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God's Grandeur. From Eton College chapel. The Rev Jeremy Davies discovers the sense of God in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. With a choir from the Eton Choral Course. Organist Sarah MacDonald. Director of music Ralph Allwood.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Davies
Unknown:
Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Organist:
Sarah MacDonald.
Music:
Ralph Allwood.

Last in the series. Journey's End George Roberts , who built his first aeroplane soon after the Wright brothers first flew, recalls the development of flying in Australia on a trip following the thirties Imperial Airlines route from Croydon to Brisbane. With Alexander Frater. Producer David Sims

Contributors

Unknown:
George Roberts
Unknown:
Alexander Frater.
Producer:
David Sims

The First Night of the Proms on Friday signals another season of music associated with Sir Henry Wood and the BBC. But promenade concerts have existed for hundreds of years. Paul Vaughan and Charles Chilton investigate. Reader Cameron Stewart. Piano David Ebbage.

(Repeated Saturday 11pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Presenter:
Charles Chilton
Reader:
Cameron Stewart
Pianist:
David Ebbage
Producer:
David Perry

The Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is dramatised in two parts by Bert Coules. 2: Death on the Moor Violin Ian Humphries. Piano and musical arrangement Michael Haslam. Director Enyd Williams Repeated Saturday 9pm Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Sherlock Holmes
Unknown:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
Bert Coules.
Violin:
Ian Humphries.
Unknown:
Michael Haslam.
Director:
Enyd Williams
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr John Watson:
Michael Williams
Sir Charles Baskerville:
Donald Sinden

Haifa Zangana is a writer and artist, born in Baghdad of Arab and Kurdish parents. Exiled in London, she examines the treachery of memory and her quest to come to terms with a troubled and brutal past in the first of two talks. Producer Marc Beeby
Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

Producer:
Marc Beeby

The Story of BST. Bovine somatotrophin was the first genetically engineered product on the market. It is a growth hormone which is injected into cows to increase milk production. In the second of two programmes, Alex Kirby looks at the political and health implications. Producer Hugh O'Donnell Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Alex Kirby
Producer:
Hugh O'Donnell

Next week's political headlines, with Andrew Rawnsley. Including 10.45 On the Road: Fishermen's Tales Dinah Lammiman
asks what can be done to give Britain's fishing industry a future? Editor John Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley.
Unknown:
Dinah Lammiman
Editor:
John Evans

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