News, weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast
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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
The Rev. Richard Harries
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Laurie MacMillan
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
John Eidinow takes up your comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers and management.
(Repeated: Sun 5.0pm)
Please send questions, criticisms or praise to: Feedback, [address removed].
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BBC Correspondents around the world cast their collective eye on a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by John Allen
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NEM, p.62; Stand up, and bless the Lord (BBC HB 268); Psalm 107, vv 31-42; Matthew 11, vv 2-15 (AV); Fill thou my life, O Lord my God (BBC HB 271)
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by Jeremy Burgess
Read by Mary Wimbush
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A portrait of Eleanor Farjeon
(Broadcast Tues 7.50pm)
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A selection of personal experiences with wild creatures.
Keith Corbett chooses the Common Toad.
BBC Bristol
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Presenter Bill Breckon
(Broadcast Wed 6.30pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
(Broadcast Thurs 7.5pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast
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Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Lofthouse who meets Chief Inspector Wynne Darwin - television has portrayed a selection of 'lady coppers' in recent years. Lancashire's top policewoman puts her patch into perspective.
Lofty Pleasures: the world of the homing-pigeon fancier is no longer all cloth cap and braces as Phil Smith has been finding out.
Town Teacher: George Bailey joins this unique north-east scheme to educate schoolchildren on past and future outside the classroom.
BBC Manchester
An Open Book (3)
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by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Ivy Litvinova
Dramatised for radio by Gerard McLarnon
with Rene Asherson as Marya Alexandrovna, Arthur Howard as the Count and Chris Harris as the Narrator
Marya Alexandrovna, the First Lady of the town of Mordasov, has dreams of marrying her daughter Zena into the nobility, in the person of the aged Count Gavrila. But the old count seems to have vague dreams of his own...
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
The Facts and Fallacies of Dieting
Presented by Caroline Parsons
BBC Bristol
(Repeat)
Eight programmes
Peter Porter considers the work of some British poets who are not committed to a particular style though they may be masters of many: Roy Fisher, Charles Tomlinson, Christopher Middleton, Edwin Morgan, George MacBeth, Adrian Mitchell, Adrian Henri and Roger McGough
Readers Garard Green and the poets themselves
by Rose Macaulay
abridged in 13 parts by Anton Gill
Read by Penelope Lee
with Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough
5.50 Shipping forecast
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
Stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport,
(Repeated: Mon 1.40pm)
with Margaret Howard
(Repeated: Sat 10.45am)
On the eve of St. Valentine's Day, Robert Rowe takes tea at home with romantic novelist, Barbara Cartland.
(Repeated: Sat 4.40 pm)
The Rt Hon David Owen, MP, Marghanita Laski, The Rt Hon Sir Richard Marsh, Tom Jackson
From Polegate, Sussex
Chairman David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions which tonight includes The Search for Alexander: Robin Lane Fox talks about book and the exhibition in Washington on the legend of Alexander.
Presenter Michael Billington
9.59 Weather
with Alexander MacLeod
An irreverently critical look at the news with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sheila Steafel, Jon Glover and music by David Firman
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
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(Broadcast Mon 8.45 am)
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast: inshore forecast
