeare production of King Lear will be shown this evening on BBC2 at 7.15. Tony Church , who played the role of Lear for the Royal Shakespeare
Company In 1974-5, gives his personal view of the play and its qualities. Producers
GORDON HUTCHINGS and ALAN WILDING
See feature: page 7
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Digging into
Boudtca's Time
Thetford -the excavation of a huge settlement. Could it have been Boudtca's capital?
Colchester - evidence of Boudlca's attack on the Roman City. What was the town like before and after the battle?
Stonea - Is this where the Romans defeated Boudlca's army?
Malcolm Billings visits three excavation sites in East Anglia for the latest news of Boudlca and her tribe, the Iceni.
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol long wave only
A magazine edition with news of what's happening to wildlife and the countryside
Presenter Peter France Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
followed by travel; programme news ong wave only
Brian Johnston Is in Berkshire visiting
Maidenhead. This year the town, which is on the River Thames, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the granting of its charter by Elizabeth 1.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 11.3 am) long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news long wave only
With PETER DONALDSON
1: Drivers in Europe- the Safe and the Sorry
Who are the worst drivers in Europe? The Belgians with their minimal driving test? The 'aggressive '
Germans? Are the Italians really the best? Tips and Insights for anyone venturing - or who has just ventured - on to the right side of the road. Producer JULIAN HALE
by R. D. WINGFIELD (4)
Teresa McGonagle invites Maeve Binchy and Leslie Thomas to pick some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Janacek Slavonic rhapsody: Taras Bulba conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY Sibelius Symphony No 7 In c: conducted by LEONARD SLATKIN
(Recording from WFMT. Overseas broadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from
AMOCO (UK) Limited)
by Sir Walter Scott
adapted for radio in five parts by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
with David Rintoul as Edgar Ravenswood
and Gerda Stevenson as Lucy Ashton
Lucy Ashton and her father are guests at Wolf's Crag, and for a time Edgar is made welcome at Ravenswood.
(BBC Scotland)
(Repeated: Tues. 3.2 pm)
Patrick Moore presents his personal choice of poetry and prose with Peter Barkworth and Christopher Godwin ' When I read for leisure I don't go in for really sertous works - Greek tragedies and Russian novels are not in my line at all. I tend to be entertained.'
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
The last programme in a six-part series
All Things are Ours
Creation is vast. Man's imagination is even further-ranging.
Therefore,God'sCreation is the source of man's real enjoyment. This idea runs through The Rev Keith Clements ' last selection from the Meditations of the 17th-century priest-poet, Thomas Traherne.
Readers FRANK DUNCAN and PATRICK MALAHIDE Producer PETER FIRTH BBC Bristol
The last in a series of seven travellers' tales A Cradle of Culture
Over a thousand years ago when Arab merchants set sail in their dhows across the Indian Ocean, they reached land at the Lamu Archipelago off the east coast of Africa. The Arabs mixed with the Bantus and the culture and language of Swahili was born.
Bernard Jackson visits Lamu Island to discover what remains of the ancient way of life and to meet some of the unlikely people who have chosen to live there. Producer BRIAN COOK
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
