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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 9.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Tom Vernon takes up your complaints and comments about BBC programmes and policy. Producer JOHN SKRINE (Repcated: Sun 5.0 pm) long wave only
Write to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
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BBC Correspondents around the world cast their collective eye on a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEN long wave only
NEM. p 46; 0 for a . thousand tongues to sing (BBC HB 278); Psalm 32; Matthew 20, vv 17-28
(AV); Lift up your heads, ve gates of brass (BBC HE 178): long wave only
The Last Leaf by o. HENRY Read by Sally Mates
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Almost all Christians sing in church. But why? And does the style of their singing matter? Should we lament the decline of piped organs and robed choirs, or the growth of folk masses and up-beat hymns?
Robert Prizeman listens to the varied sounds of worship and talks to choirboys and organists. composers, poets, and members of congregations. about the state of church music today.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester long wave only
P. J. Kavanagh reads from the book Hampshire Days; naturalist W. H. Hudson 's account of the battle for survival of an orphaned blackbird.
Producer JOHN HARRISON
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Presenter Jenni Mills.
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlakc
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Introduced from Bristol by Carol Paton
Guest: yachtswoman Clare Francis, on her fascination with 'the commanding sea'.
Class Enemies?: John Howard investigates an exchange scheme between boys at Eton and pupils at Bristol's Brislington Comprehensive School.
'Don't Go Home Alone...':
Cheryl Armitage reports on the making of a film by Bristol University students, which illustrates the reality of attacks on women, and how to avoid them.
BBC Bristol
A Glass of Blessings (7) long wave only
by Ivan Turgenev
Translated by Ariadne Nicolaeff
with Frank Finlay as Kuzovkin and Morag Hood as Olga Petrovna
Written a few years before A Month in the Country, this little-known play is an emotional comedy about an elderly man's devotion to a daughter he must never recognise publicly as his own.
Adapted for radio and directed by Brian Miller
BBC Bristol
The Facts and Fallacies of Dieting
' People who don't like food don t like anything - you don't like sex, you don't like anything if you don't like food. Boring!
Thin people are boring! '
(TERRY WOGAN )
1,000 calories a day?
Jonathan Hewat finds out how flexible restaurants are when faced with such a customer. Presented by Caroline Parsons
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Six programmes 3: Witches!
The witch has always been a popular figure with storytellers. Why did belief in them cause so much panic and distress in the Middle Ages? And where does the image of the ugly old hag in a pointed hat come from? Presenter Toni Arthur
Scriptwriter DAVE ARTHUR
Researched by Rosy VOSS
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
The Householder (5)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Janet Cohen
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
The world of travel and transport
Producer Deborah CHRISTIE Editor GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
A. J. P. Taylor
The irrepressible historian is 75 years old in a few days' time.
Tonight. Robert Robinson talks to the man who describes himself as a ' hereditary dissenter and explores his special position as one of Britain's favourite eggheads.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN
The Most Rev
Dr Stuart Blanch ,
The Archbishop of York
Professor Sir Roy Marshall Katharine Whitehorn Lord Carr tackle the issues raised by an audience from Snaith, Humberside
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Presenter Sheridan Morlcy Producer CLARE SELERIE
with Alexander MacLeod
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. JEREMY BROWNE , BOB SlNFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL ,
TONY SARCHET , PETER HICKEY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude