from Northern Ireland
Presenter John Johnston BBC Northern Ireland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45. Prayer for the Day With ERIC DOYLE
6.55. 7.55
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7 8 8 0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN 7 25', 8.25' Sport
730. 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Eugene Fraser
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather: travel
Kenneth Robinson adds his humour.
Producer JENNY DANKS
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by Guy de Maupassant
Translated by Harry Bell
Read by Richard Hurndall
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nem, p 114; 0 God, our help in ages past (BBC HB; 467); Psalm 42; John 6, vv 41-58 (AV); In
Christ there is no east or west (BP 38; tune: BBC HB 305)
followed by travel long wave only
Horbury, South Yorks
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Presented by Charles Tomlinson Readers POLLY JAMES and MARTIN JARVIS
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Martin Jarvis is a National Theatre player) long wave only
programme news
Which Way Now? Crucial decisions at school. Every year some 700,000 13-and 14-year olds are asked to make decisions about subjects they are going to study at school which could determine their prospects when they leave. How well prepared are they and what help are they getting? How can you prevent your child making a mistake? All this week Cheryl Armitage investigates. Today: how the system falls some. Presenter Jenni Mills 0 BACK PAGE: 87
Busman's Honeymoon by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON
Peter Jones as Burfter 4: Not Why, but How
Producer MARTIN FISHER
12.55 Weather: travel;
Presenter Brian Wldlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor Roy Castle at Home.
BERNARD JACKSON visits the all-round entertainer and his wife FIONA who talk about their marriage, and why they are happier now than ever before. Fast family Fare (3): Puddings: MARY berry with six demonstrations on how to prepare real and wholesome food
The Tenant of Wildfell
Hall (8). long wave only
Widows Might by CHRIS ALLEN
Giraffes
Have you ever seen giraffes playing football? International zoo vet
David Taylor has - and survived a 500-mile journey across Spain with a very tall giraffe and two drunken elephants!
Producer ANNE BLAIR COULD BBC Bristol
The Beautiful Visit (6)
with Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton challenge Barry Cryer and GraemeGardentoalive parliamentary debate. Order is maintained by the Speaker Humphrey Lyttelton. Master of the Piano Rolls COLIN SELL Official Recorder
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated. Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised rpt o/ 9.5 am)
Charley is My Darling by PETER BRENT , With
Charles Darwin looks back over his youth and the influences that shaped his life - especially the sunny days at Woodhouse with his first love, Fanny Owen.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm) (John Westbrook is in ' Another Country ' at the Queen's Theatre, London)
includes reviews of An
Officer and a Gentleman, a new film starring
Richard Gere and Debra Winger ; and BBC1's
Sunday serialisation of Dickens's Dombey and Son with Julian Glover as the rich City merchant obsessed by his desire for a son.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
with Simon Winchester
Presenter Peter Evans Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The Voyage of the Destiny by Robert NYE abridged in 15 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by David March (1) Sir Walter Raleigh was surely one of the the most dazzling lights to shine in the glittering court of Gloriana. But in his highly acclaimed novel. Robert Nye gives us the man behind the demigod. Writing in his private journal he charts the course of the great voyage of his life, culminating in the tragic but noble shipwreck of the scaffold.
Producer DAVID JOHNSTON long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
