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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

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon
Producer:
John Skrine

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Prizeman
Producer:
Roger Hutchings

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Carol Paton
Unknown:
Clare Francis
Unknown:
John Howard
Unknown:
Cheryl Armitage

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

Contributors

Translated By:
Ariadne Nicolaeff
Adapted by/Director:
Brian Miller
Kuzovkin:
Frank Finlay
Olga Petrovna:
Morag Hood
Pavel Nikolaich:
Colin Baker
Flegont Aleksandrych:
Neil Stacy
Ivan Kuzmich Tropachev:
John Hartoch

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Jonathan Hewat
Presented By:
Caroline Parsons
Producer:
Carole Stone

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Toni Arthur
Scriptwriter:
Dave Arthur
Unknown:
Rosy Voss
Producer:
Daniel Snowman

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

Contributors

Unknown:
J. P. Taylor
Talks:
Robert Robinson
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

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stuart Blanch
Unknown:
Sir Roy Marshall
Unknown:
Katharine Whitehorn
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Carole Stone

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel.
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Music By:
David Firman
Unknown:
Jenkin John Langdon.
Unknown:
Andy Wilson.
Unknown:
Jeremy Browne
Unknown:
Bob Slnfield
Unknown:
Brian Bethell
Unknown:
Tony Sarchet
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer

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