News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead including
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Presented by Roger Cook (Broadcast: Wed 7.20 pm) long wave only
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An eight-part series in which William Woollard investigates the style and quality of law enforcement in Britain today.
2: Watching a City
' It's so unpredictable ... anything from an old woman who's collapsed through drinking too much. to a gang of yobboes on the rampage. You just can't tell. I suppose I'm a sort of fireman who just dashes in where I'm needed.'
(PC DICK THORPE of Leeds Police)
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham
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NEM. p 118; Father, we praise thee (BBC HB 405); Psalm 91. vv 1-13;
Romans 6, vv 15-23 (rsv); Through the night of doubt and sorrow (BBC HB 186) long wave only
Book, New Every
Morning. £1.75 hardback and fl.25 paperback, from bookshops
Possession by NORA WINDRIDGE
Read by June Barrie
" A witch lives there,"
Beatrice told him ... ' Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
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We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve, but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort our your queries.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Questions, on a postcard please, to:
Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers.
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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with Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: Politics for People? - THE RT HON
SHIRLEY WILLIAMS discusses her own political philosophy with JULIA LANGDON of The Guardian. Quick as a Flash: ANNE JONES has invested in a piece of technological wizardry.
Reading Your Letters. My Mum Has Epilepsy and It's Nothing to Fuss About: PAT ROWE talks to the Usiskin family about how they look after each other.
Close to Home (8) long wave only
Marginal Seat by DAVID SELF
A General Election is called. The wives of the leading candidates react to the mounting pressures in different ways.
Directed by PETER KING
Comedy Harmony and Parody Melody
An anthology introduced byFritzSpiegl
This week SYD HOWARD gives a village concert and some non-singers sing their heart out.
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD gramophone records
Strange Meeting (4)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash. (Repeated: Sot 7.50 am)
Written by DEBBIE COOK
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
D. M. Thomas , poet and novelist, presents this the last of his programmes that he has called his Six Houses: Childhood,
Changes, Love, Mourning, Mysteries - and now.
Celebration. They are all one house in which we all live, and if the walls crumble, the poet still strives to shore them up in his House of Celebration. Reader DAVID COLLINGS
Producer PENNY LEICESTER
Includes reviews of Funny Man on ITV; and Turner and the Sublime, the latest exhibition at the British Museum.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Symphony No 3 direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Yvonne Mintoni mezzo-sop) London Symphony Chorus director RICHARD HICKOX Southend Boys Choir London Symphony Orchestra leader MICHAEL DAVIS conductor Claudio Abbado
Three Loaves of Bread The smell of freshly-baked bread has a particular significance for Archie Hill.
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard reporting
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chunkin (9) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
