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 f.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV
RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Dag
by the Conservative Party
Throughout the General Election campaign, you can put your questions live by telephone to leading politicians. As the campaign progresses, you can raise the issues you feel are the most important.
Ring Robin Day to put your questions to the Liberals on their policies and their views of the other parties' policies.
Producers WALTER WALLICH and JOCK GALLAGHER Editor BERNARD TATE
Lines are open from 8.0am
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
NEM, p 13; Thee will I love, my God and King (BBC HB 314); Psalm 66, vv 1-3, 12-17; 1 Peter 3, w 1-12 (NEB); God is love: let heaven adore him (BBC HB 7)
A Tap on the Shoulder by ROSALIND MILES
Read by Eileen Barry
' Mrs Cherry Marshall was not a born shop-lifter, not a thief by nature. No, she happened into it entirely by accident.'
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Brian Johnston recently visited Whitchaven in Cumbria
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
(Revised repeat: Sunday
5.15)
11.40 Announcements
Story: Hamish and the Sea Urchin by MOIRA HERITAGE
Presenters ALISON MCMOR -LAND and GARY TAYLOR
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JANET BOULDING
News and information that affects the way you live.
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Presented by Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Rehearsals by Radio: BBC Radio Leeds has just broadcast a unique version of Haydn's Creation. It was performed by a massed choir of listeners who perfected their parts at home, linked together by radio and telephone. PHIL SMITH reports.
Rural Rides; at the age of 70, EDITH boon of Saddleworth still covers hundreds of miles of the English countryside every year - on horseback.
Feminist Fairytales: Cinderella, Red Riding Hood and other stories are unfair to women, according to a Liverpool group who have published their revised versions. BBC Manchester
Dig a Little Deeper by URSULA CURTISS abridged in nine parts by SOREEN ESTALL
Read by ANN MORRISH (7)
Archie's Watergate by ALLEN SADDLER
Life goes along placidly enough for the Courier, a weekly paper in a small Devon town. But when Archie - boy ace reporter from America - turns up, the pace quickens uncomfortably „ x
Music by SAM RICHARDS played by SAM RICHARDS and TISH STUBBS
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring and
Michael McClain
Jo Manning Wilson Book 2, Chapter 3: The Club Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD
Producer BOBBY JAYE
The Europeans (5)
The news magazine
Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
IncludingFinancial Report
with Richard Hudson -Evans bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Rptd: Mon at 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of the best in BBC radio and television over the past seven days.
Producer David EPPS
A personal portrait
A spontaneous discussion from Poulton-le-Fylde. Lancashire
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat at 1.10 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursdayat7.30, to Any
Answers/, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed]
Presenter
Sheridan Morley
Producer CLARE SELERIE
Sheridan Morley on Films: page 21
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
5: Two Landowners translated by RICHARD FREEBORN
(Starting on Monday: Four Short Stories by Saki, read by David Markham )
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Extracts from the day's major speeches recorded at campaign meetings.
Presented by John Hosken long wave only until 11.30
Fangs Ain't What They Used to Bel by DAVID PINNER with Bryan Pringle and Jean Rogers
Young Jack 's obsession with horror comics leads to a nightmare situation - about which his parents have grave suspicions....
Directed by MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham
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