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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV NEIL RICHARDSON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by paulini bushnell
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
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A Fresh Start
Despite the cutbacks in provision for adult education, it is vitally important, especially during the economic recession, that people should be aware of the opportunities available to acquire new skills, take up evening classes, or seek possibilities for a new career.
In the Tuesday Call studio to give advice and inspiration are Andrew Pates , co-author of Second Chances for Adults and Eddie Burch, Staff Inspector of Further Education for Birmingham City Council.
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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Franchise Day by ROBERT FAIRLEY
Read by Paul Young
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, .. As you've e been gathered,youvebeen promoted from the reserve list for today's
Referendum - on the 50th anniversary of the Welfare State. You're the voter. You will determine the nation's social services' strategy for the next generation. II
Producer BRUCE TOUNO BBC Scotland
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Sleeping Dogs by GEOFF NICHOLSON
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The special edition with topics suggested by you - the listener. Presented by Derek Jones
Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
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Presenter Bill Breckon
The programme about quotations including
Eavesdroppings, Graffiti, and the occasional outbreak of Foot in Mouth. Chairman Nigel Rees Guests Peter Jones Irma Kurtz
Julian Mitchell Gay Search
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer alan NIXON
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Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , Including Your Good Health: yaba badoe continues her series which investigates the recognition, treatment and prevention of alcoholism.
Blue Skies, Acacia Trees and a Constant Fight for Life: LIZ MARDALL visits a Save the Children clinic in Upper Volta, one of the poorest countries In the world.
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by CHARLES DICMNS (4)
John Ebdon offers some oblique reflections on the interests, institutions and ldiosyncracles of his fellow countrymen.
Producer brian cook
Why did John Burdlkln stand on his head on the spire of All Saints
Church, Newcastle upon Tyne? And why did his son do the same thing 20 years later? Why did a man fly from the top of the Norman keep and then try to make a donkey followhisexample?
David Bean joins Tyneside schoolchildren in search of the answers to these and other questions on the trails blazed by Town Teacher, a scheme to Involve youngsters in their colourful heritage. Producer GILLIAN BUlB BBC Manchester
Welsh Fargo 7: Fridaw
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 2: LONDON
Robert Wilier (civil servant) Philip Cowen (lawyer)
Richard West (civil servant)
Roderic Williams (teacher)
Including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD ECUS
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer DEBORAH COHEN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit - a series in 26 parts
Narrator David Attenborough 5: Forest Acoustics
The leaves, twigs and trunks of trees, blades of grass, and leaf litter on the forest floor can affect the quality of an animal's call.
Peter Marler, Rockefeller University. New York;
Eugene Morion, National Zoological Park, Washington DC;
Haven Wiley, University of North Carolina; and John Krebs, University of Oxford, describe how animals overcome the constraints of the environment and transmit their signals unchanged sufficiently for the receiver to get the message.
Producer MICHAEL Bright BBC Bristol
The Navajo Reservation in the south-west of the United States is a place of contradictions. In a land of spectacular scenery, the Navajos, the largest Indian tribe in the USA, worship the moon and the sun and tend their flocks of sheep alongside oil rigs and vast open-cast coal and uranium mines. They are poor, but their country is rich. Peter Paterson reports Producer DAVID POWELL
In this edition Tom Poole, who is blind, explains to Jane Finnls how he pursues his hobby of antique collecting.
Presenter Peter White
Producer Thena Heshel
Listeners can phone in suggestions and comments or check information 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 WIA 1AA
Includes On Golden Pond, a new film directed by Mark Rydell which brings together for the first time the acting talents of Katharine Hepburn , Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda ; and this year's Gramophone Record Awards which were announced earlier today. Presenter Edwin Mullins
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RICHARD BANNERMAN
Stephen Milllgan reporting and voices and opinions from around the world
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