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Presenter Brian Redhead at the CBI Conference in Brighton
In London: Libby Purves t.45* Prayer /or the Day With ROSEMARY WAKELIN
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Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
In the midst of life we are in death ...
(THE BOOK
OF COMMON PRAYER)
Death is a certainty for us all and though talking about our fears and anxieties might help, it seems a taboo subject. If you would like to talk about the practical or emotional problems associated with death, perhaps making a will or arranging a funeral or coping with grief, do call. Dr Colin Murray Parkes , lecturer at London Hospital Medical College and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to St Christopher's Hospice, and Bill Bowder , writer and clergyman in training, join Sue MacGregor. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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Towards the End of the Morning (7)
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A Very Good Piece of Work by ANTONIO SKÁRMETA translated and adapted by EVELYN FISHBURN
The first of two plays by this exiled Chilean author, set in Chile shortly after the 1973 coup.
Pedro is a small boy whose only interest is football and who is puzzled by the strange noises emanating from his parents' short-wave radio. But one day at school he is asked to write a composition on how his family spend their time.... with JUDY FRANKLIN , Directed by MARGARET ETALL long wave only
1 If a cat falls. it fluffs up its tail, whirls it round and lands on its feet. Can the big cats, such as the leopard, do this-and what happens when a Manx cat falls? '
The team of naturalists drops in to answer your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm)
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Presenter Bill Breckon
Brian Johnston in Isle of Axholine, Humberside
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Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talking Point
Tales from the Valley: LEN TUTT with a memory from his Welsh childhood.
The Roses of No-man's Land: some VADS of the First World War describe how they cared for the wounded.
Response: the fourth in a series on language and understanding by PROFESSOR RANDOLPH QUIRK.
The Opportunity of a Lifetime by EMMA SMITH , abridged in 15 instalments bV ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by Penelope Lee (1) ' I might have been in Treath Bay last week. In fact it's 35 years ago. I was 15. That year, 1937, my parents did a very uncharacteristic thing. They rented the Rose Cafe at Treath. which had been empty all summer, for the first two weeks of September, my father's annual holiday.'
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Spanish Temper - All or Nothing
In the third of six talks on his travels round Spain, Joseph Hone comes down from the high Pyrenees into the green and gold landscapes of Aragon and Navarra and then on to Pamplona, epicentre of Hemingway's Spanish cult.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
The Royal Yacht Britannia returned to Ports-mouth last week follow-ins the State visits to Italy, Tunisia. Algeria and Morocco by HM the QUEEN and HRB THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.
Peter Jones visited Britannia in the Bay of Naples to discover some of the problems and the pleasures of a royal tour. Producer ROGER MACDONALD
The Dosser's Threepenny Bit by IAN MCALPINE Read by Fraser Kerr
The news magazine
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Jack Regan
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A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain.
South - Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury v South West - The Ridings High School, Winterbourne, Bristol
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
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.
Robin Ray traces, with records, the artistry and achievement of some of the world's greatest musicians. This week: the American conductor Leopold Stokowski i Repeat)
by DAVID HOYLE , from the novel by WILLIAM MARCH
1917: America joins the War: And Company K set off with high spirits. Before sailing. Private Walt Webster laughed and shouted at me, " Bring on the whole German Army. I can whip 'em all." Go to it. boys! The Yanks are coming! '
Two months later. Private Wait Webster was dead. A year later Company K returned home. Boys matured into men. Except for the many left behind
with David Bait William Hootkins Charles Keating Stuart Milligan Kerry Shale and Tom Hunsinger as the Unknown Soldier Directed by PETER KING
A programme of special interest to the visually handicapped.
In this edition David Scott Blackball marks another ' notch on his long cane ' and recalls an occasion when he got an unexpected bonus.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
To check information given, or comment on issues raised, phone [number removed]from 8.30-10.0 pm
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
A Man in the Zoo by DAVID GARNETT abridged in seven parts by MADGE HART. Read by MAURICE DENHAM 47)
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