with THE REV TONY BURNHAM. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN preceded by Ascension Day hymn: Hail the day that sees him rise
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Fergus Keeling and Lionel Kelleway are on the trail again hunting out the latest nature news. With them is
Michael Woods , just back from Botswana's famous Okovango swamp - home of the hippo, the heron and the hydro-extraction scheme. Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Neighbours by NORRIE HEARN Read by Denys Hawthorne 'Some people who share the country kind of wisdom are accepted - and even loved.
There was a man once who lived alone in a cottage on a bit of bogland away at the back of Errigal Mountain in County Donegal. He could cure anything, man or bird or beast. But.... wait now and I'll tell you....'
Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland
from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
Seven programmes compiled and presented by John Heath-Stubbs 5: Love Poems
Readers STEPHEN THORNE and TESSA WORSLEY
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Presented by John Howard For Fact Sheet No 18. write to: You and Yours, BBC, Room 726
Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today: Birds and Beasts
2.5 The Song Tree
2: The Fantastic Fish Tank Fantasy Presented by HILARY JONES and SIMON MAYOR with PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo
2.20 Living Language The Adventures of Perseus (2) by LEON GARFIELD
2.40 Make Up Your Mind on topical issues Animal Experimentation Presented by SUSIE GRANT To take part in the poll, or for the broadcast notes, send 8 1/2 Ã12 SAE to: [address removed]
with Sue MacGregor
Serial: How Was It For You? 8: A Potted Life (1)
The Ticket by T. D. WEBSTER with Alan Parnaby as Ken
It is spring 1953. Blackpool are to meet Bolton Wanderers in the FA Cup Final at Wembley.
Football fever grips the seaside resort. Some people will do anything to get a ticket....
Directed by PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham. Stereo
from All Souls Church,
Langham Place, London. The Methodist Rite Celebrant
THE REV ROGER HUTCHINGS
Assisted by members of the Religious Broadcasting Department
Preacher THE REV STEPHEN OLIVER Readings: Acts 1, w 1-11; Matthew 28, vv 16-20
Hymns: Hail the day that sees him rise; The head that once was crowned with thorns;
Crown him with many crowns; Rejoice the Lord is King Organist PETER WRIGHT Director of Music
NOEL TREDlNNlCK . Stereo
Futurism in Venice
Deviate the course of canals to flood the cellars of the museums! Oh! may the glorious canvases drift helplessly!
(MARINETTI, in the first
Futurist Manifesto, 1909)
Fortunately, Marinetti's call to vandalism went unheeded. And, when the newly restored Palazzo Grassi opens as a museum this month, it does so, ironically, with the most comprehensive exhibition of Futurist art yet presented. Richard Cork reports from Venice.
Producer KEVIN JACKSON
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by John Timpson
Producer ROY HAYWARD. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS82LR
A series of four programmes by Hugh O'Shaughnessy 2: Mexico City
'Avenida Insurgentes takes you right across the City from the poorest to the richest quarter, and it's 40 kilometres long.'
Everything about Mexico City is huge, including the scale of its problems, both man-made and natural. Hugh O'Shaughnessy samples daily life in the Mexican capital and discovers how people manage to live. work and enjoy themselves in this conurbation of 18 million people.
For book list. send SAE to: Mexican Journey.[address removed] Producer MICK WEBB
Six programmes in which the tenor and opera producer Nigel Douglas talks about some of his favourite singers, with recordings.
4: Amelita Galli-Curci Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
An assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
for disabled listeners
Presented by John Mills Producer MARLENE PEASE
Dilly Barlow makes a bid for her feline favourites in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer FRAN ACHESON
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
The Amateur Emigrant (4)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
Anthony Howard presents Radio 4's coverage of the by-elections in Ryedale and Derbyshire West and of the local elections in London boroughs, for district councils in England and Wales, and for the Scottish regional councils.
BBC regional correspondents report the most significant results as they come in. Comment and analysis by Peter Kellner of the New Statesman.
In the studio
William Waldegrave , mp, Minister for
Local Government. Robin Cook , mp. and John Cartwright , mp, among others, discuss the implications of the results. Producer HARRY SCHNEIDER VHFlFMjoins at 12.10 am
Radio Geography Advanced Studies: Geography Public Transport: Hamburg (RV) Written and presented by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK and at 12.50 Air Pollution: a transnational problem Written and presented by MICHAEL PICKSTOCK
VHF FMjoinsat 1.10am
