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Presenters Wendy Jones and Chris Lowe
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV MARK WILLIAMSON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Plus Libby Purves with a birthday interview. Producer JENNY DANKS
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nem, p 93; Come dearest Lord, descend and dwell (BPll); Psalm 11; I Samuel 1, vv 1-11 (RSV); How brightly beams the morning star (BBC HB 141) long wave only
3: Jimmy Held joins the Radio 4 bus as an extra guide when
Roger McGough takes pupils from Holyrood Secondary School on a visit to Govan Shipbuilders.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
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Presenter Bill Breckon
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12.55 Weather, travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Guest of the Week: the fashion designer, Bruce Oldfield.
That Neglected Age:
TRANCES RATCHFORD explores the rarely-discussed pains and pleasures of being 30. The Intruder (11) long wave only
Little Acids ltiiing by JOHN KtnsiiAW , with Stanley Page as James and Stephanie Fayerman as Alison James receives a letter from the daughter he has not seen for 22 years. She needs money, but he hopes she needs him as well. Directed by peter KING
Seven programmes in which the poet
George MacBeth presents poems about animals.
3: Eating and Being Eaten Readers RONALD PICKUP and PETER WICKUAM Producer ALEC REID
Jean Rook
The Oscillating Water
Column, the Sea Clam. the Bristol Cylinder and the Salter Duck Four of the devices proposed by British engineering research teams as a means of extracting energy from the waves that pound our shores. So far. Britain has a world lead, but now the Government has to decide which of seven proposals it will continue to support. Michael Scott examines the options facing the Department of Energy, whose chief scientist,
Dr Anthony Challis , has to take account of other developments in ' renewable energy
Producer mike stanger BBC Scotland
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (5)
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Chlldcare Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from
LILY TOMLIN, WOODY ALLEN , MARTY FELDMAN. PETER SELLERS, BILL COSBY and SHELLEY BERMAN
Give a child an inch and he'll think he's a ruler.
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Written hy FRANK MUIR and SIMON brett
Producer PETE ATKIN
Aseriesofweekly investigations into the problems of listeners. Presenter Roger Cook
Eight documentary programmes examining the relationships between the richer and the poorer countries of the world.
2: ' With Every Mouth God Sends a Pairs of Hands ' There are four billion people in the world at present; by the end of the century there will be over six billion. The mostrapid population increase is in the developing countries of the 'South'. Is a large population - or a large family-necessarily a bad thing? If so, is family planning the answer? Or would general economic development he more effective?
Written and presented by Emanuel de Kadt and Daniel Snowman
Producer daniel SNOWMAN
Marian Foster presents the showcase for amateur choirs. This week:
Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir conductor NIGEL CARVER With PAUL SEARLE-IiARNES (organ) and St Anne 's Convent School Choir conductor SUSAN moore with sheila smith ipiano) Producer UN CARSON BBC Bristol
Dr Henry Kissinger. US Secretary of State 1973-77. in conversation with Michael Charlton about the issues he faced in office
Producer DAVID morton
Paul Allen visits Glasgow and looks at the work of the Scottish Theatre Company and the Ilunterian Art Gallery. Producer
RICIIARD BANNERMAN
John Morgan reporting
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