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Presented by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ANN HORSFIELD
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

4: A Little Place off the Edgware Road
Read by Richard Pasco abridged by MYRA BEATON
' Why should he be asked to believe in the resurrection of this body he wanted to forget? Sometimes he prayed at night that his body at any rate should never rise again.'

plus Angela Rippon , Dr Anthony Clare. Frank De laney , Fran Morrison in Edinburgh, and Gerry Monte in Cardiff.
Musical contributions by ALAN CLARE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER long wave only

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NEM, p 71; Blest are the pure in heart iBBC HB 318); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; Romans 3, vv 29-31 and 4, vv 1-3, 20-25 irsv): The Church of God (BBC HB 183)

Home Sickness by GEORGE MOORE
Read by Allan McClelland Producer PAUL muldoon BBC Northern Ireland long wave only

Reinhold Niebuhr, a powerful influence over many American and British politicians. worked as a minister in Detroit during the depression of the 20s and brought moral and religious insights to bear upon political issues in a way acceptable to politicians.
Vernon Sproxton explores his life and thought through many of the men and women influenced by him. including THE RT HON TONY BENN , THE RT HON DENIS BEALEY , ALEC VIDLER , RONALD PRESTON , RICHARD HARRIES , DANIEL JENKINS , SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, SIR JOHN BARNES and URSULA NIEBUHR with the recorded voice of Reinhold Niebuhr. and extracts from his writings read by Robert Beatty. Producer PETER FIRTH BBC Bristol i Repeat) long wave only

Story: Henry Pawk and The Bees by LAWRENCE JAMES
Presenters NERYS HUGHES and TONY AITKEN
Written by TONY AITKEN
Producer JANET BOULDING long wave only

Including today:
The BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce

12.55 Weather; programme news: long leave only

Presented by Brian Wirtlake

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with June Knox-Mawer Talking Point.
Observation Point Five: KEN ZEILIG has recently visited the border between South and North Korea. Reading Your Letters.
Maybe I Can Help ...: With WENDY GREENGROSS. Beware of Pity (2) long wave only

Peter White presents an anthology of cricket as portrayed in fiction and verse, including a description of a cricket match played in 1980, but written by Trollope in 1882, some recollections of a rather bizarre match played on a Pacific Island; and the views of a Victorian schoolgirl.
Readers HEATHER BELL , GARARD GREEN and KENNETH SHANLEY. Producer
THENA HESHEL < Repeat)

by Dorothy Gharbaoui

Robert Mills is a very good assistant headmaster and apparently reconciled to being second in command at Carrowforth School. Certainly he isn't surprised when Guy Farren is appointed to the headship, for Guy is everything Robert cannot hope to be: famous, charismatic, dynamic, and above all, in good health ... but is he good for the pupils?

(BBC Northern Ireland)

Vile Bodies
4: A Night at Arundel

The news magazine Presented by Robert Williams and John Parry
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5.55 Weather; programme news

Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.

(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham

First Impressions
The poet Charles Causley presents the second of two selections of the poetry which fired his imagination in his formative years. Readers:
John Franklyn-Robbins and Frances Horovitz Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER

direct from the Munich Herkulessaal
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kleiber
Mozart Symphony No 33, in B flat (K 319)
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor

5: A Dream of Antiquity
John Julius Norwich narrates the fifth of six programmes tracing the travelling habits of the English abroad, from Tudor times to the 19th century.
Readers LEONARD FENTON and PHILIP SULLY. Written by MARY ANNE EVANS Producer BRIAN COOK

Part 2 Schubert
Symphony No 8, in 1 minor (Unfinished)

Anthony Howard reporting

A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STOXI BBC Bristol

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (4) long wave only

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3: The Making of the Law Many of Parliament's legislative decisions have a direct and permanent effect on all our lives. With the help of recordings from the 1978 proceedings of the Houses of Commons and Lords, Anthony Howard looks at the processes by which bills become laws.
(Final programme: Monday at 11.30 pm)

Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude