Producer TIM FINNEY
With SISTER MARY MCALEESE BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
Today comes direct from both sides of the Berlin Wall this week, when HM The Queen visits the city for its 750th anniversary. On four mornings, Brian Redhead reflects on life in the former German capital and sees how East and West are celebrating this unique occasion.
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Bryan Martin
In which Lancastrian Ian
Skidmore searches the BBC
Sound Archives for the length and breadth of the gastronomic divide.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
It's Spring Bank Holiday.
Bernard Cribbins , P. J. and Mary Mulch have gone on holiday to the Swiss Alps. It's a wonderful setting for an exciting adventure....
Storyline by DAVID CREGAN
The programme also includes a quiz, a competition, features by NICHOLAS FISK and CHRIS REASON , a story from GRACE HALLWORTH and The Twits by ROALD DAHL adapted by ALFRED BRADLEY Taking part JUDITH BARKER
BERNARD CRIBBINS. EDWARD DE SOUZA CHRISTOPHER GOOD , CUFF HOWELLS JENNY LUCKRAFT , STEVEN RENDALL and PAULA TILBROOK
Producer CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester. Stereo
Vafs Whiskers 'returns in August
Presented by Louise Botting
Coming South by CELIA DALE ReadbyMargotBoyd Producer MITCH RAPER
from the Parish Church of St Faith, Crosby, Merseyside Led by CANON NOEL VINCENT
New Every Morning, page 5; Come let us join our cheerful songs (BBC HB 122)
Philippians 2, vv 5-11 (RSV)
Lift up your heads (Mathias)
All hail the power (BBC HB 118) Choirmaster GEORGE GILFORD BBC Manchester
Brian Johnston invites you to join him at Lord's, as he says goodbye to Down Your Way.
Presented by Fleur Adcock Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and GEOFFREY COLUNS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS
Stereo (Details tomorrow 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
This week: Sing a Song of Nonsense Poems by EDWARD LEAR Read by CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN. Stereo
Introduced by Sarah Dunant
Children's Film Unit: what price the Cannes Film Festival when the Children's Film Unit makes its own feature films for the cinema and television? Tessa Shaw went on location with a group of teenage hopefuls in their latest production called Infantile Disorders.
Story: More Malgudi Days by R.K. NARAYAN
Three stories abridged by JANET HICKSON
Read by Sam Dastor 2: Lawley Road
Music: Mayer's Sri Krishna Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
All My Sons by ARTHUR MILLER
Chris Keller 's decision to marry his dead brother's sweetheart opens old family wounds.
Directed by MARTIN Jenkins. Stereo (R)
Fields of Praise
Nigel Jenkins , poet and Welshman, looks at the Urdd, its Eisteddfod and history and talks to competitors past and present, who've succeeded or failed in their chosen fields.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
In the first of this evening's programmes marking the celebrations for the 750th anniversary of Berlin,
Jack Higgins returns to the city and discovers that it is still powerfully pervaded by the 12 years of Nazism in its recent past and that the 750 years of past glories are reflected only in pale shadows.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
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Willie Rushton explores Berlin on its celebrated underground and urban railways, which cross the frontier between East and West.
Producer ANNE HINDS BBC Pebble Mill
In East Berlin - city of peace - there is no time for guilt about the past. The future is too pressing. Whether the West likes it or not, this is the capital of the German Democratic Republic, where the workers are united in using the 750th anniversary to hasten the reconstruction of the city in that image.
From across the wall, Max Easterman reports on the realities of life behind the rhetoric and propaganda in this other Berlin where a closed frontier is the price of peace. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
by MONlKA JUNG and Marianne, newly arrived in West Berlin, finds a deflated balloon with an East Berlin address attached. This leads to a meeting with Silvia and a disturbing friendship begins.
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill
Walled-in Art
Berlin's culture changed dramatically when the city divided and the West lost its opera house and museum. But the arts have flourished, encouraged by the state and local government.
Natalie Wheen explores how creative artists work in Berlin's unique circumstances. Producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ANNE WINDER
Return to a City by AGNES BERNAUER
Agnes Bernauer was a child when her family fled the Nazis in 1936. Brought up in London, she returned to Berlin 20 years later.
Read by Sylvia Potter Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by Alexander MacLeod Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Extracts from the major political speeches of the day from constituencies round the country.
Forget the decadent glamour of Sally Bowles 's style of cabaret: the original cabarettists usually performed to the crude accompaniment of a single instrument in a small backroom. One of the few artistes who tries to keep cabaret in its original form is Agnes Bernelle and tonight's programme previews her new show which is virtually a history of cabaret.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Pebble Mill. LW only from 11.30
11.30 War and Peace in the Age of Reason
11.50 Hamlet and Its European Reception
followed by an interlude
