6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
5: Perception, Telepathy and Touch
by Anthony Smith long wave only
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Ulster Perceived
Reporter Paul Burden , who has spent much time North and South of the Border in Ireland, looks abroad to see what others make of our troubles. He and BBC Foreign
Correspondents consider support for the IRA in the United States and the Arab world and examine the Vatican connection.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL long wave only
NEM, p 93; If thou but suffer God to guide thee
(BP 35); Psalm 90. vv 1-12; Ephesians 5, vv 15-33
(Rsv); Father, hear the prayer we offer (BBC HB 352): long wave only
by Beryl Bainbridge
Five stories of love and marriage.
Read by John Rowe
BBC Manchester
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Malcolm Coe chooses the rhinoceros.
Producer ANNE ELAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced from Northern Ireland by Diane Harron
Guest: Anita Leslie , author of the bestseller Edwardians in Love and several widely-acclaimed biographies of many members of her family including her great-aunt Lady Randolph Churchill. A report on unemployment through the eyes of two families; one in Strabane in the North West of the Province which has the highest long-term unemployment rate in Western Europe, the other in Carrickfergus in the East which has been stricken by the recent sudden closure of many factories.
Producer COLIN LEWIS
Blood and Judgment (7) long wave only
The Dartist by ANDREW LYNCH
' We had our liver and onions. The baby was asleep. I sat in my chair and Brenda in hers and it frightened me to realise how boring we had become. My mind drifted back to the old days when I was taking money from suckers, but now there was another dartist in town and I couldn't help wondering what he was like ...'
Directed by TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester
Series of four programmes 3: Lying
Would you lie to protect a friend? Or to advance your career? Is it always, or ever, legitimate to tell a ' white ' lie?
Presenter Derek Robinson Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
The Luck of the Bodkins abridged in ten episodes by RICHARD USBORNE
Read by NIGEL ANTHONY (10) Producer PETER KING
Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs
TOM BOSWELL tests the Honda Accord.
Also including Continental Travel Information Round-up.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor GEOFF DOBSON
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection.
Producer JEREMY BIRCHALL (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
In only four months as leader of the Greater London Council, Ken Livingstone has become an enfant terrible of British public life. Is he leading the capital towards a new and better future, or is he, as his critics say, one of a new breed of doctrinaire politicians of the far Left? Presenter Peter Paterson
(Repeated: Sat 4.10 pm)
The Rt lion Roy Hattersley , mp Ann Leslie
Nicholas Winterton , mp Paul Foot tackle the issues raised by the audience at Godalming, Surrey.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Includes reviews of Fanny by Gaslight, an adaptation of Michael Sadleir 's bestseller serialised on Thursdays BBC1, two new productions of Verdi operas, Otello produced by Jonathan Miller at the Coliseum, London and Macbeth produced by Michael Giliot at the Grand Theatre, Leeds-also a biography of the actor. Richard Burton by Paul Ferris. Presenter
Michael Billington
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
John Morgan reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news, with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sheila Steafel, Chris Emmett and the music of David Firman
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Confessions of Felix Krull. Confidence Man (10) long wave only
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When the writer Russell Chamberlin was recently invited to observe a United Nations aid team at work in Peru, little did he expect to be confronted with the joys of eating guinea pig and sharing a bedroom with a large corsetted lady from the Andes ... long mate only
with Dilly Barlow long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
