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Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day With JOYCE HUGGETT
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
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7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thouoht for the Day
In his third programme Christopher Matthew offers a celebration of Southampton Docks.
Whatactuallyhappens when the QE2 sets sail these dayst Does the band still playf Do they passengers still chuck streamers over the sidet I have long wanted to know, having contrived to reach the age of 43 without once setting foot on anything larger than a cross-Channel steamer ...
8.57 Weather: travel
direct from Paris The return of the ordinary talk show with extraordinary people.
Producer IAN cardhovss
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visits the Birmingham
Botanical Gardens which Is celebrating Its 150th anniversary. Local gardening enthusiasts put their questions to Bill Sowerbutts
Geoffrey Smith and Dr Stefan Buczackl
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
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The Singing Lesson by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Read by Margot Boyd Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
NEM, p 25: Behold, we come, dear Lord, to thee (BBC HB 396); Psalm 9;
Luke 5, vv 12-26 (NEB); 0 splendour of God's glory bright (BBC RB 409)
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Presenter Bill Breckon Surviving As a New Student
3: Academic Work-staying the course
A thriller serial In five parts by R. D. Wingfield
Evidence of black rites carried out in the local churchyard of Polford points to a connection with the mutilations which have been perpetrated....
BBC Bristol
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week; Geoffrey Parsons , accompanist.
Preserving the Past: pam callaghan looks at the arguments for and against the conservation of our ancient buildings. New York Report: byHELENS BANFF
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Arrest Is as Good as a Change
A comedy thriller by MICHAEL Z. LEWIN
Hodges seems pretty keen to get arrested and Cane. his warder in the open prison to which he fs sent, keeps taking him for questioning. Julia is the daughter of the chief constable and a recent divorcee who is finding a new meaning in life as a prison visitor. She cannot understand why Hodges Is always so tired. What can he be up to at nights?
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Seven programmes in which Frederick Woods presents poems drawn from the rich tradition of English folk song.
1: The End of an Idyll Readers RUSSELL DIXON and MALCOLM HEBDEN
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
Brian Rix , Actor-Manager and Secretary General of hencap.talkstoJenni Mills about amateur radio.
(BToadcaast Tues 7.50 pm)
The Boy on Platform One (7)
Presenters Robert Williams and Liz Donnelly on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
With BRYAN MARTIN
Including Financial Report
devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions by STEVE race Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
The last of nine weekly investigations Into unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
A cloth-capped ' Dal ' figures in many of the poems of Idrls Davies - but the courage of this archetypal figure reflects that of the writer himself. Davies, once a miner. wrote poems of passionate social concern. In the first of three programmes about Welsh writers,
John Ormond reflects on his life and work.
Reader JOHN DARRAN
Producer Herbert Williams BBC Wales
The National Theatre opens its doors each morning at 10.0. It provides tours, platform performances, bookshops, live music and foyer exhibitions - a place where people can meet without necessarily going to a performance. This programme reflects the many facets of the National Theatre and goes backstage to discover exactly how some ten productions are run in repertoire at any given time.
A five-part series with Finlay J. Macdonald
3:The First ChristmasHow the children of the Presbyterian community celebrated In style when the teacher brought Christmas to Harris.
Produce LESLIE ROBINSON
Includes reviews of Poltergeist produced by Steven Spellberg. who describesthisfilmas
my revenge on TV ' in which spirits terrorise a family by escaping from atelevisionset:and the controversial contemporary dance and theatre company, Pina Bausch 's Tanza Theater Wuppertal, at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London.
Presenter Richard Mayne Producer Richard DUNN
Peter Patterson reporting
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