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Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day with WILLIAM DRUMMOND
7.0, 8.9 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by D. H. LAWRENCE (4)
In three programmes, Dr Anthony Clare explores the influence of blood relationships. 2: Mothers with Rabbi Lionel Blue Rose Gamble and Kitty Muggeridge
Producer SHIRLEY DU BOULAY long wave only
A patch of damp waste-land a mile-and-a-nalf from the centre of Barnsley, between an old canal and the river, with coal tips all around, is the site ofthisRadioNatureTrail. Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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NEM, p 42; Jesus, Lord, we look to thee (BBC HB 374); Psalm 122; Isaiah 32, vv 13-18 (AV); Rise up, 0 men (BBC HB 364) long wave only
Edge of Darkness, Edge of Light (4) long wave only
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A million people in Britain are now waiting to be housed by their local authority. Yet in 1980 fewer houses will be built than in any year since the war, and the bulk of Government-imposed spending cuts will fall on council building and improvement schemes over the next five years. David Henshaw reports from Leeds, the city with the longest council waiting list in the country.
Producer BRIAN PHELAN Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
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Neil Lander sorts out quibbles and quandaries. Producer SIMON ELMES long wave only
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
by the Labour Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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from Hull, the unknown city with the world's longest single span bridge.
Presenter Sue MacGregor who meets actor and author Ian Carmichael.
The Mad Woman in the Attic: SANDRA GILBERT on how the lives of great women writers in the 19th century shaped their work.
Whatever Happened to Mackenzie, Cowen and Holbrooke?: ALAN CUTHBERTSON meets the Hull Youth Orchestra, which specialises in music of neglected British composers.
Take a Degree, Miss Smith!: MARGARET OARBETT studies a new university course for secretaries.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (9)
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Summer Trade by NICK DARKE
The rebuilding of a traditional old Cornish pub along modern bijou lines signals a change also in the lives of those who work and drink in it.
Co-winner of the George Devine Award for Best Play of 1979 Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
This week D is for Diddling, Deliberate mistakes and Divers things. gramophone records
Presenters RobertWilliams and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
with Norman Tozer
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(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
As the Story Goes
Thirteen programmes with David Davis
3: All in a Green Willow Readers LOLLY COCKERELL and SION PROBERT
BORIS BELKIN (violin)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor EDWARD DOWNES Part 1
Wagner Prelude to Act 3 (Lohengrin)
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47
the Leeds-born playwright. reflects on the irrelevance of a Northern upbringing, and other things to the business of being a writer.
BBC Manchester
Part 2 Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
(A public concert, presented by the BBC, from St George's Hall, Brad-ford, on Tuesday) BBC Manchester
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
Anthony Howard reporting
The Franchise Affair (9) long wave only
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with Laurie Macmillan
Those familiar tunes and melodies you don't often have a chance to hear
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
