6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE VEN PETER COLEMAN
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.9. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25'. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
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Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself
With only a pair of binoculars and an Ordinance Survey map Jim Flegg finds himself bird-watching in the heart of rural Gloucestershire. Presenter Derek Jones
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
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long wave only
An occasional series about people successful against the odds. 5: Tony Mayell who wants his pianos to rank with the great names of music-making.
Even Peking pianists want this economical, good value British piano, which is set to challenge the cheap imports from the Far East. Marjorie Lofthouse visits the Buckinghamshire workshop.
ProducerJOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham long wave only
The Big Sell by PHIL CONLON
Read by Mark Mulholland Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland long wave only
nem, pp 38 and 152; Rejoice! the Lord is King (BBC HB 128); Psalm 24; Acts 1, vv 1-11 (AV);
Crown him with many crowns (BBC HB 124)
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Roger Walker. Peter Clarkson and Robin Cooke-Hurle are all enjoying life, thanks to Xanadu - a redundancy scheme which replaces depression with hope. Sonia Beesley explains how it works.
Producer ANNE BROWN
BBC Birmingham long wave only
with Neil Landor
Producer KATE FENTON long wave only
Paul Helney and Pattie Coldwell with the latest consumer news.
Including today the BBC Shopping Basket with Leslie Cottington
A series of ten plays by Michael Hardwick based on the short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The largest landowner in Boscombe Valley left his farm one afternoon to keep an appointment at Boscombe Pool, a lake a quarter-of-a-mile away. He never came back alive.
(First broadcast in 1966)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Fresh Voices: African writers, introduced by EDWARD BLISHEN.
Long in Tooth, Short oj Sense: BA MASON finds herself a totally impractical widow
The King's General (6) long wave only
The Bartlett Foundation by STAN BRADSIIAW
Joe Bartlett is a self-made man. He is extremely rich and thus extremely powerful. But his money and his power have not brought him peace.
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester
(bcp 1662) from All Souls' Church, Langham Place. London
Celebrant the RT REV
GEORGE REINDORP , assisted by members of the Religious Broadcasting Department
Preacher PAULINE WEBB , Organiser of Religious Broadcasting for the World Service of the BBC Epistle: Acts 1, vv 1-11 (AV)
Gospel: Luke 24, vv 44-53 (AV)
Hvmns (BBC HB) Hail the day that sees him rise (125); Jesus, our hope, out heart's desire
(126); The head that once was crowned with thorns ( 132)
The service is sung to
Mozart's Missa Breyis i in D
BBC SINGER directed by JOHN POOLE
Organist BARRY ROSE
The Russian Interpreter(9)
presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Jeremy Siepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) and MEMBERS OF THE
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (harpsichord) Part 1 Purcell
Trio-Sonata No 3. in A minor (1697)
Three Songs: If music be the food of love; Not all my torments; I attempt from love's sickness to fly Trio-Sonata No 6, in G minor (1697)
with David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
Part 2 Handel
Violin Sonata in D,Op 1 No 13
Italian Cantata No 25:
Lungi dal mio bel nume Trio-Sonata in G minor, Op 2 No 8
BBC Birmingham
(First broadcast on R3)
This is the time of year when the landscape in many parts of the country is transformed by the dazzling yellow flowers of oil seed rape. There is an intriguing story behind these fields of gold, from the skilful plant breeding that has perfected the crop to the extraction of its edible oil. But what is profit for the farmer and the processor is a headache to the beekeeper. Leslie Cottington investigates.
Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
includes a review of the first major public production of John Osborne 's A Patriot for Me at the Chichester
Festival Theatre, starring Alan Bates ; and a report from this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
with Alexander MacLeod
The Handyman (9) long wave only
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long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
