Stereo
Presenters John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo
(Details as Sunday 2.00pm)
Miriam by LILY HERZBERG Read by Leslie Udwin Producer ANDY JORDAN BBC Bristol. Stereo
Introit: I will arise
(Darlow); For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272); Luke 15, w 11-24; The Lord's Prayer (Sheppard);
Enthrone thy God within thy heart (BBC HB 320) Stereo
Playground
What do the English do in their back gardens? What can you see from a suburban train? And why this passion for a plot of land, even in the shade of a prison house?
A journey round the 'estate' with 12 gardeners and a visitor.
Researched and compiled by SYLVIA COLLEY
Additional research by CATHERINE COLLEY
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo
A series ofsixprogrammes marking the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Tessa Shaw visits Mexico, the Philippines and the United States to meet children without families.
Presenter John Howard
... in which we hear of the airline pilot who never wore trousers, and of passengers greeted by men who wore nothing but Coca-Cola bottle-tops. All this and more when Christopher South talks with three grand old men of Imperial Airways: Chopper Hatchett, Howard Fry and Hilary Watson.
Producer LES WOODLAND
BBC Manchester. Stereo (R)
Presenter James Naughtie
Abigail Tidies Up Stereo (R)
Alannah Martin talks to Sir Yehudi Menuhin and to some of the outstanding young musicians who had their first breaks through his organisation, Live Music Now!
Serial: Memento Mori (12) by MURIEL SPARK abridged in 12 episodes by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by Irene Sutcliffe Producer PAT MCLOUGHLIN
(Music: Stravinsky's Concerto in D for Strings)
Apple Blossom Afternoon by DAVE SHEASBY.
Ted's down at the betting shop, just like every
Saturday. But this one's a bit special: it's his 55th birthday. This particular anniversary isn't like any before, so he indulges in a dream bet, an accumulator....
Directed by TONY CUFF
BBC Manchester (R) Stereo
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The fourth of five programmes in which George MacBeth interviews the poet Norman McCaig.
Reader Henry Stamper Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
Music for Love
Every night in Garibaldi Square in Mexico City dozens of men bring their girls to be serenaded by a mariachi band. Natalie Wheen investigates the history of folk music in Mexico, from original
Aztec instruments to the modern nightclub.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY Stereo
Presenters
Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes
and Financial Report
Stereo (Details as Monday at 12.25pm)
John Waite and his team tackle another case from their postbag.
Producer GRAHAM ELLIS
0 WRITE TO: Face the Facts, BBC, London W1A 4WW
(Details as Saturday 4.00pm)
adapted by LYNN TEN KATE from the Diary of Thomas Dallam. With
In 1598 Queen Elizabeth I sent Thomas Dallam to
Constantinople to deliver an organ to the Grand Sultan which Dallam himself had built. It was a magnificent instrument, but to the Sultan, it was a splendid mechanical toy. Dallam kept a journal of his exotic adventure. With MARTIN RENSHAW (organ restorer) and SHEILA LAWRENCE (organ and virginals).
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS Stereo (R)
Hannah's Story
Last October 7-year-old Hannah Rogers was awarded E625,000 in compensation for brain damage suffered at birth as a result of medical negligence.
Barbara Myers asks why Hannah was awarded a headline-grabbing amount, and why the case took so long to settle. Producer
MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Pebble Mill
The battle of the sexes is vividly pictured in the new film Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown; the newly-titled English National
Ballet dances Napoli; and composer Steve Reich jumps on Different Trains. Presenter Nigel Andrews Producer MIKE GREENWOOD Stereo (Revised repeat on Thursday at 4.35pm)
The Heat of the Day (3)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
12.00-12.10
12.30 Fashion, Design and Marketing Designing a Career Written and presented by Astley Jones and at 12.50 Human Rights
1: Who's Responsible? Presenter Charlie Nelson Stereo
