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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 LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Tom Vcrnon takes up your complaints and comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers and management.
Producer JOHN SKRINE
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Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television 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
(Repeated: Sat 3.25 pm) long marc only

NEM, p 106; How are thy servants blest. 0 Lord! (BBC HB 305); Psalm 95; Matthew 24. v 45 to 25, v 13 (av); Shepherd divine, our wants relieve (BBC HB 348): long wave only

The Biter Bit by WILLIAM SANSOM
Read by Charlie Chester

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Introduced by Wynford Vaughan Thomas DONALD JOHNSON gOeS lambing among the Southdowns of Sussex. LYNN TEN KATE attends a Romany gathering in Hampshire;
ERIC SIMMS watches wading-birds on the Norfolk coast of the Wash;
MARTIN MUNCASTER calls on a collector of old farm implements in Cambridgeshire;
MOLLIE HARRIS whistles up March hares in Oxfordshire; and SEAMUS MCKEE looks at the advance of technology on a hill-farm in Northern Ireland.
Producer JOHN HASLAM
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A selection of personal experiences with wild creatures. Gerald Durrell chooses the lyrebird.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol long wave only

Presenter Jenni Mills

12.55 Weather; programme news

Presenter Brian Widlake

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Introduced from Northern Ireland by Margaret Percy Studio Guest: Ingrid Allen , Professor and consultant of neuropathology specialising in multiple sclerosis research at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
Arlen llouse-the Women's Press: ROISIN MCAULEY reports on the first and only women's publishing house in Ireland.
Public and Private: a profile of a Northern
Ireland up and his family living and working between a troubled area of Belfast and Westminster. Sackcloth and Ashes: a singular perspective on Lent with the poet and playwright PATRICK GALVIN. BBC Northern Ireland
A Friend of Mary Rose (5) long wave only

Harmony Weekend by DAVE SIMPSON
Nila and Barry run a kind of weekend house party for lonely hearts.
However, it is not always easy to organise romance.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester

The Facts and Fallacies at Dieting
Stretch those muscles! ESTHER FAIRFAX recommends regular exercise. Presented by Caroline Parsons
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Six programmes 5: Landmarks
The more unusual features of the British countryside - strange hills, dark pools, weird rock formations and stone circles - have always attracted a host of explanations that range from the plausible to the mystical.
Presenter Toni Arthur
Scriptwriter DAVE ARTHUR Researched by ROSY VOSS
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN

A Study in Scarlet (5) Read by John Pullen as the author

Presenters Gordon Clough and Janet Cohen
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5.55 Weather; programme news

including Financial Report

Richard Hudson-Evans is in Belfast tonight to bring you the stories behind the special problems of transport and travel in Northern Ireland.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor GEOFF DOB son

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with June Knox-Mawer Producer PAT PRYOR
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Jenny Pitman , Britain's most successful lady horse trainer who could become the first to win the Grand National.
Presenter Pamela Donald Producer DAVID POWELL (Repeated: Sat 4.40 pm)

The Rt lion Roy Jenkins Dr Janet Morgan Michael Clayton and Tony Marlow , MP tackle the issues raised by an audience from Rushden, Northants
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)

President Reagan survives an assassination attempt by John Hinckley on 30th March 1981, leading to a debate on the stricter control of handguns.

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am)

Presenter Richard Cork Producer CARROLL MOORE

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 HICKEY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: .Sat 5.25 pm)

Anna of the Five Towns by ARNOLD BENNETT abridged in 15 parts by DOREEN MAHON
Read by MAGGIE MCCARTHY (15). Producer ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham long wave only
(Starting on Monday: live short stories by Graham Greene )

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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude