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What Britain's getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with MARTIN MUNCASTER
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Laurie Lee reads from his collection of short essays.
3: A Wait in Warsaw
Talking Point
Discussing listeners queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer MOIRA MANN BBC Bristol
2: Portsmouth Points .. In the second of his series on places and their literary past, Tom Vernon visits Portsmouth where Charles Dickens was born, Conan Doyle wrote his first ' Sherlock Holmes ' story, H. G. Wells served a hated draper's apprenticeship and. in literature, where Fanny Price learnt truly to value Mansfield Park.
Readers SHEILA ALLEN and PETER TUDDENHAM
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
(A revised repeat of Sunday's broadcast at 2.0 pm)
NEM, page 30; When I survey the wondrous cross (BBC m 97);Psalm 31; Colossians 4, vv 2-18 (RSV); 0 dearest Lord, thy sacred head (BBC HB 358)
A Night Out with the Girls by ZORINA ISHMAIL-BIBBY
Read by Elizabeth Proud ' When a bloke sees three girls alone in a pub. there's only one thing he can think.'
'You thought we 'wanted to be picked up said Con.
' Hasn't it occurred to you that women like drinking together? '
School Rules, OK?
The National Union of School Students is just seven years old. Is it a threat - a subversive organisation manipulated by left-wing propagandists? Or a promise - of a new democracy at school involving teachers, parents and children? Is it ' an unrepresentative group of strident, sterile bigots ', or a responsible voice to be consulted by government agencies and educational authorities? And is their magazine Blot ' obscene, witless, and semi-literate or does it. with honesty, 'tell it like it is ' in our schools today?
Roger Cook and Bill Brcckon take sides in the debate and asks who should rule the school! Research SHARON BANOFF and MAGGIE REDFERN
Producer RITCHIE COGAN
Story: The Ice-cream Van Plays a Trick by ELEANOR TIMS
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Murder Must Advertise by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON
2: Singular Spotlessness of a Lethal Weapon Producer MARTIN FISHER
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines. Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week: Mel Caiman , cartoonist
Back to the Land: ANNE MACNAMARA spends a working weekend helping out on the farm.
The Health Centre Down in the Valley: GILLIAN TIN-DALL and a view of medicine in rural India.
Dulcimers and Psalteries: CLIVE JACOBS meets AIDAN EDWARDS , who makes and plays some unusual, though traditional, musical instruments.
The Last Place Left (2)
Father Valentine's Day by RAYMUND FITZSIMONS with Richard Rurndall John Levitt and Bryan Murray
'When the new St Gregory 's is built, it will rise like a hymn of glory to God. Future generations will visit it as they now visit Cbartres.'
Philomena AMANDA.MURRAY Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
from Leeds Parish Church Responses (Rose)
Psalms 53 (Walmisley), 54 (Martin), 55 (Cook)
Lessons: Isaiah 63, v 15 - 64, v 5a; Ephesians 5, w 1-14 (AV)
Canticles (Watson in r)
Anthem: When Jesus our Lord (Mendelssohn)
Office Hymn: Why Impious Herod shouldst thou (EH 38)
Organist and Master of the Music SIMON LINDLEY
Sub-organist TOM CORFIELD BBC Manchester
A Crime of Passion (3)
The news magazine
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANI John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook Editor DENNIS LOWER
Last January saw the world premiere of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Richard BLACK -FORD, an opera commissioned, produced, designed, sung and played by the people of Blewbury in Oxfordshire.
An opera? - for a village? But then this is no ordinary village....
The voices and music of Blewbury, compiled by NATALIE WHEEN
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
As China turns its back on the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards, the army of visitors to Peking increases. British Conservatives, American military experts, Japanese businessmen, all have a different picture of the new China. And what do the European Maoists think of a China that prefers the Shah's Iran to the government of Vietnam? Tonight's Nation to Nation looks at these different perceptions of China.
John Tusa chairs an international discussion. Producer DAVID POWELL
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer ANNE WINDER
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard reporting
The first of a series of six programmes recorded at the Pindar of Wakefield public house. North London.
' There's a cool web of knowledge winds us in (ROBERT GRAVES)
Actors Hugh Dickson , David Brierley and Wendy Gifford present an evening of poetry on the subject of Poetry and Poets. Reading his own poems will be Dannie Abse. and there will be a ' poet from the floor '.
Producer ALEC REID Stereo
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Radio 4 International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
A selection of music for late-night listening,
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
