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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with FR ALBAN MCCOY
6.55,7.55 Weather forecast
7.0,8.0. Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSIINELL
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45- Though! /or the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Fr Alban McCoy
Read By:
Pauline Busiinell

Have you ever had trouble asking for directions'abroad? Do you find foreign accents confusiti, Apparently bees can have these problems too -
James Gould explains about bee dialects and their origins in this week's magazine edition with news of wildlife from around the world.
Presenter Peter France
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
James Gould
Presenter:
Peter France
Producer:
Melinda Barker

The last of six different sides of life across the Channel.
A Working Life in Brussels
Brussels is a city of guest workers ' -
Eurocrats, Natocr-ats ... their dependents and hangers-on. It is also the capital city of a country divided into Flemish and French-speaking camps. How do they all work together? Do they work together - in what is perhaps the microcosm of a future Europe?
Producer jiiian hale

Seven features about practical attempts over the centuries to create the ideal society.
6: Bconar.s with Dreum.s by DANIEL WOLF
The story of the first kibbutz. Degania, founded in Palestine in 1911 to create a new way of life for Jews, with Lee Montague as Joseph Baratz , one of the 12 founder members ' We arrived in Um Jumi in summer. It was very hot down there, 200m below sea level. We were 12, ten men and two women Six men were to do the ploughing, two would act as guards, one as secretary-accountant, and one to be held in reserve. The two women would do the housekeeping. We had only grain. crops. We tilled them with primitive tools. We had no farm animals exceptt six pairs of mules and two horses. '
Narrator Hugh DICKSON with DAVID GRAHAM. STEVE HODSON , JAMES KERRY , STUART ORGAN and contributions from Baratz's descendants: YOYA SHAPIRO. TAMAR C.U. and RON SHAPIRO Directed by JOHN THEOCIIARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel Wolf
Unknown:
Lee Montague
Unknown:
Joseph Baratz
Narrator:
Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
David Graham.
Unknown:
Steve Hodson
Unknown:
James Kerry
Unknown:
Yoya Shapiro.
Unknown:
Ron Shapiro
Directed By:
John Theociiaris
Gordon:
Jeffrey -Segal
Miriam:
Frances Jeater
Rachel:
Jill Lidstone

Let Neil Landor. together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library. sort out your queries.
Producer KATE FENTON
Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within,
BBC Bromieastinij House. London W1.4 4WW

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Landor.
Producer:
Kate Fenton

Ordinary Levels by REGINALD HILL
An apparently typical couple with a normal teenage daughter - what could be more ordinary? But the daughter's friend goes missing, and suddenly ordinary behaviour begins to look very suspicious ...
Directed by MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Directed By:
Margaret Etall
Andrew Kershaw:
Crawford Logan
Belle Kershaw:
Susan Lebel
Alice Kershaw:
Deborah Makepeace
Stanley Johnson:
Stuart Organ
Mary Johnson:
Frances Jeater
Det Sgt Inch:
James Kerry

includes reviews of l.e
Ballet de l'Opcira de Paris at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden; and Mazeppa - The Lives, Loves and Legends of Adah Isaacs Menken , the great 19th-century theatrical star, by Wolf Mankowitz.
Presenter John Jacob Producer ANNE WINDER

Contributors

Unknown:
Adah Isaacs Menken
Unknown:
Wolf Mankowitz.
Presenter:
John Jacob
Producer:
Anne Winder

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