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Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day With PHOEBE HESKETH
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Personal Finance
How should I invest the legacy I've just received? What's my tax situation now I'm out of work? With interest rates at their present level, what's the best way to raise money? Is it worthwhile saving at all? At a time of economic stringency, it's necessary to make the best use we can of what money we've got. Financial adviser and presenter of Money Box, Louise Botting and tax expert Mavis Moullin will be in the studio to help with matters of personal finance.
Sue MacGregor 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 71; Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30); Psalm 97; Isaiah 1, vv 1-6. 16-20 (av); Thy kingdom come! (BBC HB 28): long wave only
A Woman's Place by JANE BALENGARTH Read by June Ellis
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
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Thirty Minutes by LEONARD GREEN
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The special edition with topics suggested by you, the listener. We read your letters, play your favourite sounds and puzzle you with the mystery sound competition.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm) long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
A new series in which Nigel Rees invites Robert Lacey Naomi Lewis
Christopher Matthew and sir Huw Wheldon to share their favourite quotations and identify some others.
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including
International Friendship: BRIDGET OSBORNE celebrates the Golden Jubilee of the International Voluntary Service in this country with volunteers past and present.
Games People Play: 2: Backgammon
Enthusiasts explain its fascination and some of its secrets.
Journey to Amritsar by JUDY KING , abridged in five parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Brenda Bruce (1) In the early summer of 1945 an army nursing sister.
Judy King , was given the daunting assignment of transporting a dying Sikh officer across India from Poona to Amritsar in the Punjab. The train journey was 1500 miles, taking two nights and two days. (Music: Mathias's Vivat Regina ) long wave only
by SHERIDAN LEFANU (3)
Recollections of a professional traveller. In a series of five talks,
KENNETH MATTHEWS recalls some people, places and happenings in a journalistic life that hasn't all been on duty. 1: An Old Photograph Series producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Four hundred years ago today, Edmund Campion was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. As he died, devout men and women were pushed back as they jostled for relics of the man whom they knew would one day be declared a saint. His was a life of extreme contrasts - son of a bookseller, brilliant Oxford scholar and speaker, patronised by Elizabeth I and her court, first Anglican deacon then Jesuit priest, a writer who died a martyr.
Edmund Campion 's last months were ones of intrigue, masses said in the night, pursuit. betrayal, torture and extreme physical and mental resilience. His story is told by Libby Purves.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (7)
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Second Round 12: West
WOOTTON BASSETT SCHOOL, Wootton Bassett v Wales
TASKER MILWARD SCHOOL, Haverfordwest Questionmasters
TIM GUDGIN and PADDY FEENY Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY , NIGEL RICHARDSON and PADDY FEENY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports
Producer DEBORAH COHEN (Repeated: Sat 3.0 pm)
'We doe intend to erect an Hospital for the relief of such Land Souldiers as are or shall be old, lame, or infirme in ye service of the Crowne...'
Thus on 7 September 1681 King Charles II issued his Royal Warrant for the founding of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. Three hundred years on, David Ascoli tells the fascinating tale of Wren's magnificent building in the village of Chelsea, with the help of those
Pensioners who haunt its archives and those, hale and hearty, who live in its splendid wards today.
talking about music Each week, ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
Please Give for the Blind A number of charities ask the public to support their work for the blind, and the public invariably responds generously.
John Roberts looks at the situation of some of the major charities for the blind and reports on how their funds are used. Presenter 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
includes a review of The Art of Radio Times - The First Sixty Years.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Book: The Art of Radio Times, £15.95 from bookshops
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world
A series of six programmes
Starring Tom Mennard and Anthea Askey
with Ballard Berkeley as Winston, David Ross as Mr Pettigrew, Gordon Salkilld as Arnold, Nick Maloney as Lewis
and special guest appearance of Candice Barker
BBC Manchester
The Poor Mouth (7) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
