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6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only

Presenter John Timpson. With Libby Purves at the Liberal Assembly, Blackpool including at 6.45* Prayer for the Day
THE REV AUGUSTINE HOEY , CR
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON 7.30 8.M News headlines 7.45 Thought for the DOM Book: Thoughts. Prayers, Resections, t!35.(n:at)-able from bookshops

by H.G. WELLS
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Identities are made clear and base plots repeated.

(Broadcast Wed7.20pm)

Encounters in the Deep
Ann and Krov Menuhin recall their recent filming expedition to the Gulf of California, where they dived with mother and calf grey whales: swam with a 50-foot long whale shark - the largest fish in the sea; and filmed underwater, for the first time, a blue whale - the biggest animal that ever lived on earth.
Producer MtCHOSL BRtCHT BBC Bristol
(.Broadcast Sun 4.30pm)

A series about the people who are winning against the odds. ll: Gerard
Morgan Grenville
With a background tn industry, he set out to tackle two of the worlds major problems-energy and pollution. He believes people should care for their environment and in the future use power from the sun and the wind, rather than from nuclear reactors.
To demonstrate a new practical way of living he founded the National Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.
He talks to Jocelyn Ryder Smith about his work
Producer pETERwmMws BBCBtrHuHohant

NEM. p 42; 0 Saviour. where shall guilty man <BBCHf!87);PsalmS4; Mar);10,vvlt6fRsv); O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother (BBC HE 376)

I am David
7: The Danish Signora

(Broadcast Wed 8.45 pm)

Arthur Askey recalls stars of a few years ago.
Today: George Formby

News, views, advice for consumers
Including Jill Todd and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Jenni Mills

Festivals
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject.... Festival:
(a) One week's cricket at Scarborough;
(b) One month's Wagner at Bayreuyh (J.B.MORTON)
with the voices of VICTOR BORGE, WOODY ALLEN, TONY HANCOCK, PETER COOK
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS

12.55Weather; programme news: tons tea t;eont);

(BroadcastWed7.5ptn)
1.55 Shipping forecast toNOtratGontu

with Sue MacGregor
You!: TONY BARNFIELD discovers how the BBC learns about its audience.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Reading Your Letters.
They Speak Well...?
GYN FREEMAN reports on the cleft palate unit at Liverpool's Heswall Hospital, which is threatened with closure.
The Day of the Triffids (11)

Story: "The Little Lady Who Wanted to Move House" by Angela Pickering

by Elizabeth Troop
with Diana Bishop as Bea

Bea Travis runs a refuge for battered wives Moving backwards through her life, from affluent suburban wife to one of the 'beautiful people' of the 60s, the play examines, sometimes lightheartedly, the attitudes and issues that have motivated women over the last few years.

For people who live and work in the country - or would like to. Introduced by Jeanine McMullen.

A series which looks at many aspects of country life. and offers practical advice to smallholders.

BBC Bristol

by Brian Stevenson
Read by Jonathan Hewat
'Do you realise the significance of my assignment? For this plant and you personalty?' Arnold answered warily. 'No, what?' 'Well, if Sunday's run comes up with the answer Bristol, it means growth with a big "G".'
Producer Louis Robinson
BBC Bristol

Presenters Robert Williams and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
5.55 Weather: programme news

inctuding Financial Report

(Repeated: Fri 1.40pm)

BBC Birmingham

For this programme on D.H. Lawrence's birthday, Alan Brownjohn examines the way in which Lawrence and his contemporaries respond to nature and the environment.
Readers ANTHONY HYDE and MARY JONES
Producer ALEC REiD

direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (piano) BBC Singers (women's voices) director John Roole
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Atherton
Part 1 Stravinsky Fireworks
Tchaikovsky, arr Stravinsky Entr'acte symphonique "The Sleeping Beauty")
Stravinsky Concerto for piano and wind instruments

J.W. Lambert searches through the BBC Sound Archives and the pages of literature and discovers a selection of entertaining raconteurs.

Part 2 Holst The Planets
(Stereo)

Presenter Paul Vaughan

t.5!t Weather

Anthony Howard reporting

A Devoted Son
Rakesh, the great doctor, pride of his father - is he perhaps too devoted a son?

with Laurie Macmillan
(long wave only)

Weather report: forecast long wave only followed by an interlude