News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
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Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV JOHN CROWLLT 7,0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.31. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
and a tableful of talkers deliberate on the week so far and celebrate a birthday.
Producer BILL ROGERS
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Bill Sowerbutts
Professor Alan Gemmell and Clay Jones
Questionmaster Ken jora long wave only
Book, Down the Garden Path, £ 3.50, from bookshops
NEM,p 75; All as God wills (BBC HB1); Psalm
112; Jude, vv 17-25 (rsv); Who are these (BBC HB 236) long wave onlu
The Zulu Woman by BETTY BURTON
Read by Sean Barrett ' Eddie did not see the woman come or know how long she had been standing there. She was tall and dignified, but dignity is natural to the Zulu. But this woman had something extra, an air of remoteness She looked as though she could stand thus for days.'
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Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar, and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
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Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Margaret Percy
Among today's items Guest of the Week:
The champion jockey, Willie Carson.
Watching the Pennies: JILL BURRIDGE talks to a married couple living on the state pension.
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It's My Baby Too by JEAN NELSON with Sarah is unmarried and about to have a baby. Her mother, Lottie, is looking forward to the grandchild. But when the father decides to do the honourable thing and propose, Lottie is very put out. She wants a baby in the family but not a son-in-law.
Directed by SHAUNMACLOUCHLIN BBC Bristol
A further sequence of ribald reflections on life beyond our shores.
This week, Christopher Matthew casts a suave English glance over the French.
The sixth of 13 parts One-Way System
Gerald Priestland tries to look objectively at
Christianity's claim to be the unique way to salvation and the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus said ' I am the Way ... No man comes to the Father, but by me.'
The Moonspinners (3)
Presenters
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather;
Programme news
including Financial Report
Andrew Cruickshank in The Tree with Joe Dunlop Naney Mitchell John Kane
Sandra Clark John Dunbar and Crawford Logan
Written by DONALD BULL
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm) (Andrew Cruickshank is a National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into the problems of listeners which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud.
Presented by Roger Cook
Four years ago three women developed breast cancer. Two had orthodox treatment but the third chose natural therapy methods. Two of these women lived, one died.
Brenda Kidman tells her own story and those of her two friends.
The programme also describes the development of natural cancer control methods now being used to good effect in various parts of the country.
Producer MARLENE PEASE
The young British soprano sings music from Vivaldi's motet ' Nulla in mundo pax sincera ', an aria from Handel's ' Messiah *, and a setting of Psalm 110 by Monteverdi. gramophone records
Poland: Is the Party Over?
Poland's ruling
Communist Party is in tatters: the survivors are clinging on to power, engaged in a bitter fight against the initiatives and challenges thrown down by an angry and confused Solidarity. Shortages and dislocation are growing worse, and winter draws in. Will the Poles be able to find a solution to their economic and political problems which will not provoke Soviet intervention?
Brian Beedham chairs a discussion
Producer DAVID MORTON
includes a new biography of the conductor, composer and jazz pianist André Previn; and No Particular Place to Go, the adventures of the poet Hugo Williams as he crosses America from coast to coast, giving poetry readings at far-flung universities.
Presenter Chris Powling Producer ROSMARY HART
John Morgan reporting with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Adapted in six episodes by Alistair Beaton
with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter
and Maria Aitken as Harriet Vane, Nigel Stock as Inspector Umplety
(Broadcast Tues 12.27pm)
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup (3) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
