6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Tlmpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day with Piers Plowright
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Pauline Bushnell
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Healthy Eating
Are we in the West already too preoccupied with our diet, or would we be healthier if we put more thought into what we eat? Is marge better for us than butter and brown bread more nourishing than white? In the Tuesday Call studio to answer your questions on diet are experts
Hannah Wright and Professor Harry Keen.
Barbara Myers is In the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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NEM, p 89: Lord, it belongs not to my care
(BBC HB 355); Psalm 130; II Peter 1, vv 12-21 (nsv); Lift up your hearts (BBC HB 326) long wave only
Thunder and Lightning by LOUISE PAGE
Read by Judy Bennett Producer JOANNA TOVE BBC Birmingham
followed by travel long wave only
by Michael Wall
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". . . Suddenly this pale green creature jumped on the path before me, making a noise as if it had clogs on! - This week's team decipher some fancy footwork from the natural world. Presenter Derek Jases Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckoa
Ten stories of crime and detection in London by ROBERT BARR withand
1: A Dream of Riches
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Laura de Vere
Including Sally Thompson and Liz Mardall reporting on aspects of a country where 70 per cent of the population live in villages distributed over its million square miles.
Get Ready for Battle (9) long wave only
followed by travel
by CHARLES DICKENS (6)
John Ebdon offers some oblique reflections on the Interests, institutions and idiosyncracies of his fellow countrymen.
Producer BRIAN COOK
A listener's guide to the Irish as seen by themselves and others. On this, the eve of St Patrick's Day, Philip Hammond (with more than a little help from folk-singer David Hammond) casts his eyes over a motley collection of friends and bends his ear to their songs, verse and worse.
Readings by Bill Hunter, the much-loved Ulster actor who died last January aged 73.
BBC Northern Ireland
(First broadcast on Radio Ulster)
The Canon in Residence (5)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson 4: WEST OF ENGLAND Nell Davies
(schoolteacher) Patricia Masson
Christopher Monro (clerk)
Paul Fulton
(advertising executive)
Including BeattheBrains
Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by UN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 12.27pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports
(Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit-a series in 26 parts
Narrator
David Attenborough 7: Song Learning
When do song-birds learn their songs, and from whom? Are birds inventive? In a forest with many different species singing at the same time, why doesn't a bird learn the wrong song? W.H. Thorpe of Cambridge University, Peter Marler of Rockefeller University,
New York, Peter Slater of Sussex University, and John Krebs from Oxford University consider how birds acquire their elaborate songs.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
BBC Bristol
1: Thinking the Vnthinkabie Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
Shah of Iran, appeared secure on his Peacock
Throne at the beginning of 1978. In Washington and Tehran few people took seriously the danger signs that all was not well with his country.
Yet within 12 months, the Shah, one of the world's most powerful autocrats, was in exile, overthrown by the forces of a remarkable popular revolution.
In the first of two programmes. David Wheeler recalls the dramatic events that forced many of those most closely involved in the process of decision-making to ' think the unthinkable '.
Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)
Choosing a Gas Cooker Margaret Ford gives some advice on features that are particularly helpful to people with little or no sight.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Includes reviews of Golden Boy, a new production of Clifford Odet 's play, set in New York in the 19:J0s, about a boy who has to decide between boxing and a musical career, at the Crucible Theatre. Sheffield; and The Stowells Trophy
Exhibition of over 200 works from art colleges around Britain, at the Royal Academy.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer JOHN BOUNDY
with Alexander MacLeod
Gorky Park (2) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
