Presented from the North by KEN FORD
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Presented by John Timpson and LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV R. T. BROOKS
7.8. 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thouoht for the Day
with Edward Cole
8:45 John Ebdon continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusions
Producer PETER ESTALL long wave only from 9.35
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NEM P' 89; Give me the wings of faith: to rise (BBCm>t*9>;Psalm130; ActsljvvI5;26•~(n*b); 0 happy, band of pilgrims (BBC
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The last programme in which Derek Cooper visits, just a few of the 1,000-plus inhabited islands that make up the British Isles. 6: Rathlin
It was in a cave in Rathlin that Robert the Bruce learned from a spider the lesson about perseverance. It's the same kind of,- determination. ffiat helps the hundred or so islanders to earn a living from fislivhg the stormy seas between Northern. Ireland and Scotland.,
Producer LOCK GALLAGHER - BBC Birmingham
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Presented by P. J. Kavanagh
Readers Gary.Watson and Sheila Mitchell
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please.', BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR: long wave only
StartingLife
A You and Yours Special
From ante-natal care to-nursery education. the very young may have to make do with less. How much less? And how can we help them Through those vital first years?
Sue Cook looks at the options around the country with Sir George Young
Under-Secretary of State at the DHSS, and Helene; Hayman.
Producer ANGELA PARSONS
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Roy Coombs
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David Mam (Language schaol principal)
George Sampson (Retired hospitaladministrator)' Michael Venner.
(Chartered accountant). Including Beat the Brains Programme devised byipnSt.wynn.Question* set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake
(Broadcast Friday 3.5 pm)
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2.0 News
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2.2 Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
She was Never a Screamer: Christabel King talks to Richard and Carol Hill about a slave girl, who married a Victorian explorer,
Talking Point
Make it Your Business: Ron Alldridge reports: 3
Mr. and Mrs Welsh's guest-house.
It Was Just Like a Bereavement: a mother talks about her son's haemophilia to Annie Allsebrook.
Stepsons (6)
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Story : Oh Henry! by BARBARA WILLIAMS
by Paul Scott
(Broadcast Sat 8.30 pm)
by Graham Greene
Read by Timothy Earle
(Postponed from 5 Feb)
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
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5.55 Weather, programme news
FRANK MUIR GOES INTO...
University
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject. with the voices of; TONY HANCOCK
TOM LEHRER , WOODY ALLEN
JOHN CLEESE and JONATHAN MILLER
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
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Presented by Geoff Watts Producer DEBORAH COHEN
by J.C.W. Brook
with Anna Cropper as Jill, Elizabeth Lindsay as Clare, Sean Barrett as Tom, Frances Jeater as Jenny, David Timson as John, Gordon Reid as Andrew
Oh a bitterly cold night Jenny turns up to visit Tom and Jill. Tom remembers college days, when he and Jenny were lovers; Jill remembers when she and Jenny were friends. The play tells the story of their relationships past and present - a story that ends in death.
(Repeated: Sun 2.30pm)
Gertrude Jekyll , V. Sackville-West, and Margery Fish: amateurs in the best sense, practitioners of the art of gardening, writers who revealed their strong idiosyncratic personalities in descriptions of the humblest plant.
A Good Eye for Flowers
In the first of three programmes, Roy Lancaster presents a portrait of Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932). drawn mainly from her own books, with comment by GRAHAM STUART THOMAS and readings by BETTY HARDY. Producer
PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol (3 March: V. Sackville-West)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer RICHARD DUNN
Rory MacPherson report ing, with voices and opin ions from around the world.
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
(Broadcast Sat 12.27 pm)
A book at Bedtime
Islands (6)
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Radio 4's International
Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
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