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Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV DAVID CAINK
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.251, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
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The Rocky Land ...
... or the Burren Is a limestone moonscape on the west coast of Ireland which, at this time of the year, is covered in a mass of flowers. Charles Nelson and David Streeter show Derek Jones some of Its specialities.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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In the third of a series of six programmes,
Tom Vernon takes us inside someone else's working life.
This week: Pet Foods
Producer JENNY DE YONG long wave only
The Sheep that Strayed From the Flock by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Rex Holdsworth Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
from the Chapel of Unity. St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast
NEM, p 42; New every morning is the love (ICH 7); Psalm 23; Matthew 5, vv 38-48 (RSV); Peace perfect peace (ich 508)
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Lumb Bank In West Yorkshire, once the homeofTedHughes,Is now run by the Arvon Foundation as a centre for creative writing. This documentary records, without comment, a week-long 1 starting to write ' course directed by poet
Pete Morgan and novelist
Elizabeth North.
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
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with Neil Landor
Producer KATE FENTON long wave only
with Pattie Coldwell Including today the You and Yours Shopping Basket with Leslie Cottington.
The second of four programmes celebrating a hundred years of the Cambridge University
Footlights Dramatic Club Griff Rhys Jones introduces extracts from past Annual Footlights May Week Revues
Featuring at the piano
RUSSELL DAVIES assisted by DAVID GOODERSON
This week words of wit and wisdom from
Alistair Cooke , Jimmy Edwards , Bill Oddie and Julian Slade
Footlights archivist HARRY PORTER
Script and research BARRY PILTON Producers
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORS and ANDY ALIFFE
12.56 Weather; travel: programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
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with Sue MacGregor Including
Fresh Voices: African writers introduced by EDWARD BLISHEN.
Family Matters (7) long wave only
The Storytellers
A series of five 20th. century English short stories dramatised for radio (2)of the The Daughters of Late Colonel by KATHERINE MANSFIELD dramatlsed by R. S. BYRAM dies
When colonel Pinner his two spinster daughters are faced with the terrible possibility of freedom. Together but unaided, they must come to terms with both their loss and their liberation.
Directed by PENNY GOLD
Heroes
When DONNY MACLEOD spent his first night under the stars of Texas, his fellow heroes were frightened by the attack from Tourist Board Indians.
with Frank Delaney
Producer SIMON ELMES
The Breaker (12)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
with Pauline Bushnell
Including Financial Report
Chairman
Robert Robinson 13: Scotland Christopher Boam (civil servant)
Peter Hastings
(mechanical engineer) David Stewart
(former headmaster)
Dr Richard Coast-Smith (doctor) including Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions by IAN GILLIES producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
with Fritz Splegl
TIMOTHY PENHOSI (counter-tenor)
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (tenor) NIGEL ROGERS (tenor)
ALASTAIR THOMPSON (tenor) TAVERNER CHOIR
TAVERNER PLAYERS
Conductor ANDREW PARROTT LassusMagnificat: Aurora lucis rutilat; Quern vidistis pastores?; Zachee festinans; Benedic Domine
Gabrieli Canzona VIII ; Magnificat a 14
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
Part 2
Gabrieli In eccleslis Lassus Ad te levavi
Gabrieli Quem vidistis pastores? a 14: Magnificat a 17 (Given in Ripon Cathedral as part of the York Early
Music Festival 1979)
(First broadcast on R3)
In Bangkok's biggest slum. Klong Toey , thousands of people live In squalor and poverty. Despite resistance from authorities and fellow slum-dwellers, Prateep Unsongtham has given hundreds of children a better start In life.
Bernie Cooper tells how her original classroom has. grown into six schools and her campaigns have given a new hope to the inhabitants of KlongToey. Producer RICHARD ELLIS
Brian Redhead sets the scene for election night.
For full details of coverage of the Election on BBC Radio see page 71
Includes reviews of Nostradamus - Countdown to Apocalypse. the work of Michel de Nostradamus, the 16th-century seer who wrote his prophecies in code to prevent their destruction during the Inquisition reinterpreted by Jean Charles de Fontbrune. Also a preview of Across the Water, a new play set in Northern Ireland by David Rudkin on BBC2 on Friday.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD DUNN
Brian Redhead with the results as they come In, expert analysis and comment and the politicians' reactions throughoutthenight.
0 ELECTION DETAILS: page 71
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