News, weather, papers and sport
direct from the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston near Edinburgh
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Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45e Prayer for the Day With THE RT REV MGN JOHN CROWLEY
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25e, 8.25e Sport
7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35 Yesterday In Parliament
8.50* )'our Letters
8.57 Weather: travel
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A magazine edition
Presented by Peter France Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
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Tom Vernon takes you inside someone else's working life.
This week: Hatters
Producer JENNY DE YONG long wave only
The Wool Queen by KATHLEEN GOODING
Read by Rachel Thomas
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales long wave only
NEM, p 93; Jesu, lover of my soul (BBC HB 145); Psalm 11; Matthew 10. vv 1-15 (RSV); Jesu, thy boundless love to me (BP 41)
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Let Neil Landor together with his specialist experts sort out your queries. Producer KATE FENTON long wave only
with Pattie Coldwell
Today Leslie Cottington looks for value for money In the You and Yours Shopping Basket.
Call 91.[number removed]after 11.0 am with your comments.
Last of four programmes celebrating
A Hundred Years of the Cambridoe 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 Including this week words of wit and wisdom from PETER COOK , JOHN
FORTUNE. JIMMY EDWARDS and MIRIAM MARGOLYES Footlights archivist OR HARRY PORTER
Script and research
BARRY piLTON. Producers JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE and ANDY ALIFFE
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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Introduced by Jenni Mills. including:
Science Scanner: MOYRA BREMNER looks into recent developments in the world of science.
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Close Quarters by MICHAEL GILBERT abridged in ten parts by MONICA GREY
Read by Slôn Probert (1)
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The Picture Beyond the Canvas by GERALD KELSEY with An art historian is ummoned to Paris because some paintings are suspected of being fakes. He realises that he knew the artist in question years before story of how the pictures came to be painted.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
In the cotswolds
Maggie Colwell visits
3: Stow-on·the-Wold
Frank Delaney presents the magazine for browsers and bookworms.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Children at the Gate (9)
Presenters
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
Including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson
15: Wales
Mark Roberts (teacher)
Bryan Rayner (part-time lecturer)
Frank Little (computer programmer)
Andrew Kemball
Including Beat the Brains
Devised by JoHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham
Jeremy Slepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
Direct from the Assembly Rooms
Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Dennis Simons, conducted by George Hurst
Part 1
Prokofiev Symphony No 1, in D (Classical)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 4, in G minor
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
Part 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5, in E minor
(Presented by Derby City Council)
(BBC Manchester)
includes reviews of the 17th-century comedy A
New Way to Pay Old
Debts by Philip Massinger. directed by Adrian Noble at the RSC's Other Place in Stratford; and a retrospective exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, of the work of the stage and film designer
Oliver Messel. who died In 1978. presenter Paul Vaughan producer JOHN BOUNDY
John Morgan reporting
Black Heart and White Heart (3) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
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