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Northern Ireland by John Johnston
BBC Northern Ireland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Tlmpson and Peter Hobday
6.45- Prayer for the Day With THE REV ANDREW WYLIE
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30. 8,30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Your chance to ask senior politicians about their party's policies and their campaign promises. Sir Robin Day is in the Chair to ensure fair play.
Linesopen from 8.0 am A simultaneous broadcast with BBC1
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work In.
J.J.'s Holiday by FIONA BARR
Read by Trudy Kelly
Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland
NEM. p 9; 0 God. our help in ages past (BBC HB 467); Psalm 65; Matthew 3, vv 1-12 (rsv); When all thy mercies. 0 my God (BBC HB 22)
followed by travel
Managerial Circles by GERRY MCKEE , with Bernard Hill as Dennis Michael N. Harbour as Ray Rod Beacham as Bernie Dennis has worked his way up from the bottom and now runs a small printing firm in London. Ray is one of Ms employees. On this particular morning.
Dennis has called Ray into his office with the sole purpose of firing him. Dennis is loud-mouthed. arrogant, critical. Ray, normally shy and inarticulate, decides to retaliate with a few criticisms of his own ...
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Collared doves - what good are they?
The team answers your Wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)
Paul Heiney brings you the latest news for consumers. Each day the phone lines are open for your comments on the Items, for your suggestions about what you would like the team toinvestigate.
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11.0 am
(Details: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
The Spirit Gives Me Joy: BOB PRIZEMAN hears from the CHOIR OF GAYAZA GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Uganda.
Pick of the Paperbacks: JUNE KNOX-MAWER and EDWARD BLISHEN make their choice.
Four Stories by JEROME K. JEROME , abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by ROBERT LANG 4: On Cats and Dogs
(Music: Joplin's Cleopha)
The Topsoll of Imberley by Peter Terson
Jenny Beston, a student teacher, has been sent to Imberley in Hampshire to make a detailed survey of the village. As well as being an academic exercise, her tutor, Ruby Filmore, hopes it will make her less self-centred and help her to prepare for her teaching career.
BBC Bristol
To Japan via Red Square
JocelvnRixcontinuesher travels across the world by unorthodox routes, and spends May Day in Moscow.
Producer ANNE BROWN BBC Birmingham
Last Whitsun a recording team went to the Andalucian Festival of El Rocio. On the way, they came across two very different musical events: ithe weird and wonderful CAPTAIN'S BAND having an afternoon get-together; and a children s choir singing at a service to mark the beginning of a pilgrimage.
Dougias Livingstone went with the team. He describes the events and introduces the sounds. Location recordings by PAUL PEARSON
Producer JANE MORGAN
The Breaker (5)
withValerie Singleton and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
On 29 May Bob Hope , one of the world's best-known and best-loved comics, celebrated his 80th birthday. In this four-part series,
Bob Monhhouse narrates and presents an affectionate tribute to this great
English-borncomedian, with reminiscences and anecdotes from some of his friends, family and showbusiness colleagues. 1: From Vaudeville to Vietnam
A look at Hope's passion for entertaining live audiences.
Research and script by MARTYN PEDRICK
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Criticisms and comments about BBC radio and TV
Address: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
The economy, we are told, is recovering from recession. Will this mean new jobs for some of Britain's three million unemployed? Michael Robinson reports on Leicester's prospects following a special survey of the city's manufacturing industry. Producer PAUL CAMPBELL Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)
Presenter Marian Foster
The voices are those of people whose pastime is to sing in a choir and the harmony is found in music new and old, sacred and secular, popular and serious. The RILSTONE SINGERS, conductor GEOFFREY HUGHES , and the MARAZION APOLLO MALE VOICE CHOIR, conductor NICHOLAS MATTHEWS , sing songs of land and sea, and folk music from Hungary and the USA,
Producer IAN CARSON
BBC Bristol
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Includes reviews of The
Return of the Jedi, sequel to Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back; also Opera North's new production of Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict at the Grand Theatre. Leeds.
with Simon Winchester
The Turnaround (2) long wave only
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Extracts from the day's major speeches
Presenter John Hosken long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
