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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 i.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV PAUL WIGFIELD
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Spring Cleaning Do-it-Yourself
Repairing the Ravages of Winter
Was your loft invaded by snow? Your garden fence blown down? Your home inundated with damp or frost? Now Spring is here it's time to inspect and repair any damage, be it stained ceilings, warped windows or Baking paint-work, and prepare our homes for the next hard winter.
Tony Wilkins. Editor of Do it yourself magazine is in the studio to advise and help you with any query you may have on ' doing it yourself In the Chair
Sue MacGregor
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are 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, page 42; Jesus, Lord, we look to thee (BBC HB 374); Psalm 84; Acts 28, vv 19-32 (Rsv); The Church's one foundation (BBC HB 184)
Because by SHIRLEY BAGRIT Read by Anne Ridler
'He was not just one who'd made me; just the only one I'd loved; ever crazily dreamed I'd like to marry.' long wave only
A Load of Zlold by ALAN PASSES with Dandy Nichols Angela Bruce and Andrew Byatt
When Brian left his psychiatric prison, he decided to be an explorer. Surely his mother should be proud that while exploring the Amazon, he has married a princess?
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN long wave only
3: Belfast
The third of four Lent talks on the nature of forgiveness.
Ten years on into ' the Troubles Fr Desmond Wilson. a community worker in one of the most depressed areas of Belfast. speaks about what forgiveness might create for the future.
BBC Northern Ireland long wave only
Story: Mrs Cluckabiddy Saves the Day by STEPHEN WEAVER long wave only
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Hell on Earthf: what Is your image of Hell? ANNE SUTER asks some believers and non-believers.
Family Forum: DR DAVID HARVEY , paediatrician, discusses feeding and teething problems with JILL BURRIDGE and a Woman's Hour listener.
East Meets West-1: JOAN CLIFFORD greets her son's new parents-in-law.
Seaside Special - 3: Palatial hotels, a world record oyster-eating champion - playwright Alan Ayckbourn - means a visit to Scarborough. A report by CHRISTABEL KING.
The Hiding Place (7) long wave only
A look at forthcoming drama
Live from the House of Commons
by ANNE BRONTË. Part 3
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4.30 Announcements
Risk (7)
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 panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by Chairman
Nicholas Parson * and in which
Kenneth Williams Peter Jones
Clement Freud and Derek Nimmo endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thurs at 12.27)
(Rptd: Wed at 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
'To be in the middle of The Barrens with the knowledge that the easiest way out was 500 miles down the river, and the hardest way out was 300 miles back up the river, we were left with no illusions as to how vast and lonely a tract of country it is.'
The Barren lands extend across mainland Canada from the Hudson Bay almost to the MacKenzie. For most of the year it is held in the terrible desolation of winter. No rivers in the whole of the North American Continent traverse more remote, wild or potentially dangerous country.
George Spenceley tells how he and Tom Price set out to canoe across the Barrens, following the route taken 50 years earlier by three British travellers of unusual interest, who perished there.
Readers FRED BRYANT PETER WICKHAM and MANNING WILSON
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Most of us have a busy opium den between our ears. The discovery was made in 1975 by scientists at the University of Aberdeen, who managed to extract from brains a substance which produced the euphoria of morphine. In the last three years, a whole family of these narcotics - the endorphins - has been discovered, and it has even been suggested that our brains manufacture their own tranquillisers.
Peter Evans narrates the story of the biological discovery of the decade. and examines its implications for our understanding of such diverse conditions as chronic pain, drug abuse, love, and madness.
Producer DAVID PATERSON (B'cast last Thurs on R3)
Presenter Tony Palmer Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
(Broadt ast on Sat at 12.27)
Wind. Sand and Stars (2) long wave only
Radio 4 s International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
