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BBC Radio 4
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medium only from 9.45 Hi-Fi
How can records be kept clean and static-free? Will more powerful speakers improve a basic system? What's involved in ' going quad '? Why not call our hi-fi experts, Adrian Hope and Philip Bergman ?
In the Chair Barbara Myers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The lines are open from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Hope
Unknown:
Philip Bergman
Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

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At the age of 22. John Barrett went to Burma to work for a firm extracting teak from vast remote areas of forest. Teams of elephants were essential to the operation, and by working with them John Barrett developed a respect and affection for elephants which he has never lost. He reminisces with Dilys Breese about these lovable and intelligent animals, and how they lived and worked in the forest.
' Elephants are remarkable animals.' says John. ' Other animals can laugh at jokes, but elephants can tell jokes.' BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
John Barrett
Unknown:
John Barrett
Unknown:
Dilys Breese
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

medium only
The Offer by ERIC SAWARD withand
Martin is a successful scientist. When offered a lucrative job in an Arab university, he' doesn't tell his wife, ' waiting for the right moment ': but the little lies involved reveal more to Sarah.
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Saward
Directed By:
Michael Heffernan
Martin:
Stephen Rea
Sarah:
Heather Bell
Charlie:
Sean Barrett
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sylvia Horn
When the World Was a Bigger Place: CHARLES ALLEN with some travellers' tales from the BBC Sound Archives.
2.8-2.2 News
Smile Please!: ROGER CLARK 'S tips for better photographs. 2: Wedding Pictures.
Slightly Less Stately: JENNIFER MAY visits Lacock Village Abbey. Mastering Migraine: PETER EVANS discusses ways in which sufferers can help themselves. Airs Above the Ground (2)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sylvia Horn
Unknown:
Charles Allen
Unknown:
Roger Clark
Unknown:
Peter Evans
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Signing On
David Rider considers the mystique of the signature tune, the musical key which so often opens the door on radio and television as well as in the cinema and the theatre. Producer RAY ABBOTT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news

Contributors

Producer:
Ray Abbott
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

'twixt Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and David Nixon , Tim Rice Tune Twisters from Steve Race
In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Tim Rice
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Written By:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Martin Fisher
Source: Radio Times

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