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Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
4.451 Prayer for the Day With CANON JOHN SMITH
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Indoor Plants
All over the country, azaleas and fatsias. cheese Plants and prayer plants, weeping figs and creeping ngs are trying to settle into new homes.
If you want to know how to live with your indoor Plants then ring for advice from Jock Davidson , ahrhs. display manager of the largest indoor Plant nursery in the country. In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.

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The Petrified Florist by PADDY BATESON
Read bv Patrick Brannigan ' I've the good little flower business in Dublin. I do all sorts ... white flowers for the christening, the bouquet for the girlfriend, the spray for the weddin' an' the wreath for the funeral. I was happy an' content with me lot - until I heard about Jim Fogarty ... '
Producer JUDITH elliott BBC Northern Ireland

You Sniffed by PETER SILCOClt with Andrew Sachs and Heather Bell
There's a long night ahead for Julia and Charles, and all because ' Julia, you sniffed '.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham

When it is warm and dry the birds completely ignore my bird bath. So why, when it rains hard, do the birds flock to it and bathe as if they had only just discovered water?'
The team plunges into the heap of listeners' questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm)
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Presenter Jenni Mills

12.55Weather; programme news

Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines.

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
Personal Wonders: chosen by MAEVE BINCHY.
Living with a Micro-com-puter: CHRIS RILEY reports on his experiment with a home computer.
Reading Your Letters. The Temptation of Jack Orkney (2)

by ANTON CHEKHOV translated and dramatised by ARNOLD HINCHLIFFE adapted for radio by MATTHEW WALTERS
Chekhov is handed a manuscript which tells of a torrid and obsessive love affair. Assuming the role of an amateur detective he cleverly unmasks a murderer.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
(First broadcast in 1979)

'Borderlands: the dangerous edge of things-places where the map runs out as the last pale station lamp fades ...'
A series of six talks in which novelist Joseph Hone recalls his summer journey through Finland and Poland.
2: Finland- Up Country
North east from Helsinki into the forests, the lakes that edge the Soviet border: a Tsar's hunting lodge. a strange Byzantine Hotel, old dug-outs and slit trenches from the Winter War.
Producer joy HATWOOD

by BRIAN SIBLEY
A celebration of the Most Famous Bear in the World, given by Peter Bull , the well-known Bear Authority, the late Norman Shelley, well-known Voice of Pooh (and others), and Antony Miall , the musical renderer of H. Fraser-Sim son's music and hums. Producer JOHN tydeman
(First broadcast in October 1976 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first publication by Methuen of ' Winnie-the-Pooh ' by A. A. Milne with drawings by Ernest H. Shepard )
See Woddis On ... page 89

There Came Both Mist and Snow (7)

Presenters Robert Williams and Joan Bakewell
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including Financial Report

Thera Hird
Avis Bunnage Megs Jenkins in Down Memory Lane with Joe Gladwin Kenneth Connor Alexander John
Written by TERRY grecson Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)

(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)

Peter Evans reports on the health of medical care.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS

Donald Swann and Frank Topping present a special edition of their recent West End show, Swann with Topping.
Producer CHRIS REES
(Rev rpt of Christmas Day's broadcast)

An Investigator Investigated

Harry Price was tireless in his efforts to prove or disprove mediumship, hauntings, and other psychic phenomena. Extremely publicity-conscious, he went to great lengths to expose fraudulence, yet was accused of being a fraud himself. From an early age he studied conjuring, photography, witchcraft and magic, assembling a vast and valuable library on these subjects. He was born 100 years ago, on 17 January 1881, and died in March 1948.

Was he simply an egomaniac whose sole interest was self-glorification, or a genuine seeker after truth? June Knox-Mawer examines the life of this colourful and controversial man who certainly put psychical research on the popular map. Speakers include Molly Goldney, Anita Gregory, Maurice Barbanell, Peter Bond, Peter Underwood, Alan Wesencraft

(Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)

Jane Finnis reports on the career prospects for blind teachers: and an eye specialist answers questions on glaucoma. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA heshel

Presenter Colin Ford
Producer ANNE winder
9.59 Weather

Douglas Stuart reporting

A ten-part adventure serial in time and space by JAMES FOLLETT
2: First Footprint City
The starship Challenger has returned to its solar system, after a 115-year-long search for a planet suitable for colonisation. The crew discover that the Earth has vanished and that the Moon is now journeying around the sun in the orbit that the Earth once occupied:
Directed by Glyn Dearman (At the time of recording the cast were members of the BBC Radio Drama Company)

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