News, weather, papers and sport
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45' Prayer for the Day With JOHN MATTHEWS
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.39. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
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Life Under Water
Water provides the most stable environment for its inhabitants and it is the most powerful solvent we've found. But how much do we know about the plants, animals, and fish which live in it?
What exists 10,000 metres below the surface of the Pacific Ocean? Can you tell the age of a salmon? How do limpets stick?
Dr Anne Powell, fishery biologist, and Dr Paul Cragg, marine biologist join Teresa McGonagle to answer your questions.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
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BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
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The Man Who Saw Visions by JOYCE BEGG
Read by John Bett
Carrots, it is said, make you see in the dark. But in George's case, a passion for carrots changes his view of the world in a most alarming way.
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
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Poetic Licence by PHILIP MARRIOTT
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' What animal Is capable of scooping out a hedgehog as clean as an avocado pear? I've found three hedgehog pelts in my field, sans bones, sans head, sans feet ...'
Michael Stoddart , Chris Mead and John Crothers shell out answers to some of your more prickly questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol
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News. views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon
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The desirable six-part sitcom delightfully placed in Ideal surroundings, and featuring
Frank Thornton and June Whitfield 4: Away From it All with NORMA RONALD ,
JON CLOVER , PETER WOODTHORPE and JAMES TAYLOR
Written by DAVID WHEELER Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
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Presenter Sir Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor. Including Signing On:
CHERYL ARMITAGE spends a day at an unemployment benefit office and hears the views both sides of the counter. Children's Books and Writers: reviewed by KAYE WEBB and BERNARD ASHLEY. Remembering Louise (10) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
by NEIL GUNN (1)
as enjoyed by JohnWestbrook
On15Junelastyear,
6.000 Jews, survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, gathered in Israel ,to remember those who died and to search for ithose who lived.
Their private celebration of survival became a public testimony to a forgetful world. Jenny De Yong travelled with a group from England and listened ...
Producer RITCHIE COGAN
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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Including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson 17: LONDON
Second Round erekLatlmer
(local government officer) Richard Aldous (civil servant) Robert Wilier (civil servant) Richard West (civil servant)
Including Beat the Brains
Devisedbyjohnp.wynn Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
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The last of five
Brogrammesinwhich r Martin Bax of the Department of Paediatrics, St Mary 's
Hospital Medical School, London, examines how researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are disentangling the remarkable process by which humans acquire language.
Are Mothers Necessaryt The order in which children acquire different aspects of language Is remarkably predictable. This suggests that such learning depends on a series of developments In the growing baby's brain. How Important, then, is the role of parents and other members of the family in teaching a baby totalk?
Producer ALISON Richards
Reporter Margaret Percy Producer MAX EASTERMAN BBC Manchester
After many years absence, Ian Wallace returns to the stage of the Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow and presents a humorous autobiographical picture In words and song. Accompanist EEITH SWALLOW
Producer RICHARD TITCHEN BBC Scotland
(Repeated: Thurs 11.3 am) (Ian Wallace plays My Music, Weds 6.30 pm)
News, views and information for visually-handicapped people. Including a review of medical information available on tape.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA IIESIIEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]. 8. 30-10. 0pm Handbook of aids and services, £2.95 from [address removed]
includes reviews of Ibsen's Peer Gynt In a I new translation by David Rudkin at the Royal
Shakespeare Company's Other Place In Stratford; and two novels by the Canadian poet and novelist.
Margaret Atwood. Bodily Harm Is a political thriller set on a small West Indian
Island, and Lady Oracle, which was first published in 1976, features an irresponsible heroine who fakes her own death and flees to an Italian seaside resort to take stock of her life and death.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer CARROLL MOORE
with Alexander MacLeod
A dash of extra dry
Sherrin, In whjch
Ned Shcrrin 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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