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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV PETER CAVANAGH 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
Sailing
If the call of the open sea appeals to you but you think sailing is a luxury sport. Sue Brown, Sailing Coach with the National Sailing Centre; and John Driscoll,National Sailing Coach with the Royal Yachting Association, will persuade you otherwise. Are you ever too young or too old to take up sailing? How can you stave off seasickness? What's the most suitable craft for you and your family? At the helm Teresa McGonagle Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
nem. P 75; All as God wills (BBC HB 1); Psalm
119 ptl: Deuteronomy 5, vv 12-24 (Rsv); My God my Father (BBC hb 357) long wave only
The Forerunner by NORRIE HEARN
Read by Patrick Brannigan Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
followed by travel
Thanks Very Much by PETER SILCOCK
A hedgehog mouse! Is there really such a thing? Pat Morris, Janet Kear and John Cooke wrestle with some more of your natural history questions. Presented by Derek Jones Producer anne BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)
Presenter Jcnni Mills
Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Watching the Box for a Degree: Margaret COLLINS reports on a course at Stirling University.
Food on the Cheap: the last in GAIL DUFF'S series on eating well at low cost. Sweets ... and final details of the Woman's Hour Menu Competition.
The Intruder (5)
by H. G. WELLS
The last of three parts dramatised by BARRY CAMPBELL
Pursued by her old suburban flame Hubert, Ann finds herself unaccountably interested in her lecturer, young
Mr Capes , who is already married, it seems.
Meanwhile she becomes involved in the suffragette movement, with disastrous personal consequences. other parts played by members of the cast
Directed by Brian miller BBC Bristol
as enjoyed by The Rev John Eley , canon and cook.
Next month's visit to
Britain by the Pope will be especially welcomed by the country's 150,000 strong Polish community. Kevin Ruane , who has just taken up his post as BBC Radio's Warsaw
Correspondent, looks at the life of the Poles who have made their home in this country.
Research PAt FRANCIS Producer mike CHANEY
Z for Zachariah (6)
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
(Details: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repealed Wed 1.40 pm)
with Geoff Watts
Producer gkoff deehan (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
In the 25th
1 year of the BBC's Natural History Unit - a series in 26 parts
Narrator
David Attenborough 12: Danger!
Many animals respond to the appearance of predators with a call that serves to warn others of the same or even different species, while' the alarm call itself has auditory characteristics that make it difficult to locate.
Wilma George of Oxford University, Peter Grieg -Smith of the University of Sussex. Peter Marler of Rockefeller University, New York,
Eugene Morton of the National Zoological Park,
Washington, and Tom Strusacker of the New
York Zoological Society, examine the vocal utterances of animals when danger threatens. Producer Michael BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Thomas Merton , monk 1915-68
Poet, novelist, social activist and Trappist Monk - his influential concern for social issues forced the Catholic Church to take seriously questions of politics, racial injustice, Vietnam and nuclear disarmament. Merton immersed himself in Oriental religion and Marxist ideology trying from his 'own Christian viewpoint to imnrove understanding between Fast and West.
Introduced by Chris Kay with Kenneth Nelson as Thomas Merton
Writteruby MONICA FURLONG Producer david A. craig
BBC Manchester
Including a review of the services available to visually-handicapped people from the public libraries.
Presented by Peter White Producer TIIENA IIESHEL Handbook, 12.95 from
BBC Publications, PO Box 234, London SE1 3TH
includes reviews of The
Indian Heritage, a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum ; and The Voyage of the Destiny, a novel by Robert Nye about Sir Walter Ralegh. Presenter Paul Allen Producer ANNE winder
with Alexander MacLeod
A dash of extra dry
Sherrin, in which
Ned Sherrin does not always take himself or his guests too seriously when they meet for late-night live conversation and music, which comes tonight from The Rio Trio. Producer IAN gardhouse
The Awakening by KATE CHOPIN abridged in seven parts by CATHY STEWART
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