News, weather, papers and sport
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John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES including at
$.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV ADAM FORD
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
plus regulars Dr Anthony Clare , Russell Davies , Fran Morrison in Edinburgh, and Gerry Monte in Cardiff, taking part in a live talk show that each week features a celebrity birthday interview as well as intriguing personal stories and musical interludes from
THE BOWLES BROTHERS Producer
HUMPHREY WALWYN long wave only
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NEM p 5; Let all the world in every corner sing (BBC HB 275); Psalm 19, vv 1-11; Matthew 9, VV 14-26 (AV); Sing praise to God who reigns above (BBC HB 18)
Too Many Cooks by JANE BALENGARTH Read by Ysanne Churchman
' When lames climbs the executive ladder his wife reluctantly joins the suburban rat race. A country woman at heart she's hemasick enough for Butterwood. Faced with cutlet for cutlet" entertainig, she despairs.'
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long wave only
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Story: Turnip Tom Makes Hay by MARY CALVERT long wave only
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
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.
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and voices and topics in and hehind the headlines Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Hurdy Gurdy Me .. and Women : BOB PRIZEMAN meets some enthusiasts and their instruments.
Talking Point: what are the problems of teenage homosexuals and how can they and their parents cope with them? Reading Your Letters.
Bunsen Burners in the Kitchen: DAVID HAWKSWORTH visits an Open University student taking science at home.
North and South (12) long wave only
The weekend's listening on Radio 4UK
Live from the House of Commons
The BBC Guide to Parliament. £4.50, from bookshops
Vegetating by JULIA JONES with and ' Yesterday was fraught with our move. Today the reign of peace begins. If I'm to live in this glorious countryside and breathe this clear and un-polluted air I do not intend to spoil it with cigarette smoke. I have thrown off my shackles! I am a free man for the first time in my life. No pressures, no rat race. No rat race! ,
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Stories of the Royal Navy 7; Such Other Punishment
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
(Broodcast on Monat 12.27)
Written by Bruno Milna
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
First Impressions
The poet Patricia Beer presents the second of two selections of the poetry which fired her imagination in her formative years. Readers
John Franklyn-Robbins Frances Horovitz
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.20 am)
A historical fantasy by DAVID PINNER
(Third transmission. Full details; Monday 7.20)
A nightly review of books films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughaa Producer ANNE WINDER
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
I Can't Slay Long
4: Charm and Paradise f Paradise, fur me, is a tolding on to the familiar contained within some ideal scale of the past - an 18th-century thing. perhaps, in its grace and order.' (Repe) long wave only
Peter Hobday reports on the first day of the World Economic Summit. long ivave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
