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Presented bv
Brian Redhead and LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with ROSEMARY WAKELIN
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSRNEIL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45*Thought for the Day
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people. Including The Week So Far by Russell Davies
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE long wave only
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Indoor Gardening: page 9 and see page 4
NEM, p 102: 0 splendour of God's glory bright (BBC HB 409): Psalm 147, vv 1-12: John 10. vv 22-39; Love of the Father, love of God the Son (BBC 522)
by E. ARNOT ROBERTSON (13) long wave only
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A You and Yours Special Managing on a pension is a problem at the best of times, and the older you are the worse it gets. All sorts of services for the elderly, from old people's homes to meals on wheels may-and probably will - suffer from cuts in public spending. Can voluntary services or community care bridge the gaps?
Nancy Wise discusses the problems with David Hob man Director of Age Concern; Michael Power. Senior Research Fellow in Social Administration, Bristol University; and Heather MacKenzie. Director of the National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants, and looks for solutions.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
HELP! page 15
A selection of plays from the series
Just Before Midnight Getting Ahead by ELIZABETH KAY
and An established theatre critic over-identifies with his job to the point of making his wife's life a misery - he criticises everything she does, her clothes, her appearance.
Then a new hairdresser comes up with the perfect answer....
Directed by CHERRY cookson The Place by GERALDINE O'DONNELL with A young boy has agreed to play Blindman's Buff with two older children. They don't need to blindfold him - simply take away his specs; without them he can see nothing; he must rely on his other senses: touch, sound and smell. He is defenceless ...and children can be so cruel.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
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Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week:
Detta O'Cathain - business executive and member of the Minister of Agricultural Think-Tank. Savingin the High Street (2): The Building Society People of the Hills: Northern Thailand's colourful hill tribes are being eased into the 20th century. ANNE CATCHPOLE meets some of the helpers and those who have made the transition.
Stepsons (8) long wave only
Story: David's Got a Tricycle by JOHN FARRINGTON
by David Sheasby
A good teacher searches for talent, even in the most unlikely places. Mark Newbould is running an English class in a girl's borstal...
BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
from Salisbury Cathedral Responses (Bernard Rose ) Psalms: 126-131 (Cutler, Goss, Walmisley, Purcell, Rogers)
Canticles (Blair in B minor)
Readings: Genesis 24, vv 29-67; Galatians 2, vv 11-21
Anthem: 0 Lord, look down from Heaven (Battishill)
Choir directed by COLIN WALSH
Organ scholar ADRIAN LUCAS BBC Bristol
The Plastic Jungle by JOYCE HARRINGTON
Read by Miriam Margolyes Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Presented bv
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice
Presented by Roger Cook
by JEHANE MARKHAM with and You just walked into my house with your quick straight legs. Ernest was late for lunch, we talked in the drawing-room while the children played in the garden. You told me that you were through with women for good, that you wanted nothing more to do with them. I laughed, yet I knew I had never met anyone like you before ... '
A portrait told in words of the intense relation ship of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda, originally a von Richthoven - a relationship which was central to Lawrence's dynamic outlook on life and literature.
The programme marks the 50th anniversary of his death with the voices of: MARTIN HANDLEY
ELIZABETH HAVELOCS
REX HOLDSWORTH
JOYCE LATHAM and SARAH SHERBORNE
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(D. H. Lawrence - 50 Years Later: tomorrow
9.25 pm Radio 3)
The South Africans
(Details: Thurs 11.5 am)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Michael Oliver
Producer WAYNE DREW
Rory MacPherson reporting
A nine-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra and the society whose tastes it has always mirrored.
Tonight's programme looks at the changing role of the orchestra in opera and finds that the drama is seldom confined to the stage.
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The Aran Islands (8) long wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
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