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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV ALF.C GILMORE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL 7,30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Sewing
With the price of clothes going up all the time. more and more people are starting to try their hand at dressmaking for themselves or their children. Betty Foster has been teaching people to sew for many years and is an expert in all aspects of dressmaking and tailoring.
So if you'd like advice on how to make a start in dressmaking, or help with more complicated
Problems ring Tuesday Call. Teresa McGonagle is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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NEM, p 97; We love the place (BP 95): Psalm 119, pt 6; I Corinthians 12, vv 1-11 (AV); Spread, 0 spread, thou mighty word (BBC HB 182) long wave only
Peggy's House by ROBERT JAMES Read by Patrick Brannigan
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
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Paula's Tape by BONY ROBINSON
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' Can hedgehogs continue to breathe if they hibernate under several feet of frozen snow? '
Roger Lovegrove. Valerie Brown and Peter Ferns answer some frosty midwinter enquiries.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
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Presenter Bill Breckon
Nigel Rees invites lelia Haddon Rula Lenska
Arthur Marshall and Paul Tluroux to identify quotations famous and obscure, and to share their favourites. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm) 12 55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor, including:
Food on the Cheap: Gail Duff on how to eat well at low cost. (2) Soups and Starters.
Short Sharp Shock: juvenile offenders can be sent to Attendance Centres by the Magistrates Courts for a maximum of 24 hours, in two-hour sessions. Yet most of the boys who attend them do not reappear in the courts again. Margaret Percy investigates how these centres work.
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b\ CHARLES DICKENS (2)
In the last programme in the present series,
Bernard Jackson visits
San Giovanni Rotondo in southern Italy, where Padre Pio lived and worked: and discusses with Dr Anthony Clare and Fr Michael Hollings some aspects of Christian pilgrimage.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
John Mapplebcck examines George Orwell 's cultural, intellectual and political debt to the Tyneside working-class writer Jack Common. author of Kiddar's Luck. BBC Manchester
An Old Captivity (7)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world includingFinancial Report
Thora Hird
Avis Bunnage Megs Jenkins in The Last Dance with Joe Gladwin Lockwood West
Written by TERRY GREGSON Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the GP'S surgery.
Producer JULIAN BROWN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit-a series in 26 parts narrator
David Attenborough 3: Killer Whales and Dolphins -
In 340 BC Aristotle wrote that dolphins produce squeaks and moans. In AD 1982 we still don t know how they do it, or indeed, what the sounds mean.
Professor Ken Norris and Sharron Brownley of the University of California at Santa Cruz, with Hawaiian spinner dolphins, and John Ford of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, with killer whales, attempt to unravel the mystery of dolphin sounds.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
The Conversion Phenomenon
The activities of various religious cults have aroused widespread controversy. Critics say the cults are dangerous and brainwash their converts.
Gill Brown investigates the techniques and results of the work of these groups - some large, others small - and talks to former members who claim their minds ' snapped ' by a brainwashing process that changed their entire personalities and behaviour.
Producer JOHN NEWBURY
Educational Holidays
A preview of some of the special summer schools for blind people.
Presenter Jane Finnis Producer THENA HESHEL
Blind listeners can phone in suggestions and comments relating to the programme on [number removed] 8.30-10.0 pm
Free quarterly bulletins summarising information broadcast, available from Room 816, Broadcasting House, London W14 1AA
includes Ragtime, a new film directed by Milos Forman , based on E. L. Doctorow 's novel about
America in 1906. The cast includes James Cagney Donald O'Connor , Pat O'Brien and Norman Mailer.
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer JOHN BOUNDY
9.59 Weather
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world
Charmed Lives (7) long ware only
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
