News, weather, papers and sport
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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV ADAM FORD
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News Headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
Basic Cooking
No matter how many years experience we've had as cooks, there are often certain dishes and recipes we fail at. Good meat cooks often make soggy pastry, while a dab hand at a meringue can't make an omelette.
Professional cooks Mary Berry and Caroline Lid -dell are in the studio to advise and suggest ways to improve and extend our cooking skills. In the Chair Jill Burridge
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am long wave only
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A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Bob Langley. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long wave only
NEM. p 114; Lift up your heads (BBC HB 178): Psalm 42; Acts 21, v 37 to 22, V 15 (rsv); 0 thou not made with hands (BBC HE 180)
The Expedition by TOM BESTWICK
Read by David March
' You know what it s like the first time you go out after influenza. You feel like an egg in a gun dog's mouth. Anything could happen.'
Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
You're Welcome to Immortality
A science fiction comedy by VALERIE BARKER
The cosmic dustcart rumbling over the cobblestones between the stars. A little jaunt across the galaxy they said. towing a monumental pod full of lethal peas ...'
Directed hy
SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol long wave only
1: Auschwitz
The first of four talks during Lent on the nature of forgiveness. The Rev Jim Cotter , Assistant Principal of the St Albans Ministerial Training Scheme, asks if what happened at Auschwitz can really be forgiven. long wave only
Story: Peter's Eskimo Playtime by c. E. ELLIE long wave only
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by June Knox-Mawer
Talking Point: JILL BURRIDGE at the Ideal Home Exhibition seeks opinions and ideas from experts and visitors.
Competition Result: the author reads the best script out of 760 received on the theme 'the Britain I'd like for my children', and wins a new radio set.
Reading Your Letters.
Entertainment Roundup: GORDON GOW reporting.
Call For The Dead (4)
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Live from the House of Commons
by ANNE BRONTË adapted for radio in six parts by ALLAN MCCLELLAND with Rosalind Shanks and Russell Dixon
Part 1: WildfeU Hall , a desolate, empty house, suddenly acquires a mysterious tenant - a beautiful woman and her little boy. Immediately she becomes a source of speculation for the village and the object of the attentions of a young man - Gilbert Markham.
Piano played by KEN FRITH Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
( Broadcast Sun at 9.3 pm)
4.30 Announcements
A Child in the Forest (6)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
(Details: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenbeimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad - with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSHAW
Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
A broadcast tribute to Dr George Thalben-Ball , who today celebrates 60 years as organist of the Temple Church, London. Taking part in the programme are FELIX APRA-HAMIAN, GEORGE DIXON , DR HERBERT HOWELLS , ERNEST LOUGH , The Master of the Temple, the VERY REV ROBERT MILBDRN , DR THALBEN-BALL, SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS. Presented by Barry Rose Producer CHRIS REES
(Choral Evensong will be broadcast tomorrow from the Temple Church, London at 3.50 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans and Geoff Walts
A monthly review of recent discoveries in science, medicine and technology.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
Presented by Tony Palmer Producer ANNE THEROUX
Douglas Stuart reporting
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
