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Presenter Brian Redhead With LIBBY PURVES
6.45. Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
Unload your query on to Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, [address removed]
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NEM, p 71; King of glory, king of peace (BBC m 325); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; John 8, vv 46-59 (AV); Jesus shall reign where er the sun (BBC HB 460)
by E. ARNOT ROBERTSON (5) long wave only
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Portraits of five women writers - some respected, others ridiculed - all prolific, immensely popular and legends in their own lifetimes.
4: Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) with ' She lay on the Tiger Skin. Between her lips a rose not redder than they.'
Elinor Glyn's novel Three Weeks created a sensation when it was published in 1907, and was considered to be 'emphatically not pour les jeunes filles '. The most daring novelist of the Edwardian period, she was every bit as notorious as her most notorious heroine.
Directed by GERRY JONES long wave only
(Gwen Watford is now in I Bodies at the Ambassadors Theatre, London)
Jim Flegg turns his ear towards the eerie hoots and calls of that master of the woodland night-the tawny owl. BBC Bristol long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
A Young Red Devil in the Chinese Liberation Army: ESTHER SAMPSON , brought up in Staffordshire, recalls the remarkable days of 1949 when, as a teenager, she marched with the troops of Mao Tse tung.
A Little Bit of Old England: MARGARET HORSFIELD visits Victoria, British Columbia, where residents take cream tea in the afternoon, By Union Jacks in their gardens, and take pride in being ' more English than the English.' What Colour is Februaryf: do you associate names, letters, or numbers with colours? HELEN LLOYD investigates an intriguing area of psychology. BBC Birmingham
The Lost Stradivarius by JOHN MEADE FALKNER abridged in eight parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY Mr Gaskell 's Note Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (8)
(Music: Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto) long wave only
Story: Abigail's Blue Monster by MOIRA MILLER Presenters
ALISON MCMORLAND and GARY TAYLOR
Written by MOIRA MILLER Producer DAVID BELL
by IVAN TURGENEV translated and dramatised by JOAN O'CONNOR with Simon Cadell Rosalind Ayres John Carson and Hugh Dickson
Vladimir was only 16 when he first fell in love, but the memory of that love stayed with him all his life. He was teased, he was encouraged, and he was used with a ruthlessness which he couldn't begin to understand.
Music for guitar arranged and played by ERIC HILL JOHN FRASER (piano)
Technical presentation by DAVID GREENWOOD
Directed by JANE MORGAN
The Tree by JULIET DEANE Read by Ysanne Churchman
' Her sister was looking out at the old tree, it's massive branches spreading wide and comforting. No one would ever guess it was worn out and dangerous.' Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Richard Hudson-Evans brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
June Knox-Mawer presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
(Repeated; Sat 10.45 am)
Gerald Priestland looks back at the week's deliberating in the Spring session of the General Synod, or 'parliament', of the Church of England.
Lord Thomson of Monifieth, The Bishop of Winchester, William Douglas Home and Gloria Hooper, MEP tackle the issues raised by the audience at the Theatre Royal, Winchester.
Chairman David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
Presented by Michael Billington
Stephen Milligan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel David Jason and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON JEREMY BROWNE , ANDY WILSON RICHARD QUICK and BRIAN BETHELL
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE
Mrs Reinhardt (5) long wave only
(Starting on Monday: 'The Aran Islands' by J. M. Synge)
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A series of plays for late-night listening.
The Man Who Invented Yesterday by JAMES FOLLETT
Like so many scientists before him. Sir Max is delighted when his experiments come to fruition. His most recent, however, takes him slightly by surprise.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
