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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45- Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by Harriet CASS
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
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Write to: Feedback,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
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The British film industry has been in trouble for years with television, inflation, high taxation and falling ticket sales all blamed for its woes. But can anyone else make films and money at the same time?
Barry Norman reports.
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NEM P 67; Praise ye the Lord (BBC hb 280); Psalm 119 pt 3; Matthew 22, vv 1-14 (AV) Father, who on man dost shower BBC HB 389): long wave only
by W. Somerset Maugham
Read by Hugh Dickson
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Nineteen million households in Britain have a pet; six million dogs, almost as many cats, and then a veritable Noah's Ark of others: budgerigars, terrapins, gerbils. hamsters, slow, worms, goldfish, etc. Clive Jacobs asks how we should relate to our pets. Do they help us to be more human, or can they take a place in our lives that ought to be occupied by the love and companionship of other people? Written and researched by Peter Taylor Producer DAVID WlNT ¡.;R long wave only
A selection of personal experiences with wild creatures.
Gerald Durrell chooses the red howler monkey. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
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Able to Work campaign.
KEVIN MULHERN reports on the debate about whether the current law on disabled employment really works. Presenter Bill Breekon
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Against All the Odds: three major strokes left Donald Willis of Oxford, severely paralysed and without speech. But not only did he survive, he went on to write his autobiography which has just been published. David Lloyd reports.
The Norton Collection: Dennis Norton began with a mild interest in collecting. Now, with his wife Margaret, he runs his own museum. Eileen Totten has been to look round.
Feminist in Exile - Tatiana Mamonova was expelled from the Soviet Union last year for her feminist activities. On a visit to Britain, she talked about her beliefs and experiences to Margaret Horsfield
BBC Birmingham
A Glass of Blessings (12) by Barbara Pym, abridged in 12 parts by Janet Quigley. Read by Heather Bell (Music: Reinecke's Undine): long wave only
Men of Violence by JAN NEEDLE with Leslie Sands Eric Allan and Kenneth Cranham
Albert Winterbottom is a cantankerous, violent old fisherman, but when his boat runs aground, regional television journalists turn him into a local hero. The resultant publicity causes an outbreak of violence, but who is really responsible?
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
The Facts and Fallacies of Dieting. Presented by Caroline Parsons
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Six programmes 4: Ghosts
Everybody loves the thrill of hearing a ghost story, whether set in a stately home or council flat. Why do we have this morbid fascination with the souls of the departed? And what do these manifestations reflect of the people who create them?
Presented by Toni Arthur
The Householder by RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA abridged in ten parts by ZOE BAILEY
Read by SAM DASTOR (10) Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
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 STEPHEN PHELPS Editor GEOFF DOBSON
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with June Knox-Mawer
Producer JEREMY IURCHALL (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
The Boxer
Boxing is a profession where you expect to get hurt and where you expect to hurt other people. Are boxers different from the rest of us, and do they regard their profession as a job like any other?
Billy Waith , a veteran of over 80 fights and one of Britain's leading professional boxers, talks about his career and his attitude towards the sport whose violence is attracting more and more criticism.
Researcher ANDREW CURRY A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Sat 4.40 pm)
Christopher Tugendhat The Rt Hon
Barbara Castle , MEP
David Curry , MEP, from the European Parliament Building, Brussels
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
with Alexander MacLeod
A look at the 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 SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL ,
TONY SARCHET , PETER DICKEY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
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