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6.25 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day BROTHER BERNARD APPS
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0.8.0 Today's News
Read by Pauline Bushnell
7.251 8.25. Sport
7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel
Derek Jones and David Streeter take pleasure In accepting Lord
Kllbracken's invitation to see his bird-nest orchids and look over the delightful wilderness of his Killegar Estate.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Most people vanish during the day into a secret world called work. What they think and feel astheyperformthese extraordinary but important rituals, Is familiar to them but remarkable to the rest of us.
Tom Vernon takes you inside someone else's working life.
This week: Watching the World Go By
Producer JENNY DE YONG
Caldas Does a Good Turn by PATRICIA LANGDON-DAVIIS Read by June BarrIe
In the canine as well as the human world, beauty is not always in the eye of the beholder.
Producer PAMELA howe BBC Bristol
nem. p 114; God of grace and God of glory (BBC hb391):Psalm82: Matthew 11. vv 215
(rsv); Judge eternal. throned in splendour (BBC HB 393)
followed by travel
Delicious anarchy reigns when Bob Symes - bon viyeur, raconteur and railway buff - Invades the kitchen as an enthusiastic amateur chef.
In the first of six programmes, he raids the fridge and transforms Sunday's leftovers into Monday's lunch.
Producer KATE FENTON
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news for consumers Leslie Cotcington reveals the latest findings of the BBC Shopping Basket survey of food prices.
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor. including The Return of the Strum-Strum: CINDY SELBY finds there's been something of a revival of interest in the plink-pluhk ' happy music ' of the banjo. Close Quarters (6)
Neshat loves England and when he takes his family for a holiday in Devon, he's keen to share with them his affection for the English and their landscape. But his idyll is disrupted when the clannish hostility of the villagers erupts Into violence.
Dirty
Gyppo TOM ODLEY talks about life on the road and reads some of his poetry. 3: Rose
The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring: I made art a philosophy and philosophy an art: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder.
(OSCAR WILDE)
In the last of the present series. Frank Delaney
Investigates the triumphs and despair of the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The picture of Dorian Gray. Producer SIMON elmis
The Takeover (2)
with Susannah Simons - and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
With LAURIE MACMILLAN
Including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson 16: Northern Ireland Kevin Lowe
(company director) Harry Irwin
(sales representative) Brian Tougher
(management consultant) Paul Burrows (teacher)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions by ian gillies Producer RICHARD EDIS
Written by MARGARET phelan (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Peggy Archer. JUNE SPENCER
BBC Birmingham
Jeremy Siepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
Simon Standage , Elizabeth Wilcock (violins)
Trevor Jones (viola)
Anthony Pleeth (cello)
Keith Marjoram (double-bass)
Stephen Preston (flute) TREVOR PINNOCK (director and harpsichord)
Purcell Chacony In c minor
Locke Incidental Music: The Tempest
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D
with David Jacobs
Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
Part 2
Vivaldi Concerto in D,
Op 10 No 3, for flute and strings
Mozart Serenade in G
(Eine kleine Nachtmusik) (K 525)
An Imaginary sale of the BBC's Sound Archives attracts composer Stephen Oliver to browse through the catalogue.
Producer simon ELMES
Includes reviews of Jce. the latest 87th Precinct mystery by Ed McBain ; and Michael Gellot 's production of Taverner by Peter Maxwell Davies at the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden. Presenter Paul Allen
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS
John Morgan reporting
A Square of Sky (4) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast: Inshore forecast