6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead end John Timpson
6.45* Prayer lor the Day With BISHOP DAVID KONSTANT
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
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
Springtime in Suburbia Between the golf-courses and the shopping centres of south-east London. amid the box-hedged and crazy-paved gardens of the commuter belt lie little pools of water, overgrown and neglected but potential oases of wildlife. Keith Corbett takes Derek Jones on a torch-light tour of the world of toads and frogs and great crested newts. Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
An occasional series 2: Bill Bryce
Mention the airline business and immediately thoughts of doom and gloom spring to mind. But BILL BRYCE and his company. Brymon
Airways, are flying In the face of the current trend. and expanding. From his base In Plymouth,
Bill Bryce flies to the Channel Islands, the Midlands and the North Sea oil rigs. He has made money out of routes that bigger. more established carriers gave up, and the upward trend is continuing. He tells Larry Harris about his plans.
Producer ANNE BROWN BBC Birmingham
Phoenix by EVE SPENCE
Read by Sheila Mitchell ' As the dog's head turned to watch their approach, Barbara's heart lurched. The cast of the back of the head, the ears, with the eager eyes shining in health, it was so like Caesar she could hardly move her feet.'
Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 46; When morning filds the skies (ap 101); Psalm 85, vv 1-7. 11-14; I Timothy 3. w 8-16
(GNB); Rejoice today with one accord (BBC HB 281)
followed by travel
A mixture of musical Merseyside merriment introduced by Fritz Spiegl with songs from The Spieglers, with Robert Orledge and Daniel Hammerton
BBC Manchester
Let Neil I.andor sort out your queries, quibbles and quandaries.
Producer KATE FENTON
News, views and advice for consumers. Including the BBC Shopping Bosket Presenter Jenni Mills
The late Carleton Robbs andNormanShelley appear in their celebrated roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in a series of ten plays by MICHAEL HARDWICK based on the short stories of SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5: The Three Garridebs It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost onemanhisreason,it cost Dr Watson a blood-letting and It cost yet another man the penalties of the law.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD (First broadcast in 1964)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
A Seasonal Bouquet: a celebration of spring in words and music.
Ferry, the Jerusalem Cat: MARGHANITA LASKI talks about the hero of her first book for children.
The Watcher Bee (12)
Anna Barry as Anne Hathaway in Mistress Mine by JUDITH GICK
Heere lyeth interred the body of Anne, wife of William Shakespeare who departed this life the sixth day of August 1623 being the age of 67 years. What's the rest of it? '
' Can't you make it out? ' ' No. too difficult.'
In this radio version of her stage monologue, written for Anna Barry and first performed at the Edinburgh Festival In 1081, Judith Gick puts together historical fact and the internal evidence from Shakespeare's writing, to reconstruct the life and marriage of Anne Hathaway. with the voices of MICHAEL BILTON. RICHARD BUW. PAULINE SIDDLE
Music specially arranged by IAIN STEWART and played by IAIN STEWART (flUte)
SUZANNE BRAMSON (guitar) Directed by Richard IMISON Woddis On ... page 81
A Tight Family Unit
Andrew Joynes describes a pirate whaling expedition in the Caribbean.
Frank Delaney dons a deerstalker hat. picks up his microphone and sets off to investigate the mysteries of the Sherlock Holmes industry.
Producer KATE FENTON
Goodbye to All That (9)
Presenters
Susannah Simons 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
Written by DIANE CULVERHOUSE
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Peggy Archer
JUNE SPENCER
BBC Birmingham
includes a review of The American Clock by Arthur Miller , a British premiere at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANTHOHY CHEEVERS
leader MALCOLM STEWART conductor David Atherton Stephen Bishop -
Kovacevich(piano) direct from Philharmonic Hall. Liverpool
Part 1
Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 4, in G
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
Part 2 Sibelius
Symphony No 5, in E flat BBC Manchester
Tamara Finch talks about some of the early influences in her former husband's life.
Producer JOCK GALLACHER BBC Birmingham
John Morgan reporting
The Road to Oxlana (4) long wave only
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