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Presenter
Brian Redhead with PAUL BURDEN
6.45° Prayer for the Day yith MARJORIE NEWMAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Your Brain
How much do you know about how your brain works, and how to make the best use of it? How much do the scientists know? Psychologist Tony Buzan and neurobiologist Professor Noel Dilly Welcome your questions on research findings, old and new, on the structure, development, and Workings of the brain, and how they can be applied to improve your ability to. for example, learn, remember, create, concentrate, and relax, In the Chair
Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect?
Geoff watts reports on the health of medical care-from the research laboratory and operating theatre. to the dentist's chair and GP's surgery.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
NEM, p 84; Lord of mercy and of might (BBC HB 295); Canticle 4; John 20, vv 1-2 and 9-18 (AV); Come, 0 thou traveller Unknown (BBC HB 4)
The Moon in the Cloud (7)
Round Trip by JOHN FARRIMOND
'Allus like that you, Tommy. Don't know why I ever mated with you. It's allus me what does things. You never start owt, allus follow.'
But when the two boys find themselves high up in the sky over Lancashire it's Mick who panics finally, leaving Tommy to make the decision which is the difference between life and death for them.
Directed by DAVID SHEASBY BBC Manchester
Surely no animal knows what it looks like, so how, at mating time, does a blackbird know it's a blackbird?
The team of naturalists answers your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones
BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, [address removed]
Their Bird Sounds and Their Meaning: book, £4.95; record, £3.45, from bookshops
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm)
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Presenter Jennl Mills
Brian Johnston visits Berwick-upon-Tweed. It is the most northerly town in England, with a lot of history, a strong military tradition, and lies at the mouth of a world-famous salmon river.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Reading Your Letters.
Science for Gardeners : JILL BURRIDGE Visits the National Vegetable Research Station in Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. The House in Paris (4)
Beatrix Potter Week
Story: The Tale of Jeremy Fisher , abridged by MOIRA MILLER
by ANTHONY POWELL
2: At Lady Molly's (2)
A Good Eye for Flowers
Roy Lancaster presents a portrait of Gertrude Jekyll , whose artistry in garden design and planting was reflected in the books she wrote during the latter part of her long life; those years when her own garden at Munstead Wood was being created and cultivated so lovingly. With comment by GRAHAM STUART THOMAS and readings by BETTY HARDY
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Book, A Gardener's Dozen. £7.50, from bookshops
The Other Side of the Mersey by ELIZABETH IDDON
Read by Carole Hayman
' We were off, alone for the first time, dressed to kill and never a pound to spend between us. My Mum would have had a fit if she could see me now.'
The news magazine with Robert Williams and Gordon Clough
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
A series of 13 programmes relating stories of crime and detection in London.
Written by ROBERT BARR with 9: The Coming Out Present
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Harry Towb is a National Theatre player)
In June, Wynford Vanghan-Thomas rode for eight days from Merthyr Tydfil in the South to Garthewin in North Wales. (Details: Fri 11.5 am)
(Wynford Vaughan-Thomas is in Quote ... Unquote: Thurs 12.27 pm)
Ten talks in which Ray Gosling tells the story of his travels overland to the East.
When the students burnt down the American Embassy in Islamabad... I played safe and left for Faisalabad. But I arrived on Iman Hossain Day and the local Shi'ite youths were slashing their backs with knives. Blood everywhere. Going crazy, dancing round Queen Victoria's Jubilee Clock.'
With the help of records, Derek Parker introduces some glaring examples of plagiarism in the world of popular music.
Producer RONALD COOK
Of special interest to the visually handicapped
Make the Most of the Summer
Some suggestions of activities available for blind children and adults.
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]. Handbook: In Touch,
11.50, available by post
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting
Mohenjodaro
A vast, red brick city of the great Indus Valley Civilisation, with a planned street system, drains, refuse collection, baths and showers, flourished as an important metropolis 4,000 years ago. A tenth of the city has been excavated - enough to show a remarkable degree of sophisticated town planning, architecture and technology for the period. But the exposed buildings face total destruction within the next 25 years from salts rising up from the ground. Can this unique site be saved?
A report from the city by Malcolm Billings with Robert Knox of the Department of Oriental Antiquities of the British Museum.
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Summer Lightning (2)
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
