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Presenters Brian Redhead and Hugh Sykes
6.45. Prayer for the Day with ANNE INMAN
7.8, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
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7.45* Thought for the Day
1 wonder what they're. really like? ' This may be the week you discover the truth about your favourite personality as the birthday guest reveals all to Libby Purves , and Henry Kelly draws together a diverse mix of well-known and unknown people to entertain you with talk that may be serious, bizarre or downright hilarious. Producer JENNY DANKS
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Ken Ford invites Bill Sowerbutts Clay Jones and Geoffrey Smith to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. BBC Manchester
Questions should be on a postcard only please and addressed to:
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC. Woodhouse Lane. Leeds LS2 9PX
Book, Down the Garden Path. £3.50 from booksellers long wave only
GARDENING: page 73
NEM, p 93: The Lord's my shepherd (BBC HB480); Psalm 90. w 1-6. 12-17; Acts 9. vv 1-19a (Rsv):
Behold the amazing gift (BBC KB 484) long u'are only
The Promise by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Read by Garard Green
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Presenter Jennl Mills
Adapted in six parts by John Howlett from his novel of the same name, with Hugh Dickson as Gordon Aylen
As Gordon Aylen delves deeper into his file of Material Unaccounted For he begins to see ghosts past and future. In Italy the malfunction of the reactor Is now critical.
BBC Birmingham
(Broadcast Sun 7.2pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week:
Dr Keith Taylor , Director.
GeneraloftheHealth Education Council. Brain Wanes : MOYRA BREMNER assesses an apparent breakthrough in intelligence testing.
New York Report: from HELENE HANFF.
Morgan's Passing (5)
The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50, available from booksellers long wave only
Non-returnable A comedy by BERT PARNADY and STUART CHAMBERS
Carol is just 16 and still at school. Wayne is 17 and unemployed. Carol and Wayne have betn marriedafortnightand are living with her parents, but they haven't even got a bedroom to themselves. What can they do?
Desperate measures are called for!
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN
BBC Manchester
Six programmes presented by the poet Kit Wright 2: Tell Flesh it is But Dust
Readers HUGH DICKSON PETER HOLMES
PATIENCE TOMLINSON Producer ALEC REID
Ben Duncan on Cambridgeshire
Berry and Co
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANI John Amis and Frank Mulr challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Executive producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
First of four programmes. Gas Street Basin
Roger McGough begins his intrepid voyage up the Black Country Canal at Gas Street Basin - an oasis in the very heart of Birmingham. If you walk off one of the main streets, through an archway in the wall. you find the secret world of the canal system, with Its narrowboats and houseboats, day-trippers and canal people. The poet absorbs the atmosphere, talks to the locals and prepares for his journey.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the second half of a series In 26 parts. Narrator David Attenborough 15: Female Choice
Female frogs and toads respond only to the calls of their own species.
Recently researchers have become interested in the way they discriminate between the calls of individual males. Anthony Arak , of Cambridge
University, Stantey Rand. of the Smithsonian
Institute. Washington, and Michael Ryan , of Cornell University, New York, consider sneaky males, seductive imposters, and the story of the frog and the bat. Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Talking About Music ANTONY HOPKINS explores a musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
A Going Places special. It's ten years since the last major air crash in Britain, when a BEA
Trident plummeted into a field shortly after take-off from Heathrow, killing all 118 people on board. But even from such total devastation some benefits can be salvaged - and tonight Clive Jacobs looks at the men whose job it is to examine the wreckage, painstakingly to reconstruct the accident, and to discover exactly what went wrong and how lives can be saved by preventing a recurrence. Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
includes reviews of A Prodigal Child - David Storey 's latest novel about a boy's coming of age, his first love and the realisation of his prodigal gifts: and Devour the Snow by Abe Polsky at the Bush
Theatre. London - a play based on a true story about a party of travellers on the way to California in 1846 who became trapped in the freezing
Sierra Nevada Mountains. Presenter Richard Mayne Producer ANNE WINDER
John Morgan reporting
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