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6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV ALECGtLMORE
7.0, S.O Today's News ReadbyconNDOBAN
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An eight-part series on matters of interest and importance to everyone concerned with the education of their children. At a time when a controversial new education bill is making its way through Parliament, and there is considerable public concern about educational standards, Barry Turner and Maureen O'Connor purvey news and opinion. respond to points raised in letters and explore some of the ways in which parents can help their children to get the best out of the educational system.
Correspondence to 'Parent Power', [address removed]
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New Every Morning, p 110; Loving Shepherd of thy sheep. (BBC HB 146); Psalm 119. pt 7; Luke 1, vv 46-55 (RSV): Father all-seeing (BBC HB 3S5)
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Harry Soan recalls his Srst shaky steps to becoming a farmer in the unwelcoming Welsh mountains.
BBC Birmingham
Including jtLL TOBD and the BBC Shopptns BtMffet Presenters Nancy Wise and Bilt Breckon
Stories of crime and detection in London
A series of 13 programmes written by Robert Barr
(12.55 Weather; programme news - long wave only)
Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point.
Reading Your Letters.
A Teacher's Lot: some of the problems of the classroom seen through the eyes of the staff.
John and Judie; Clive Jacobs meets two Lancashire schoolteachers who spend their family holidays writing, rehearsing and singing folk music.
Journey to Amritsar (4)
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Story: Henrty Pau))c and the Acorn Tree by LAWRENCE JAMES
by Geoffrey Parkinson
Graham and Myra, a childless couple in early middle-age, live a quiet, uninspiring life in a London suburb: then one day a series of curious events commence that make Myra begin to believe that she has been chosen for something special - by God.
A chance to air your views on some ot the subjects raised in last week's Ant/ QuesMonsf Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONZ BBC Bristot
by Janette McEwen Terry
Read by Johnny Morris
'Talk of the devil and it hops in, a few specks of shredded paper clinging to its slate-grey plumage. Must be the moult! '
BBC Birmingham
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
Scotland, Peterhead Academy v West of England, Bishop Fox's Girls' School, Taunton
Questionmasters, Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
The Voyage Out
John Mole with poems which take you a Iitt)e further afietdeachweek. 4: Journeys Readers
JohnFranMyn-Rebbins and Paul Webster
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
An English masque by George Frederic Handel, performed in the original version composed for the Duke of Chandos at Cannons around 1718. Introduced by Roger Savage with the (bass) English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
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Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer ANNE WINDER !).5< Weather
with Anthony Howard
Fit the fourth: In which our heroes do a lot of running and digging.
ARTHUR: Don't ask me how it works, or I'll start to whimper.
Short Stories by William Trevor
4 Teresa's Wedding
The two protagonists in a shotgun wedding come to terms with the reality of their future life together
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude