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with Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Read by IAN HOLM (4).
Unload your query onto Neil Laridor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Producer NICK HUGHES
Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 4WW long wave only
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BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in. Producer ANTHONY SARGENT long wave only
NEM, p 110; May the grace of Christ (BBC HB 375); Psalm 119, part 7; Wisdom of Solomon 9, vv 7-17 (rsv); Love, unto thine own (BBC HB 523)
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Sun City, Arizona, is the home of America's largest retirement community. Protected by a walled perimeter and a volunteer sheriffs posse, 50,000 senior citizens live out their last years. Younger people are barred from residence.
It is an oasis with every recreational and medical facility available: hut intimations of mortality are all around ...
Recently, writer Paul Ferris and a production team stayed in Sun City. This programme is his personal impression. Researcher LYN BROOKS Producer HUGH PURCELL
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Gwyn Richards
Readers John Graham and June Barrie
BBC Bristol
(Requests to Poetry Please!, [address removed])
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News. views and advice for consumers.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
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Presenter Brian Wldlake
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Introduced from Cardiff by Noreen Bray -
Welsh Guests: actor brothers Donald and Glyn Houston.
Llama in the Kitchen: writer RUTH RUCK talks about her unusual domestic pets.
Welsh Convict Women: DEIRDRE BEDDOE and her book about women sent to the penal colonies of Australia.
Fatherhood at 45: BERNARD smith finds a new lease of life - despite the nappies. Facts about Fats: cookery writer GAIL DUFF with the low down ' on shortening.
BBC Wales
The Compleat Bachelor 3) long ware unly
Story: Black Beetle and the White Elephants by JOYCE WILLIAMS
All on a Summer's Day by IVOR WILSON
'They're all dead ... everybody in the pit's dead, but us ... What's it like, drowning? '
'Now what sort of a question's that? '
' Well, we're going to drown, aren't we? '
'Not if I can help it. I got my allotment to keep up and you've got all them lasses waiting for you.'
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
(First broadcast in 1977)
The search for Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) in which Ramsay Williams sends private eye Joe Gooderson on the trail of one of the most elusive Americans of the century - a man who once said 'Hollywood nearly made a good picture once, but they caught it just in time'.
and PETER BALDWIN, AMANDA BELL, ADRIAN EGAN, PETER MARINKER, ANN MURRAY, MARGARET ROBERTSON, RAMSAY Williams and THICK WILSON as the Others. Music by the ALAN ELSDON BAND
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Preview: page 29
4.40 Announcements
TriO by HERNE LUCY BURKE Read by Ann Morrish
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell 5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Simon Neave with the travel programme.
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Rptd: Mon at 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television. Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Hugh Macpherson looks at the life of Dr Rhodes Boyson , mp, ma, Minister of State for Education-the outspoken former headmaster who failed the 11-Plus.
Producer DAVID POWELL
Sheila Hancock Jeffrey Archer P. J. Kavanagh Leif Mills tackle the issues raised by the audience in St Agnes, Cornwall
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 4.15, to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Pope John Paul II's visit
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The national rejoicing during Pope John Paul II's visit to the US, the biography of the Pope, and Catholicism in America.
by Alistair Cooke
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer ROSEMARY IIART
Erik de Mauny reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason Bill Wallls , David Tate Sheila Steafel and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK , ROGER WODDIS , JEREMY BROWNE , BARRY BOWES , GEOFFREY ATKINSON
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES Woddis On . . . : page 17
The Drowned World (10) long wave only
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at the Archive Auction, chooses the recordings he would like to own. Producer ALASTAIR WILSON I Rpt)
Mr Bruin who Once Drove the Bus, by DON HAWORTH
'Please. Bill, please, strive to arrive more punctually. Make it your aim, your target, your goal. So that one day we shall have the pleasure of chiselling on your headstone: Mr Bruin, as ever on time.'
Other children
GINA BELLMAN , ADRIAN CALE , LYSANDRE DE LAHAVE ,DARREN PHELAN ,DARREN SMAL-LEY , HOWARD TAYLOR
Directed by JOHN CARDY
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
