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Brian Redhead with HUGH SYKES , including reports from the Republican Conation in Detroit.
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV COLIN RICHARDS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Healthy Eating
Eating a balanced diet is not only essential to good health, but it is also, at a time of rising food prices, a matter of getting the best nutritional value for money. With the approach of the school holidays, many mothers must be wondering how to provide glanced meals for a growing family. Whether srowing family. catering for a family or just for one person, you need the right balance of protein, fat, fibre and vitamins in your diet. gating properly need not be expensive and there's expert advice this morning from nutritionists jenny Salmon and Professor Arnold Bender. In the chair Sue MacGregor rroduced by the woman's Hour Unit
Lines open Jrom 8.0 am
Geoff Watts reports
Producer ALISON Richards
The Moon in the Cloud (2)
A day of pageantry in London in honour of the 80th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, beginning with a Royal Procession from Buckingham Palace to St Paul's Cathedral, followed by a Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving.
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas with Alun Williams outside the Palace, Sue Lawley in Trafalgar Square, John Hosken high above the Strand and Brian Johnston with the people outside St Paul's Cathedral
Service described by Robert Hudson
Order of Service:
Hymn: Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven
Welcome: by the Dean of St Paul 's
Metrical Psalm: 121
Lesson: Joshua 1, vv 7-9; Revelation 21, vv 10, 11, 23 and 24, read by the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Anthem: Jubilate Deo (Benjamin Britten)
Address: by the Archbishop of Canterbury Prayers
Hymn: Immortal, invisible. God only wise
Prayer of Dedication led by The Bishop of London
Blessing: by The Archbishop of Canterbury
A Radio OB production
Presenter Bill Breckon
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and voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point; opinions and ideas ...
At Her Majesty's Request: a celebration of a British institution - the Royal Garden Party.
Reading Your Letters.
Fitted and Well: Jill Burridge talks to mastectomy patients about prostheses.Â
Smallbone Deceased (10)
Story: The Owl Who Didn't Give a Hoot by IRENE HOLNESS
Book, Listen with Mother Stories, £3.25, front bookshops
A six-part dramatisation by FREDERICK BRADNUM Of At Lady Molly's, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant and The Kindly Ones - books four, five and six of ANTHONY POWELL 'S sequence of 12 novels.
1: At Lady Molly's (1)
— A Genius Re- discovered The American ragtime composer, scott JOPLIN, died 63 years old in a mental institution believing himself to be a failure. In 1976 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Given annually for drama, letters, music and journalism, this was the first time that the Prize had been awarded posthumously. At last, Joplin's music had achieved the recognition the composer was never to know.
Peter Clayton discusses with Peter Gammond , Joplin's biographer, the life and work of this sad and lonely man. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
The Jockey by CARSON MCCULLERS
(taken from The Ballad of the Sad Café)
Read by Barry Warren
' It was Sylvester who first saw the jockey. He put down his whisky glass, and nervously mashed the tip of his red nose with his thumb. " It's Bitsy Barlow ," he said, " standing over there, across the room. Just watching us ".' Producer MITCH RAPER
with Gordon Clough and Robert Williams
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A series of 13 programmes. Stories of crime and detection in London
Written by ROBERT BARR with 8: The Birthday Party (2)
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
How do scientists react when they make a major breakthrough? - in anything but a cool, detached manner. The pulsar, a collapsed star emitting pulses of radiation at an unbelievably rapid rate, was one of the major post-war discoveries. It even aroused enormous interest (sometimes annoying) in the media.
Anthony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell-Burnell , the discoverers of the first pulsar, tell the fascinating inside story of their work - how they only slowly overcame doubts about whether such an unusual object could really be genuine. Producer
MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
(Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)
The third of ten talks in which Ray Gosling tells the story of his travels overland to the East.
3: A Wedding in Quetta
' I was going from Karachi to Quetta.... when at Jacobabad railway station I was captured by George. He made the sign of the cross, saying:
" You ride our bogie. Follow me. You my guest. Catholic Christian wedding Pakistani style." '
It lasted three days. And there were times I was certain that the rat-faced Muslim who shaved me in the back yard had cut my throat,'
The world-famous harpist and teacher talks about his upbringing in North Wales and reflects on his work and career. The programme also includes recordings of works especially written for Osian Ellis by Benjamin Britten.
Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
A programme of special interest to the visually handicapped.
Are eye hospitals easy places for people with little or no sight to visit? Kevin Mulhern and Hannah Wright report on their impressions of the Out Patients Department at Moorfields Eye Hos; pital in London.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
To check information given, or comment on issues raised, phone [number removed]after the broadcast until 10.30 pm. Free quarterly bulletin, summarising information broadcast, available from [address removed]. Send four large saes for a year's supply.
Handbook: In Touch, £1.50, available by post
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer Richard DUNN
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Burial of China's First Emperor
The Sign of Four (7)
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