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Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45. Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.9 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.38 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
One-Parent Families
According to the most recent figures, one in eight families in Britain is a one-parent family. That means that in the last ten years. the number of children living with a single parent has risen to more than one-and-a-half million. What are the emotional flashpoints - and the financial hurdles? Who can help? In the studio to answer your questions are Jane Streather ,
Director of the National Council for One-Parent Families, and Janet Allbeson. Welfare Rights Worker with the Child Poverty Action Group. Teresa McGonagle is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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NEM, p 93; Guide me (BBC HB 140); Psalm 90. vv 1-6. 12-17; Jonah 2. v 10 and 3, vv 1-10 (NEB); How sweet the name (BBC HB 142)
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A Tale of the Riverbank bv PATRICK HARKINS
Read by John Shedden
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
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All in the Mind by PAMELA GRAVETT
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1 " Listen to the worms " my husband exclaimed ... there certainly was a strange squeaking sound - do worms really make such alarming noises? ' John Crothers , Michael Stoddart and Chris Mead burrow into more of your questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
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Presenter Jennl Mills
The desirable new six-part sitcom delightfully placed In ideal surroundings, and featuring Frank Thornton and June Whitfield 1: A Bit of a Leg-up Sociallu with Norma Ronald.
Jon Glover , James Taylor , Dilys Laye
Written by david whiilir Producer EDWARD taylor
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel: programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor, including:
Lessons I've Learnt: Katie Boyle, Joseph Cooper and Tommy Steele are among the people who reveal what life has taught them to Anne Sitter.
Sore Throat: Dr Simon Smail has some advice on coping with one of the commonest ailments.
A Portrait of Julie (11) (long wave only)
A love story in six parts bV ALLAN PRIOR with and 4: Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
Harry and Clara Viner , a musical double-act, have arrived in New
York. Things are going from bad to worse as Harry refuses to work any of the second-rate vaudeville houses.
However. Clara has been offered and accepted a job. but it's one she knows she cannot mention to Harry.
Music arranged by DAVID TIMSON Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
(David Suchet is an associate member of the RSC; David Healu is a National Theatre player)
reflects on The Question of Communication
Buskino in Bath
During the Bath Music Festival. Bill Wallis has been listening to a rather more unofficial
' festival ' taking place In the streets of Bath, and talking to some of the itinerant music-makers who play it.
Producer brian MILLER
BBC Bristol
Lady on the Burning Deck (5)
Presenters
Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
A nationwide general knowledge contest
Chairman Robert Robinson 14: SCOTLAND
Philip Whitaker
(university lecturer)
The Rev Joseph McMahon (priest)
John Samson (teacher)
David Sneddon (town planner)
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
A series of five programmes in which Dr Martin 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.
2: Games Babies Play Playing ' peck-a-boo ', pointing at your father's nose and refusing to look your mother in the eye may seem a long way from learning about language. But the games babies play during the first year are preparations for the ' real ' conversations to come.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
Major Issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Nick Clarke
Producer MAX EASTERMAN BBC Manchester
Over millions of years, England's highest waterfall at Hardrow in Yorkshire has worn away the limestone rock of Upper Wensleydale to create a natural amphitheatre. The famous Blondin once walked from one side of it to the other on a tightrope, nausint; halfway to cook himself an omelette.
Here, in this beautiful setting, the annual
Hardrow Band Contest was first held just over a centurv ago and revived in 1976. Last year the winners were the Rivington and Adlington Brass Band from
Lancashire. We follow their fortunes at this year's contest and share in the enjoyment of a traditional North Country outing.
Additional interviews JOHN ECCLES
Producer alan haydock
News, views and information for visually-handicapped people.
June Rose reports on an experiment in Washington to provide a sound commentary in a theatre and on television to help blind people follow drama more easily.
Presenter Ian MacRae Producer then a hesiiel 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 BBC Publications, [address removed]
Includes reviews of two productions featuring the Monstrous Regiment
Company: The Execution at the ICA Theatre in London and Mourning Pictures on Radio 4; also a visit to the Bath Festival.
Presenter Richard Mayne Producer JOHN POWELL
with Alexander MacLeod
A dash of extra dry
Shcrrin, in which
Ned Sherrin does not always take himself or his guests too seriously when they meet for late-night live conversation and music from the RIO TRIO.
Producer IAN gardhouse
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Radio 4's international business report; market trends
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