6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter John Timpson With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With PEGGY MAKINS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Life Under Water
The sea covers two-thirds of the earth's surface, and rivers, lakes and canals criss-cross the rest, but we still don't know very much about the animal and plant life beneath the water. Do fish sleep? Do they see colour? Why do crabs walk sideways? How do limpets stick? Is an anemone a Bower or an animal? How does a fly-fisherman fool a trout?
Paul Cragg. marine biologist and Anne Powell , fish biologist, join Sne MacGregor to answer your questions.
Produced by the Woman s Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer GEOFF DEERAN long wave only
NEM.p 106; Shepherd divine, our wants relieve (BBC HB 348); Psalm 95; Jonah 1, v 17 to 2, vv 1-10 (AV); Forth in thy name. 0 Lord, I go (BBC HB 406)
The Secret House of Death (10): long wave only
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Reunion by ARTHUR FRANKS with Jeremy Kemp
Many people today do not know who the Palestine Police were or what they did.
But for one man, they were still very much alive. Every year he arranged a meeting so that fellow members who had been killed in Palestine in 1946. would be remembered and honoured. But it was rather a strange meeting.
Directed by JANE MORGAN long wave only
The hows, whats and whys of wildlife - from an audience at the first meeting of the newly-formed Avon Wildlife Trust answered by JIM FLEGG , ERNEST NEAL and PAUL WHALLEY , with Derek Jones in the Chair.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm) long wave only
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Talfcing Point - opinions and ideas ...
I Feel so Dirty JENNIFER PECK , of the Rape Crisis Centre, offers advice on how to cope after a sexual offence.
Estate Agents' Jargon: interpreted by MARGARET BACON.
The Sound with Silence: from solitary pianist to symphony orchestra, spurious sounds to special scores, BOB PRIZEMAN surveys the music for silent films.
Greek Fire (4) long wave only
Story: The Happy Little King and the Jumble Sale by MOIRA HERITAGE
by CHARLES DICKENS
2: The Child of the Marshalsea
A Family Man hv V. S. PRITCHETT Read by Ysanne Churchman
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
with Robert Williams and Joan Bakewell
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
starring Tom Mennard and Anthea Askey
How do you stop your dog from being sarcastic? What is the world record for running three lengths of an empty swimming pool?
Is silent radio one of the new BBC cutbacks?
Wrinkles supplies the answers to questions you never asked. With
Written by ROB GRANT and DOUG NAYLOR.
Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Why should there be a factory making powerful pain-killing drugs inside our heads? Since the discovery in 1975 that natural counterparts to morphine and other opiate drugs exist in the brain there has been much speculation about their role in the body. It has been suggested that they may be involved in the suppression of pain. the control of emotion and even the regulation of body fat. Geoff Watts examines these and other theories that try to explain our natural opium dens. Producer DEBORAH COHEN (Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)
Jane Finnis reports on prospects for jobs in light engineering; and Peter White reviews tapes of interest to blind children. Producer THENA RESHEL
If you want to check information given on In Touch, or comment on issues raised during the programme, you can phone [number removed]after the broadcast until 9.30 pm
3: Classical Brass
' Brass players are generally very jolly fellows. We don't take ourselves too seriously.' (PHILIP JONES) Interviewer Ian Horsbrugh Producer GILLIAN hush BBC Manchester
Geoffrey Smith talks to Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden. Producer Ken Ford BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Fri 9.45 am)
Novelist and short story writer Doris Lessing , in conversation with Chris Bigsby, talks about her work, in particular, her new book The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five. This is the second in a series about a history of earth from evolution to near-extinction told in the style of fables, the Bible and space fiction. Doris Lessing's novels range from The Grass is Singing, set in Rhodesia, to an examination of madness in Briefing for a Descent into Hell; feminism and politics in the Martha Quest series and writing itself in The Golden Notebook.
Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting
Faithful Ruslan (6) long wave only
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long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
