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Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day
THE REV STANLEY BRINKMAN 7-0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
The ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people, which this week comes from
Russell Harty 's home town of Blackburn. Producer IAN GARDHOUSE long wave only
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Book, Down the Garden Path, 13.50, from bookshops
NEM, p 84; Christian, seek not yet repose (BBC HB
340); Canticle 4; Isaiah 55, vv 6-11 (RSV); Forty days and forty nights (BBC HB 341): long wave only
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie by BERYL BAINBRIDGE
Read by David Mahlowe ' In the old days, when they'd lived in a proper house, he could have stepped out of the back door and perambulated up and down the yard.
Had there been anything so exalted as a back door in this hell hole. going out of it certainly wouldn't improve his health. Not without a Parachute.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
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News. views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Brcckon
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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the Roman, Norman and county town of Lancashire.
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Edward Cowie , composer and painter.
Stately DIY: STAN and OLIVE CRABTREE bought and restored a derelict 13th-century mansion themselves. Thurnham Hall is now open to the public; MARTIN HENFIELD took the guided tour. Dog Days with champion shepherd HARRY HUTCHINSON.
A Calculating Life:
NORMAN TOZER helps to cut the cost of living.
Producers DIANA STENSON and PAT TAYLOR
BBC Manchester
The Crimson Chalice (7) long leave only
(Sue MacGregor says Be My Guest on R2 at 10.30)
The Incredible
Stan Mascott and the Siege of Rostov Cathedral by TOM ELLIOTT
An inveterate line-shooter, angler and absentee, Stan Mascott looks certain for the sack after he's seen on Miles Platting Station with his fishing gear, when he should have been at his lathe. Only a miracle can save his job. Can he produce one?
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
International zoo vet, David Taylor , visits animals all over the world, and remembers the case of the killer whale with frost-bite.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
for Ash Wednesday, from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge
Responses (Thomas Ebdon ) The Miserere: Psalm 51 (Allegri)
First Lesson: Daniel 9, v 3, to 10, vv 15-19
Canticles: Byrd (The First Service)
Second Lesson: Hebrews 4. vv 1-13
Anthem: Tristis est anima mea (Lassus)
Director of Music GEORGE GUEST
Organ student ADRIAN LUCAS
The Trumpet Major (8)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: 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)
HELP! page 79
On this Ash Wednesday, the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev and Rt Hon
Robert Runcie , is Derek Cooper 's guest. You are invited to phone in your questions or views about the role of the Church in the 1980s and the part that the Archbishop has to play in it.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 6.30 pm
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Robert Fox
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Presenter Richard Cork Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
John Morgan reporting
Last of four programmes on religious thinkers of the mid-20th century. Introduced by Vernon Sproxton with THE REV DR DANIEL JENKINS. Karl Barth. Producer
HUBERT HOSKINS
The Painted Veil (8) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
