Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Rosemary Hartill
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
8.10 Today's Papers
Presented for the next three weeks by Gerald Williams ' Home Park, Devon: sounds an idyll, a suitable venue for the gentle sport of bowls, but in fact it is home for Plymouth Argyle Football Club, not Sir Francis Drake , as they compete in the Quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time.
Plus news, views and opinion from the world of sport.
Producer DAVE GORDON
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with help from SUSAN MARLING and ROBIN DEWHURST , taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Producer
JENNY MALUNSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Mike Chaney presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer MIKE GILLIAM
Adam Raphael. political editor of The Observer, views the past week.
Producer MARGARET BUDY
The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry
New Every Morning, page 50; How are thy servants blest, 0 Lord (BBC HB 305); Haste thee, 0 God
(Batten); Mark 1, vv 14-28; Thou, whose almighty word (BBC HB 185)
with Margaret Howard
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Producer ZAREER MASANI
with Louise Botting
(Repeated: Mon 10.0 am)
The news of the last seven days with searching questions put in a curious way by Simon Hoggart to Alan Coren , Michael White , Tom Tickell and Sue Cook
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL (Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
The Rt Hon
Sally Oppenheim , mp Paddy Ashdown , mp Harriet Harman , mp Sheridan Morley from Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
English Toys by MARGARET CRANE Mrs Jarczynska , a 75-year-old Polish lady used to her own way, wasn't the easiest employer to get on with. And Mrs Dennis , middle-aged and middle-class, wasn't used to taking orders as a cleaning lady either.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 11.0 am)
Geoff Watts reports
Presenter Derek Jones
Tips and techniques from Tony Wilkins Colin Sheffield Jack Widgery in response to questions from diy enthusiasts at Ifield Community
School, Crawley, West Sussex. In the Chair Pamela Donald
Producer ROS COPLAND Editor JIM BLACK
Eight programmes in which BBC correspondents investigate important current issues and developments in the news. 2: How High the Rates? On the day the new rate increases are released, local government correspondent
John Hosken reveals which councils will be badly hit by rate-capping, and which will cope within Government guidelines; many ratepayers will face higher rates and fewer services. The programme hears from the Government on its policies and from the grassroots on paying till it hurts.
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address:
BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW Tel: [number removed]
(Mon-Fri 10.0 am-5.0 pm)
with Barry Norman
What is happening in the world of computers and does it matter?
Producer TREVOR TAYLOR The Chip Shop's
Takeaway service offering Basicode computer programs is broadcast at
12.23* am on Saturdays,
Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Factsheet No 9 from The Chip Shop, BBC, London [Postcode removed]
(Extended repeat on Tuesday 11.0 pm VHF)
A critical look back at last week's news.
with BRIAN PERKINS including
Sports Round-up
Occasionally over-animated conversation inspired by amusing or bemusing episodes of the week.
Music by FASCINATING AIDA Producer MICHAEL EMBER
with Richard Baker Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.0 am)
by Wally K. Daly
To combat the threat of an alien invasion, the nations of the Earth have formed a World Council. The aliens have given certain humans extraordinary 'sixth-sense' powers. But when these powers are abused the aliens prepare to leave and abandon the Earth to its fate. But are they really going? And what is the fate awaiting the peoples of the Earth?
(Repeated: Mon 3.0 pm)
(Timothy West is in "Master Class" at the Old Vic, London; John Shrapnel is a member of the RSC)
A portrait of the operatic soprano Maria Jeritza Producer CATHY WEARING (Details: Friday 11.0 am)
Pauline Webb leads a meditation for late evening on living in 'angelic company'.
A 13-part series Narrator
David Attenborough
11:Repertoire, Duet and Mime
The male brown thrasher of North America sings a song containing over 2,000 different phrases; using this complicated aria helps it to occupy a territory and attract a mate. Other birds do the same with less complex signals; so, why the elaboration? David Dobkin of the University of California at Berkeley, Donald Kroodsma of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Sylvest Muldal of the University of Sussex examine how birds acquire their beautiful repertoires. Producer MICHAEL bright BBC Bristol
by Anthony Smith
12.23-12.28* am The Chip Shop
Takeaway Service
Barry Norman invites you to sample some Basicode computer software.
