Producers LES COITINGTON HERBERT DAYBELL and BRYAN PLATT
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland
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Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
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with Norman Tozer
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Presented by Tony Lewis Including the John Player Rugby League Cup Final at Wembley and the European Open Judo Championships at Crystal Palace.
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Animal behaviour is influenced by spring; but what about animals in captivity? Reassuring signs of spring fever are observed at London Zoo by an ecologist, Dr Malcolm Coe.
Producer SUSAN DENNY
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The Campaigners
In the United States it's razzmatazz while in some eastern bloc countries a leader can get a
99.99 per cent vote in his favour. As Britain's General Election campaign draws to its climax, a look at how election campaigns are conducted around the world.
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As the political armies fire off round after round of ammunition at each other in the march towards Downing Street, Anthony King , Professor of Government at the University of Essex, takes a detached view of the battle and assesses the underlying strategies of the campaign. Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG
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with Anthony Howard
Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only
NEM, p 25; Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137); Psalm 27, pt 1; 1 Peter 3, vv 13-22 (NEB); Stand up, stand up for Jesus (BBC HB 368)
Margaret Howard presents her selection Producer DAVID EPPS
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The Englishman Abroad compiled and presented by Anthony Thwaite 7: Japan
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Phil Smith takes a whimsical look at life. BBC Manchester
Andy Price makes life cheaper and easier for all the family with the help of Anne Brown and the You and Yours team of experts.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren Russell Davies
Stanley McMurtry Angela Rippon
Newsreader JOHN MARSH
Compiled and produced by ALAN NIXON and DANNY GREENSTONE
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A spontaneous discussion by Cyril Smith
The Rt Hon Joel Barnett Colin Bell
The Rt Hon Edward du Cann
Chairman David Jacobs from Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire
Producer CAROLE STONE
BBC Bristol
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Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about books.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT (Repeated: Sun 11.15 pm) long wave only
Poachers by PETER WHALLEY
A minor stately home is being considered for a maintenance grant by the local council. When the Chief Executive meets the owner, and tours the house, it becomes clear he's been there before and has reason to remember the visit vividly.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester long wave only
A programme of special interest to disabled listeners.
This week Does He Take Sugar? visits the Isle of Wight
Presenter Marilyn Alan Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only
A series of eight programmes
This week's guests
The Cynwrig Singers conductor BRIAN HUGHES
The programme includes music by Handel, Bach,
Mozart. Schubert and Toch. Presented by John Huw Davies
Producer JAMES WILLIAMS BBC Wales long wave only
Geoffrey Smith talks to Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden.
Producer KEN FORD BBC
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Chris Powling introduces a selection from the books, films, plays, music and other arts reviewed during the past week.
Editor ROSEMARY HART long wave only
... there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. David Jason examines the evidence with Stephen Moore Sheila Steafel and Royce Mills and the music of JOHN OWEN EDWARDS Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH ANDY HAMILTON and BARRY PILTON
Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON Producer
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in conversation with his guests.
Musical interludes by HUMPHREY LYTTELTON and ALAN PRICE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on records: the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
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by Christopher Russell
with Sylvia Coleridge as Jane Wenham
'You talk of haste when proofs of Mother Wenham's sorcery go back 20 years and more? Have you not heard how poor Susan Aylott's baby died, how Richard Harvey's wife died, how the witch's own husbands both died? Must Anne Thorne die too before you will act?'
The play, set in 1712, deals with the last trial for witchcraft in England. is based on fact.
In the first of seven programmes, Derek Cooper travels around the coast-line to visit just a few of the 1,000-plus inhabited islands that make up the British Isles. He talks to the islanders and reflects on lifestyles often very different from those experienced on the mainland. 1: The Islands of Yesterday
' The islands cannot be separated from their past.' Are there lessons to be learned from history about one of the most worrying problems of island life ... emigration? Depopulation was at its most serious in the 19th century and there could be pointers for today in a study of the Hebrides in the 1840s and 50s.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Evening prayers led by MICHAEL SHOESMITH BBC Birmingham
A nine-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra and the society whose tastes it has always mirrored.
2: Private Privilege and Public Pleasures
In a sea of revolutionary fervour, the orchestra is released from courtly bondage and thrown on the mercies of a new master - The Public.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records
A series of plays for late-night listening
Incident at Whitewater by MICHAEL ROBSON with The Transvaal, 1900. Two British soldiers are on the run from the Boers. The men and their horses desperately need water. There is a river ahead but will the Boers be waiting for them ... ?
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS
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