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 MAURICE HARDY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News Headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Fostering
There are 101,158 children in care in England and Wales alone and most of them need foster Parents. How does one go about fostering a child and what are the criteria for selecting foster parents? Are there any practical and legal problems to be taken into account? How can the ' difficult to Place ' children be found suitable foster parents?
In the studio to answer your questions are Joanne Hill, a foster parent and Honorary Secretary of the National Foster Care Association, and Alan Holden, Principal Officer,
Coventry Social Services In the Chair Jill Burridge
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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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 17; 0 Jesu so meek (BBC HB 529); Psalm 111; Acts 24, vv 17-26 (rsv); Behold the temple of the Lord! (BBC HB 171)
The Watching Birds by MAGGY PARSONS
Read by Shirley Cooklin
' All around him they were watching him from their cages. The tiny round, brilliant eyes flickered and glinted: tiny, round, black beads, shining and rolling.' long wave only
by David Calcutt
'I can see you. I'm watching. Here, in the dark, in this corner. I can see you, going through everything, dirtying it all with your fingers. Think you're alone, eh? Think it's just rubbish? Just wait. Soon. You'll find out. Soon.'
BBC Birmingham
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2: Hiroshima
On the feast of the Transfiguration in 1945, the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The Rev Jim Cotter. Assistant Principal of the St Albans Ministerial Training Scheme, reflects on this fact in the second of four Lent talks on the nature of forgiveness. long wave only
Story: The Treasure in the Chest by DAVID FARMER long wave only
News and information that affects the way you live. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Presented by Robin Day
by the Labour Party
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Two Prostitutes: Tony Barnfield talks to two women in Soho.
Reading Your Letters.
Good as New: Caroline Hampton talks to Jennifer May about restoring pictures.
A Plain Woman's Guide To ... acas, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, explained by industrial editor GEOFFREY GOODMAN.
A Pick of the Paperbacks: chosen by JUNE KNOX-MAWER and EDWARD BLISHEN.
The Hiding Place (2) long wave only
A look at forthcoming drama
Live from the House of Commons
by ANNE BRONTË. Part 2
4.30 Announcements
Risk (2)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman, Nicholas Parsons and in which Kenneth Williams , Peter Jones , Aimi MacDonald and Patrick Moore endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that. Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad - with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSHAW
Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
The sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941.
Compiled and written by MARTIN MIDDLEBROOK , based on the book Battleship by MARTIN MIDDLEBROOK and PATRICK MAHONEY
Narrator Noel Johnson
Two days after the raid on Pearl Harbour a Japanese patrol plane spotted a British naval force 50 miles off the east coast of Malaya. Force Z, as it was called, included the new battleship HMS Prince of Wales, launched only two-and-a-half years before in May 1939, and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse, a veteran of the First World War. Other enemy aircraft were alerted and within the hour the British ships were under attack. In this programme some of the survivors recall their part in the battle.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Five years have elapsed since a group of American biologists argued for a moratorium on genetic engineering. Since then. both in Britain and the United States, genetic engineering experiments have been resumed, but under the control of guidelines and statutes.
John Maddox looks at the technical achievements of the genetic engineers and discusses the effects that the legislation is having on their work.
Producer JANE JOHNSON
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Anthony Howard reporting
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
