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Presenters Brian Redhead andJohnTimpson
6.45* Prayer for the Dau THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Dau

8.57 Weather; travel

Tom Vernon with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television.
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A Radio News production by Richard Anthony Baker
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NEM. p 97; Lord. I have made thy word (BP 52);
Psalm 33, vv 1-12; I John
2, vv 3-17. (AV); Lord. thy word abldeth (BBC HB 190) long wave onlu

A Man from Glasgow by SOMERSET MAUCHAM
Read by Richard Hurndall Producer MITCH RAPER

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The approach of spring is heralded by the song of one of Britain's most common birds - the chaffinch. Introduced by Jim Flegg
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Presenter Jenni Mills

11.55 Weather: travel; programme news

Presenter Brian Widlake

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Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Including Sally Thompson and Liz Mardall reporting on aspects of a country where 82 per cent of the people practise a religion which is both a way of life and a highlyurganised social system. Get Ready for Battle (12) long wave only

followed by travel

Old Friends by JO GILL withand
When Lady Marigold Farr. widow and grandmother, lets the ground-floor flat of her London home, she does so for company. She is not looking for an autumn romance. Neither is her new tenant, Oliver Canteau. But things get out of hand.
KEN MOULE (piano)
Directed by JOHN CARDY

Frances Donnelly talks to Virginia Ironside, Irma Kurtz and Claire Rayner about themselves and the problems they deal with in their agony columns. Producer MICK WEBB

The Canon in Residence (8)

Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news

including Financial Report

As British Rail picks itself up after the train drivers' strike, Richard Hudson -Evans visits France to look at a national railway system flourishing under the support of a socialist government.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC programmes over the past seven days. Producer ANNE MORRISON (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)

Terry Waite became famous when the Archbishop of Canterbury sent him to rescue two missionaries from Iran. But that was only one episode in his life working for the church all over the world. Presenter John Harrison Producer ELLIE UPDALE

The Rt lion Tony Benn , MP Marghanita Laski Donald Trelford at Rye, Sussex
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)

Saint Patrick's Day 1982, Mayor Ed Koch's ability to appeal to the various facets of New York society, and Ronald Reagan's clarification of his views on Northern Ireland.

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am)

John Mortimer
' The great thing about writing is that you are forced to tell the truth. The great thing about being a defence barrister is that you try and avoid the truth obtruding itself.'
John Mortimer , QC, author of Voyage Round My
Father and Dock Brief, creator of Rumpole of the Bailey and adaptor for television of Evelyn Waugh 's Brideshead
Revisited, talks to Michael Uillington about his life and work. Producer
CATHERINE WEARING

Stephen Milligan reporting with voices and opinions Ircm around the world

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news, with Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel and Chris Emmett
Written by BOB SINFIELD TONY SARCHET ,
JAMES HENDRIE , JOHN LANGDON RICHARD QUICK, ALrSTAIR BEATON , PETER HICKEY
JOHN REVELL , DAVE DIXON and others Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)

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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude