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Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV MICHAEL GLANVILLE-SMITH
7.30 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought /or the Day
John Morgan introduces 55 minutes of interviews, comments, conversation and music from his guests live in the studio. Including The WeekSoFar by RUSSELL DAVIES
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE long wave only
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NEM, p 34: Blest be the everlasting God (BBC HB 486); Psalm 114; Matthew 8, vv 18 to 9, V 1 (av);
Jesus lives! thy terrors now (BBC HB 106) long wave only
Forbidden to Feed the Birds by JENNY KORALEK Read by Shirley Dixon long wave only
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Presenter Bill Breckon
Hypocrisy
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Mary Dilnot , retiring Editor of Woman's Weekly.
A Calculating Life:
NORMAN TOZER helps tO Cut the cost of living. Diary of a Country
Parish: ROBIN pare talks about last month in his Cambridgeshire village. Helen House, A Hospice for Children: MOTHER
FRANCES of the Anglican Community in Oxford talks tO ANNIE ALLSEBROOK about a unique project. Cousin Phillis (3) long wave only
GRIZELDA HERVEY. 1901-80, the well-known actress whose distinctive voice was familiar to millions of listeners over four decades of broadcasting, died in December. As a tribute, a repeat of this play written specially for her and which, sadly, was to be one of her last performances
This Line is Now Closed by SHEILA HODGSON
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
Composer and artist,
Edward Cowie looks out from the window of a hide on Leighton Moss bird reserve where he gathers inspiration for his music. Producer
JOHN HARRISON. BBC Bristol
from Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Responses (Ayleward)
Psalms: 22, 23 (Camidge, Parisian Tone)
First Lesson: 1 Maccabees 4, vv 36-end.
Canticles: Purcell in G minor
Second Lesson: Philippians 2, vv 1-18
Anthem: 0 Lord God of hosts (Purcell)
Organist and Master of the Chorister SIMON PRESTON Organ scholar MARK BLATCHLEY
The Towers of Trebizond by ROSE MACAULAY abridged in 13 parts by ANTON GILL
Read by Penelope Lee
1: Take My Camel, Dear
' Some Turkey travel, and some Turks and Greeks and religious Anglicans, and a mentally-deranged camel and a precocious ape. and two British who vanish into Russia, and a lot of people writing their books about Turkey.' So Rose
Macaulay described her book, in which Laurie, Aunt Dot and Fr Chantry-Pigg , each for a reason of his own. travel to the ancient Byzantine citadel of Trebizond.
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Details- Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
An investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Written and narrated by HENRY DONALD
JANE: Falling in love and marrying, like other misses, is quite out of the question. I have too little romance in my disposition ever to be in love with you or any other man.
CARLYLE: You bid me write to you as a friend. I must exhibit the true state of my feelings when I write. I never felt friendship of this sort towards anyone. Let me write to you with frankness and from the heart.
A story of courtship and married life from the letters and papers of Thomas Carlvle and Jane Welsh in celebration of this year's Carlyle Centenary.
Other parts played by TOM CRIDDLE and EILEEN MCCALLUM
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Reagan's Vietnam?
Revolutionary violence and murderous repression in Central America now threaten the United States' traditional domination of its
' banana republics '. The new President fears a Cuban-inspired upheaval on his doorstep and is committed to direct intervention in support of the embattled regimes in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
David Henshaw reports on the bloody struggles that have already cost thousands of lives and asks whether President Reagan's aggressive foreign policy will push the US into a new war. Producer GERRY NORTHAM Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurt 11.5am)
Presenter Richard Cork Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
Philip Hammond presents an affectionate portrait of John McCormack. the great Irish tenor who died 36 years ago but whose reputation has never waned.
Including reminiscences by MGR ARTHUR RYAN and an appreciation by ROBERT WHITE
Producer DAVID BYERS
(First b'cast on R Ulster)
The Worm Forgives the Plough. 8: Beauty Through the Dust: long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
