Followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers.
Producers TIM FINNEY. DYLAN WINTER
With FR MICHAEL COLLINS
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Charlotte Green
seeks enlightenment in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer NIGEL ACHESON
with Melvyn Bragg and guests Researcher JANE NUNNELEY
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN Stereo
Late Night, Downtown by WENDY MCCORMICK
Read by William Roberts Producer SHEILA FOX
from St Bride's Church,
Fleet Street, London with the BBC CHOIRGIRL OF THE YEAR and the GENTLEMEN OF THE BBC SINGERS Introduced by THE REV STEPHEN OLIVER
Reading: Ephesians 4, w 8-20
A special edition of poetry for children read by members of SEVERN BEACH PRIMARY SCHOOL. Introduced by Wendy Cope
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS. BBC Bristol Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Presented by John Howard Editor KEN VASS
A general musical knowledge quiz in three movements, Chairman Ned Sherrin First round: Heat 4 Malcolm Jones
(insurance broker)
Martin Cunningham (retired) Rosalie Jones (lecturer)
Programme devised by EDWARD COLE Questions set by LAN GILLIES and EDWARD COLE Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie Editor MARTIN cox
1.55 Listening Corner This week: The Wheels Go Round Presented by HEDLI NIKLAUS and BILL TORRANCE Today's story: The Little Car Is Looked After by LEILA BERG Script by GUY HUTCHINS Producer MARY kalemkerian. Stereo
2.05 Playtime Brown Bear and the Rainbow Presented by JOANNE ZORIAN and BEN THOMAS. Stereo (e)
2.20 Science Scope Communications (1) by STEVE ROBIN with FRED HARRIS and JULIE RICHMOND (e)
2.40 Whirligig Unit 1: Animal Corner with TERRY NUTKINS 5: Fish. (R) (e)
'A country of colour and contradictions.'
In this special programme from Egypt, Jenni Murray investigates why, after 50 years of fighting off Islamic restrictions, women are once again taking the veil. And she journeys down the Nile in search of ancient Egypt's flamboyant Queen Hatshepsut. Producers ANNE TAYLOR and MARY SHARP
Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
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Jean is determined to bake her grandchildren a cake for their fifth birthday - a special cake with all things on top.
3.47
Visitants by April de Angelis
A black comedy of female and bug liberation with Your claws are rather.... pleasant. In their way.... Despite the jagged edges. And the odd spotting of fly blood.... Do you want to go home? To be wild once more? Are you hungry? Angry?
Stereo
Where From? Where To?
Veronica Cecil investigates the New Theatre of Zimbabwe. With Basil Chyamatamba Steven Chifunyise
Robert McLaren and Wellington Mavuma
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Bill Frost
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continuedon FM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSUN including Financial Report
Stereo
with Derek Cooper
(Rev repeat of last Friday broadcast)
by ANTHONY NEILSON
with and
Through the telephone static on the Confidantes Helpline comes the anxious voice of a young woman. Nothing unusual in that, perhaps; but for Chris it is the shock of his life.
Music arranged and played by BOB STEPHENSON. With
BRIAN SHIELDS and COLIN MCRAE
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland. Stereo
and at 9.10
Sometimes I Don't Know Why We Bother
by POLLY CHURCHILL
with and
Elsie and Kitty have been going to Bingo for 30 years, always hoping for that elusive big win. Through births and deaths they keep going, but it isn't just for the money.
Directed by JANET whitaker. Stereo
Turning four of Shakespeare's history plays into a three-part drama called The Plantagenets is the Royal Shakespeare
Company's latest endeavour. Paul Vaughan reports on this nine-hour experience, and also visits the Chumley Chocolate
Factory, the industrial heart of the new film Consuming
Passions, starring Jonathan Pryce and Vanessa Redgrave. Producer JULIAN MAY
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
No Surrender by ROBERT HARBINSON abridged and read in ten episodes by John Keyes
The distinguished writer,
Robert Harbinson , tells the story of his boyhood in a poverty-stricken area of Belfast in the 1930s.
1: Spit of the Ould Da Producer KATHRYN BAIRD BBC Northern Ireland
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Home or Away. Travel to Work Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (e) at 12.30 Tyneside Metro Written and narrated by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK and at 12.50 Lille Metro Written and narrated by TONY STAPLES. Stereo
