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: Today
Presented by Peter Hobday and John Timpson6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CUVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
Contributors
Presented By:
Peter
Hobday
Presented By:
John
Timpson
Read By:
Cuve
Roslin
Unknown:
Andy
Smith
: News
: The Secret Life of the Romanza
'The experience of a lifetime' is promised the passengers of the cruise ship Romanza.From an early morning climb to the Acropolis on Rhodes, to the Greek dancing class after lunch; while 'Tea for two' echoes through the Corinth Canal, an astrologer predicts in the ballroom. Should it be Crete this afternoon, the treasure hunt or preparing for the Wild West night? By the time a new 'Mr Romanza' is elected each week, the passengers have lost count of the days (let alone the meals) and the crew stopped trying long ago.
Nigel Farrell goes aboard to see how they all cope with the rough and tumble of a calm Mediterranean cruise - and each other.
Producer SHARON BANOFF
Contributors
Unknown:
Nigel
Farrell
Producer:
Sharon
Banoff
: Morning Story
The First Day by OSWALD STACEYRead by Sean Barrett
It's a very important day for the young boy who sets off for the coalmine at dawn. Everything is new and everything is strange. But the end of the day brings its own reward.
Producer MITCH RAPER
Contributors
Unknown:
Oswald
Stacey
Read By:
Sean
Barrett
Producer:
Mitch
Raper
: Daily Service
NEM, p 118; New every morning (BBC HB 408); Psalm 23;Revelation 21, w 1-7; Lead us heavenly Father (BBC HB 307) Stereo
: The Year Ahead
Once a year, BBC News correspondents get together to peer into a collective crystal ball. Linked together from their bases around the world, they try to predict the main issues of the year ahead.Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
Contributors
Producer:
Adam
Raphael
: Enquire Within
In the last of the present series Neil Landor. with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sorts out your queries.Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Within, BBC Broadcasting House, London WL4 1AA Producer ANDY PARFITT
Contributors
Unknown:
Neil
Landor.
Producer:
Andy
Parfitt
: You and Yours
Consumer QuizThe final: Last year a celebrity team from Wales became
'Consumer Champions', but will they repeat their success this year? The other three home countries sharpen their wits for a lighthearted test of consumer rights and wrongs.
Questionmaster John Howard Producer BILL MORRIS
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Howard
Producer:
Bill
Morris
: Listening Corner
BRIAN CANT reads Molly Joins the Circus Jugglers by KATE WILKINSONContributors
Unknown:
Brian
Cant
Unknown:
Kate
Wilkinson
: Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:Ray Cooney - actor, manager and playwright
Serial: Crampton Hodnet (2)
Contributors
Unknown:
MacGregor
Guest
Unknown:
Ray
Cooney
: The Afternoon Play
A Woman of No Importance by ALAN BENNETTMargaret Schofield , middle-aged spinster, may be unwell, but she reminisces cheerfully about her world of office work and canteen gossip. As she says, 'we did laugh'...
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo (R)
Contributors
Unknown:
Alan
Bennett
Unknown:
Margaret
Schofield
Directed By:
Richard
Wortley
Margaret Schofield:
Patricia
Routledge
: Time for Verse
The Sting of ComfortThe last in a series of six programmes compiled and presented by Anne Stevenson For the Love of Man and in Praise of God
Readers JOHN CHURCH and BONNIE HURREN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Contributors
Presented By:
Anne
Stevenson
Readers:
John
Church
Readers:
Bonnie
Hurren
Producer:
Margaret
Bradley
: News
: Christmas Under Capricorn
Stereo: Kaleidoscope
Oblique StrategiesBrian Eno , former rock star turned composer, producer and video painter, talks to Michael Oliver about Obscure Records, Discreet Music, Frippertronics, and his latest product for video and compact disc, 'Thursday Afternoon'.
Producer KEVIN JACKSON
Contributors
Unknown:
Brian
Eno
Unknown:
Michael
Oliver
Producer:
Kevin
Jackson
: PM
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55Contributors
Presented By:
Susannah
Simons
Presented By:
Robert
Williams
: Transatlantic Quiz
A further series of high kicks and pirouettes by the BrainsTrust Formation Display team, in the persons of Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich , who challenge a United States team, writer Shana Alexander and Brendan Gill , theatre critic of The New Yorker. Questionmasters
Gordon Clough , Louis Allen Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Rebroadcasttomorrowat 12.27pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Irene
Thomas
Unknown:
John Julius
Norwich
Unknown:
Shana
Alexander
Unknown:
Brendan
Gill
Unknown:
Gordon
Clough
Unknown:
Louis
Allen
Unknown:
Bernice
Coupe
Producer:
Alastair
Wilson
: News
: The Archers
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm): Hans Christian Andersen
One hundred and fifty years after his first fairy tales were written, Denmark celebratesHans Christian Andersen year. Born the son of a shoemaker, he left home at the age of 14 to try to become a dancer, convinced that God planned a great destiny for him. As we now know, his destiny lay elsewhere. He was a complex and interesting character: overanxious for praise, despondent when criticised; writing about the poor while courting the rich and aristocratic; a traveller
(who always carried a stout rope for escape in the event of fire).
Lynn ten Kate looks at the life of the author of some of the best-known tales for children. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
(Re-broadcasttomorrowat9.35am)
Contributors
Producer:
Susan
Snailum
: Choices for Voices
1: Getting There'Singing is an addiction'
(the late ALFRED ALEXANDER , throat specialist)
In the first of two programmes on the career structure of the singer, operatic bass Robert Lloyd talks to some of his colleagues and asks what got them started, what they hoped to get out of singing, and how they adjusted to changing perspectives as their respective careers began to unfold - or to fold.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN. Stereo
Contributors
Unknown:
Alfred
Alexander
Bass:
Robert
Lloyd
Producer:
Daniel
Snowman.
: You'll Never Be 16 Again
The last of seven programmes in a history of the British teenager Don't You Want Me?'Young people have decided that if there's no future for them, they've got to live for today.' 'It's about being different and having a laugh. That's all it's ever been about.'
Researcher MICHELLE ROWLAND Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0am)
Contributors
Unknown:
Michelle
Rowland
Producer:
Peter
Everett
: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Blues in Thirds by DAVID LUCKStereo (Broadcastyesterdayatll.Oam)
Contributors
Unknown:
David
Luck
: The Enthusiasts
Allan Smith visits the last of five groups of assorted devotees, trying to find out what spurs them on. The Mighty WurlitzersMeet the folks who lovingly rescue, restore and play again the once great cinema organs, even if it means building their house around one.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Contributors
Unknown:
Allan
Smith
Producer:
Susan
Snailum
: Kaleidoscope
The Art of the ComputerThe computer has become an increasingly versatile tool for the arts - theatre design, architectural drawings, television graphics and animation have all been affected, while in music, the synthesizer can imitate a hundred-voice choir or a bank of violins. But the applications go deeper - Pierre Boulez has just marked up ten years of the experimental music centre IRCAM in Paris; and David Hockney has recently met up with the computerised 'paintbox'.
Lisa Appignanesi reports on the state of the art.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Rev broadcast tomorrow at 4.35 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Pierre
Boulez
Unknown:
David
Hockney
Unknown:
Lisa
Appignanesi
Producer:
Richard
Bannerman
: A Book at Bedtime
Vice Versa (3): Orca: A Whale Called Killer
Killer whales are the most powerful of the dolphin family and the only whales to take warm-blooded prey. Baby seals are plucked from beaches, penguins are tipped off icebergs in the Antarctic, turtles, squid and sharks are taken in tropical seas, and one orca, lost up a Scottish river, developed a penchant for ducks.Stereo
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