Presented from Northern Ireland by John Johnston BBC Northern Ireland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day PR JOHN MCCULLAGH
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Christopher Slade
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
and his regular team Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM, p 71; Blest are the pure in heart (BBC m 318); Canticle 7; Acts 5, vv 27-42 (Av); The church of God (BBC HB 183)
The Mask of Dimitrios by ERIC AMBLER abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by David March (1) The discovery of the corpse of a man he'd never even heard of, fished out of the dark night waters of the Bosphorus, sends writer Charles Latimer off on a series of adventures that the late Alfred Hitchcock himself described as ' hypnotically fascinating'. Producer DAVID JOHNSTON long wave only
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'I seldom think of my limitations, and they never make me sad... believe that all through these dark and silent years God has been using my life for a purpose I do not know. But one day I shall understand, and then I will be satisfied.'
Helen Keller, one of the most remarkable women of her time, was born 100 years ago this month. Blind and deaf from the age of two, she became a world-famous figure and a tireless worker for those with handicaps similar to her own.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: next Sat 10.15)
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Presenter D. M. Thomas Readers Hugh Burden and Frances Horovitz Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Including World of Work: Ideas on careers and training. Presenters
Nancy Wise, Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
Chairman Robert Robinson Home Counties .
Anthony Kerron chemical Engineer) Joan Townsend Kaloh Gordon
(Marketing Manager) Patricia Cook
Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN . Questions .set by IAN GILLIES Producer RICIMRD EDIS
(Repeated: thurs 6.30pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
(Broadcast Friday 7.5 pm)
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Tommy Reilly , Harmonica Virtuoso: talks about and plays the instrument to which he has devoted his life.
Easing into Retirement; ANNE MACNAMARA reports on a course for people about to retire.
Travels on an Elephant (1) CHRISTINA DODWELL explores the forests in northern Thailand.
Shoes nature: GYN FREEMAN visits the collection at the County Museum,
Northampton.
A Small Country by SIAN JAMES
Read by SIAN PHILLIPS (8) Editor WIN KNOWLES long wave only
Story: The Day the Sun Fell Asleep by ANN ROSS
Geminus by GUY MEREDITH
Do it Yourself by VIRGINIA BUDD
Read by Kate Binchy
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
with Gordon Clough and Jean Bakeweil Editor DEREK LEWIS
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report
by PETER TINNISWOOD 2: Old Habits
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Doreen Mantle and Robin Bailey are National Theatre players)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Find Me by OLWEN WYMARK with and The authorities are unable to offer the right facilities to contain the probtems that beset a disturbed Verity from childhood.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
John Morgan , writer and broadcaster, looks back at the first five decades of his life (3). Producer TELERI BEVAN (First broadcast on Radio Wales)
Presenter Richard Cork Producer WAYNE DREW Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Stereo
(Broadcast: Sat 12.27 pm)
Staying On by PAUL SCOTT abridged in 15 parts by DAVID H. GODFREY
Read by Garard Green (1) When Tusker Smalley died of a massive coronary on the last Monday of April 1972, his wife
Lucy was having her hair blue-rinsed in the Seraglio Room of Pankot's new glass and concrete hotel, The Shiraz. This was only a step away from the little Indian hill station's older hotel, Smith's, whose annexe had been occupied by the Smaileys these last ten years.
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; Inshore forecast
