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Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
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6.45 Prayer for the Day
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Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.26* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
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Bill Breckon goes in search of a house coming under the hammer this week-a method of buying that could save thousands or prove a complete catastrophe.
Producer HELEN ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD Telephone if you have questions you 'd like answered in the follow-up programme this evening at
8.25 pm
Lines open from 12.20-1.30
with Albert, Carl, Graham, Maurice and Robin Written by MIKE CRAIG and RON MCDONNELL Additional material BARRY FAULKNER
Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
(First broadcast on R2)
with Susannah Simons
invented mistresses ... There should be some more satisfactory title -after 26 years.'
(Music: Arnold's Second Flute Concerto)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
with Neil Landor
Producer JAN TAYLOR
Futility (9)
with Robert Williams and Richard Bath
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by DEBBIE COOK
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
with David Jacobs
Compiled by LAWRIE MASON Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
If there is such a thing as normal weather, 1983 had very little of it. There were droughts in South Africa, bush fires in Australia, practically everything to excess in California and Britain had a dry summer. What was going on? In the first of two programmes,
Anthony Smith examines our understanding of the forces that produce weather and considers the influence of the 'Two Els' El Nino and El Chichon. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Bill Breckon and Tom Tickell are joined by experts to answer your questions.
Producer HELEN ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD Lines open from 8.0 pm
A series of montage documentaries
2: Down These Mean Streets...
Can you imagine sitting outside a house for 16 hours? It's 's not the sort of thing you can show on television ...
I was running like blazes and I felt this hammer parting the hair on the back of me head ... The life of a private detective is more writs than Ritz, more credit-checks than corpses. Only the one-liners are straight out of Chandler. This programme follows the agents of Burgess,
Liverpool and Ellison and Gough, Manchester, about their daily business.
Researcher JUUE SIMMONS Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
The Vikings in York
A thousand-year-old city has come back to life under a modem shopping centre in the heart of York. Jorvic was the Viking capital of the Northern Kingdom. Not much was known about it until 1976, when excavations in Coppergate uncovered complete walls of timber buildings, metal objects, leather boots and even a sock. Now Jorvic lives again in a re-creation of a Viking street with the sights, sounds and even smells, of the tenth century.
How convincing is this presentation of Viking life? Can the demands of archaeology be reconciled with the needs of tourism? Paul Vaughan takes his seat on one of the Jorvic centre's time-cars to find out.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
I'm Not Complaining (9)
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