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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV IRWIN BARNES
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
Spring Gardening
The sap is rising, the earth is warming up: in other words, the garden is on the move once again. The gardener has no choice but to get outside and get on with the jobs which mark the arrival of spring. The studio experts are horticultural journalist Ann Bonar and Peter Robinson, principal of the Capel Manor Institute of Horticulture. Jill Burridge is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
neh, p 9: Hast thou not known (BBC HB 491):
Canticle 6, part 1; John 17. vv 1-13 (RSV); Praise, 0 praise (BBC HB 441) long wave only
The 13th Op by PADDY BATESDON
Read by Peter Templar Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
followed by travel
Reversed Charges by MERVYN WATSON
- Birds aren't round so why don't they build oval-shaped nests? .
The team of naturalists shapes up to another clutch of your wildlife questions presenter Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBCBristol
(Repeated; Sat 3.5 pm)
presenter Bill Breckon
Ten stories of crime and detection in London by ROBERT BARR
3: A Meeting with Anna
Producer: MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including The Analyst and the Infant: CYNTHIA KEY reviews the life and work of the famous psychoanalyst Melanie Ktein.
Whiter than White:
BARBARA MYERS investigates the range of washing powders available, and how to get the best wash-day value from them. The Upas Tree (4)
followed by travel
by CHARLES DICKENS
The last of eight episodes dramatised by BETTY DAVIES
The Mistress of Bleak House
A terrible impression steals upon Lady Dedlock and overshadows her, that from this pursuer, living or dead. there is no escape but in death. Hunted she flies.
With ALAN DUDLEY. STELLA FORGE. STEVE HODSON , JOHN LIVESEY and STEPHEN THORNE Technical presentation by PETER novis and DAVID GREENWOOD assisted by DIANA BARKHAM,
PAUL PEARSON. DAVID CHILTON and VANESSA ELLNER
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player; Sylvia Coleridge is in The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar Et at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)
In the last of six programmes. John Ebdon offers some oblique reflections on the idiosyncrasies of his fellow countrymen
Twenty-four-hour daylight ... children playing outside until three in the morning
... parents frantic for sleep .. long hunting trips over the frozen sea. The return of the sun after the perpetual night of winter is a cause for celebration - and upheaval - for communities all around the Arctic Circle. Last year, Margaret Horsfield visited Pond Inlet, a tiny hamlet at the northern tip of Canada's Baffin
Island, as the inhabitants were making the annual adjustment. She recalls the sights and sounds of spring and describes her travels around the community and on a camping expedition far out over the snow and ice. Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
The Last Resort (5)
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson 6: SOUTH OF ENGLAND Dr Paul Bromley
(medical practitioner) Roger Stein
(schoolmaster) Joe Wright
(former diplomat) John Hammond
(systems analyst)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by johm p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory to the GP'S surgery.
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
9: Trespassers Will Be Sung At!
Territorial male song-birds chase away intruding strangers, yet tolerate neighbours. How do they know which bird is which? Bruce Falls of the University of Toronto; John Krebs of Oxford University: Donald Kroodsma of the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst; and Peter Marler of Rockefeller University. New York. reveal how bird song may function in territorial proclamation.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Memories of a man of Stratford-upon-Avon compiled by Angela Hewins Narrated by Michael Williams.
The book on which this feature is based was published to outstanding critical acclaim last year. George Hewins lived in late Victorian England. Despite a life of appalling hardship, his story is a testament to the human determination to survive. It also provides a fascinating insight into the day-to-day life of a family bound together by love and friendship.
Directed by CHERRYCOOKSON
Sue Hancock describes how, as a blind mother, she has coped with transporting her baby. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
includes reviews of The Vikings in England, an exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum with sculpture and rare manuscripts from Scotland. Germany, Denmark and Sweden; and Africa Saga, the autobiography of the photographer Mirella Ricciardi.
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer
CLARE SELERIE-CREY
with Alexander MacLeod
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