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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
7.0,8,0 Today's News
Read by Laurie MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7,45* Thought for the Day The Rev Neil Richardson

8.57 Weather; travel

A weekly investigation into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, itiiis
Presenter Roger Cooktn )
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Worn Star Trek to Doctor
Who, aliens from outer space' exercise the popular Imagination, But could creatures exist elsewhere in the universe? Might life on earth have come from space? Caroline Parsons
Investigates the boundary between science and fiction, with the help Of
Chandra wickratnasinghe,
Graham Cairns-Smith. Gary Hunt and John Maynard Smith. producerbbianleith BBCBristol
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In the first of six programmer, Nigel Rees finds out how local government works. He asks what local councils do and how well they're doing it and. by talking to councillors, officials and ratepayers, discovers there's more to democracy than emptying dustbins. This week: What's wrong withtherates'
Reporter Kevin Mulhern Producer MAGGIE REDFEHN long wave only

nem, p 42; Christ be with me (BBChb 136); Psalm
84; 1 Peter 2, vv 4-12 (RSV); How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (BBC hb 142) long wave only

Butter Cookies by JO GILL Read by Ann Rye
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

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Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer MAX EASTERMAN BBC Manchester
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with Nell Landor
Producer ANNE MORRISON long wave only

Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Bill Breckon

12.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Presenter Robin Day

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Sign Posts: new trends in feminine finance described by LORNA BOURKE.
Children's Books and Writers: ELAINE moss and BERNARD ASHLEY review some new books and meet writer VIVIEN ALCOCK. Get Ready for Battle by RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA abridgedin15parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by Sam Dastor (1) Gulzari Lal is divorced. His mistress Kusum doesn't live in the house, but comes almost every day. But lately she has curtailed her visits. It is a deliberate change of tactics. Kusum is tired of being a mistress. She wants to be a wife.
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The Garden by BOB EATON UnemployedTerrytakes over the garden of his rich acquaintance Brian. Gardens have to be tended in winter as well as summer however, and when Terry gets a job on an oil rig in Scotland, his wifeBarbaralooksafter the garden. Her vegetable patch becomes the scene of many an interesting confrontation.
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN BBC Manchester

A weekly look at some of the people and places that don't always make the national headlines.

Welsh Fargo 9: The Chase

with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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Half-an-hour of reports from BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report

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 MARY CUTLER Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
See Letters: page 79

Charles Matz discusses the nature of poetry as sound.
Readers ANTHONY hyde and EVE KARPF
Producer ALEC REID

includes reviews of We'll Meet Again, the ITV drama series starring Susannah York as a doctor in wartime
Suffolk; and Mad Max U. a new Australian film set In a fuel-short world populated by biker war-lords.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD DUNN

Conducted by Mariss Jansons direct from The Guildhall, Southampton
Eva Knardahl (piano)

Part 1
Greig from Music to Peer Gynt: Morning-mood, Anitra's Dance, Peer Gynt's Homecoming - A Stormy Evening by the Coast, Solveig's Song, In the Hall of the Mountain King
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

John Simpson , Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Queen's University,
Belfast, examines the hopes for the economy of Northern Ireland and its achievements, from the successful 1960s to the depressed 1980s. What has been the effect of its position within the European community? Producer MARTIN SMITH BBC Northern Ireland

Part 2
Sibelius Symphony No 1, Op 39 in E minor BBC Bristol followed by an interlude

John Morgan reporting

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