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Presenter John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
John Morgan takes up your comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers and management.
Producer JOHN SKRINE
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Pfease send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW, or phone.
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More than 500 million people throughout the world live their lives in the shadow of hunger. Tens of thousands die from starvation every year. Of the 34 countries where food is in short supply. 26 are in Africa, and they receive millions of dollars in aid from the developed nations. But arc the aid projects the ones they really need? Can an emergent nation have too much aid? The BBC's Agriculture Correspondent. Denis Frost. has been to Africa to find out. A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEN long wave only
NEM, p 84: Lord. as thy dear cross *e flee (BBC HB 293): Psalm 142; Genesis 32, v 22 to 33. v 4 (AV); Lord Christ, who on thy heart didst bear (BBC HB 380): long wave only
Northanger Abbey
5: Matrimony and Dancing
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Malcolm Coe chooses the River-horse or Hippo
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Presenter Bill Breckon
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Finding a Voice: DAVID LLOYD tells the story of Tewkesbury's Abbey School. Britain's newest choir school.
4ction DayAssessment: more than a million women were represented at yesterday s Women's Action Day meeting, which was called to publicise women s priorities for the 80s. What did it achieve? .A Victorian Butterfly: in her diaries. MARGARET FOUNTAINE wrote about the butterflies and the admirers she collected around the world. JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH looks at the remarkable life of the rector's daughter from Norfolk.
BBC Birmingham
The Opportunity of a Lifetime (14) long wave only
The Search by Antonio Skarmeta, translated by Evelyn Fishburn
with John Hollis
The second of two plays by this author, set in Chile just after the 1973 coup. Cosme, a taxi driver whose son has been arrested for harbouring a socialist, goes in search of him and on the way acquires a new commitment of his own.
Directed by MARGARET ETALL
A series of eight talks in which a memory is triggered off by a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch.3: Malysh
Bill Campbell possesses a piece of coarsely knitted cloth, which turned up in his luggage when he left Russia to live in England. Who put it there? Who was Malysh? Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
A series of seven programmes about the changing status and role of women and men.
4: New Biology - Old Morality
Abortion techniques, contraception, fertility aids - these technologies are being constantly improved. But what are the moral implications of the directions in which scientists are moving? Presented by Jean Medawar
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
Bitter Fancy by HELEN COLE Read by CÉCILE CHEVREAU Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presenters Gordon (lough and Susannah Simons Editor DEREK LEWIS
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD
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Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC programmes over the past seven days. Producer ALASTAIR WILSON 'Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
Alan Fisher. Lord Willis Barbara Woodbouse Peter Marsh from the Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion. Shorncliffe. Kent
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated. Sat 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views, for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 6.30. to: Any Answersf, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Michael Billington
Producer RICHARD DUNN
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sheila Steafel. ..Jon Glover and music by DAVID FIRMAN Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK, ANDY WILSON , BOB SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL , JEREMY BROWNE , CHRIS STRATFORD, DAVE MORLEY
Producer .JIMMY MULVILLE
by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett
Read by
Derek Godfrey
'Having never seen virtuous Frenchwomen before, he reflected also that this elegantly dressed young lady, with her well-developed shoulders and exaggeratedly small waist, in all probability followed another calling as well as giving French lessons.'
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