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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV ALEC GILMORE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
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The Flight of tile Condor South America - the land of torrent ducks, vampire bats and monkey-eating butterflies. Wildlife film-makers
Michael Andrews , Keenan Smart and Hugh Miles explored islands. deserts and jungles and came face to face with the bright orange metre-long giant leech.
Producer
ANNE BLAIR
GOULD
BBC Bristol
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Chris Serle investigates the agonising business of buying and selling houses - how to buy, occupy and improve a house for the smallest possible outlay and with the least possible trouble.
With the help of financial expert Tom Tiekell. Chris shows how to beat the system and avoid costly mistakes.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD long wave only
nem, p 106; Prayer is the soul's sincere desire
(BBC HB 347); Psalm 95;
I Corinthians 12, vv 21-31a (av); The King of love my shepherd is (BBC hb 475) long wave only
Perfidious Albion by GWYN CLARK
Read by Dillwyn Owen
Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales
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Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out vour queries.
Producer JEREMY birchall long wave only
Including JILL todo with the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Bill Breckon
18.55 Weather; programme news
presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Chattanooga Choo-Choo in Chinal: SUSAN MARLING hears about a musical trip to the East. Talking Point on , Stepping ': looks at some of the emotional and practical difficulties facing step-parents and children.
An Owl Came to Stay by CLAIRE ROME abridged in three parts by JANET HICKSON
Rpadbv Caroline Blakiston (1)
When Claire Rome agreed to look after a young tawny owl found by some boys in a park, It was the beginning of a unique experience.... (Music: Addison's Divertimento) long wave only
Before the Cock Crows by MARIAN CAMPBELL
Laurie is the youngest of Steven and Pegs four sons. The elder three have now all left home and it will not be long before Laurie will leave school. His brothers have entered the world with varying degrees of success but what does the future offer Laurie, a pleasant, considerate teenager with a mental age of 8? Laurie is a mongol. What can society do for him?
Directed by ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham
A weekly look at some of the people and the places around the United Kingdom that don't always make the national headlines.
Frank Delaney talks to Victoria Glendinning about the specific problems that she had to face when researching and writing her new award-winning biography of Edith Sitwell. He also visits the Northumberland home of one of this country's most popular novelists Catherine Cookson.
Producer JEREMY BIRCHALL
An Old Captivity 9)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
Your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questionst Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash. (Repeated/ Sat 7.50 am)
Written by TERRY JAMES (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week;
BBC Birmingham
Simon Brett 's final selection of ' Useful Verse ' considers the efficacy of medical poetry.
Readers STELLA FORGE,
DAVID GOODERSON , WENDY MURRAY , JOHN RYE
Producer ALEC reid
( piano) Part 1
Haydn Sonata in D (HXVI 51)
Mozart Sonata in A minor (K 310)
Schubert Sonata in A (D 664)
The novelist, Benedict Kiely returns to his native Omagh town which he left 40 years ago. He talks about the features of the town and the people who helped shape his life.
Producer MARTIN dillon (First broadcast on Radio Ulster)
Part 2
Berg Sonata Op 1
Schumann Fantasy in c, Op 17
(Given on 17 January in the Royal Festival Hall, London)
includes reviews of Christopher Hampton 's new play The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H., based on a novel by George Steiner , starring Alec McCowen as Adolf Hitler , which opened at the Mermaid Theatre.
London, last night; and the British premiere of Edward Cowie 's fantasy opera Commedia at
Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
CLARE SELERIEGREY
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
