with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS 7 25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
and good company. Fifty-five minutes of conversation with people from all walks of life.
Tim Brooke-Taylor says 'Happy Birthday' to this week's special guest.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
The Olive Grove by JOHN OMILLER ,
Read by Elizabeth Proud
NEM, p 97; Crown him with many crowns (BBC HB
124); Psalm 119, vv 57-64; II Corinthians 3, vv 1-11; Through the night of doubt and sorrow (BBC HB 186) long wave only
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In the last of four programmes, John Ebdon offers some more oblique reflections on present-day life in the Greek islands. long wave only
with Paul Heiney
by ARTHUR JEFFERSON (3)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
The Queen's Gardener,
Jennifer Adams - the first woman to be appointed
Superintendent of London's Central Royal Parks.
The Captains and the Kings (2) long wave only
Love Me Tender by SIMON MOSS
Godfrey has a model railway in his garden.
Terry would also like one but his wife says no, so Godfrey and Terry have to build one secretly. But then the Brigadier joins in and by the time the mole-catcher from the council arrives things are beginning to get out of hand.
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
Travellers and Settlers Seven programmes presented by Fleur Adcock 5: On the Road
Readers HENRY STAMPER
LIANE AUKIN
Producer ALEC REID
Backstage
Peter Bull's theatrical memories including the opening night of Waiting for Godot.
A tribute to the musician and actress who died on Boxing Day and whose career spanned 60 years of radio and television. Presenter
Geoffrey Wheeler
Written and produced by TREVOR HILL
BBC Manchester (Revised repeat)
The Leopard by GIUSEPPE DI LAMPEDUSA translated by ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN abridged and read in 13 parts by GABRIEL WOOLF (13) Producer DAVID SPENSER
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
with PETER DONALDSON including
Financial Report
Did you know that
John Arlott was a detective in the Hampshire Constabulary? More stars' secrets revealed with Chairman Gyles Brandreth On the panel June Whitfield,
Brian Johnston and Martin Jarvis with guest celebrities Jack de Manio Irene Thomas and Miss World 83
Producer PAUL SPENCER
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
by PEGGY BRANFORD
Earlier today at Sotheby's, London, a rare set of Audubon's hand-coloured prints 'The Birds of America' was expected to sell for around £lm. This programme tells the story of John James Audubon and his astonishing masterpiece, which was engraved and printed in Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838. Each set originally consisted of 435 prints the size of a double page spread of The Times, and the total cost to the subscribers was a mere 174 guineas. with Peter Marinker as John James Audubon and AUSON COLERIDGE. MICHEAL DEACON and GODFREY KENTON
Narrator NOEL JOHNSON Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (Revised repeat)
A quite probable story written and read by Leonard Barras
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
The first of nine programmes
Argentina After the Generals
What will President
Alfonsin's new government do about the Falkland
Islands, foreign debt, 433 per cent inflation and the other problems inherited from the military regime? As members of that regime go on trial and the appalling discoveries of mass graves continue,
David Wheeler reports from Argentina on human rights, the economy, territorial disputes and the hopes for this latest attempt at democracy. Producer ANNE WINDER
Anthony Smith continues the story of his motorcycle journey from Cairo to Cape Town last year.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Fire Falcon (3)
Headlines, analysis, comment
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight long wave only from 11.0
12.23-12.28* am The Chip Shop Takeaway Service
