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 worlds Presented by John Timpson
With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV MICHAEL SMITH
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by john MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Hungry Days
Ring Robin Day to put your questions to the Scottish National
Party and Plaid Cymru on their policies and their views of the other Parties' policies.
Producer WALTER WALLICH Editor BERNARD TATE
Lines are open from 8.0 am
NEM, p 25; My God, accept my heart this day (BBC HB 356); Psalm 9; Romans 14, vv 1-13 (RSV); Jesus calls us! (BBC HB 354)
Bed and Breakfast by JENNY SULLIVAN
Read by John Darran
The last lot had been dressed up as fluffy yellow chickens, advertising some sort of instant omelette. This lot was very different and the visit had an unexpected end result.
Producer HARRI GWYNN BBC Wales
Truly the Palace of a Modern Magician ,
Story: Pottle Pig Goes to School by NANCY NORTHCOTE
Information, views and advice for the home and family, including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket with the latest food news and the best buys for the weekend.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Scott Joplin - his Ideas and his Music: BASIL ASH-MORE, at work on Joplin's one surviving opera, Treemonisha, talks to HELEN PALMER
A View from the Continent: a regular reflection of events and reactions in the rest of Europe.
The Help Business ... DR WENDY GREENGROSS takes a sideways look at counselling with the help of SIMON BRETT and friends. Chelsea Child (3)
James Christie in 1766 set up a small auctioneering business in London. Within 20 years the London market was flooded with works of art from revolutionary France -ever since, Christie's has prospered. Paul Vaughan considers its history and looks behind the scenes in this Aladdin's Cave of art works awaiting sale. Producer DAVID PERRY
A Kaleidoscope production
Frost In May
A novel by ANTONIA WHITE dramatised for radio by JEHANE MARKHAM with Sarah Sutton Lyndon Brook and Rosalie Crutchley
A moving and delicate portrait of a young girl - Nanda Grey - and her first few years in a convent in the early 1900s.
The voices of the pupils and staff of VIRGO FIDELIS CONVENT SCHOOL
Technical presentation by CEDRIC JOHNSON and LLOYD SILVERTHORNE Directed by KAY PATRICK
(The full binaural effect of this programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)
Diary of a Provincial Lady (4)
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Written by ALAN BOWER
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
First Impressions
The poet P. J. Kavanagh presents the first 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
(Third broadcast. Full details Monday 7.45 pm)
The terrain in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya is wild and inhospitable and is one remote area in Africa where the natives often have little idea what a white man looks like.
Stephen Pern , ex-Parachute Regiment officer, found the allure of the spot irresistible and in 1977 became the first man to walk round Lake Rudolph , better known to the natives as Akai s Waterhole, first discovered by two German explorers in the 1880s.
Stephen Pern recounts his adventures to Ted Harrison
Producer MARLENE PEASE
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Eating People Is Wrong (14) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Extracts from the day's major speeches recorded at campaign meetings.
Presented by John Hosken
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
