News, weather, papers and sport
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What Britain is gettinS up to. Two hours of new and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson With HUGH SYKEf including at
6.45*- Prayer for the Day with THE REV MICHAEL SMITH andSISTERPAULA
7.0.8.0 Today's News
Headbylauriemacmillan
7.30 8 .30* News headlines
7.45 Thought for the Day
and other regulars, taking part in a live talk show that each week features a celebrity birthday interview as well as intriguing personal stories and musical interludes. Producer
HUMPHREY WALWYN
NEM. p 102; From glory to
-SJy^nSnTAB^p glory advancing (BBC HB
244); Psalm 119, pt 5;
Matthew 14, vv 23-34 (AV);
Light's abode, celestial
Salem (BBC HB 250)
The Gimmick by HOWARD ROSS
Read by Michael Elder
What I'm asking you to do is to manipulate the computer so that a number give you comes up - the big one, the £100.000 prize.'
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Part 2
Ten* years after the axe and the match moved in to devastate the Amazon rain forests, the Brazilian government has realised that it made a mistake.
The economic salvation of Brazil does not lie in clearing land for cattle, but in using a resource as valuable as oil, and which could with a little care last forever, the trees.
In the second of his reports from Brazil, Anthony Smith asks scientists, conservationists, and government officials:
What Should Be Happening to the Forestsf
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Story: The Hippopotamus Who Yawned by ANGELA PICKERING
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Information, views and advice for the home and family. Today JILL TODD helps you save money with the latest food news and prices in the BBC Shopping Basket.
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and voices and topics In and behind the headlines Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Someone Needs to Stand Up for Us ...: MIRE SHEILS talks to two part-time workers and JENNIFER HURSTFIELD and DAVID JOR DAN from the Low Pay Unit.
Fish on the Cheap: MARIKA HANBURY-TINISON on cooking sea bass and grey mullet.
Reading Your Letters.
From Ear to Ear: SUSAN GOODMAN discovers just how sensitive our ears really are.
Dordogne Diary: ANNETTE MASSIE recounts the events of her new life in south-west France. Dr Nina and the Panther (2)
The weekend's listening on Radio 4UK
Live from the House of Commons
Teamwork by ANTHONY VIVIS with JASON: Alex, look, how many sales points have I scored this year? Not
1.000. Not 1,200. 1,500. How have I done it? How have I risen to Floor Two in five years, whereas after eight you're still on Floor Three? Well, I'll tell you: Drive! -
Directed by LIANE AUKIN
Augustus Carp Esq (9)
The news magazine Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Writtenbyalanbower (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Thirteen programmes on the theme of childhood to mark the International Year of the Child.
Compiled and introduced by David Davis
2: Lullay, My Liking
Reader Jill Balcon
direct from the Royal Albert Hall,
London
Emil Gilels (piano) London Symphony Orchestra led by IRVINE ARDITTI conducted by Colin Davis Part 1
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
(Part 1 of this concert will be shown next Sunday on BBC1)
A short series in which Robert Dougall presents an anthology in verse and prose of the facts and folklore surrounding some familiar species of British birds.
Part 2
Beethoven Symphony No 5, in c minor
Bird Lives!
Savoy Records recently released a five-record album containing all the music that CHARLIE' BIRD ' PARKER, the great alto-saxophonist, recorded for the label between 1944 and 1948. Ross Russell , Parker's distinguished biographer, reviews the set and explains the importanceofthisbodyof music.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer DAVID PERRY
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
Mr Norris Changes Trains (14) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
