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Presenters Brian Redhead and Hugh Sykes
6.45' Prayer for the Day THE REV NEIL RICHARDSON
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
and his guests in a mix of weighty conversation and light banter.
Producer BILL ROGERS
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visits London where members of the Islington Society
Gardeners put their questions to
Bill Sowerbutts professor Alan Gemmell and Geoffrey Smith
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBCManchester
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nem p 38; The eternal gate's lift up their heads
(BBCHB 131); Psalm 20; I Peter 1, vv 17 to 2. v 3 (rsv); Look. ye saints. and see how glorious (BBC HB 127) long wave only
The Wolves of Cernogratz by SAKI
Read by Richard Hurndall Producer hitcu RAPER
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Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Guest of the Week: actress Wendy Craig.
Gadgets Galore!: DAPHNE wetland picks her way through the range of electrical implements now on the market. The Third Man by GRAHAM GREENE abridged in seven parts by MADGE HART Read by BERNARD HORSFALL (7)
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followed by travel
Following Suit by DERRICK BUTTRESS WITH
A skilled tailor who refuses to lower his standards or update his styles watches his business decline and his small staff moving elsewhere. He and his wife despair of saving their livelihood - but they are experienced survivors....
Directed by MARGARET ETALL
2: Termites in Old School Ties
Venturing south from his
Penninefastness,
Phil Smith explores the Stock Exchange and tries to cash a cheque at the Bank of England. BBC Manchester
The modern physicist and an Eastern mystic have something in common: they both perceive reality in the same way. Our world view determines how we live - and perhaps the experts in medicine, economics and politics have something to learn from the physicists and mystics.
Dr Fritjov Capra , lecturer In physics at the Umversity of California and the author of The Too of Physics, talks to Jocelyn Ryder-Smith .
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Welsh Fargo
8: Cwmgorse Common
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons 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
Including Financial Report
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Irene Thomas and Denis Norden
In the Chair John Julius Norwich
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
(Details: Thurs 9.5 am)
In May 1945, the British returned many thousands of Cossack prisoners-of-war to the Soviet Union. It was well known that the troops could expect only imprisonment or execution in their former homeland, and the British resorted to force and trickery to take the CossackstotheSoviet lines.
Nicholas Bethell describes the events of one camp In Austria through
Interviews with some of the British soldiers responsible for carrying out the agreement that Churchill signed with Stalin at Yalta.
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK (First broadcast in 1974) (A memorial to the repatriated victims of Yalta is to-be unveiled in London on Saturday)
(Details: Thurs 11.5 am)
Includes reviews of the West End opening of Julian Mitchell 's play
Another Country, set in a public school in the early 1930s; and Children of the Empire, Gillian Wagner 's account of how tens of thousands of British orphans were sent overseas to become farm labourers and domestic servants.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer
CATHERINE WEARING
John Morgan reporting and voices and opinions from around the world
A Confederacy of Dunces (8)
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
