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Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45 Prayer for the Day
With The Rev Adam Ford
7.0, 9.0 Today's News
Read by Peter Donaldson
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45 Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Redhead
Presenter:
Wendy Jones
Unknown:
Adam Ford
Unknown:
Peter Donaldson
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week: Anita Brookner. art historian and author of our current serial. The Lost Art of the Eleaant Dress: fashionable women from 1900-1950 recall their favourie clothes for BARBARA MYERS.
A Start in Life (11) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Anita Brookner.
Unknown:
Barbara Myers.
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Eric Searle
with Alan Tilvern as Indian Ray and Blain Fairman as Dan
Indian Ray works on an isolated lakeshore in Northern Ontario. Hard-working, hard-drinking, avoiding the police, his life is good. But then the winter and a snowstorm! Someone is lost...

Contributors

Writer:
Eric Searle
Director:
Peter King
Indian Ray:
Alan Tilvern
Dan:
Blain Fairman
Jean:
Ann Murray
Mike:
Brian Wright
Laura:
Stella Forge
Mel:
Crawford Logan
Inspector:
Stephen Thorne
Pilot:
George Parsons
Doctor:
Spencer Banks
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

In the fourth of six programmes the great Swedish soprano pays tribute, with the aid of gramophone records, to some of the other world-famous singers her country has produced.
' The whole poetry of our country, the bright summer nights, the sudden arrival of spring, our rocks and lakes ... all this you find in our Nordic voices '
(JENNY LIND )
Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Lind
Unknown:
Stanley Williamson
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden.
In the chair John Julius Norwich

(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Chairman:
John Julius Norwich
Panellist:
Dilys Powell
Panellist:
Frank Muir
Panellist:
Antonia Fraser
Panellist:
Denis Norden
Devised by:
Tony Shryane
Devised by:
Edward J. Mason
Questions compiled by:
Peter Moore
Executive Producer:
Bobby Jaye
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Two hundred years serving the Church.
That's the history of the Maddock family - with seven generations of clergymen and missionaries. Why? Vocation, genes, or family pressure?
Sonia Beesley asks the Maddocks to divulge their secret. Producer ANNE HOWELLS

Contributors

Unknown:
Sonia Beesley
Producer:
Anne Howells
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The Wandering Japanese Research shows that when the Japanese migrate, they develop the diseases or their adopted country; mainly, it is believed, because of changes in diet and eating habits. As lifestyles around the world become homogenised, should we now be studying diet worldwide to see if we can find clues to the prevention of ' western ' disease before it's too late?
Dr Tony Smith , deputy editor of the British
Medical Journal, discusses recent research with Bill Breckon.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Tony Smith
Unknown:
Bill Breckon.
Producer:
Susan Snailum
Source: Radio Times

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