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Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV
MICHAEL GLANVILLE-SMITH
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7-30, 8.30 News headlines '.45* Thought for the Day
4: Two Gentle People
' Modesty and disillusion gave them something in common ... they could have been a married couple who had grown to resemble each other '.
Going Solo
What sort of person do you have to be to start your own business? What skills and techniques do you need to run it? What help can you expect from an accountant, a bank manager or a solicitor? How do you find your customers, assess your progress and make realistic plans for the future? In the studio to answer your questions are Derek Jones and Bill Perry , who have been providing training and consultancy services at their Small Business
Centre at the University of Aston for the past 14 years, and are currently contributing to the weekly series Going Solo on Saturday afternoons. Sue MacGreeor is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in. long wave only
NEM, p 54; Our blest
Redeemer ere he breathed (BBC HB 160); Psalm 126; Ephesians 1. vv 17-23 and 2. vv 1-10 (RSV); Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (BBC HB 321) long wave only
Dead Ringer
Written and read by Simon Smith
' First he makes with a big wink, in sort of slow-motion. Then in a throaty rumble, he says, " You look after The Eagles. right? " '
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
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Give the Clown his Supper by GERRY JONES
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. Do mallards use coots as servants? '
This and other questions about birds, insects and plants are answered by our panel of Jim Flegg , Glyn Jones and Denis Owen.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer JEFFREY COHEN BBC Bristol
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Presenter Bill Brcckon
The only local radio station broadcasting to you wherever you are in the nation.
Written and performed by Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Stevens with additional material by Richard Curtis
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12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
i Broadcast Mon 7.5 pm)
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Among today's items
Life Savers: WYN KNOWLES visited Wormwood
Scrubs where long-term prisoners are raising money for those condemned to another kind of life sentence - that of mental or physical disability.
Exotic Cookery: UMA RAM NATH demonstrates Pork Pasanda, a traditional North Indian dish. A Forgotten Season by KATHLEEN CONLON abridged in nine parts by DOREEN E STALL Read by PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE (9)
(Music: Planel's Trumpet Concerto) long wave only
by STENDIIAL 47)
Dramatised for radio in seven parts by D. G. BRIDSON
Harry Soan looks back at six villages which have been his home - and some of the folk who gave them their character.
I: A Berkshire Childhood Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
An anthology of poetry in praise, doubt and condemnation of the juice of brave John Barleycorn , with Ian Stewart and gentlemen in the saloon bar in search and avoidance of inebriation. Including the work of Kingsley Amis,
Charles Baudelaire , Robert Burns. Lord Byron.
Robert Herrick. Robert Lowell , Hugh MacDiarmid ,
William McGonagall , Abu Mihjan , F. Scott
Monument. Alfred Lord Tennyson and, of course, Anon.
Compiled by ALAN BOLD
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
The Luck of the Bodkins (2)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gill Pyrah on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain
Girvan Academy, Girvan v. The Sacred Heart Academy, Girvan
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
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Geoff Watts reports on the research and advances discussed by doctors and medical scientists at the annual congress of the International Association for the Study of Pain held last week in Edinburgh. Producer DEBORAH COHEN (Repeated: Sat 3.0 pm)
When the Atlantic Fleet of the Royal Navy refused to sail in September 1931. Britain's prestige and confidence were badly shaken - the Navy symbolised
Britain's strength. In the financial panic that followed, the Gold Standard was finally abandoned.
Now, 50 years later to the day. the 'mutineers' tell their story for the first time.
Compiled and presented by Alan Ereira with SEAN BARRETT, JOHN HOLLIS, NICHOLAS COURTNEY and MICHAEL SPICE and officers and men of the Atlantic Fleet.
(Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)
Each week ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Eating Without Much Cooking
Hannah Wright has more suggestions for meals that are easy to prepare.
PresentedbyPeterWhile Producer THENA HESHEL
Blind listeners can phone in suggestions and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]8.30-11.0 pm Free quarterly bulletins summarising information broadcast, available from Room 816. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
includes Fellini's "City of Women" starring Marcello Mastroianni; and a review of the Last Night of the Poms, which includes the specially commissioned "Song of Australia" performed by Dame Edna Everage with the London Symphony Orchestra, at the Royal Albert Hall.
with Charles Wheeler and voices and opinions from around the world
Confessions of Felix Krull. Confidence Man 12) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
String Quartet in F, Op 96 (The American)
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