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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Bedhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV MELVYN MATTHEWS
6.55,7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*,8.25* Sport
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
8.40* Yesterday In Parliament
S.57 Weather: travel
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A magazine edition with news of what's happening to wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Peter France Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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A series of programmes about people who are successful against the odds.
When Captain James West took over the 3,000-acre Alscot Estate near
Stratford-upon-Avon he faced a problem familiar to landowners - rural decline. Four years ago he decided to fight back by bringing light industry to the estate. Today, boat-builders, gun-makers and others employ over 50 people In renovated barns. Larry Harris talks to
CAPTAIN WEST about his success and his struggle with planning laws.
Producer GRAHAM HILL BBC Birmingham long wave only
The End of the Line by PHILOMENA ULYATT Read by John Keyes
1Everymorningfor35 yearsArchibald
McClaverty Murdoch.
Smythe had left this gate at the same hour for the same destination. And every mornjng for the last five, that confounded blackbird had been calling out the years like some black-hooded judge passing sentence.'
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland long wave only
NEM, p 25; Give me the wings of faith to rise
(BBC HB 229); Psalm 27, part 1; Luke 11, vv 14-28 (NEB); My song Is love unknown (Bp 62)
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Today Is Trafalgar Day, marking Britain's most glorious naval victory. To many the spirit of Nelson still persists, but, If It does, where is it to be found? Christopher Lee Investigates. Producer
RICHARD ANTHONY RAKER long wave only
Let Nell Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Questions, on a postcard please, to Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 4WW
Producer KATE FENTON long wave only
with PATRICIA WENZ and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Jennl Mills
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor Palette Talk:
JOHN FITZMAURICE MILLS outlines first steps with water colour.
The Ballad and the Source (14) long wave only
by Patrice Chaplin
with Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Lucinda, Frances Jeater as Dolly, Hugh Dickson as Anthony, Edward de Souza as Basil
Lucinda and Dolly try to redeem their loveless marriages by playing with tarot cards. The cards predict a wonderful new romance, for Dolly at least. Their mutual obsession with their lovers 'in the cards' has tragi-comic repercussions...
(Edward de Souza is in 'Amadeus' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)
The cartoonist Bill Tidy. who lives at Southport, reflects on life by the sea.
Wild Wood (4)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Liz Donnelly on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
With LAURIE MACMILLAN Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Raucous fun and a little bit extra from
Robert Bathurst Rory McGrath
Jimmy Mulville
Emma Thompson and Griff Rhys Jones
Written by RORY MCGRATH
JIMMY MULVILLE , JON CANTER and others
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Includes reviews of a new biography of Maurice Chevalier by James Harding ; and Plague
Dogs, an animated film version of Richard Adams ' novel about a mongrel labrador named ' Rowf ' and a fox terrier called ' Snitter ' who escape from a surgical research station.
Presenter Richard Mayne Producer ANNE WINDER
Jeremy Slepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by Kurt Wöss Eugene Sarbu (violin) direct from the MacRobert Arts Centre. University of Stirling Part 1
Haydn Symphony No 34 Mozart Adagio in 9 (K 261) Schubert Rondo (D 438)
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
Part 2 Strauss Family
Overture: Zigeunerbaron; Annen Polka: Eljen a Magyar: Kalserwalzer; Im Krapfenwald Feurfest Polka; An der schonen blauen Donau BBC Scotland followed by an Interlude
John Morgan reporting
Four Stories
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
