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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 With THE REV
RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Pi pular classics on records presented by Richard Baker
(Revised repeat of Saturday's broadcast at 7.30)

BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE iNext edn: Monday 7.20)

NEM, p 110: Beloved, let us love BBC HB 373); Psalm 16; Luke 22, vv 39-53 (AV); Christ for the world we sing: (BBC HB 172)

The Piano Lesson by PAUL R. HYDE
Read by Patrick Malahide A Polish piano teacher in a cold Edinburgh room - a student who has to learn Liszt and Schubert -and an old forgotten mazurka - light beneath the shadow of loneliness. Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland

Brian Johnston recently visited Abbots Bromley. Staffordshire
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Revised repeat on Sun-day at 5.15)
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Stcry: Wriggly Worm and the Silvery Sky Worm by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
Presenters JOAN MATHESON and DAVID BRIERLY
Scripts by JANET BOULDING Producer JANET BOULDING

Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon

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Presenter Brian Widhike Editor DEREK LEWIS

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from Birmingham Introducedby
Maureen Staffer
Charity and Commerce : JAN BROOKES talks to a man who is attempting to revolutionise the traditional idea of a charity.
Telford's Change: ANN TENNANT listens in to a community radio station which has recently been set up in Telford.
Sing a Song of England: ROY PALMER 'S collection of ballads spans the years from the Armada to the Great Train Robbery. BBC Birmingham
Kestrets In The Kitchen
The story of Bob and Pat Ratcliffe as told to Meg Elizabeth Atkins. abridged by PAT MCLOGH-LIN in ten parts. Read by Frank Windsor (10)
(Music: Vaughan Williams Suite for Pipes)

by ANNE BRONTE. Part 5

The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author
Book 2, Chapter 1: The Banquet
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE

Johnny Morris reads Animal Farm by GEORGE ORWELL (9) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Naturalist Phil Drabble looks out from his study window and enjoys the wildlife that has come to live in the sanctuary of his Staffordshire nature reserve.
BBC Bristol

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons Editor DEREK LEWIS
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with Richard Hudson -Evans bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Mon at 1.40 pm)

20th Birthday Issue
On 3 April 1959 a new programme appeared on the Home Service which presented extracts from BBC programmes you might have missed or might like to hear again. They called it Pick of the Week. It was started by Gale Pedrick who made the selection and John Ellison who read the script. It's still going strong and 20 years later Margaret Howard presents her selection of the best in BBC radio and television. Research by BARBARA PHILLIPS Producer
PHYLLIS ROBINSON

A personal portrait

with Direct Elections to the European Parliament only a couple of months away, tonight's Any Questionsf comes from the Chamber of the European Parliament in Luxembourg with Colette Flesch
The Rt Hon Sir Richard Marsh
Gwyneth Dunwoody. mp Douglas Hurt , mp
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE

Everyone has an opinion on nuclear energy now. The political fallout of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident on March 28, 1979, and how it might impact on future energy policy.

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun at 9.15 am)

Let's Show an Opera
Does grand opera work on the small screen? This is one of the questions Paul Vaughan discusses with John Cox , Brian Large and Henry Pleas-ants. in a month when eight operas are shown on BBC television.
Producers
JOHN BOUNDY and JOHN POWELL .

Douglas Stuart reporting

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel and the David Firman Trio Written by GUY JENKIN . JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK , ROGER WODDIS. JEREMY BROWNE. BARRY BOWES and GEOFFREY ATKIN -
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Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORX
(Repeated; Sat at 5.25 am) Woddis on ... page 14

Phil Smith takes a whimsical look at life. BBC Manchester

The King of the Barbareens (5) long waveonly

Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only

A series of plays for late-night listening
Bodies Beautiful by PETER WHALLEY with John Shrapnel and Fiona Walker
Vincent and Cheryl are getting ready to go to a party. It is a familiar ritual for them but this evening things don't go entirely to plan ...
Directed by TONY curr BBC Manchester

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