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 John Timpson
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day WithTHEREVADAMFORD 7.t, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
plus Sue Lawley with a birthday interview of the week, and other familiar names playing unfamiliar roles in this live miscellany of reassuring entertainment. disturbins oddities and serious argument. From Glasgow, Fran Mor rison. from Cardiff. Gerry
Monté and from Dublin. Frank Delancy. tell true stories of popular interest. Live musical interludes and punctuations by THE BOWLES BROTHERS
Producer MICHAEL. EMBER long wave only
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(B'cast Wed at 7.20 pm) long wave only
NEW, page 1; Stand up. and bless the Lord (BBC HB 268); Psalm 83; Acts 22, v 30 to 23, v 11 (RSV);
Ye watchers and ye holy ones (BBC HB 233)
Transports of Delight Written and road by Roger Snowdon
How could one possibly take a girt out in a thing like that? Not that 1 had any need to worry on that score, it certainly wasn't going to be my car.' Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
Just over a year ago Brenda Kidman discovered she had, cancer of the breast, it was diagnosed shortly after a stressful period which culminated in the death of her mother. (She described this in her award-winning radio documentary Where's the Key?)
In this programme she tells the story of her illness and treatment, illustrated with the voices of fellow patients and doctors. And in the ensuing discussion with Professor Eric Easson. of the Christie Hospital in Manchester, and Dr Stephen Greer , from the Department of Psychological Medicine at King's College Hospital in London. she asks: why are we still so ignorant about cancer? Can there be a connection between cancer and stress?
Producer HUGH PURCELL (Shortened repeat) long wave only
Stories: Car-Room: and Fox and Crocodile - traditional stories adapted by RUTH MANNING-SAUNDERS
Read by GRACE HALLWORTH long wave only
News and information that affects the way you live.
Including today:
The BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Brockon
Chairman
Nicholas Parsons Kenneth Williams Clement Freud Barry Took and Peter Cook endeavour to prevent each other from talking for a minute on this - or that. Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
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Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
European Partners: Diana Rice joins the Leamington International Friendly Society as they take a float to Bruhl in Germany for the town's famous pre-Lent carnival.
Reading Your Letters.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Kiddology: Maureen Stevens reads her poems about parents and children.
Call For The Dead (6) long wave only
Live from the House of Commoas
by Barry Bermange
'A divorce isn't the end of the world. Life continues. The two parties continue to live and breathe. They go their own separate ways, possibly marry again, as you have done, but fundamentally nothing seems to have changed. The two parties are somehow still united ... by a bond that goes deeper than the law.'
(First broadcast in 1971)
A Child in the Forest by WINIFRED FOLEY abridged in eight parts by VinGINIA BROWNE
Read by JUNE BARRIE (8). Producer PAMELA HOWE.
(Edited repeat from 1975)
Presented by
Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
(B'cast Mon at 12.27 pm)
Written by KEITH MILLES
(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
The last of a series of six programmes compiled and presented by the poet Seamus HEANEY with readers RONALD PICKUP, JENNY TWIGGE and PEfEn WICKHAM Producer ALEC REID
Radhu Lupu (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHEH
Part 1 Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 5. in E flat (Emperor), Op 7J
.1: The Complete Person
John Julius Norwich narrates the first of six programmes tracing the travelling habits of the English abroad, from' Tudor times to the 19th century.
Readers LEONARD FENTON and PHILIP SULLY Written by MARY ANNE EVANS
Producer BRIAN COOK
Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 4. in E flat major (revised version). (A public concert presented in St George 's Hall, Bradford on 17 Feb by Leeds Leisure Services) BBC Manchester
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer DAVID PERRY
Douglas Stuart reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Wide Sargasso Sea (4) long wave only
Radio 4s International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
