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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
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Read by Christopher SLADE
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7.45. Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
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Margaret Percy confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television.
Producer susan snailum Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television to: Feedback,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
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A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL i Repeated: Sat 4.2 pm) long wave only
Exile by ROBIN JENKINS
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neh, p 84: Jesu, grant me this, I pray (BBC us 517); Psalm 142: Luke 14 vv 15-24 (NEB); Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC HB 481)
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translated and adapted for radio by SALLY JENKINS In the early summer of 1940, Marie Meade was a widow in her 60s, enjoying a quiet and comfortablelifeinher remote country house in Normandy.
In what seemed like no time.the German Army had invaded and the region was under occupation. So that her children would know what it had been like,
Marie decided to keep a diary. She records her feelings and gives a finely detailed picture of life under the new regime. with Katherine Parr as Marie Meade
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham long wave only
Dormice as astronauts? Does this small mammal hold the secret of suspended animation? Mike Stoddart wonders about Roman delicacy and deep-sleeper - the dormouse.
Producer MELINDA barker BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Brcckon
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Presenter Brian Wldlake
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introduced from Northern Ireland by Helen Madden
Guest: Anne Devlin , a new young writer who this month receives one of Ireland's most coveted literary awards and has her first play broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Suiting Himself:
JOHN BENNETT goes to town on a shopping spree of kinds....
Producer COLIN LEWIS The Stepsisters (2) long wave only
Bitter Loyalty by SUE RODWELL
I I knew you were wild ... but I never thought you would be disloyal.' It is London, 1813.
A young wife's duty to her husband is called into question when she becomes Involved in the issues arising from the trial of a servant girl,
Emily Pearson. Is the girl guilty or merely society's victim? Helen Norris searches for the answers.
Directed by PAT trueman
PHIL smith pauses on the brink of some personal nightmares and - undaunted - peers within. 4: At Home in the Abyss
In 1897 Mrs C.W. Earle published the first of her immensely popular trilogy Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden. Aristocrat by birth, poor man's wife by vocation, she gave her readers an inimitable hotch-potch of advice on every aspect of the good life. Anne Jones presents a portrait of the lady, with readings from her books and memoirs by Celia Johnson.
BBC Bristol
Mrs Earle's Pot-pourri, £7.95, from booksellers
Landscape With Dead Dons (5)
with Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
with PAULINE BUSHNELL
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
TnmBnswellteststhe Mercedes-Benz 280CE Producer geoff DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
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with Margaret Howard Producer KATE FENTON
A personal portrait In conversation, recollection and anecdote, an ' assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
from Marlborough, Wiltshire
Guests, Including
The Rt lion Tony Benn , mp The Rt Hon
Norman St John Stevas, mp tackle the questions raised by the audience. Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
includes reviews of A
Woman Called Golda, a television film based on the life of Golda Meir, played by Ingrid Bergman , on BBC1; and Erte At Ninety, the complete graphics of the artist who was responsible for the Art Deco look and designed
. sets and costumes for the Folies Bergcre. Hollywood films as well as fashion covers.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer ROBIN WHITS
John Morgan reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason
David Tatc and Tracey Ullman
Written by JAMES hendrie , JOHN REVELL , ANDREA SOLOMONS. IAN BROWN ROY apps and others .Producer JAN RAVENS
Fried Eggs are Mediterranean by SLYVIATOWNSEND WARNER Read by Geraldine McEwan long wave only
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BERNARD JACKSON explores the darkest recesses of the archives to find his choices in an imaginary auction.
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
