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6.45* Prayer for the Day Kith SISTER MARTINA
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7.45* Thought for the Day
Choosing School Subjects Children now in their third year of secondary school will soon be asked to choose which subjects they will drop in the next academic year and which, if any, they intend to take in the O-level or CSE examinations. Pupils In the fifth year will also be making subject choices - choices which could have a profound effect on their future careers. What are the criteria which should govern these decisions? If the choices seem unreasonable, can anything be done about it? To answer questions on all matters to do with the school curriculum:
John Tomlinson, Director of Education for
Cheshire and Audrey Segal, director of AEGIS, a higher education advisory service. In the Chair. Barbara Myers.
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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 1; Holy, hoiv (BBC HB 169); Psalm 3: Hebrews 11, vv. 1-10 and 13-16 (rsv); Give to our God immortal praise (BBC HB 6)
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Mary's Birthday by FIONA BARR
Read by Aingeal Grehan Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
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A Galway Girl by GERALDINE ARON
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How do kangaroos keep their pouches clean and hygienic? Do the mothers Lave to clean them out? Fresh thoughts on your wildlife questions from the team of naturalists. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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Presenter Jenni Mills
The programme about Quotations Including
Earcsdroppings, Graffiti. and the occasional outbreak of Foot in Mouth.
Chairman Nigel Rees Guests Alan Bennett Janet Suzman Leslie Thomas and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
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Introduced by Sue MacGrcgor , including Boys in the Back Row: ANN TENNANT visits a Leicester school that teaches classical ballet to boys and girls.
Fabrics in Fashion:
MARGARET PERCY looks at the properties of linen. Catrlona (9) long wave only
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Six programmes in which BernardJacksonvisits some of the centres of Christianity in Europe. 3: Assist, the birthplace of St Francis
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
'Looking back over my life as a phonograph- and gramophone-artiste, I realise that my experience Is unique.'
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A programme of records to mark the centenary of the birth of the popular
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Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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Thora Hird
Avis Bunnage Megs Jenkins
In Hilda Stands Aside with Joe Gladwin Barbara Miller
Michael Tudor Barnes
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Geoff Watts reports on the healthofmedicalcare. Producer DEBORAH COHEN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
Urlan Thompson takes a seasonal look at our coastline.
Marina Dennis visits the ' Old Squaw ' of Alaska - the long-tailed duck - wintering on the north-east coast of Scotland; while Gyn Freeman winters in Majorca. John Bennctt takes a look at the coast line of Northern Ireland, and Keith Allan joins the sea-coal gatherers on a Northumberland beach. Producer KAY JAMIESON BBC Manchester
Over 2.500 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho lived and flourished as a lyric poet, and ever since her work has been acclaimed by writers and scholars. Frank Delaney , in conversation with the poet Judith Kazanuls and two classical scholars. Professor Mary Lefkowitz and Dr Angus Bowie , seeks out the woman beyond the myths and her poems which still speak directly to us today.
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Reader BARBARA JEFFORD Producer SUSAN DENNY
Why are so many blind Beople overweight? annahWrighthasbeen looking at the problem, and presents some possible solutions.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
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Vladimir Mayakovsky in Edinburgh. Presenter Michael Oliver Producer ANNE WINDER
Stephen Milligan reporting and voices and opinions from around the world
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