Producer DAVID BELLINGER BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
with Jack Hywel-Davies including Bells on Sunday from St Mary's Church,
Handbridge, Chester. Stereo
Cliff Michelmore climbs aboard for a new series of programmes about what's happening in, on or under the water.
There's a report from the Isle of Wight on the Conrad Ritblat Round the Island Race and a preview of a very different kind of yacht race which starts in Wales and finishes in Scotland. Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
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with Jill Cochrane and Ted Harrison
Researcher SARAH RUTTY Producer CAROLINE DONNE Editor DAVID COOMES
VHF/FM joins at 8.0am including at 8.0 News
Bishop of Liverpool, talks, for the Week's 's Good Cause, about the practical help and support being given by Family Service Units to families in difficulty. Donations to: FSU, [address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
2,000th Edition by Alistair Cooke
(Alistair Cooke 's Transatlantic Call at 12.10 pm)
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St Magnus Festival Service from St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney led by THE REV WILLIAM CANT Introit: Peace be unto you by Knut Nystedt sung by STORD CHOIR OF NORWAY Readings (New Authorised Version): Exodus 19, w 1-6;
1 Peter 2, w 4-10; John 15, w 1-5 Hymns (CH 3); 0 come, and let us to the Lord (19); 0 greatly blest the people are (390); Stand up, and bless the Lord (39); Angel voices, ever singing (455)
Anthem: Thus saith God the Lord (William Mathias ) With the CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Master of music DAVID DRINKELL Assistant organist ROBIN CHEER BBC Radio Scotland
Omnibus edition
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Directed by PETER WINDOWS
Producer LIZ RIGBEY. BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by Margaret Howard
This weekend marks the 2,000th Letter from America and today is your chance to phone in and talk to Alistair Cooke on the line from New York.
Born in Manchester, educated at Blackpool Grammar School and Cambridge, he first visited
America in the 1930s and has lived there for over 40 years. As the New York Times once wrote, Alistair Cooke loves America 'as a shrewd child loves a stepfather'. His greatest passions are American politics, jazz and golf. Charles Wheeler is in the Chair as listeners from home and abroad put their questions to Alistair Cooke.
Producers MARGARET HILL for Radio 4 and NEIL CURRY for the BBC World Service. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE (A simultaneous broadcast with BBC World Service)
Lines open from 10.0am
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Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
(Details on Wednesday at 10.0 am)
The Last of a Dyin' Race
A comedy by CHRISTINA REID The Irish wake is famous throughout the world. However, when Lizzie dies in Belfast in 1986, her daughter-in-law decides that she will be cremated without ceremony.
Sarah and Agnes, the retainers of the death linen, are determined to give Lizzie the send-off she deserves, with hilarious results.
Directed by SUSAN HOGG
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo (R)
The Gift of the Nile
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.... Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies....
And on the pedestal these words appear:
*My name is Ozymandias, king ofkings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
(SHELLEY)
4: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
In a series of six programmes, Barry Cunliffe traces the development of a civilisation which flourished on the banks of the Nile - one of the greatest civilisations known to man and one which has fascinated Europeans for hundreds of years.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT. BBCBristol
Fergus Keeling talks with whale biologists.
3: Breaking the Spell
In which June Knox-Mawer ends her series of recollections of British people who once lived and worked in the Arabian Peninsular.
With PETER DONALDSON
with Christopher Dunkley
Aspects of the life of an orchestral musician in the words and music of the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra 1: The Man on the Box
by MRS HENRY WOOD
2: The Keepers of the Dead Stereo (Details Friday 3.0pm)
Presented by Susan Hill
Traveller and novelist
Bruce Chatwin ventures deep into the Australian outback.
Beryl Bainbridge , Dr Jack Dominian and Roy Porter in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN BBC Manchester
A survey by Alistair Cooke 2: Early Successes
Presented by John Eidinow
with Anna Massey as Queen Victoria, whose Golden Jubilee was celebrated 100 years ago this month. 1: Girlhood
Compiled and written by RICHARD MULLEN and JAMES MUNSON
Narrator Robert Powell
The Retreat Experience
Sue Talbot gathers reactions from people of different religious traditions about the place of silence and solitude in their spiritual development. 2: Reform Judaism
Producer HUGH FAUPEL BBC Manchester. Stereo
A steamy evening in the hairy arms of Frank Pearson , alias Foo Foo Lammar , drag artiste and nightclub owner.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester (R)
followed by an interlude
