6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25'. 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35 Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
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BBC correspondents cast a collective eye over a contemporary issue.
(Repeated: Sat 4.2 pm) long wave only
Something to Take Back by CELIA DALE
Read by Margot Boyd long wave only
NEM, p 106; 0 dearest Lord, thy sacred head
(BBC HB 398); Psalm 23; John 12, vv 12-19 (AV); Jesu, lover of my soul (BBC HB 145)
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by SEBASTIAN GARMAN Glimpses from the colourful life of the Victorian poet, explorer, diplomat and romantic Wilfrid Seawen Blunt
(1S401922), taken from contemporary letters and journals. with Denis Lill as Blunt and Carole Boyd as his wife, Anne Happiness is not
A merchandise men buy or leave unbought
And find again. It is a wild bird winging
Its way through heaven, in joyous circles ringing,
A loft at its own will ... with EDWARD CAST, MIRANDA FORBES , MADI HEDD, ALEX JENNINGS , JAMES KERRY and PETER TUDDENHAM as Bulwer-Lytton Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
How did the zebra get its stripes and why do some zebras have thick stripes and some have thin stripes?'
Presenter Wilma George
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon including
Divorce: do-it-yourself divorce - the possibility of conducting your own case.
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widiake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Special Guest: Dr Fiona Vincent , astronomer at Mills Observatory in Dundee. CHRISTINE KINNEAR discovers how Scottish schools are adapting to last year's ban by the European Court on Human Rights on corporal punishment.
JIMMIE MACGREGOR traces the development of ski-ing as a sport In Scotland, with explorer and author MYRTLE SIMPSON.
Producer ELAINE MACLEAN BBC Scotland
School for Love by OLIVIA MANNING abridged in 14 parts. by JANET HICKSON read by SHEILA MITCHELL (12) long wave only
by JANE AUSTEN dramatised for radio in six parts by JOHN TYDEMAN with Angharad Rees as Emma and Alan Moore as Mr Knightley
2: Emma Woodhouse has been much occupied in encouraging her friend. Harriet Smith , towards the expectation of Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Musings from Middle
England: writer
HARRY THOMPSON examines some facets of English provincial Mfe.
Five programmes with Dr Alan Maryon-Davis 2: Give up Smoking - Help Your Heart
Most smokers are aware of the link between smoking and lung cancer but far fewer realise that smoking causes many more deaths from heart disease.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
The Honorary Consul (5)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave onltf
5.55 Weather; programme news
with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
with Chris Serle
Erie Tobllt ,
Alanah Martin and Tom Boswell Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated; Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer PETER HOARE
(Repeated. Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote.
Jean Rook , Frank Chappie Professor Brian Griffiths and John Palmer at
Tunbridge Wells
Chairman John Timpson Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
investigatestheBook Marketing Council's campaign to promote the best of young British novelists, including
Martin Amis.
William Boyd , Ian MacEwan and Salman Rushdie ; and reviews The Year of the French, a new drama series on Channel 4 set at the time of the 1793 rebellion in Ireland. Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
John Morgan reporting
with Bill Wallis ,
David Tate and Tracey Ullman Written by JAMES HENDRIE , NICK REVELL , ANDREA
SOLOMONS, IAN BROWN , ROY APPS. BOB SINFIELD , RICHARD QUICK. JOHN LANGDON , JOHN COLLEE and PETER HICKEY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW - ARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
The Talented Mr Ripley (5) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
