Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks BBC Bristol
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Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV DR JOHN NEWTON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with CHRISTOPHER SLADE
Sallies forth into the BBC Sound Archives in search of the sublime and the ridiculous.
Fifty-five minutes of lively conversation between the personalities in this week's news. Old cycles rescripted by Kenneth Robinson
Producer PETER ESTALL (Repealed at 7.20 pm)
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NEM. p58: Command thy blessing from above (Bp 14): Canticle 1, vv
1-15; Genesis 22, vv 1-13 (RSV); Father most holy, (BBC HB 167) long ware only
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
'The Nelson family camp out in style. They have a portable television set, a portable toilet, soft, downy beds and a modern kitchen. I guess they don't really want to leave civilisation too far behind in case they miss something!'
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Brian Johnston visits Chester
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners .
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers WILLIAM SQUIRE and FRANCES HOROVITZ Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
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Presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor, including during the week some Talking Point discussions, your Letters and other topics.
Among these, today Believe It or Not: astrologer Russell Grant discusses the Sagittarius personality and looks at the future of Patricia Hayes.
Taking a Neighbourly Interest: Anna Perry in Peking meets the neighborhood committee of Eternal Peaceful Avenue District.
The Night She Died by Dorothy Simpson adapted in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury
Read by Bruce Ludington (5)
Editor Wyn Knowles
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We Will Know Them by GORDON MCKERROW
in a scries of five programmes, Patricia Carroll introduces and plays pieces from her large collection of Victorian piano music.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by CHARLES DICKENS concluded by LEON GARFIELD abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by John Rye (1)
Dickens' last unfinished novel takes us from the sedate Cathedral town of Cloisterham to the sinister opium dens of London's East End. In his completion of the story, Leon Garfield provides a wholly convincing and gripping solution to a mystery that has tormented generations of readers. Producer DAVID JOHNSTON
Presenters Gordon Clough and Peter Ruff on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
It's the Wedding of the Year! On Saturday, in Ambridge. Clarice Larkin was due to marry Edward George Grundy. But there were anxious moments for Clarrie ...
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
by Olivia Manning
Dramatised by Eric Ewens
with Anna Massey, Jack Shepherd and Tim Woodward
The Balkan Trilogy, to which this is the sequel, told of a young lecturer, Guy Pringle, and his newly-married wife, Harriet, caught in Romania during the early days of the Second World War and of their subsequent flight to and stay in Athens. As the swastika is raised over the Acropolis they are forced to flee again - to Egypt. It is two months before the battle of El Alamein.
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
(Tim Woodward is a National Theatre player)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY HART
David Sells reporting and voices and opinions from around the world Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science?
A weeklv review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
The Poor Mouth by FLANN O'BRIEN
(Myles na Gopaleen) Translated from the Gaelic by PATRICK C. POWER Read in 11 parts by Patrick Magee
Wildly funny, black and full of outrageous invention, this remained the author's favourite book. In it he dismantles most of the treasured myths of his own race. Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
