News, weather, papers and sport
Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
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Presenters
John Timpson and Brian Redhead
S.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV JOHN CROWLEY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Petcare
What factors should you consider before becoming a pet owner? What pet and what breed is best for you? How do you choose a dog, a cat, a guinea-pig? How can you help your new pet adjust to the strange environment of your home? What about veterinary care, diet and exercise? How should you help an injured animal? Whatever your ' pet - problems, share them with Tina Hcarne , editor of the official
RSPCA Pet Guides, and James Allcock , a veterinary surgeon and author of several pet advisory books.
Teresa McGonagle 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 - the politics and the people.
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NEM, p 62; Enthrone thy God <BBC HB 320); Psalm 25 vv 1-10; Jeremiah 6, vv 10-16a (AV); Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277) long wave only
The Recluse by ALAN BOLD
Read by Robert Trotter \Producer BRUCE YOUNG BBC Scotland
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I Can Give You
Everything But Love by KARL BARRY
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' Please could you tell me (because Mummy doesn't know) if bees go to the toilet? '
The innocence of a 4-year-old tests the team. Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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Presenter Bill Breckon
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Presenter Robin Day
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with Margaret Percy Stops - Starts: a quiz series to test - and improve - your knowledge of your car.
Who Carest: extracts from the speeches at yesterday's ' Women of the Year Luncheon '.
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by A. J. CRONIN (3)
Like many others, Colin Semper has been travelling in the steps of St Paul in Turkey. He has sent back four letters. From Tarsus:
Birthplace of St Paul
The tea dance almost disappeared with the decline in popularity of ballroom dancing and the emergence of rock and pop in the early 1950s, but recently there has been a demand for its return. Once again it is possible to dance to the music of the ' big band ' and take tea in elegant surroundings such as the Café de Paris. Monty Modlyn talks to tea dancers up and down the country, and his observations make a significant reflection on life in Britain in 1981. Producer MARLENE PEASE
The Moonspinners (2)
Presenters
Robert Williams and Gordon Clough
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including Financial Report
Redland High School, Bristol v. Wootton Bassett School, Wootton Bassett
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
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Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the gp's surgery.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
Presented by Wynford Vaughan Thomas who this month visits a butterfly farm in South Wales.
Also, Martin Muncaster finds out why pigeons are a nuisance in Hampshire, while Eric Simms visits Gibraltar Point Bird Observatory for the migration season. In County Down, David Erwin observes the wildlife on Strangford
Loch, and Stephen Phelps has been to Shropshire to meet Eusty Rogers - the man believed to be the last coracle-maker left in England. Autumn is the traditional time for harvesting and David Taviner has been watching the Yorkshire farmers at work.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT (Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)
Fifth of six programmes Brussels: A Mandarin's Paradiset
Our membership of the European Community has had more impact on the daily life of Whitehall than on any other area of national life.
Hugo Young goes to
Brussels to investigate the power the Common Market gives our civil servants.
He talks to, among others, Sir Michael Butler , the UK Ambassador to the EEC; Peter Pooley , seconded from the Ministry of Agriculture to negotiate on Britain's behalf; Sir Donald Maitland ,
Permanent Secretary at the Department of Energy; and politicians, The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp; The Rt lion
Roy Hattersley , mp; and The Rt lion Peter Walker , mp. Producer ANNE SLOMAN (Repeal)
This edition includes advice on the selection and use of low vision aids.
Presented by Peter White
Producer THENA HESHEL
Blind listeners can phone in suggestions and comments relating to the programme on [number removed] 8.30-10.0 pm
Free quarterly bulletins summarising information broadcast, available from Room 816, Broadcasting House, London W1A IAA
includes the 1981 Whithread Literary Awards which were announced today; and Dance Umbrella, Britain's largest international festival of contemporary dance.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer JANE STENNING
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup (2) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
