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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day 7 0 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON 7 30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day

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Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

The Hoveton Great Broad In the valley of the River Bure among the grey sallows, royal ferns and milk parsley, lies Hoveton
Great Broad. A flooded medieval peat-digging. this fen woodland is home to the swallow-tail, the common tern and the water rail.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBCBristol
long wave only

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Presented By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Anne Blair Gould

A nationwide what's on magazine direct from the Royal Cornwall Show, in which Peter Purves and Gyn Freeman report on pony-trapping, tor-treading, witch-pricking, piskie-taking, pasty-stuffing, muck-spreading, Lizard-lounging, camel-jumping, Land's-Ending, St Michael's-Mounting Britain. Producers PETER EVERETT and KAY JAMIESON BBC Manchester long wave only

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Unknown:
Peter Purves
Unknown:
Gyn Freeman
Producers:
Peter Everett
Producers:
Kay Jamieson

goes to Norfolk for two special editions broadcast direct from the centre of Norwich.
Today Bill Brcckon is with guests who will be taking up issues of East Anglian and national consumer interest. Also including an investigation into why the cost of the You and Yours Shopping Basket is higher in East
Anglia than in the rest of the United Kingdom.

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Unknown:
Bill Brcckon

with Sue MacGregor The Heretic Becomes
Respectable: DR WILLIAM PRICE, Instrumental in establishing the legality of cremation, has been honoured in his home town after a century of vilification, GAIL FOLEY reports.
Warfare in the Garden: PETER BLACKBURNE-MAZE talks to JANE FINNIS about the uses of biological control of pests and diseases.
Remembering Louise (7) long wave only

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Unknown:
Gail Foley
Unknown:
Jane Finnis

Bedrock bv SHIRLEY GEE
ELLEN: You can marry. or you can not. You can go back from whence you come and we'll be none the worse. I'm in this bed, Phyllis looks after me, and that's the end of that. Directed by DAVID SPENSER

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Unknown:
Shirley Gee
Directed By:
David Spenser
Ellen Plowright:
Daphne Heard
Phyllis:
Holly de Jong
Derry:
Ian Sharrock
Dr Marchant:
Geoffrey Collins

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

includes reviews of Making Love, Arthur Hiller 's film about a triangle with a difference; and A Personal Affair, a new stage play by Ian Curteis about a political sex scandal of the 1930s, starring Gerald Harper and Virginia McKenna , with William Fox as George V.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD DUNN

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Unknown:
Arthur Hiller
Play By:
Ian Curteis
Unknown:
Gerald Harper
Unknown:
Virginia McKenna
Unknown:
William Fox
Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
Richard Dunn

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