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tltI, 'Aground to the news Sats SIJolly Good Show (45 min) 1830 rep Suns 0330, 0730; Weds Meridian (30 min) llecordingOf The Week Dave Lee Travis presents your 2205 rep Thurs 0445, 1115 Three topical programmes w(LI\ (15 mid) about the world of the .iris Sats record requests and dedications in A personal choice Iroto the tow his own unique way Sets 0815 From The Weeklies (15 min) 0630 rep 1130, 2030; Tues 2030 releases Sats 0045 rep Suns rep 2315, Tues 1515 rep Weds 0630, 1130; Thurs 0315, Mons 0545, Thurs 1445 ReeleW of the liriu.11 We, LI, press 2030 rep Fris 0630, 1130 Sets 0030 rep 0730, 1945 Andy Kershaw's Multitrack (30 min) cienceIn Action (30 min) World of Music (15 min) Mood Books (15 min) Fris 1615 rep 2030, Suns 1001 Mons 0445 rep 0930, Weds 1 World Service lop 20 Mons 1830 Recommendation of a book to read rep 2330, Tues 1215: 2 New pop 1730 Mons from 22nd 0315 rep Weds records, interviews, news .111(1 Seven Seas (15 min) Anything Goes (30 min) competitions Weds 1830 rep Weekly programme ahoitt slot A variety of music and much more, Global Concerns (15 min) 2330, Thurs 1215; 3 The latest and the sea, with Malcolm Billings wi!li Bob Holness Suns 1430 rep developments on the British music Thurs 1930 rep Fris 0130, 0930 Update on environmental is.' scene Fris 1830 rep 2330, Sats Mons 0330, 0830 Thurs 2205 rep Fris 0145, 1115 1215 Sports International (30 min) Assignment (30 min) HealthMatters (15 min) Mons 2220 rep Tues 0230, 1030 Weekly examination 01 a topical Music For A While Keeps track of new developments in With Richard Baker (45 min) Weds 2030 rep Thurs the world of medical science. as 0230, 1001 Suns 0815 rep 2205, Thurs 1515 Sports Roundup (15/10 min) well as ways of keeping fit Mons Daily 0945, 1245 (ex Suns), 0815 rep 1115, 1945, Tues 0145 Nook Choice (5 min) Musk. ieview (45 min) 1745, 2250 Short hook review every week Sats Here's Humph! (15 min) News and views from the world of 2310 rep Tues 1125, Thurs 0140 All that jazz Sats 0145 rep 0430, Thurs 2315 rep Fels 0815, Sportsworld (150 min) 1515 1001 \Veekly sports maganne Sats Business Matters (15 min) 1401, 1515, 1615 Weekly survey of commercial and MnPraise Of God (30 min) Network UK (30 min) financial news Tues 2205 rep Weekly programme of worship and Issues and events affecting the IllheFarming World (15 min) Weds 0815, 1445 meditation Suns 1030 rep 1715, lives of people throughout the UK Thurs 0145 rep 0930, 1945 Mons 0030 (see page 5) Thurs 0730 rep 1615, 2220 (see IllountryStyle (15 min) page 21) With David Allan Weds 0145 rep The Ken Bruce Show azZ for the Asking (30 min) 0445, 1115 (30 min) New Ideas (20 min) Suns 0030 rep 11:10, 1830 Sats 2220 rep Suns 0630, Weds Window on the world of technology. Eevelopment '91 (30 min) 1030 innovation and new products Mons Aid and development issues Tues 1615 rep Tues 0730, Weds 1215 The Vintage Chart Show 1930 rep Weds 0230, 0730 Jazz Now & Then/ Folk In (30 min) Britain (15 min) liffThe Shelf (15 min) fast Top 20 hits with Paul Burnett Discovery (30 min) .1.1/, one week, lolk the next Fris Daily readings from the hest of Sats 0330 rep Mons 1030, 2030 In-depth look at scientific research 0445 rep Suns 2009, Tues 0130 world literature Mons-Fris 0430 rep 1430 (see page 10) Tues 1001 rep 1830, Weds 0330 llaveguide(10 min) John Peel (30 min) hear World Service better Murope's World (15 min) Tracks from newly released albums Omnibus (30 min) Sats 0905 rep Mons 0530, Tues Magazine programme reflecting life and singles front the contemporary Each week a half-hour programme 1115, Thurs 0130 in Europe and its links with other music sc aSats from 6th 1715 on almost any topic under the sun parts of the world Mons 2205 rep rep Tues 0330, Thurs 0830 Weds 0030 rep 1001, 1930, Tues 0445, 0930 Thurs 0630 Words Of Faith (5 min) Metter From America People of all faiths share how th(1, 'locusOn Faith (30 min) (15 min) Eeople And Politics scripture gives authority and oniment and discussion on the With Alistair Cooke Sats 1015 (30 min) meaning to their lives daily 0540 major issues ill the worlds of faith rep Suns 0545, 1645, 2315 Background to the British political rep 0809, 2025, 2305 (flats only) Thurs 1830 rep Fris 0330, 1001 scene Fris 2220 rep Sets 0230, Eegamix (30 min) 1030 Write On... (10 min) From Our Own Compendium 01 music. sport. Air your views about World Service: Correspondent fashion, health, travel. news and Personal View (15 min) write to PO Box 76. Bush House, (20/15 min) views for young people Tues 1130 Topical issues in British lilt Sats Strand, London WC2B 411 1 Sets BBC correspondents comment on rep 1615, 2220 0930 rep 1701, 2009 1850 rep Suns 0350, 0750 A L 'TIMES GAIT 0013 WORLD SERVICE LONDON CALLING London Calling is the programme journal of the BBC World Service in English. To listen to our worldwide transmissions you will need, in most cases, a short-wave radio set, although in some areas we alsobroadcast on long and medium wave and FM/ VHF. On the frequency pages of this edition you will find a guide to the current recommended transmission and frequency times for your area. We work in Greenwich Mean Time or GMT (which some listeners might know better as UPC) so you will have to convert this to local time. IN THE APRIL ISSUE: Ernest Warburton (right), the Editor, World Service in English, 2AT A GLANCE Regular programmes introduces a month of change... 4DOUBLETIME am writing this on the last day of January, as Newshour gets a second edition London Calling goes to press. The war in the Gulf is two AN EASIER WAY INTO ENGLISH weeks old. These are two weeks which no one working for Special programmesfor Asia BBC World Service in English will ever forget. 5FEATURESPreview All concerned worked an extraordinary number of hours, ignoring the call of sleep, snatching a bite to eat at odd moments, and 9SPORTPreview neglecting family and social life without question in order to bring you the best account possible of events as they unfolded. 1 0DRAMAPreview I am profoundly grateful to every one of them, especially those reporting from the battle zone. If, in the process, we deprived you of some of 12MUSICPreview your favourite programmes, I can only apologise. However, to judge from the telephone calls we received, it seems that our special Gulf 14DAY TO DAY Programme Guide programmes met the needs of the vast majority of you. ALTERNATIVES We all fervently hope that by the time April comes peace will be restored, 16 but, if the present conflict persists, we shall still be operating the For Africa. Asia, Caribbean, 648 For Europe Emergency Schedule which began on February 2nd. This is printed, with a few adjustments relating to the new scheme of things from 17EMERGENCY SCHEDULE onwards, on page 17. 18THE RIGHT TO KNOW The new regular schedule, which we hope to bring in at the end of March, A view from the top - with John Tusa has a number of major changes. Perhaps the most important is that there is a second daily edition of Newshour, beginning at 1300 and 20TALKING HEADS Alan Bennett, Patricia enabling many listeners to hear this 60 -minute briefing of news, current Routledge, monsters and cooked breakfasts affairs, financial matters, sport and much else for the first time. That's the good news. The bad (for some, but not for others) is that at the 21FIVE INTO ONE same time the 2200 edition is brought forward to 2100. This new Network UK and a look back at the '80s placing should make it available to more listeners than ever before. If this means that you personally are no longer be able to hear it,I am 22LETTERS sorry. Perhaps the third edition of the programme which we plan to introduce at 0500 in January 1992 will restore the programme to you. 2 3FREQUENCIES I do hope so. IN 37 LANGUAGES There are changes too in our coverage of financial and business matters. 2 8 The new pattern is based on three daily editions of a new programme, LEARN ENGLISH WITH BBC ENGLISH World Business Report (at 0909, 1705 and 2305), reflecting the day's events in Far Eastern, European and American markets respectively. Editor: Steve Weinman There is also a new World Business Review on Sundays. Much of the Assistant Editor: Vicky Payne Editorial Secretary: Christina Morris existing coverage is maintained, but some has had to be sacrificed to Advertising: (Financial) Powers Overseas Ltd. 46B Keyes House. Dolphin fund this new and (we believe) more attractive and useful service. Square. London SW1V 3NA. Tel: London (071) 834 5566; (Consumer) McNeill Sales & Marketing. 6 Mustow Place. Munster Road. London If you live in Africa or Asia, you will find that we also have plans to serve SW6 413X. Tel: London (071) 731 7535 you better with more programmes of greater local interest (see pages 4 and 16) If you are in East Asia and wish to improve your English, you London Calling is available in all parts of the world might like to try our new English teaching programmes broadcast at an annual subscription rate of £12 (US$20). Mons -Fria at 1415 after Dateline East Asia. Please write and tell us Write to Rosemarie Reid at this address: what you think of them. And do urge your friends to listen. LONDON CALLING, All these initiatives have been made possible by an increased grant to BBC World Service from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In PO Box 76S, Bush House, Strand, an interview on page 18, BBC World Service's Managing Director John London, England, WC2B 4PH Tusa explains how this came about. Regular readers have a reference number. which can be found Finally, there is just space to note that in April we broadcast a group of on the address slip inside or on the plastic wrapper, above programmes looking at the way we live together in society: from the their name and address. Please use this in all correspondence. supposedly ideal community of Thomas More's Utopia, through a hard Volume 20 Number4 Edited and compiled by the British Broadcasting Corporation. World Service look at the theory and practice of Democracy, to an examination of Publicity Department. Bush House. London: filmset by Merman Graphics & Hive how recently independent Eastern European countries are getting on a Photosetting Ltd. London; printed by TPL Printers (UK) Ltd. Hardebury and Times Printers Pte Ltd. Singapore: despatched by BTB Mailing Services Ltd. year or so after their first free elections. Good listening! Bedford: and Changi International Distribution Services Pte Ltd. Singapore. MC1(P) 60/12/90PP (5) 9/4/90 Cover illustration: Arnold Lerner, photograph: Chris Ridley ALL TIMES DOD WORLD SERVICE NEWSHOUR of the war in the Gulf. The programme frequently features the newsmakers themselves, with interviews with DOUBLETIME prominent international Newshourgets a new time and an politicians and statesmen. On extra edition this month - and the lighter side are contributions there is more to come. ALAN LE from the worlds of arts and entertain-ment, and, of course, BRETON, Deputy Head of Current sport. Affairs, has all the news... Newshour has always contained a regular sports slot, catching up on the results of events held in the European THE introduction of Newshour into the evening. As with the regular World Service schedules in 1988 broke the financial report, there will be mould of News and Current Affairs broadcast- even more opportunity with the ing for Bush House. For the first time traditional new editions to update inform- news reporting was combined with background ation through the day. Whether analysis of the day's events in one programme. it be the closing prices on Wall As its style and format became established, the Street, London or Tokyo, three requests came in thick and fast for more of the editions can only mean that same. Newshour rapidly developed a dedicated Newshour will be closer to events early -morning audience in the Far East but when they happen. listeners in Europe, Africa and the Middle East The existing team of Newshour often found2200GMT just too late for local - presenters, Max Pearson, time listening. Oliver Scott, Hugh Prysor- Now, in response to the power of the postbag, On The Hour, from left: Robin Lustig, Kathryn Davies and Max Jones and Geoffrey Stern, World Service planners have been able to move whose voices have become so Easterman; below left: Owen Bennett -Jones; right: Julian Marshall. towards satisfying the demand with a second familiar to regular listeners, are edition. The existing edition moves forward an now joined by Julian hour to2100,offering more convenient late - scripts and organising Marshall, Kathryn Davies, evening listening in Europe and Africa, while the incoming studio and Owen Bennett -Jones, Robin new programme comes in eight hours earlier at telephone lines, with Lustig and Max Easterman. 1300. technical and secretarial Already the journalists and This maintains coverage for Asia - in the assistants ensuring that producers working in news and evenings this time - while also providing a lunch- the product is smooth current affairs are looking for Europe and the Middle East, and informative day after forward to the opportunities and an early morning round -up for listeners on day, 365 days a year. ahead. "The challenge for us is the East Coast of the USA and in the Caribbean. Newshour has won going to be to ensure that the And that's not all - by January 1992 Newshour acclaim for its ability to identity of the programme, will have divided the clock by three, with a third respond rapidly to news developments around broadcast to different parts of the world, is edition at0500.This will unite evening listeners the world. At the time of the student protests in preserved right the way through the 24 -hour on America's West Coast with early -morning Peking in the summer of 1989, its daily cycle," says Andrew Joynes, Head of Current risers in Europe and Africa. frequently coincided with the deadlines issued by Affairs. Visit the Newshour studio either before or the authorities for clearing Tiananmen Square. For Bob Jobbins, Editor World Service News, while the programme is on air and you will find In 1990 it was on air as the first jubilant the new editions of Newshour could not have yourself immersed in the organised confusion of Berliners scaled the Wall dividing their city. come at a more appropriate time: a complicated live production. The past few months have seen the crisis erupt "Advances in news -gathering technology and All elements of radio journalism come between the international community and Iraq the insatiable desire of everyone to be informed, together: on one side of the studio glass, over its ocupation of Kuwait. Many of the speedily and accurately, fall right into the lap of a reporters, newsreaders, studio guests and one of lessons gained from the experience of a programme like Newshour, which can only the team of regular presenters; on the other, programme like Newshour have provided the complement the traditional reputation of World news and current affairs producers checking basis of the World Service's extended coverage Service news broadcasts." AN EASIER WAY INTO ENGLISH SPECIAL PROGRAMMES FORASIA the safety of the classroom - with years BBC English programmes hear two 15 -minute English the carefully chosen vocabulary of a have helped countless thousands. teaching programmes - one fairly THE importance of English few hundred words and the However, the leap from carefully elementary, the other more as the preferred international sympathetic teacher who explains crafted teaching programmes to the advanced or specialised - and a 15 - language is inspiring millions of things in your own language - to men, women and children around mainstream of World Service in minute bulletin of world news, read encounters with native speakers of the world to acquire a working English is an enormous one. quite slowly. the new language. knowledge of it. As anyone who We have been worried about this So if you find our mainstream has ever tried to learn another However considerate they try to problem for years. Now we are output a little difficult to follow at language will know, the first stages be, they all seem to speak too fast, doing something about it, at least the moment, here is an excellent are the easy ones. use strange words and expressions for those students of English who way to expand your command of The going gets ever tougher until and slur their words together. They live in East Asia and within reach English. If the experiment is as that happy day when you suddenly probably understand your request of our9740kHztransmitter at successful as we hope, we will try find yourself speaking the new for directions to the post office. But Kranji. to extend the scheme to other parts language with little more effort do you understand their reply? Dateline East Asia becomes a of the world. Your comments and than you take with your native Probably not, not at first anyway. five -days -a -week programme from suggestions - in English, of course tongue. Listening to foreign radio has this week (see page 16). And on - would therefore be very welcome. The big problem in the early long been a favoured way of Mons-Fisat1515, following stages comes in moving away from improving language skills. Over the Dateline East Asia, you can now Ernest Warburton a ALL TIMES GMT OD, 0 WORLD SERVICE What Is Democracy? (4 x 30 min) Plato and Aristotle despised it. In the 18th century revolutionaries in France and America died for it. Great wars were fought to make the world safe for it. Today. in old empires and dictatorships and in new struggling republics it is appended to and looked to for answers. So what is this democracy that seems to be all things to all people? It is one of the three FEATURES great buzz -words in political vocabulary, along with "freedom" and -justice". For the ancient Greeks who invented it 2,500 years ago. democracy meant the rule of the people against the noble classes. For 17th century English people, who executed one king and Cooking The Books ousted another, democracy meant the rule of parliament against the power of the (6x 15 min) monarch. Today, we like to think democracy means government by the people and for the More table talk with Will Cantopher as hepeople. but how often is this true? samples the mouth-watering excursions of Even when a country has all the trappings of a democracy -a constitution, the rule of classic food writers. In programme four law, free speech. regular elections and the subject is that doyenne of British food human rights - political power can still be writers. Elizabeth David1st. wielded by a ruling class or bought by the Then it's off around the world with food wealthy. The electoral system itself can scholar and former diplomat Alan decide whether or not the government Davidson. a disciple of Elizabeth David. really represents the wishes of the voters. He takes pride in not answering to the Corruption and tyranny have threatened term "gourmet-8th. democracy since the beginning: it is a Rounding off the series is another fragile system dependent on the honesty populariser. Canadian Margaret Visser, and goodwill of officials and citizens if it is whose amusing and passionate guide to to operate justly. the origins of an ordinary dinner has led In the 1990s many people will confront to gastronomic acclaim 15th. the promises and the perils of democracy. Mons until 15th 0315 rep Weds 2315, This new four-part World Service series is Thurs 0815 a useful guide. Presented by Barbara Goodwin. it traces the origins and development of democracy. its history and Growing Points philosophy, the conditions necessary for democracy and ways of improving an In Medicine imperfect political system. (8 x 15 min) The first programme deals with Ancient What are the prospects for developing new Greece14th:the second the rise of and more successful drugs for use in parliamentary democracy in England and treating AIDS? Dr Barbara Goodwin is Reader in Political France21stand the third the conditions Is it possible that doctors will soon be Philosophy in the Department of Government at necessary for democracy28th. able to offer a treatment for the fast- London's Brunel University. She has written books Suns from 14th 1401 rep 2330, growing and usually fatal skin cancer. on utopianism, ideologies and social justice. Mons 0630, 1001 malignant melanoma? And could millions in Africa and Central America be protected against river ncw AI -chin -41(p witerintry. The Most Is It Worth The Risk? blindness by a new vaccine? Reverend Dr George Carey, whose (1 x 30 min) Stephen Hedges talks to doctors, each enthrone-ment is broadcast live this Which is riskier, driving a car or flying in a one working in a fast-growing area of month (seepage7). plane? The answer: driving a car. So why medicine in which exciting advances are Listeners can hear two separate parts of is it that someone who will happily drive to anticipated in the next few years. a special communion service to be held in an airport is afraid of boarding a plane? Mons 2315 rep Weds 1515 Armagh's St Patrick's Cathedral. The answer lies in how we perceive The Archbishop of the Indian Ocean. The risks: those we take ourselves and those Most Rev French Chang -Him, preaches imposed on us by others. In Praise Of God in The Ministry Of The Word14th. Experts talk about the risks of nuclear (30 min) The Moat Rev Dr Robin Eames. the accidents, and of cancer from smoking. The town of Armagh in Northern Ireland Primate of All Ireland, is the celebrant in How are such risks assessed and are they plays host to the leaders of the worldwide the Ministry Of the Sacrament21st. any more than guesses? Chris Westcott Anglican Communion when they meet the Suns 1030 rep 1715, Mons 0030 delves into the subject of Sun 7th 1401 rep 2330, Mon 0630, 1001 Eastern Europe Just A Minute What Happened To The Revolution? (8 x 30 min) (6x 30 min) The four contestants have to speak BBC correspondents are under such pressure to produce their various reports when on without hesitation, repetition or deviation assignment overseas that they seldom get the chance to take a wider perspective on a for 60 seconds, on a subject chosen by country. chairman Nicholas Parsons. This series aims to remedy that by taking stock of how six Eastern European countries Mons until 8th 1715 rep Tates 0030, are faring more than a year after the collapse of communism. Weds 0830 BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Mark Brayne revisits Romania, where he covered the dramatic events surrounding the fall of Ceaucescu in December 1989. Sallie Ecroyd returns to Hungary where she recently served as the BBC Budapest correspondent. King Sugar The BBC Central Europe correspondent Misha Glenny, author of a new book on (2 x 30 min) Eastern Europe called The Rebirth of History. reports on how Czechoslovakia is coping Teresa Guerreiro continues to trace the with its new-found freedoms under President Vaclav Havel. importance of sugar production in the The series is produced by Mike Popham. world today. Is this sweet food a luxury or Fris from 12th 0730 rep 1215, 1930 a necessity? Fri 5th 0730 rep 1215, 1930 ALL TIMES 0 M T 000 WORLD SERVICE Your money Ned Sherrin's can Counterpoint now earn up to (13 x 30 min) This month we reach the grand finale of this all -embracing musical quiz. From the 27 contestants who entered the contest, Just three will remain to battle it out in the FEATURES< final, each giving a virtuoso performance of encyclopaedic musical knowledge 7th. Suns until 7th 2030 rep Mons 1215, Thurs 0330 Manna To Microwave (6 x 45 min) Madhur Jaffrey concludes her investigat- Tampering With ion of 8,000 years of food and cooking. In Food and Industryshe follows food from The Past with Lombard farm to plate, via factory and supermarket. (3x 30 min) How was the crop grown? Were fertilizers "Though God cannot alter the past. and pesticides used? How was it processed. historians can," wrote the 19th century If you have £1,000 or more to invest novelist Samuel Butler. "It is perhaps your money could be earning a packaged and marketed? And how has all this affected our eating habits?Mar 30th. because they can be useful to Him in this handsome 11.500% pa in a Lombard respect that He tolerates their existence." One Year Fixed Account. The rate is Food and Culture:How did the great fixed and guaranteed not to change gastronomic traditions of the world come Political and ideological movements have during the period of deposit. Interest into being? Why did the Indian, Chinese also recognised the value of historians in is paid as a lump sum at the end of the and French cuisines (to name but a few) adapting the past to suit the present. period. flourish? And why does the food of some Post-war governments throughout nations - notably Britain - have such a Eastern Europe have tailored history to Or perhaps you prefer to have your poor reputation?6th.Producer: Jenny Lo. their purposes. Now, with the collapse of savings more readily available. Our Sats until 6th 1901 rep Mons 0101, communism, native historians face a 14 days notice account, minimum 1515 major reappraisal of their past. £5,000, pays an attractive variable In Ireland two communities have rate, currently 12.375%pa,credited produced opposing interpretations of Irish quarterly, equivalent to a compound Mediawatch history. The history of Africa is one in annual rate of 12.961 %. (13x15 min) which colonial and indigenous claims Whatever your needs there is sure to The first war to be reported globally via compete with each other. be a Lombard account from our satellite has shown how much we now rely How can contradictory interpretations of comprehensive range of sterling on hi -tech communications. Keith Kindel' history be evaluated? Is there such a thing savings and to discusses the vibrant, controversial world as a truthful history? If not, what purpose meet your requirements. of the mass media, explains the latest does it serve? equipment used to bring you the news and Christopher Andrew examines how Don't miss this opportunity to put tests gadgetry which can upgrade your history has been consciously and your money to work - write now for a phone, fax or television to make you a unconsciously manipulated. copy of the Lombard Savers & better communicator. Suns from March 31st until April Investors brochure No. 1299 or Weds 0130 rep 0930, 1715 14th 0230 rep 1615, Mons 0730 simply complete and post the coupon. the curve of the Earth. It is convention of astronomers As an additional benefit for overseas Seeing also because most of the cut these down to just 88. residents all interest is paid without constellation names we use Some of the discarded deduction of tax. 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The great cathedral bells are pealed, glorious church music is sung and the archbishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion embrace a new archbishop in a gesture of peace and brotherhood. This month The Most Reverend George Carey, formerly Bishop of Bath and Wells. is enthroned in Canterbury Cathedral as its 103rd Archbishop. Representatives of the Anglican faith and all other Christian traditions, members of the Royal Family. the Prime Minister and members of the main political parties will be present to see George Carey swear to uphold and preach the traditional faith of the Church. He will be enthroned on one of the great treasures of the cathedral, the 12th century Chair of St Augustine. This symbol of apostolic succession is a reminder of the episcopal authority which he inherits. The enthronement marks the culmination of a process begun with the Crown's nomination of George Carey for election by the Greater Chapter of the Cathedral. 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George Carey with his grandsons. The A To Z Of... They Made Our World thinking and logic helped to create some of (26 x 10 min) the first computers. They remain relevant (3 x 30 min) to work on artificial intelligence today15th. June Whitfield. Kenneth Connor and John Newell investigates the work of the scientists and inventors who helped to Albert Einstein baffled people with his William Franklyn have been thumbing claims that time and space are not through their dictionaries in preparation establish the modem world. John Logie Baird was the first man to absolute but relative. He argued that for a new comedy series on BBC World demonstrate that television was a practical space-time is curved: and that matter and Service. possibility, although his primitive system energy are the same thing22nd. Why not join them forThe A -Z was soon abandoned 1st. The penultimate programme reveals how Animals 10th: Food and Drink 17th:and Bakelite. the first totally synthetic Ernest Rutherford discovered what atoms Music 24th.The producer is Paul Spencer. plastic, was named after its inventor Leo are like inside and how one element can Weds from 10th 1530 rep Thurs Baekeland 8th. change into another29th. 0030, 1030 Mathematician Alan Turing's ideas on Mons 0915 top 1445, 1930

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Painting Madi Hedd is his faithful but bemused (1 x 60 min) wife Alice, and the late David Buck Jean is an artist, struggling to plays Henry VIII in a production of complete a picture - the most difficult Robert Bolt's play first heard on World she has ever attempted. It is intended Service in 1983. as a tribute to her husband Mike, who It is adapted for radio by Richard committed suicide by jumping from a Wigmore and directed by Gordon House. clifftop. Sun 14th 0030 rep 1130, 1830 After his death Jean sold their house, George has but now she persuades the new owners to the disease let her use the room which overlooks the but is sea and which used to be their studio. engaged to Sarcophagus As she covers sheet after sheet of paper be married (2 x 60 min) and feels he with unsatisfactory sketches for her "Just imagine: none of us will be here. not even painting, certain images keep haunting must fulfil our great -great -great grandchildren. AU our cities her -a hook on the wall, a seagull. a his obligations. He will have gone... Even the pyramids of Egypt will length of cable and a blank patch in the dare not share his secret for tear be Just a handful of dust. yet the sarcophagus sea... of becoming a social outcast. around this reactor will be standing. The In this play by Stephen Mallatratt, The play's sexually explicit theme raised pyramids of the Pharaohs have been there for a Eileen O'Brien plays the part of Jean and a storm of protest when it was first mere five thousand years. But to contain the Melissa Katsoulis is Emmie, with Carole performed in 1901 but as the preface to radiation. your nuclear pyramid must remain for Boyd and David Vann as Annette and the published version states: "...the object at least a hundred thousand years. That's some Martin and Ken Cumberlidge as Bob. of this play is a study of the disease of monument to leave our descendants. Isn't it?" The director is Nigel Bryant. syphilis in its bearing on marriage. It Five years on from the catastrophe at No Sun March 31st 0101 rep 1201, 1901 contains no scene to provoke scandal or 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power arouse disgust. nor is there in it any station. World Service repeats this moving obscene word: and it may be witnessed by play by Pravda's Science Editor Vladimir everyone..." Gubaryev, the first journalist on the scene. Damaged Bernard Hepton stars as the Doctor Set in an isolation clinic to which and David Yelland as George in this victims of the explosion are being sent, the production, adapted by Gordon House and two-part play takes us to the heart of the Goods directed by Jill Graham. disaster and the terrible consequences of (1 x 60 min) Sun 7th 0101 rep 1201, 1901 human error. -To rob a man. or even to murder him. would be a Bernard Hepton appears once again lesser crime than you would commit in marrying this month, here as the Investigator. a young girl in good health. if to do so you David Timson is the cheerful radiation exposed her to the terrible consequences of the A Man For patient who has survived 16 operations. disease you would give her..." Walter Acosta's production. first Last month's play Notes From The Orchid broadcast in 1988, won the Pater Award Farm told of a man coming to terms with All Seasons for the Most Outstanding National Foreign the fact that his best friend is dying from (1 x 90 min) Broadcast of that year. AIDS. Eugene Brieux's Damaged Goods is Henry VIII, the Tudor King of England. is The translation is by Michael Glenny. set 80 years earlier, when syphilis was determined to divorce his long-suffering Suns 21st & 28th 0101 rep 1201, considered as horrific as AIDS is now. wife Catherine and marry a woman more 1901 OFF THE SHELF 15 min uncle's house in the Master Raphael. from whom he The country. She arrives to Utopia learns of the people who live find that the boy has been Utopia is probably one of the on the fictitious island of Turn expelled from school - no great unread novels of the Utopia and of their customs. Of one knows why - and that world. The title has entered the Christopher Yenning has her predecessor died in English lexicon, the word abridged the book, omitting The mysterious circum- having become synonymous the parts he thinks would be Screw stances. Then she sees the with the Ideal State. difficult to comprehend at first American sinister Peter Quint... The writer of the book was hearing. "When listening to a novelist Jon Strickland reads the Sir Thomas More. Lord reading you can't turn back a Henry introductory episode. then Chancellor of England during page to check on something James set Juliet Stevenson tells the the 16th century and hero of you've missed, so you must be several of governess's story. the play A Man For All Seasons able to enjoy the story as it his stories in England and Abridged by Elizabeth (above). unfolds." he says. this, published in 1898. is one. Bradbury. produced by Pat He records in his book a The ideas in Utopia are A young woman takes a job McLoughlin22nd -May 1st. number of imaginary unusual and many still seem as governess to an orphaned Mons-Fris 0430 rep 1430 conversations with a mariner. advanced to this day1st-Sth. boy and girl who live at their (ex 19th)

10 ALL TIMES GMT 000 WORLD SERVICE Not As Far As Velma Talking Heads (6 x 30 min) (6 x 45 min) ((curt Castang (Keith Barron) of the Alan Bennett's witty observation of life in Britain has been heard in dramatic form many French Police Judiciare is investigating the times on World Service, from The Old Country in 1984, through Green Forms last year. to disappearance of Ada Sergent and the Kafica's Dick, a Play of the Week in January. Now his deaths of two nuns. Ada has been seen in acclaimed series of dramatic monologues Talking Heads Biarritz and Castang is on her trail... The comes to radio for the first time. final episodes of this story by Nicholas A Cream Cracker Under The Settee features Thora Bird's Freeling are An Infirmary In Auschwitz4th brilliant characterisation of an elderly lady, living alone, who and Tipping The Black Spot11th. suffers a fall and is unable to lift herself up from the floor. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. directed The monologue is preceded by an introduction to the series by Matthew Walters. in which Bennett talks about the creation of his characters Thurs until 11th 1130 rep 1715, Fri 13th. 0230 In A Lady of Letters, Patricia Routledge plays the redoubtable Miss Ruddock. Respectable, middle-class, she has a weakness: she just cannot stop writing letters. But Pigs Have Wings even an apparently harmless hobby can cause serious (6 x 30 min) t rouble...20th. Lord Emsworth is sure his beloved Alan Bennett himself features in the third play. A Chip In Empress of Blandings will win the Fat Pigs The Sugar. His character Graham talks about the elderly Contest at the agricultural show for a mother with whom he lives and her relationship with an record third time. But when his neighbour admirer from her past. Is his possessiveness just a enters a rival pig, plots and counter -plots reflection of his own insecurity?27th.The series is abound. Both pigs are kidnapped and produced by David Hitchinson and Matthew Walters. hidden - but where? Sats from 13th 1901 rep Mons 0101, 1515 Richard Vernon plays Lord Emsworth Talking to Alan Bennett and Patricia Rout ledge... page 20 and Ian Carmichael Galahad Threepwood in the last part of P G Wodehouse's story. produced by Martin Fisher. of political struggle on individuals: the Soviet invasion. The Kiss Of Life is by Weds until 3rd 1530 rep Thurs 0030, Strydom and Lucky play the eternal Aine Breheny in the Republic of Ireland 1030 roles of interrogator and captive, with all 20th. the hopelessness and pain that this An anti-nuclear protester tries to Short Story entails. The Other Side is by Frank unravel the links between his beliefs and (15min) Alanthwaite in South Africa 13th. his father's work in the nuclear industry. The short stories this In an Irish hospital in 1957 a young Trifling With The Juggernaut is by Joe month reflect three nurse brings comfort to a Hungarian Forrest Sackett in the USA27th. different views of the effects student who fled from his country after Sats ex 6th 0130 rep 2205, Suns 1115 SCIENCE FACT, FICTION & FANTASY Classic Radio Drama The Sony WA 8800 BBC Radio Collection Box Sets (Spoken Word Tapes) Slim -styled traveller's shortwave multiband and PRICES (insured airmail) stereo cassette recorder, FM/MW/SW 8 -band. Europe Zone 3* r/o World Dual Conversion Circuit Auto -reverse Stereo Cassette Deck The Lord Of The Rings £40.25 £46.50 On request LCD Clock/Alarm/Timer/60-minute Sleeptimer Tolkien's classic fantasy (13 x I -hour) Tape Counter Auto Shut-off The Hobbit £16.30 £18.35 On request Stereo Recording Facility Forerunnerto Lord Of The Rings (4 x I -hour) Built-in Speaker Stereo M/C supplied Journey Into Space £16.30 £18.35 On request DC in socket Space adventure from the 1950s (4 x 1 -hour) Black Finish WfIGHT: 0.55kg DIMENSIONS: 250 x 81 x 30mm The Hitch -Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy The original radio production (6 x1 -hour) £25.00 £28.30 On request

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This musical individuality was reflected Although not one of the world's in his personality, and his ten years at the greatest singers. his light, fairly St Petersburg Conservatory were marked high voice and natural delivery by constant clashes with his eminent endeared him to many. teachers Liadov and Rimsky-Korsakov. Dave Gelly introduces some of Yet through his composing career, his his best and lesser -known songs years in America following the Russian and explains why Astaire won the Revolution, his stay in Paris during the '20s admiration of song -writers while and his final return to the USSR in 1936, the likes of Frank Sinatra and Nat Prokofiev (pictured below) produced some of King Cole did not. You can hear the world's most enduringly popular and his first recording made in 1923 admired pieces - the Classical Symphony. and one of his last, made in 1975. the piano concertos, the suite Lieutenant Produced by Barbara Page. 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He (8 x 15min) tomorrow13th. takes us through Stephen Johnson concludes his behind - Sats until 13th 0745 rep Mons 0145, the six stages of the -scenes portrait of the booming Tues 1445 the composer's life business by examining the and career, new lease of life afforded to top vintage offering an "inside" The Havana view of the music and exploring a Composer of the Month International personality that was enigmatic (30 min) Guitar Festival even to Prokofiev's For much of the 19th century, Britain (6 x 15 min) In a follow-up to his popular series a few close colleagues. was known in German-speaking In Stravinsky's countries as "the land without music". years ago. composer Gareth Walters presents highlights from this major event judgment: "His This reflected the fact that the last mind was only incontestably great native composer. in the guitar -playing world, drawing on performances by a rich array of fully engaged Henry Purcell, died back in 1695. when he was Then there suddenly emerged a largely international artists. playing chess." self-taught musician who, in his lifetime Sate from 20th 0745, rep Mons 0145, Fris from 5th 0030 rep 1030, 1715 (1857-1934). was recognised as one of the Tues 1445 major figures on the world musical scene. 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15 A Jolly Good Show 15 7th, 14th Tampering With The 09 Words Of Faith Past: 21st, 28th The New Wind 15 Health Matters Of Change In Africa 30 Anything Goes 0400 Newsdesk 45 Letter From America 30 Here's Humph' SUNDAY 0900 World News

1700 World News 09 World Business Report 45 Worldbrief April 7 14 21 28 00 World News 15 They Made Our World 05 World Business Review 25 Words 0500 World News II 09 African News 30 Andy Kershaw's World Of Music 09 Twenty -Four Hours 0000 Newsdesk 15 In Praise Of God 45 Sports Roundup 30 World Business Report 30 The Ken Bruce Show (ex 14th A 15 African Perspect.,, IN 30 African News Man For All Seasons) 45 Sports Roundup 1000 News Summary followed by 35 Saturdays Only What Is Democracy? (ex 1st 40 Words Of Faith 0100 News Summary followed by Play 1800 Newsdesk Fred Astaire: 8th Is It Worth The 45 The World Today Of The Week: Mar 31st Still Life 30 The Ken Bruce Show (ex 14th A Risk?) Painting: 7th Damaged Goods: Man For All Seasons) 30 The Vintage Chart Show

0600 Newsdesk 14th A Man For All Seasons MI 30 Postma, 30 Meridian contd: 21st, 28th Sarcophagus 1100 World News 30 African News 1900 News Summary followed by Play 09 News About Britain II 35 Saturdays Only 0200 Newsdesk Of The Week: Mar 31st Still Life 15 Health Matters 30 7th, 14th Tampering With The Painting: 7th Damaged Goods; 30 Composer Of The Month 0700 World News Past: 21st, 28th The New Wind 14th A Man For All Seasons 09 Twenty -Four Hours Of Change In Africa contd: 21st, 28th Sarcophagus 1200 Newsreel 30 From The Weeklies 15 1st, 8th Ned Shernn's

0300 World News 2000 World News Counterpoint M.LD 09 News About Britain 09 7th, 21st Folk in Britain: 14th, 45 Sports Roundup 45 On The Record (ex 20th, 27th 15 Recording Of The Week 28th Jazz Now And Then The Havana International Guitar 30 From Our Own Correspondent 25 Words Of Faith 1300 Newshour Festival) II 30 African News 30 7th Ned Sherrin's Counterpoint 35 Postmark Africa 1400 World News 0800 World News 50 Write On... 2100 Newshour A from 15th Special Programmes 09 Words Of Faith For Asia Inc Dateline East Asia 15 A Jolly Good Show 0400 Newsdesk 2200 World News 05 Outlook 30 A Taste Of Soul 05 Music For A While With Richard 30 Off The Shelf 0900 World News Baker 45 They Made Our World 05 Waveguide 45 7th, 14th The People Of South 50 Sports Roundup 55 Words 15 The World Today Africa: 28th The Learning World 30 Personal View 2300 World News 1500 Newsreel 45 Sports Roundup 0500 World News 05 World Business Review 15 Drama: Talking Heads (ex 1st, 09 Twenty -Four Hours 15 Letter From America 8th Manna To Microwave)

1000 News Summary followed by 30 World Business Review 30 What Is Democracy? (ex Mar Here's Humph' IN 30 African News 31st Fred Astaire: 7th Is It Worth 15 Letter From America 35 Postmark Africa The Risk?) 1600 World News 30 People And Politics 40 Words Of Faith 09 News About Britain 45 Letter From America 15 New Ideas (ex 1st Sportsworld) 1100 World News 35 Cue For Song (ex 1st 09 News About Britain 0600 Newsdesk MONDAY Sportsworld) 15 Worldbrief 30 Jazz For The Asking 45 The World Today 30 Meridian IN 30 African News April 1 8 15 22 29 q 1700 World News 1200 Newsreel A 00 from 29th South Asia Survey 15 Multitrack 3 0700 World News 0000 Newsdesk 05 World Business Report 45 Sports Roundup 09 Twenty -Four Hours 30 In Praise Of God 05 Focus On A'' 30 From Our Own Correspondent 15 Panel Game inc 1st, 8th Just A

1300 Newshour 0100 News Summary followed by Minute 50 Write On... Drama: Talking Heads (ex 1st, 40 African Nev., 1400 News Summary followed by 8th Manna To Microwave) 45 Sports Roundup Sportsworld 0800 World News 45 On The Record (ex 22nd, 29th 09 Words Of Faith The Havana International Guitar 1800 Newsdesk 1500 Newsreel 15 Music For A While With Richard Festival) 30 Multitrack 1: Top 20 GO Arta A Baker FOl-JS On AtrIl-a 15 Sportsworld contd 0200 Newsdesk 55 African News 0900 World News 30 Composer Of The Month 1600 World News 05 World Business Review 1900 World News 09 News About Britain 15 7th, 14th The Peoples Of South 0300 World News 05 Outlook 15 Sportsworld contd Africa: 28th The Learning World 09 News About Britain 30 They Made Our World 30 A Taste Of Soul 15 Cooking The Books (ex 22nd, 40 Words 1700 News Summary followed by 45 Sports Roundup 29th Good Books) 45 Health Matters Personal View 30 Anything Goes

00 World News 1000 News Summary followed by ,;African News 2000 World News 09 African News Science In Action -5 Network Africa 09 The World Today 15 Arts And Afra 30 In Praise Of God 25 Words Of Faith 15 John Peel 0400 Newsdesk 30 The Vintage Chart Show 45 Sports Roundup 1100 World News 30 Off The Shelf 45 Caribbean Report 09 News About Britain 30 Focus On Africa 1800 Newsdesk 15 Short Story (ex 7th Seeing Stars) 45 Andy Kershaw's World Of Music 2100 Newshour A I,I- "I'I MES GMT 00E3 WORID SERVICE DAYTO DAY 2200 World News 1700 World News 1200 Newsreel 30 African News

05 Europe's World 15 New Ideas 'IS N-twork AI, 20 Sports International 05 World Business Report 35 Cue For Song

50 Sports Roundup 45 Sports Roundup 0700 World News 15 Composer Of The Month 09 Twenty -Four Hours

2300 World News A., c.1N. 1300 Newshour 30 Network UK 05 World Business Report 45 Sports Roundup

15 Growing Points In Medicine 1400 World News 30 Multitrack 1: Top 20 1800 Newsdesk 00 from 17th Special Programmes 30 Discovery For Asia inc Dateline East Asia 0800 World News 05 Outlook 09 Words Of Faith 30 Off The Shelf 15 Cooking The Books (ex 25th TUESDAY 45 Business Matters Good Books) 1900 World News 30 John Peel April 2 9 16 23 30 05 Outlook 1500 Newsreel 30 Development '91 15 Growing Points In Medicine 0900 World News

09 World Business Report 0000 Newsdesk 2000 World News 30 Comedy: The A To Z Of... (ex 15 The World Today 30 Panel Game inc 2nd, 9th Just A 09 The World Today 3rd Pigs Have Wings) 30 The Farming World Minute 25 Words Of Faith 45 Sports Roundup 30 Meridian 1600 World News 3100 World News : 09 News About Britain 1000 News Summary followed by 05 Outlook 15 Counterpoint Assignment 30 2nd, 16th, 30th Jazz Now And 2100 Newshour 45 The World Today 30 Comedy: The A To Z Of... (ex

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30 Multitrack 2 1300 Newshour WEDNESDAY 0400 Newsdesk 1400 World News 30 Off The Shelf April 3 10 17 24 1900 World News 05 Outlook

05 Outlook 45 Europe's World 30 Omnibus 0000 Newsdesk 30 Off The Shelf 0500 World News 30 Omnibus 2000 World News 45 Recording Of The Week 09 Twenty -Four Hours 09 The World Today 30 World Business Report 0100 World News 25 Words Of Faith 1500 Newsreel 30 An L,ar News 05 Outlook 30 Assignment 15 Music For A While With Richard Baker Notwor,c Atr,c,1 30 Mediawatch 45 Caribbean Report 40 Words Of Faith 45 Country Style 45 The World Today 2100 Newshour 45 from May 1st South Asia Survey 1600 World News 0600 Newsdesk 0200 Newsdesk 2200 World News 09 News About Britain 30 Counterpoint 30 Development '91 05 From Our Own Correspondent 15 Network UK 20 Counterpoint 45 The World Today 50 Sports Roundup 0300 World News 1700 World News 09 News About Britain from May ::'n3 0700 World News 15 The World Today 2300 World News 05 World Business Report 05 World Business Report 09 Twenty -Four Hours 30 Discovery 30 New Ideas 15 Cooking The Books (ex 24th Good Books) 15 Drama: 4th, 11th Not As Far As

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50 Cue For Song 0400 Newsdesk 45 Sports Roundup 30 Off The Shelf 0800 World News THURSDAY 1800 Newsdesk 09 Words Of Faith 45 Country Style 15 Concert Hall 30 Focus On Faith

April 4 11 18 25 0500 World News 0900 World News 09 Twenty -Four Hours 09 World Business Report 30 World Business Report 15 The World Today 0000 Newsdesk 1900 World News 30 Europe's World 30 Comedy: The A To Z Of... (ex 05 Outlook 45 Sports Roundup 4th Pigs Have Wings) 30 Seven Seas 40 Words Of Faith 45 The Farming World 45 The World Today 1000 News Summary followed by 0100 World News 05 Outlook 2000 World News Discovery 0600 Newsdesk 30 Sports International 30 Waveguide 09 The World Today 30 Meridian 40 Book Choice 25 Words Of Faith 1100 World News w 45 The Farming World 30 Meridian

09 News About Britain 45 from May 2nd 15 Waveguide 25 Book Choice 0700 World News 0200 Newsdesk 2100 Newshour 30 Megamix 09 Twenty -Four Hours 30 Assignment 30 Development '91 2200 World News 1200 Newsreel 30 Africa, N-N, 0300 World News 05 Global Concerns 15 Multitrack 1: Top 20 35 Network Atric,1 09 News About Britain 20 Network UK 45 Sports Roundup 15 The World Today 50 Sports Roundup 0800 World News 30 4th, 11 th Ned Sherrin's 1300 Newshour 09 Words Of Faith Counterpoint 2300 World News 15 Business Matters 05 World Business Report 30 Panel Game inc 3rd, 10th Just A 1400 World News 'J 15 Music Review Minute - from 16th

.7- A 0400 Newsdesk 05 Outlook 0900 World News 30 Off The Shelf 30 Off The Shelf 09 World Business Report FRIDAY 45 On The Record (ex 23rd, 30th 15 The World Today 45 From Our Own Correspondent The Havana International Guitar 30 Mediawatch April 5 12 19 26 Festival) 45 Sports Roundup 0500 World News 09 Twenty -Four Hours 1500 Newsreel 1000 News Summary followed by 30 World Business Report 0000 Newsdesk 15 A Jolly Good Show Omnibus 30 Prokofiev

30 Jazz For The Asking 5 Fonuc Or Air -:-a 40 Words Of Faith 0100 World News 1600 World News 1100 World News 45 The World Today 05 Outlook 09 News About Britain 09 News About Britain 30 Seven Seas 15 Megamix 15 Country Style 0600 Newsdesk 45 Global Concerns

45 The World Today 30 Meridian 30 Omnibus Iron', Min 3rd ALL TIM ES GMT 0013 WORLD SERVICE DAY TO DAY 0200 Newsdesk 09 World Business Report 09 News About Britain 30 Drama:5th, 12thNot As Far As 15 The World Today 15 Science In Action Velma 30 Seven Seas 45 The World Today 45 Sports Roundup 0300 World News 1700 World News 09 News About Britain 1000 News Summary followed by 15 The World Today 00from May 3rdSoutn Asia So, europe Focus On Faith 05 World Business Report 30 Focus On Faith 30 Prokofiev 05 Focus On Africa on medium wave 30 African News 15 Prokofiev 648 kHz 35 Network Africa 1100 World News 40 African News 09 News About Britain 45 Sports Roundup 0400 Newsdesk 15 Global Concerns MONDAYS 30 Off The Shelf 15until 12thDateline East Asia 0000 As World Service in English 30 Focus On Africa 30 Meridian 1800 Newsdesk 0315 As0330World Service English 455th, 19thFolk In Britain;12th, 45until 12thDateline East Asia 30 Multitrack 3 0330 Off The Shelf 26thJazz Now And Then 30 Focus On Africa 55 African News 0345 News Magazine - in German 1200 Newsreel 0430 Letter from America 0500 World News 15 Eastern Europe: What Happened 09 Twenty -Four Hours To The Revolution?(ex 5thKing 1900 World News 0445 News Headlines in English 8, French 30 World Business Report Sugar) 05 Outlook 0447 British Press Review 30 African News 45 Sports Roundup 30 Eastern Europe What Happened 0452 The Week Ahead: programme news 35 Network Africa To The Revolution?(ex 5thKing 0457 Travel News; Weather 40 Words Of Faith 1300 Newshour Sugar) 0500 As World Service in English 45 The World Today 0559 Weather 1400 World News (ex 19thThe 2000World News 0600 As World Service in English 0600 Newsdesk Enthronement Of The 09 The World Today 1030 News Magazine - in French 30 Meridian Archbishop Of Canterbury) 25 Words Of Faith 1045 News Magazine - in German 30 Afncan News 00from 19thSpecial Programmes 30 Science In Action 1059 Weather 35 Network Africa For Asia inc. Dateline East Asia 45 Caribbean Report 05 Outlook(ex 19th) 1100 As World Service in English 0700World News 1515 BBC English: language lesson 30 Off The Shelf(ex 19th) 09 Twenty -Four Hours 455th, 12thThe Peoples Of South 2100 Newshour 1530 News magazine - in German 30 Eastern Europe: What Happened Africa;19thThe Enthronement 30 Calling The Falkland5. 1600 World and British News To the Revolution?(ex 5thKing contd.;26thThe Learning World 1615 BBC English: language lesson Sugar) 2200 World News 1630 News magazine - in French 30 African News 1500 Newsreel (ex 19th) 05 A Taste Of Soul 1715 The World Today 35 Network Africa 20 People And Politics 00 Newsreel i19th only) 1729 News Summary in English 15 Music Review(ex 19th) 50 Sports Roundup 1730 News and features - in German 0800 World News 15 Focus On Africa 1900 As World Service in English 09 Words Of Faith 25 World News (19thonly) 2300 World News 1945 News Magazine - in French 15 Music Review 30 Music Review (19thonly) 05 World Business Report 2000 As Worid Service in English 15 Worldbrief 0900 World News 1600 World News 30 Multitrack TUESDAYS -SUNDAYS as Mondays except: 0330 From The WeekliesSat; ALTERNATIVES Pop MusicSuns to 0345 0335 Write OnSuns AFRICAN NEWS NETWORK AFRICA A DATELINE EAST ASIA 0430 The World TodayTues-Sat Mons -Fria: 0330, 0530, 0630, Africa's greatest breakfast show, with A magazine programme dealing with 0452 Business News Tues-Sats ; 0730, 1740, 1855; Sats: 0330, Hilton Fyleand theNetworkteam, the political and economic affairs of Business ReviewSuns to 0457 0530, 0630, 0730 1709; Suns: packed with news, sports, personalities, 1015 Club 648Sets to 1030 South-east and North-east Asia -see 0330, 0530, 0630, 1709, music and listeners' comments in 1559 Travel NewsSets, Suns to 1600 below. Talkback. 1715 Letter From AmericaSets; Fria until 12th 1115, 1145; Club 648Suns to 1729 AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE Mons -Fria 0335 rep 0535, Mons-Fris from 15th 1400 1900 Music For A WhileSuns to 1945 A weekly feature or discussion 0635, 0735 1930 TalksTuts, Weds, Fr's to 1945 analysing a major African issue. A SOUTH ASIA SURVEY Seven SeasThurs to 1945 Suns 0730 rep 1500, 1715 II POSTMARK AFRICA Now with five editions every week, An expert answer to any question South Asia Surveycontinues to offer BBC FOR EUROPEprogrammes as under the sun - send your questions to listed are also broadcast in the Greater ARTS AND AFRICA in-depth analysis of political and other Postmark Africa, Berlin area on 90.2 MHz FM, with the Musicians, painters and performers BBC African Service, developments in the region -see following variations: from around the continent. London WC2. below. Sats 0430 rep 1500, 1715, Suns 0335 rep 0535, 0635, Sets until 27th 0145; Mons- 0430-0445BBC English: language 1830 1830 Fris from 29th 1700 rep Tues- lesson Sets 0145 0445-1030 As World Service in English FOCUS ON AFRICA SATURDAYS ONLY 1030-1045 BBC Engksh: language If you want the latest on the day's TheFocus teamwith their special CARIBBEAN REPORT lesson events in Africa thenFocus on Africais Saturday show - interviews with 1615-1715 Weekday coverage of Caribbean As World Service in English essential listening. It brings you up-to- leading politicians, discussions of affairs in Britain, the EC and the 1130-1200As World Service in English the-minute reports from all over the 1715-1730 BBC English: language recent events and, once a month, a Caribbean region, with emphasis on continent. quiz. political and economic analysis- lesson e Mons-Fris 0430, 1515, 1705, 1900-0000As World Service in English Sets 0335 rep 0535, 0635, please note the new time. 1830 0735 Mons -Fria 2045 FIVE WEEKLY EDITIONS FOR ASIAN ALTERNATIVES leaders. The political analysis continues but leading politicians, many of whom have said more attention can now be devoted to economic they considered the programme an essential THIS month sees not only the launch of a issues. part of their Saturday morning briefing. package of special programmes for Asia(see Dateline East Asia draws on topical reports It also carries news of people of South Asian page 4) but also a significant boost for the from BBC correspondents in the region as well origin who have settled in other parts of the existing programmes for the continent, Dateline as the expertise of its own editorial staff in the world. Political affairs are the mainstream but East Asia and South Asia Survey. BBC's Far Eastern Service. It can be heard on social and economic news is also included: From15thDateline East Asia moves to five 9740kHzin South-east Asia and on7180 Listeners in South Asia can now have their editions a week Mons -Friaat a new time of and11820 kHzin North-east Asia. daily briefing at1700,a time chosen so that 1400. Since it began in February 1988 the Meanwhile South Asia Survey moves from its listeners to the BBC's Hindi, Bengali and Urdu programme has provided a steady flow of single weekly slot toMons-Frisfrom29th. Services can also tune in, in some cases without comment and analysis of East Asian affairs. Over 14 years the programme has carved a even retuning their radios. Frequencies to try Listeners have heard interviews with key niche for itself as a current affairs magazine of are5975, 7105, 9605and11750kHz. regional figures such as Singapore's Lee Kuan the Indian Sub -continent. It specialises in Those who prefer a breakfast briefing will be Yew and Indonesia's Foreign Minister Ali speaking to the people who make the news, glad to know that South AsiaSurveyis repeated Alatas, as well as with academics and business including presidents, prime ministers and other Tues-Satsat its present time of0145. A L L TIMES GM T DOG WORLD SERVICE

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0000 Newsdesk 0000 Newsdesk 0000 Newsdesk 30 Various 30 From the Weeklies 30 Ken Bruce/Play of the WeeK 45 Recording Of The Week 0100 News 0100 News 15 Outlook (ex Mons drama) 0100 News 05 Play Of The Week 45 Various 15 Outlook 45 Here's Humph!/Seeing Stars 0200 Newsdesk 0200 Newsdesk 30 Feature 30 Various 0200 Newsdesk 30 People And Politics 0300 News 0300 News 15 Recording Of The Week 15 Various 30 From Our Own Correspondent 0300 News 30 Various 50 Write On... 15 Various 30 The Vintage Chart Show 0400 Newsdesk 0400 Newsdesk 30 Off The Shelf 30 Popular Music 45 World Business Report (ex 0400 Newsdesk 45 World Business Review Mons Waveguide) 30 Here's Humph! 55 Words Of Faith 55Words of Faith 45 World Business Report 55 Words Of Faith 0500 News 0500 News 15 Special Gulf Programme 15 Special Gulf Programme 0500 News U 15 Special Gulf Programme 0600 Newsdesk 0600 Newsdesk 30Jazz For The Asking 30 MeridianNarious 0600 Newsdesk 30Meridian 0700 News 0700 News 15 Special Gulf Programme 15 Special Gulf Programme 0700 News 15 Special Gulf Programme 0800 News 0800 News 09 Words of Faith 09 Words Of Faith 15 Various 0800 News 15 Music For A While 09 Words of Faith U 0900 News 15 A Jolly Good Show 0900 News 15 Various 15 Talk 30 Various 0900 News 30 Popular Music 45 Sports Roundup 15 Talk/Seeing Stars 45 Sports Roundup 30 Personal View 1000 News 45 Sports Roundup 1000 News 15 Various 15 Science In Action 30 Various 1000 News 30 In Praise Of God 15 Letter From America 1100 Newsdesk 30 People And Politics 1100 Newsdesk 30 MeridianNarious 30 The Ken Brucen Show/Play Of 1100 Newsdesk The Week 1200 News 30 Meridian 15 MultitrackNarious 1200 News 45 Sports Roundup 05 Play Of The Week 1200 News 1300 Newshour 15 Multitrack 3 45 Sports Roundup 1300 Newshour 1400 News 1300 Newshour 1400 News 05 Outlook 15 Sports Roundup 30 Off the Shelf 30 Anything Goes 45 Various 1400 News 15Sportsworld 1500 News 1500 News 15 Concert Hall 15 Various 1500 News 4.1 15 Sportsworld contd 1600 News 1600 News 15 Feature 15 Various 1600 News 45 Letter From America With the outbreak of hostilities in 45 Various 15 Sportsworld contd the Gulf region BBC World Service 1700 News 1700 News began operating an emergency 1700 News 15 In Praise Of God 15 Various schedule on January 18th, which was 15 John Peel 45 Sports Roundup updated on February 2nd. 45 Sports Roundup 45 Sports Roundup

1800 Newsdesk 1800 Newsdesk As this issue ofLondon Callinggoes 1800 Newsdesk 30 MultitrackNarious 30 Ken Bruce/Play Of The Weak to press it is not known if the 30 From Our Own Correspondent emergency schedule will still be 50 Write On... operational in April.'Please listen to 1900 News 1900 News 05Play Of The Week on -air announcements for guidance. 15 Outlook 45 Various 1900 News 15 Drama/Feature Briefly, there is a longer news 2000 News programme on the hour every hour 2000 News 09 Folk In Britain/Jazz Now Ard and wherever possible news 09 Various 2000 News Then 25 Words Of Faith summaries at approximately 30 and 25 Words Of Faith 09 Personal View/Seeing Stars 25 Words Of Faith 30 Quiz 45 minutes past the hour. 30 MeridianNarious 30 Meridian Most advertised programmes are still 2100 Newshour 2100 Newshour broadcast, but with fewer 2100 Newshour transmissions. 2200 News 2200 News 15 Various 2200 News 15 Feature THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO 45 Sports Roundup 15 Jazz For The Asking 45 Sports Roundup MODIFICATION AT VERY SHORT 45Sports Roundup NOTICE IN THE EVENT OF A MAJOR 2300 News 2300 News NEWS STORY BREAKING. 15 Various 2300 News 15 Music For A While With Richard 30 MultitrackNarious 15 A Jolly Good Show Baker A L LTIMES GATT GOB WORLD SERVICE JOHN TUSA Award -winning ments of large table and comfortable seating but learned a lot about one another," he reflects. televison front - the dilapidated portable typewriter (whose What did he learn? man JOHN prototype is already in a museum) reveals most. "That they were very thorough and persuad- TUSA left the The journalist and historian is never far away. able." This is a genuine compliment. Nor for that matter is the television presenter. And what did they learn about him? hectic world of When Tusa took over as managing director, he "Ask them. But what they learned about my live TV already enjoyed a high profile and established a colleagues was that they were very well broadcasting considerable reputation in Britain as the key informed, tenacious and persuasive." to work behind frontman for the nightly BBC TV current affairs But what matters is that the money was the scenes in programe Newsnight. forthcoming and that it will be spent in a way radio - as The External Services (it was under Tusa's that benefits the listener. managing aegis that the name was changed to World "In the next 12 months, there will be a shift Service) gave Tusa his first experience as a towards more news and current affairs which," director of producer in international current affairs and he explains Tusa, "not everyone will like. But it BBC World has always been aware of World Service's will be noticeable." moo" Service. He continuing role as the vital, and sometimes The move towards a live Newshour every eight tells Vicky only, means of information in many countries. hours is one of the most significant changes in Payne about the changes in World It is this robust commitment to the news and the new scheduling (for details see pages 3 and 4). Service and what life has been current affairs output which is reflected in the Some of the resources will go into improving changes that start to take effect this month. the back-up in the Newsroom. There will be like away from the cameras. Money for World Service comes by Parlia- THE RIGHT TO facilitiesKNOW so that the foreign correspondents can mentary decree every three years after a battle file material around the clock. There will be with the Foreign Office to negotiate the amount. money made available to employ more TUSA, as he is usually known around "Battle isn't really the right word," says Tusa "stringers" or freelance correspondents in Bush House, allows the man behind the diplomatically, "But there were tough, different countries so that the production team manager to be seen by the staff. He is often, so exhaustive negotiations. And we did get extra is kept up to date on the changing situation to speak, on the shopfloor, he frequently eats money: seven per cent, in real terms, for around the world with a network of reliable and lunch in the canteen and pops into the offices to broadcasting - and fourteen per cent for BBC trusted sources. chat to the producers in any of the 36 language Monitoring - is a very remakable recognition of The African Service will also benefit from an services. what the Foreign Office felt we had done. injection of cash, enabling its team to transmit His office has the usual managerial accoutre- During the course of the negotiations we more live programmes to a wider area.

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He talks fast and, as current affairs there has ever been on World until now we haven't had the right means of someone pointed out before the interview, in Service. delivery - nor the right programmes. But in my complete sentences, which is not as straight- "The service will sound more authoritative view we'll never have a decent audience in the forward as it sounds. and we will be able to respond to major crises South until we start broadcasting in one of the The advantage of being a journalist was that even better than during the Gulf." southern African languages. Once you do that, "you expect to get things done quickly. You But is Tusa, with his current affairs back- you build up a far bigger audience with a far recognise the situation and the programme need ground, concentrating - the journalistic over -much on that response is to say, 'let's aspect of the World do it'. And that is quite Service's output to the useful managerially." detriment of other The disadvantage? programmes like "You take decisions too features, sport, music quickly and rashly. But and drama? my colleagues are good "Some of the at reining me in." programmes I listen to During the Gulf most myself are the Crisis, John Tusa features," he replies. "I fronted BBC television also listen to sport and programmes - it was an play sport. I love opera experience he enjoyed and music. Yes, there and one that he looked are losses, which for a as if he had never been variety of priorities just away from. Nor, in a couldn't quite get on way, has he. In his role the band -wagon this as managing director, time, and that is 24 - he has been constantly hour coverage of sport presenting World and finance. This is Service to the outside not a lack of will. We world and chairing haven't cut budgets. As meetings of diverse for drama, there are views, but it is not the still original full-length same as live TV and it plays being produced is an open secret that from here and that John Tusa would like to speaks for itself." return to broadcasting. In 1987, an internal "One of the hardest report said the World things after Newsnight Service while being was adjusting to a nine "informative and In Bush House's Newsroom: "The audience has a right to know what is going on to six job. When you've educative... was also done a television pro- dull, dutiful and mechanical." Could the same greater cross -over between people who listen in gramme, everyone hugs one another and goes still be claimed by its critics? their own language and then listen to World home. It's exciting and you've done something. "I think the whole sound and feel of the Service in English. It is a mutually reinforcing A day at the desk? You think, what the hell have network is totally different. It achieved what I process." I done? wanted it to achieve and it sounds like people The combination of the new transmitter and "To take the present budget: this is the end of talking to an audience rather than delivering the quarter of a million pounds input into the a process that started two years ago. It is tablets of stone." African Service will, he believes, create an even satisfying - but it's different sort of satisfaction." If the tone has changed, the average profile of larger audience in Africa. John Tusa has been managing director since a World Service listener has not - he is male, Before Tusa took up his appointment as 1986 and he is aware of the perils at sitting at young, educated and an urban dweller. managing director, he talked to each of the the same desk for too long: "You start to find "I think a youthful, educated audience is a language services to find out for himself what yourself defending your status quo." he says terrifically strong and reassuring base from the problems were that the producers disarmingly, "that is what I am doing now. which to start, especially when critics thought confronted every day. "There are some of my colleagues who say: our audience was ageing, but I do agree it could What people liked was the fact that Tusa did `Do you realise this place could be totally be broadened," replies Tusa. not (like many people from television), look differently managed?' And I answer, `Mmm... He realises that World Service could certainly down on radio or regard it as a means of getting I'm not so sure.' appeal to more women listeners; as to whether a radio stint put on to his curriculum vitae. "I can already perceive where the next round there should be special programmes for women, "What was perfectly plain was that everyone of change will come from and I'm not sure it he is not sure. wanted change. Quite why you had an will come from me." What did prove a success, as he points out, institution where almost every individual wanted Tusa would not be drawn on what his worst were the programmes from the Pashto Service change, and could tell me precisely where that moment has been as managing director, though about health matters. These were very well change ought to take place, and why that there was the occasional time when he felt as received among Afghani women listeners, and institution still hadn't changed, I don't know. though he were pushing a large boulder up a the money that has been allocated to the "Then once the process of change started, large hill "and that I was making no progress." Eastern Service will, hopes Tusa, be used to people realised it was actually more fun to But what matters, concludes Tusa, what make more programmes that will appeal to broadcast in a different sort of way - more makes World Service work is, "the respect for women on the Indian sub -continent. spontaneous and less removed from the the audience and the belief that the audience The 120 million listeners who tune in to audience. I think I only had to insist that has the right to know what is going on. Once World Service every week is an enviable change took place once or twice." the audience is given that information, each audience by any standard, but there are areas of Tusa is, by his own admission, impatient. He listener has the right to use the information as the world where World Service could and they think best. I am convinced that is what is should reach more people, argues Tusa. The I'What was perfectly at the core of the relationship. It is one of opening of the Lesotho transmitter in southern clear was that everybody respect between us as providers and the Africa in February means establishing a much wanted change.' listeners as listeners."

I I "I-I M ICti G M T DOB WORLD SERVICE TALKING HEADS Playwright ALAN "Life is illuminated by Alan's B ENNETT originally work" says Patricia wrote the six half- Routledge ."I write from hour monologues memory," says Bennett. Talking Heads for B BC Television. you will find people who are Actress PATRICIA like my characters. They are ROUTLEDGE played not eccentric but they do have certain peculiarities." Miss Irene Ruddock Patricia also knows in one of them -A "Bennett" types: "They are Lady Of Letters. This self-absorbed but the sad month she takes up thing is, they have no one to this challenging role listen to them." again for BBC World "That's right," agrees Alan. Service (see page "If you hear them in a play 11). In a break from you feel a kind of sympathy. But in real life, if people like recording, playwright that buttonholed you, you and actress talked to would be out of the door like Vicky Payne. a shot." He describes how he used comes out of the local: a street, a home, a living to go shopping on a Saturday morning with his room. Life is illuminated by Alan's work." mother, and how they would meet a particular ALAN BENNETT and Patricia Patricia is not having the easiest of days. Miss woman who always collared Mrs Bennett: "She Routledge have worked together before. They Ruddock, spinster, busybody and keen letter - would go into these long diatribes about how are comfortable with each other. Showbiz terms writer, is a demanding role. her husband beat her, though we never saw any of endearment are replaced with conversation "She is perceptive and funny yet awful and bruises. They were terrible stories. They went about the particular traits of women that tragic. Nothing about the character is quite on for years. Bennett portrays in Talking Heads. what it seems. He writes monsters," she grimaces. "I couldn't understand it, my mother was Patricia is one of Bennett's biggest fans. His "Ah, but they all get redeemed in the end," always patient. She was an assistant in our writing has, she observes, "a universality which says Bennett with relish. He is rare among family shop and one day I said to her, 'You playwrights in were so good paying attention', and she replied, creating these `I heard so much rubbish over the counter, I "monster" parts for was used to it'. But the important thing was - actresses of a certain she listened." age, who might Bennett's skill is to use the everyday habit that otherwise not find a is hidden from public view to illustrate some of role of equivalent the absurdities of the human psyche. depth and acidity. He wrote: "People often end up doing what He works at the mirror tells them they are suited for, while creating stereotypes feeling themselves quite different inside, and in like the widow, the the process, whole lifetimes are thrown away." spinster or the social "I thought that was a tragic comment," says climber then stamping Pat, "but horribly true. People get ensnared in them with an their own lives." individuality that "My parents thought we were different from reveals the little everybody else. Not superior, far from it," i ; secrets behind the net emphasises Bennett. "We never sat down to a curtains of middle- cooked breakfast. I suspect 99 per cent of the Whereveryouworkor class English country didn't either, but my mother thought suburbia. this was some obscure failure on her part." 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751 nt 07 211 nO 111 kNz 00 M In lI rair tl is ot 10 711 21 22 71 24 14112 metres BELGIUM BRITISH ISLES 1,0500 15.590 19.24 12.095 24.80 IRISH REPUBLIC 9750 / 9.750 30.77 LUXEMBOURG 9410 9.410 31.88 6195 6.195 421.43 NETHERLANDS 6045 6.045 49.63 GERMANY(N.W.) 3955 3.955 75.85 1296 .M. 231 em 648 ..11. 463111/ 198 1515 to

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km2 00 01 0 0) 04 05 07 09 10 11 0MT 14 15 17 19 2 23 24 mm, metres 12005 12.095 24.80 DENMARK 9410 9.410 3..88 NORWAY(South) 6195 6.195 48.43 1296 231 1412 198 1111. 1515 to it U1 km2 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 10 11 PT 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ON2 metres FINLAND 15070 15.070 19.91 12095 12.095 24.80 NORWAY(North) 9410 9.410 31.88 SWEDEN 7230 7.230 4..49 6195 6.195 48.43

oo 01 0) 03 04 05 06 07 l10 11 GMT 1 14 15 17 19 19 vI 2 23 24 *Mt metres 17640 17.640 17.01 USSR (European) 15070 15.070 19.91 12095 12.095 24.80 9410 9.410 31.88 6195 i 6.195 48.43

YMI 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 I) 11 It 1) 14 I 17 115 19 23 21 22 23 24 Mx metres 17640 I 17.640 17.01 15070 15.070 19.91 TURKEY 12095 12.095 24.80 9660 9.660 31.06 9410 9.410 31.88 6180 6.180 48.54

kNZ 04 10 . .. 22 11112 metre. 17640 ...... 17.640 17.01 ' ALBANIA BULGARIA 15070 15.070 19.91 12095 . . . 1 //1 12.095 24.80 GREECE ROMANIA 9660 ...... 1 9.660 31.06 9410 . . . 1, 9.410 31.88 . . . . . 6180 1 1 6.180 48.54

kNZ 01 02 9 04 05 06 07 Oa 09 10 11 047 1) 14 IS It IT Ip 19 zi3 2 N MI metres iREEK ISLANDS (Aegean) 1323 227 IQ

km2 00 01 02 03 04 05 Oq 07 08 09 10 11 PT 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2 4 14m2 metres 15590 15.590 19.24 1UNGARY 15070 15.070 19.91 12095 12.005 24.80 YUGOSLAVIA 9410 9.410 31.88 6195 1 1 l 1 6.195 48.43

kNZ 00 01 02 0) 04 05 06 07 00 09 10 11 PT 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 to 0 22 23 24 I/11Z metres CZECHOSLOVAKIA 15590 15.590 19.24 GERMANY(North-E0 15070 15.070 '9.91 12095 12.095 24.80 POLAND 9410 9.410 31.88 6195 6.195 48.43

kNZ 00 0? 03 13,4 05 06 07 09 10 11 Gle 1) If. IS 16 17 18 19 20 2,1 22 23 24 mitz metres GREATER BERLIN 90.2 FM J 90.200 WO

km1 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 281 .13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mm2 metres AUSTRIA ITALY(North) 15590 15.590 19.24 15070 15.070 '9.91 SWITZERLAND 12095 12.095 24.80 9410 9.410 31.88 GERMANY(South) 6195 6.195 48.43

kHz 00 01 0 03 04 OS 06 07 09 10 11 GMT 14 IS 17 If 19 20 21 j2 2) 24 Met metres IT AL Y(South) 17640 17.640 17.01 15070 15.070 19.91 MALTA 12095 12.095 24.80 9410 9.410 31.88

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kNZ o 01 02 03 04 05 Of 07 06 79 10 11 0111 13 14 15 16 17 121 19 20 21 20 23 2 NMI 01177.5 17705 17.705 16.94 17695 GIBRALTAR ...... 17.695 16.95 15590 15.590 19.24 ' 15070 15.070 19.91 PORTUGAL 12095 12.095 24.80 SPAIN 11850 11.350 25.32 9410 9.410 31.88 6195 I 6.195 48.43

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Tel 071 to. 071 53P1 3757 000 WORLD SERVICE IN 35 LANGUAGES Frequencies in kHz (MHz when stated) PORTUGUESE (for Europe) 1815-1900 11850 7160, 11720 Frequency/Wavelength 2030-21155975. 7150. 11680 2115-21455975. 7150. 11680 SINHALA 2230-2300 6030. 7175 Conversions 1530-1600 (Sun) 6065. 7105. 11920 FRENCH (West and Central Africa) Short wave Medium wave ROMANIAN 0430-0445 6155. 7105, 9610 TAMIL 0300-0330 (Mon -Fri) 6050. 7210, 9750. 0500-0530 6155. 7105, 9610 Frequency range 1530-1600 11945 0600-0645 7105, 9610. 15105 Mon -Sat) 6065. 7105. 11920 kHz MetrekHz Metre 0445-0500(Mon -Fri)) 9750. 11945, 15360 1200-1245 15105. 15180. 17715, 21680 1500-1545 6050. 9770, 11760, 15390 1815-1915 THAI 11 11820. 15105. 17830 25,670-26,100 1730-1800 (Sun) 6050, 9770, 11780, 15135 1215-1245 6065. 9725. 11920, 15590 21,450-21,75013 1413212 1800-1915 6050. 9770. 11780. 15135 FRENCH (East Africa) 1615-16306065. 6180. 7105. 9605. 11750. 2345-2400 6080, 7160. 11865 17,700-17,90016 1323 0430-0445 17885 227 RUSSIAN 1215-1245 15420 15,100-15,45019 1296231 0230-0330 1296. 5875. 7230, 7260. 9635. 1815-1915 9630 URDU 11680. 15575 0135.0200 1413.7235.9600.11850 11,700-11,97525 930323 1030-1100(Sun) 11835, 15115, 15205, HAUSA 1515-1600 1413.7235.9605.11720, 9,500- 9,77531 720417 15435, 17695. 17780, 21745 0545-0600 7105. 9610, 15105 15245 1200-1230 11845. 15115. 15205. 15435. 1345-1415 15105, 17810, 21640 1730-1745 6065.7105.9605.11750 7,100- 7,30041 702427 17695. 17780. 21745 1915-1945 11925, 15105. 17830 5,950- 6,20049 648463 1500-1800 9635. 11845. 17225, 17780, VIETNAMESE 21735 PORTUGUESE (for Africa) 1130-12009725. 11920. 15325 3,900- 4,00075 639469 1800-1900 3915, 9635, 9825, 15225, 17780 0445-0500 6155, 7105. 9610. 17885 1430-1500 6065. 11765, 15360 3,200- 3,40090 1900-2030 3915. 9635, 9750, 9825, 1800-1815 9630, 11820, 15105, 17830, 2300-2315 6080, 7160. 11865 11845. 15225. 17780 6190 2030-2115 1197 (to 2100). 6190. 9525. SERBO-CROAT 11820, 15160 EUROPEAN 0445-0500 (Mon -Fri) 6050. 7260. 9750. LATIN AMERICAN 11845 SOMALI BULGARIAN 0545-0600(Sat -Sun) 9580. 11845, 15360 1430-1500 11860, 15420, 17740. 21490 PORTUGUESE 0330-0345 6050. 7325. 9750. 11945 1630-1700 6050, 9825. 15135 1800-1830 6005. 15420 0215-0300 6110. 9515. 15390 1545-1615 6050. 9770. 11760, 15390 2015-21006050, 9770. 11780, 15135 2230-2300 6110. 9560. 11820 1615-1630 (Sat) 6050. 9770. 11760. 15390 2100-2115 (Fri) 6050, 9770, 11780, 15135 SWAHILI 15390 1915-2015 6050. 9770. 11780. 15135 0315-0330 11730. 15235. 15420, SPANISH SLOVAK 1530-1615 11860, 15420. 21490 0000-0200 6110. 9825. 11820. 15390 CZECH 1430-1500 9915, 11680. 13745 1745-1800 6005. 9630, 15420. 17830 0300-0430 6110. 9515. 11820. 15390 0415-0430 (Mon -Fri) 1296. 5875. 7260. 1500-1515 (Sun) 9915. 11680, 13745 1100-1130 9690. 15190. 21490 9760, 11945 1900-1930 1296, 5875, 7210. 9670 1300-1330 9690, 15315. 17850 0515-0530 1296. 5875. 7260. 11945. 15325 1515-1530 (Sun) 9915. 11680. 13745 SLOVENE ASIAN 1530-1600 9915. 11680. 13745 0930-1000 (Sun) 9610, 11780. 15235 1800-1900 1296. 5875. 7210. 9750 1000-1015 9610, 11780. 15235 BENGALI BBC ENGLISH 1630-1700 6085, 9770. 11760. 15390 0030-0050 9600, 11850, 15380 FINNISH 1330-1400 9605, 11920, 15245 1500-1545 11740. 15445 EUROPE TURKISH 1630-1700 6065, 6180, 7105, 9605. 11750 1830-1900 11955. 15430 0415-0430 (Mon -Sat) 6050. 7325, 9750 0430-0445 6050. 7325,9750,11845. 11845 90.2MHz BURMESE FRENCH (for Europe) 0700-0900 (Sun) 1296. 6015. 9635, 9740. 0545-0600 1296. 5875.7260,11945,15325 0010-0030 0530-0600 648. 6010. 9915 17695 9600. 11850. 15380 0630-0645 1296. 6010,7285,9825 1345-1430 1030-1045 648. 6125. 9600. 1600-1630 6065. 11765. 15360 1030.1045 90.2MHz 6085. 9825. 15135 1500-1515 1630-1715648, 6125. 9915 1945-2015 6125. 9915. 15430 (Sun) 6065. 11920, 15360 1115-1130 (Sun) 1296. 6125 1945-2000648, 5975, 7105 2015-2030 (Mon Sat) 6125. 9915 15430 1130-1200 1296, 6125. 9600. 9635. 11710. CANTONESE 11835. 15115,15180, 15205. GERMAN 1300-1330 11765. 15360 17695.17780.21745 0345-0430 648. 1296 (to 0400). 3975. 6010, 1445-1500 17780. 21735 90.2MHz HINDI 1515-1530 648. 1296. 6125. 9750. 90 2 1045-1100648. 6125, 7210 9600. 11780 AFRICAN & 0050-0135 1413. 7235, 9600, 11850. MHz 1530-1600 648. 1296. 6125. 9750. 90.2MHz MIDDLE EASTERN 15380 1600-1630 6125 9915 1730-1900648. 6125. 9915. 90.2 MHz 0245-0300 11850. 15310. 15380 1615-1630 648 ARABIC (MIDDLE EAST) 1400-1445 1413, 7235, 9605, 11920. 1715-1730 648. 90.2 MHz GREEK 0330-0445 639. 702. 720. 7140.11740. 15245 2030-2100 6125. 7255. 9635 0500-0530(Mon -Fri) 9560. 11845. 15360 15180. 15235. 15245 1715-1730 1413. 6065. 7105, 9605, 11750 2145-2200 1296 1145-1200 9560. 15390. 17875 0445-0600 639. 720. 7140. 11740, 15180. 1430-1500 (Mon -Fri) 6050. 17695. 15235. 15245 INDONESIAN ISRAEL. JORDAN. LEBANON. SYRIA 1900-1915 6125. 9915. 15430 1250-1615639.702(from 1500). 720. 7140 1100-1130 9725. 11920, 15325.17830 2000-2030 720 1915-1945 (Mon -Fri) 6125, 9915. 15430 15590. 17785 1300-1330 6065. 9605, 11920, 15125 2130-2200 (Mon -Fri) 6050. 9635.11780 1615-1830639. 702. 720. 6030, 7140, 2200-2315 6080. 7160. 11715 AFRICA 2315-2330 6080. 7160. 11865 HUNGARIAN 11730, 15590 0300-0315 11730. 15235, 17885 0430-0445(Mon -Fri) 1296. 5875. 7260, 1830-1900639. 702. 720, (Mon -Fri) 6030. 0715-073011860, 15105 9760. 11945 7140, 11730. 15590. MANDARIN 1400-1430 11860. 15420, 21490 0945-1130 0530-0545 1296. 5875. 7260. 11945. 15325 1900-2000639. 702, 720. 6030. 7140. 7180, 11765. 11955. 15360 1645-1700 (Sun -Fri) 1197 0900-1030(Sun) 9635. 11680. 13745 11730. 15590 1200-1300 7180, 11765. 11955. 15360 1945-2000 (Sat) 1197 1215-1300 (Sun) 9635. 11680.13745 2000-2100 639. 702' (from 1500) 720 (to 1700-1800 1296. 9750. 11680, 13745 2030). 6030, NEPALI SOUTH AMERICA 2100-2145 1296. 5875. 7210. 9715 7140. 11730. 15590 1500-1520 (Mon -Sat) 6065. 11920. 15360 1130-1145 15190. 21490 2300-23306110. 9560. 11820.15390 POLISH ARABIC (North Africa) PASHTO 0400-0415 (Mon -Sat) 1296. 5875. 7260, 0445-06007320. 9825. 11680 0200-02307235. 9600. 11850 ASIA 9760. 11945 1250-1615 11730 (from 1600). 13660, 1000-1100 (Fri)' 11860. 15245. 17855 0030-0045 6195. 7145. 11945, 15280, 0500-0515(Mon -Sat) 1296. 5875. 7260. 15180. 17715 1445-1515 11860, 15245, 17855 17830 11945, 15325 1615-1800 11730. 13660. 15180. 17715 Bi-lingual Pashto -Persian 0915-0945 7180. 11765. 11955, 15360 `0600.0630(Sun) 7260, 9825. 11945. 15325 2000-2100 11730. 13660. 15180 1145-1200 7180. 11765. 11955. 15360 1030-1130 (Sun) 9635. 11680, 13745 PERSIAN 1200-1215 9725. 11920 1300-1400 (Sun) 9635. 11680. 13745 FRENCH (North Africa) 0230-0300 720, 1413. 7235, 9590. 1700-17156065. 6180, 7105, 9605. 11750 1400-1430 9635. 11680. 13745 0515-05305980. 7285. 95)0 11740 2000-2030 720 1600-1700 1296. 9750. 11680. 13745 0600-0630 7285. 9915. 11720 1600-1645 1413. 6040. 7160. 11720 2145-2200 6080. 7160, 11715 1930-2100 1296 5875 7210 9715 1200-1245 15105 15180. 17715 21640 1830-1900 720 (Sat -Sun). 1413. 5975 2330-2345 6080. 71 60. 11865 LEARN ENGLISH WITH BBC ENGLISH If you find our schedule of English the moment we arc examining I) II Posters are available showing times and teaching programmes a mystery. let us Lawrence's The Phoenix. frequencies of English -teaching broadcasts take this chance of explaining it. 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