Listings
: Play School
Today's story:The Willow Pattern
Presenters
SARAH LONG , STUART MCGUGAN
Clarinettist DAVE MOSES Pianist MICHAEL OMER
Designer BARBARA GOSNOLD Written by IRENE COCKROFT Director ALBERT BARBER Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Contributors
: News on 2 Headlines
with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2: Your Move
Brush up your reading and writing With BRIAN REDHEAD and JULIAN CHAGRINSHEILA FEARN
DENNIS WATERMAN
Script BARRY TOOK
Contributors
: Newsday
Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion including every Thursday UK Report from BBC news correspondents in BritainWith Richard Kershaw , David Sells
Newsreader Kenneth Kendall
Contributors
: The Book Programme
Robert Robinson introduces a weekly guide to newly-published books-the authors and the readers; fact and fiction; best-sellers and remainders.Studio director SUE MALLINSON
Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT
Executive producer WILL WYATT
Contributors
: Just a Nimmo
with Derek Nimmo and his guestsThis week Derek looks at forms of impermanent art-ice carving, sand sculpture and do-it-yourself wash-away painting.
Designer IAN ASHURST
Producer carets GWENLAN
Contributors
: BC: The Archaeology of the Bible Lands
A series of 12 programmes Written and presented by Magnus Magnusson2: The Abraham Years
Was Abraham a nomad or a wealthy caravaneer? This was the burning question among Bible scholars 20 years ago. Abraham's famous journey from Ur in Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan (Genesis chapters 11 and 12) was confidently dated to 2,000 BC.
Today, scholars are asking a differ. ent question. Was Abraham, Father of the Hebrew people, an historical figure at all? Perhaps the answer to this and many other questions lies in Western Syria where Italian archaeologists have made a sensational discovery - clay tablets written in a language which is the direct ancestor of Biblical Hebrew and full of Biblical names-used over 1,000 years before they appear in the Bible!
Bible reader Eric Porter
Film cameramen PETER HALL
PETER CHAPMAN , JOHN HOOPER Film editor IAN PITCH
Executive producer DAVID COLLISON Producer ANTONIA BENEDEK
Contributors
: The Key to the Universe
The search for the laws of creation written and presented by Nigel CalderThe past year has seen a giant step forward along a line of discoveries that future generations will recognise as one of the glories of our age. The strong evidence for a quality called 'charm' helps to make sense of the cosmic forces that build stars and atoms and living things. Enigmatic 'black holes' in space are becoming more credible. And the searchers describe how the wonderful variety in nature all comes out of a single primeval Big Bang.
"Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation holds the key to the universe in our hands: that perhaps in our lifetime we may be able to tell why this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable." (Steven Weinberg, Harvard University)
Commentary spoken by Eric Porter
Co-produced with Channel 11-WTTW Chicago
(Repeated next Sunday)
Book (same title) ã5.95, from bookshops
Contributors
: Late News on 2
Weather: Closedown
MARTIN jARvis readsCat-Faith by ALASTAIR REID
Contributors
About this project
This site contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions.
We hope it helps you find information about that long forgotten BBC programme, research a particular person or browse your own involvement with the BBC.
Through the listings, you will also be able to use the Genome search function to find thousands of radio and TV programmes that are already available to view or listen to on the BBC website.
There are more than 5 million programme listings in Genome. This is a historical record of the planned output and the BBC services of any given time. It should be viewed in this context and with the understanding that it reflects the attitudes and standards of its time - not those of today.
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