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Presenters
John Timpson and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV GEORGE CASSIDY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
2: The Riding School
Burglars are at work in Britain on average once every minute of every day of every week. So how can you best protect your home, your property and yourself?
Chief Superintendent Arthur Snow. Director of the Home Office Crime Prevention Centre, and Peter Burden, Chief Crime Reporter of the Daily Mail, join Teresa McGonagle to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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nem, p 71; Before the almighty Father's throne (BBC HB 452); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; Ephesians 4, vv 1-16 (rsv); Tell out, my soul (bp 81) long wave only
Loving Couples
Stories of love and marriage
2: Christmas Is Over by ALAN BLEASDALE
Read by Simon Molloy Producer KAY JAMIESON BBC Manchester
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A Triangle Squared by TESSA KRAILING
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Do bees always die after stinging?
This and other questions about insects, birds and plants are answered by a panel of Denis Owen , Jim Flcgg and Glyn Jones. Presenter Derek Jones producer JEFFREY COHEN BBC Bristol
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Presenter Jenni Mills
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
Music by PHILIP POPE
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE (Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Among today's items
Quaversand Quadrangles: Choirboys from parishes all over England gathered at Sherborne in Dorset for a residential course. BOB PRIZEMAN was there. Believe It or Not....: astrologer RUSSELL GRANT discusses the Libra personality and looks at the future of JUDITH CHALMERS.
Blood and Judgment (4) long wave only
from the novel by James Hilton dramatised in three parts by Barry Campbell
starring Derek Jacobi as Hugh Conway
During May 1931 the revolutionary situation in Baskul worsened and Air Force machines arrived from Peshawar to evacuate the white residents. A few miscellaneous aircraft were also employed, among them one lent by the Maharajah of Chandapore. In this four passengers embarked: Miss Roberta Brinklow, of the Eastern Mission; Henry D. Barnard, a US citizen; Hugh Conway, HM Consul; and Captain Charles Mallinson, HM Vice-consul. They did not reach their destination.
Harry Soan looks back at six villages which have been his home - and some of the folk who gave them their character.
2: Teenager in Surrey
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
' Hair, hair, hair: I've got none on my noddle
... I'm proud of my old bald head ' sang Harry Champion, but the loss of hair doesn't give most men cause to rejoice. Although doctors know why baldness occurs, they've been unsuccessful in correcting it.
Geoff Watts talks to a dermatologist and a biologist about the causes of baldness, and to an American medical researcher who believes he has discovered a drug that may restore hair growth.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The Luck of the Bodkins (7)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gill Pyrah on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
First round 2: North 1
BEDLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, Bedlington
V ST BENET BISCOP HIGH SCHOOL. Bedlington Qucstionmasters TIM GUDGIN and PADDY FEENY
Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY , NIGEL RICHARDSON and PADDY FEENT Producer
PAUL MAYUEW-ARCHER
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts on the health of medical care.
Producer Richard ELLIS (Repeated: Sat 3.0 pm)
The fat owl of the Remove, still hungry, still in trouble, still waiting for that mythical postal order.
Forty years ago the Magnet ceased publication, but the Greyfriars Men go marching on. A portrait by Norman Longmate of the famous school and its creator Frank Richards.
Reader Geoffrey Wheeler.
Narrator David Mahlowe.
The voice of Frank Richards from the disc 'Floreat Greyfriars'.
The school song specially recorded by boys of Manchester Grammar School.
BBC Manchester
In the last of 11 programmes ANTONY
HOPKINS investigates a recurring theme in music.
Getting the Feel of Things This year for the first time an archaelogical summer school for blind people held in Wiltshire. Alan Dvte reports
Presenter Peter White Producer TIIENA HESIIEL
Maurice Scndak
' They are all variations on the same theme; how children master feelings - anger, boredom, fear, frustration, jealousy - and manage to come to grips with their lives '. Maurice Sendak , author and illustrator of over 70 children's books talks to Paul Vaughan about his trilogy Where the Wild
Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, and the influences of writers and artists on his work.
Acclaimed for his design for The Cunning Little Vixen for the New York City Opera this year,
Sendak also talks about his proposed design for Prokofiev's, The Love of Three Oranges at the next Glyndebourne season. Producer richard DUNN
with Alexander MacLeod
Confessions of Felix Krull. Confidence Man i7) long wave only
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Symphony No 99, in t: flat DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE
ORCHESTRA, conducted by OTMAR SUITNER long wave only
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