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Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day
THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Peter Donaldson
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
The last of two readings The Interlopers (RpO
Tom Vernon takes up your complaints and comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers and management.
Producer john SKRINE
(Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm) Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television to: Feedback, BBC,
Broadcasting House, London VIA 4WW
A foreign correspondent on the move often has to operate from some of the Bnest hotels in the world, enjoying not only its comforts but the communications facilities he needs for his job. But such hotels are not always quite so comfortable. especially when they are at the centre of civil war or revolution...
Angus McDermid reports. A Radio News production by KEVIN RUANt :
NEM. p 38; Jesu. our hope, our heart's desire (BBC HB 126); Psalm 20;
Colossians 1, v 24 to 2, v 5 (rsv); Jesus shall reign where'er the sun (BBC hb 460): long wave onltf
Doughnuts with Cinnamon by JANET KCCLES
Read by Sally Mates
' She and her sisters had had everything they ever wanted in Poland, before the war. She showed me photographs to prove it. There they were in their fox furs and smart hats, walking in the park they would never see again.
A Portrait of Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
Two hundred years ago, on 13 March 1781,
WILLIAM HERSCHEL was systematically scanning the skies above Bath through his home-made seven-foot telescope, when he made the first planetary discovery since the dawn of history - Uranus. The discovery transformed Herschel from musician to piofessional astronomer and in his work as private astronomer to George III and first President of the Royal Astronomical Society, he was to revolutionise the science. In National Astronomy Week John Ebdon looks at the life and genius of the man who gave us the modern concept of the Universe.
Producer BRIAN COOK
When you see the children feeding the ducks on the local pond. do you realise that the mallard duck is a truly wild bird and many go as far as Russia to breed?
Introduced by Jim Flegg Producer JOHN harrison BBC Bristol
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
broadcast Thurs 7.5 pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
An Otter 's Tale: ' Bee ' the otter lives in Gloucestershire with DAPHNE NEVILLE , but how are wild otters faring in this country? Author KIT WILLIAMS joins a discussion on these endearing creatures.
Alone at Home ... with a Young Family: the National Housewives' Register aims to help.
CHERYL ARMITAGE reports on their organisation.
How Old are You,: . old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.'
J. B. SMITH examines the imaginative art of the ' put off ' employed by adults in reply to children's persistent questions.
BBC Bristol
Up the Crossing
5: What are Little Girls Made Oft
by Chris Allen.
with Diana Bishop as Myra Stephens.
Myra is a middle-aged office cleaner with a boring daily job and family. Her life is considerably brightened when a handsome security guard joins the firm but she finds, like many of us, that all that glisters is not necessarily gold.
Geoflrc} Smith talks to
Ken Ford about the week in his and your garden. Producer ken FORD BBC Manchester
John Russell Brown presents the second of eight programmes on drama in Britain since the War.
Breaking the Surface - Interior Drama
Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godut. which received its first London production in 1955, explored the interior life that exists behind spoken thought. It had a profound influence on young British dramatists of the period like Harold Pinter.
JOHN RUSSELL BROWN considers the similarities and differences between these two writers and the influence that Pinter has had, in his turn, on more recent British playwrights. Producer DENNIS SIMMONS
For notes on this series please send sae to: Drama Up to Now, [address removed]
Talking to Animals The Woodnouse Way
The last of a series of six programmes recorded at the home of BARBARA WOODHOUSE
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Presenters Gordon Clough and Janet Cohen
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs
The world of travel and transport.
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated; Mon 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON '
A personal portrait
Marghanita Laski Professor Bernard Williams
David English and Gore Vidal tackle the issues raised by an audience from Sudbury. Suffolk
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Michael Billington presents reviews of two new theatrical productions in London and looks at current trends in the Broadway musical.
Producer CLARE SELERIE
Stephen Milligan reporting
A look at the news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sheila Steafel and the music of DAVID FIRMAN. Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK,
ANDY WILSON , JEREMY BROWNE ,
BOB SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHLLL TONY SARCHET and PETER HICKEY. Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCIIER
The People of the Sea 5) long wave only
long icavc only
An imaginary sale of the BBC Sound Archives attracts radio critic Vat
Arnold-Forster to browse through the catalogue and choose the recordings she would most like to own. long wave only
with Dilly Barlow
Radio 4 goes up tempo to start the weekend. long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
