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presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6 45' Prayer for the Day THE REV GEORGE MULRAIN
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7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS 7 25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45 ; Thought tor the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
Six different sides of life across the Channel.
5: Drivers in Europe - the Safe and the Sorry
Who are the worst drivers in Europe? The Belgians with their minimal driving test? The 'aggressive ' Germans? Are the Italians really the best? How to avoid the traffic jams on the Parisian ring-road-tips and insights for anyone venturing on to the right side of the road. Producer JULIAN HALE
NEM p 84; The King of love my shepherd is (BBC HB 475); Canticle 10; John 20 vv 11-15 (AV); My song is love unknown (BP 62) long wave only
Mrs Rees of Aberclydach by NICK YAPP
Read by Hubert Rees . The real reason why families returned to the chalet was Mrs Rees herself. To her visitors she was a character.
They don't make em like that any more," said Andrew.'
Producer HERBERT Williams
BBC Wales
followed by travel
Seven features about practical attempts to create the ideal society 5: Our Heads with the Stars by PETER FRAENKEL
The story of the Whiteway Commune in Gloucestershire - one commune among a dozen founded in the 1890s to build the New Jerusalem on England's soil with Rosemary Leach as Nellie Shaw
' At Whiteway ideas were not simply debated. They were put to the test of practical experience. Every one of Tolstoy's thoughts was tested: the abolition of private property, non-violence, sexual abstinence, the abolition of money and of every form of authority. We had a simple child-like belief in the inherent goodness of human nature, and imagined that. given good conditions, equal and loving treatment, people would respond and give of their best.'
With JOHN LIVESEY and KATHERINE PARR Songs arranged and conducted by DOUG WOOTTON and sung by the BBC SINGERS Directed by JOHN TIIEOCHARIS
(Rosemary Leach is in '84 Charino Cross Road ' at the Ambassadors Theatre, London)
Let Nell Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer KATE FENTON
Including JILL TODD with the BBC Shopping Basket PresenterBillBreckon
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
by the Labour Party
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Please Remember the Grotto ...': the old custom of ' minding the grotto ' on St James 's Day has not yet died out - in people's memories at least. The Women of the Pits: BILL WILLIAMSON talks about the women of the mining villages.
Tea and Tranquillisers - the Diary of a Happy Housewife (3)
The Manilla Galleon by DAVID FISHER with John Woodvlne as William Dampier
A great Spanish treasure ship Is sailing from the Philippines to Acapulco with buccaneers and privateers lying in wait. William Dampier , pirate, naturalist, author and explorer, who lived in the late 17th century, is determined to pull off the Great Train Robbery of his day and take The Manilla Galleon. tony MCVEY (drums) Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT
Tim Sebastian recalls some of the people for and against change in Poland. 3: The Men and Women 01 Solidarity
Voices in the Garden (12)
with Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value from your hard-earned cash. (Repeated: Sat 7.50 am)
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Jeremy Siepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Monteverdi Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610)
(as Radio 3)
From the coastlands of County Mayo. Michael Viney talks about the work and the fun of the ' meitheai ' - the special kind of co-operation among the small farmers of the west of Ireland at hay-making time.
includes the National
Theatre's new production on the Olivier stage of Buchner's Danton's Death, in a new version by Howard Brenton , directed by Peter Gill ; and Swans Reflecting Elephants by Edward James , the recollections of one of the great British eccentrics, edited by George Melly.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
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