News, weather, papers and sport
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ANNE INMAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
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7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
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Don't You See?
There are approximately 129,000 people in Great Britain on the blind register, but It is believed that at least twice that number have sufficiently impaired sight to qualify-that is are so blind as to be unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential. What services are available for the visibly handicapped? What are the advantages of registering as blind?
How can the sighted be most helpful to those who no longer see as well as they used to? In the studio are Sir John Wilson , Director of the Royal
Commonwealth Fund for the Blind, and social worker Margaret Ford co-author of In Touch, the BBC's handbook for the blind. Sue MacGregor is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am (In Touch is at 9.5 pm)
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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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NEM, P 89; Christ is the world's light (Bp 9); Psalm 67: Acts 8. vv 26-40 (rsv): The Lord will come (BBC HB 479) long wave only
The Old Man written and read by Harry Towb
A Hollywood epic of Ireland creates a strange alliance between a Jewish film director and an impoverished Galway farmer.
Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
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Poisoned Apples by. STEVE MAY
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1 Is It true that there are some fish that get lodged Inside human bathers? ' Humphrey Greenwood , Valerie Brown and Ian Presst wrestle with more of your questions about fish. Insects and birds.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR COULD BBC Bristol
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Presenter Jenni Mills
The desirable six-part sitcom delightfully placed In
Ideal surroundings, and featuring
Frank Thornton and June Whitfield
5: The Trouble with Smith With NORMA RONALD ,
JON CLOVER , PETER V.OODTHORPE JAMES TAYLOR. STEPHEN CARLICK
Written by DAVID WHEELER Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
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Presenter Sir Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including How to Cope with France and the French: advice from JOHN P. HARRIS. Not Just Baskets and Fluffy Bunnies: In the 50th year of the profession. KAREN DECO discovers the range of occupational therapists' work.
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by NEIL GUNN , adapted in five parts by TOM MCGRATH with and 2: Catrine gives birth to her son Finn and tries to protect him from life's many dangers as he growsup.Somedangers are fatally attractive however, and the booming herring industry beckons to yuung Finn.
Finn (boy) VICKIE MASSON
Girl JULIE ANN rULLERTON Directed by TOM XINNINMONT BBC Scotland
Peter France on Devon
Nicholas Evans , a former miner from the Aberdare Valley in South Wales. didn't start painting until he was almost 70. Now. his pictures of mining scenes and valley's life are highly regarded. He is also a committed Christian and preaches in Pentecostal churches all over South
Wales, seeing his art as a way of praising God. as a kind of singing.
Producer MARK OWEN
BBC Wales
Berry and Co
with Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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including Financial Report
Chairman Robert Robinson 18: HOME COUNTIES
Laurence Porter
(methodist local preacher) Nell Crockford
(information manager) Brian Wallis
(horticultural worker) Sqn-Ldr George Nichols 'RAF retired)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
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Barry Cunliffe examines the life and work of six pioneers of archaeology
-people who enriched our understanding of the past through their endeavours, dreams. visions and obsessions.
1: Entering a City of Giants with Joss Ackland as Giovanni Baptista Belzoni Compiled from contemporary sources by PETER JAMES
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm) (Joss Ackland is a member of the RSC)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Reporter
Peter Oppenheimer
Producer PAUL CAMPBELL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas This month
Martin Muncaster looks at the changing ecology of the South Downs and Lynn ten Kate joins a group of volunteers responsible for clearing and maintaining the Basingstoke Canal. In the Shetland Isles Les Lowes has been watching the local people casting peats while David Tavincr goes to the East Yorkshire Country Sports Fair. Keith Allan talks to a retiring country vicar about his changing role In village life and Eric Simms visits the South Stack Bird Reserve in Anglesey.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT (Repeated: Fri 11.3 am)
News, views and information for visually. handicapped people. Moving House
Sue Hancock talks to
Hannah Wright about the ways in which she coped with getting to know a new district.
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 BBC Publications, PO Box 234. London SEl 3TH
includes reviews of Design for Living by Noel Coward , with Maria Aitken and Ian Ogilvy at the Greenwich Theatre: and The Art of the Van de Veldes, a major exhibition of these 17thcentury marine artists at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
9.59 Weather
with Alexander MacLeod
A dash of extra dry
Sherrin,inwhichNed
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 cardiiouse
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