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Presenters John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.45* Prayer for the Day
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
Angling
One of the most popular and fastest-growing sports in Britain today is angling; at the last count there were over three-and-a-half million people who enjoyed relaxing by a reservoir or river or on the sea, looking for that elusive bite. But how easy Is It to start fishing? Is It an expensive sport? In the studio to answer your questions about angling are fishing expert Peter Thompson and editor of Trout Fisherman
John Wilshaw. Judith Chalmers is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
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NEM. p 75; Thy kingdom (BBC HB 27); Psalm 112; II Samuel 2, vv 1-7 (RSV); Lead us heavenly Father (BBC HB 307) long wave only
A Little Spring Madness by PAM SANDIFORD
Read by Heather Bell Producer JOANNA TOYE BBC Birmingham
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' What creature would make a nest in a burrow and fill it with seven golf balls? Just one of the questions to stymie our team of naturalists.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jennl Mills
Last of a ten-part series by ROBERT BARR
The Point of no Return
Producer MARTIN FlSRER
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Presenter Brian wldlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Women for Peace:
SONIA BEESLEY visits the Women's peace Camp at Greenham Common in Berkshire. Pick of the Paperbacks: FRANCES DONNELLY and EDWARD BLISHEN make their choice.
A Portrait of Julie (6) long wave only
A love story In six parts set against the background of the music-hall byALLAN PRIOR
3: East Side, West Side, AU Around the Town
Harry Viner and Clara Abbott have run away to London. With little prospect of work, Harry has visited Poverty
Corner. Then just as their careers seem about to take off Clara announces that she is expecting a child.
Music arranged by DAVID TIMSON
Directed by GERRY JONES
(David Suchet is an associate member of the RSC; David Healy is a National Theatre player; John Bennett is in ' The Sound of Music at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, London)
Llangeitho In Dyfed through the eyes of Mart James , Its subpostmistress.
Four contestants compete In the final of the 1982 title, arranged by Garden News. Recorded before an invited audience at BBC Pebble Mill, Birmingham.
Chairman John Timpson Finalists
Derrick Turbltt
(Northern Ireland) John Howard (Wales)
Rodney Wills (Cleveland)
Rupert Tolleld (Oxford)
Questions set by GEOFF AMOS Producers TONY SHRYANE and JOANNA TOYE
BBC Birmingham
Catalina by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM abridged in 12 parts by MADGE HART
Read by JOHN MOFFATT (12)
Producer MARGARET ETALL
Presenters
Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world
Including Financial Report
A nationwide general knowledge contest
Chairman Robert Robinson 13: SCOTLAND
Dr Richard Coast-Smith (general practitioner)
Norman Clark (teacher)
Stewart Graham (student) Jim Robertson (teacher) Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
A series of five programmes in which Dr artin Bax of St
Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, examines how researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are disentangling the remarkable process by which babies acquire language.
1:You Never Know Who's Listening
Day-old babies can recognise their own mother's voice. Is it something they learn in the Hrst24 hours or have they, as some scientists believe, been learning about language while still in the womb?
Producer
ALISON RICHARDS
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer ROGER FINNIGAN BBC Manchester
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas ' The scent of the clean boot ' - Mike Chaney joins a drag hunt In the Waveney Valley, Norfolk, Martin Muncaster takes a walk along the footpaths of West Sussex, and up In Northumberland Keith Allan responds to the call of the Northumbrian pipes.
As the summer season approaches, Bob Danvers Walker boards a steam launch on the Thames, while Bob Forbes goes into sub-tropical gardens in Dorset. And to celebrate the programme's 30th anniversary, Eric Simms listens to summer bird sounds over the years. Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
News, views and information for visually. handicapped people.
Ian MacRae reports on the triennial conference of the National League of the Blind.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in Queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbook of aids and services, £2.95, from[address removed]
Includes reviews of Graham Sutherland 1903-80, a memorial exhibition at the Tate Gallery, and his new biography by Roger Berthoud ; also lain Johnston reports from the Cannes Film Festival.
Presenter Jeffrey Richards Producer
CLAIRE SELERIE-CRAT
Peter Paterson reporting
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 from the RIO TRIO.
Producer IAN CARDHOUSE
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