Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45" Prayer for the Day With SISTER MARTINA
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7 30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
Growing Old Comfortably
Some of the aches and pains of old age are perhaps inevitable, but some can be alleviated. Ways and means can also be found to lessen some of the difficulties that older people experience in carrying out routine tasks at home. What help Is available to enable senior citizens to enjoy as much health and contentment as possible? Professor Sir Ferguson Anderson, Emeritus professor of Geriatric Medicine; and Hugh Faulkner, Managing Director of Help the Aged join Teresa McGonagle in the studio.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
(Nezt edn: Sat 11.35 am) long wave only
Caldas Proves his Pedigree by PATRICIA LANGDON-DAVIES Read by Thea Gregson 'He was known to even the newest arrivals at the hotel as the most beautiful do7 in the world.'
Producer PAMELA HOWI BBC Bristol long wave only
nem, P 21; Thou art the wav by thee alone (BBC
HB 338); Psalm 1; Luke 19, v 41-20, v 8 (neb); My God, accept my heart this day (BBC hb 356)
followed by travel long wave only
The Great Man by FRANCES MCNEIL
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• On the ground beneath our local oak trees are many small discs, rather like confetti - yet we are nowhere near a church.' Our team marries the answers to your wildlife questions.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5. pm) long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon
in A Family Time
' Four days in West Wittering. Four days of eight people in a house designed for two. Four days of crystalised ginger and TV specials. Four days of being polite. I can't do it, Helen.'
Written by SIMON brett Producer PETER ATKIN
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor Twentieth Century
Pirates: JEREMY HAYES investigates illegal copies of British products.
' PS: We'll come to China (if you send us the tickets) ': to their astonishment,
DOREEN FORSYTH and her husband were invited to advise a Cantonese commune on dairy farming.
The Hidden Face (5) long wave only
Pieces by joun CASSON with Betty has had many lovers, but she was particularly fond of Reg, who played the trumpet and believed that ' life is about playing yourownkindofmusic'. Poor Reg. He just tilted over one morning after a frenetic night of trumpet-blowing....
Trumpet played by ALAN ELSDON
Directed by peter kino
Children Talking
Gyn Freeman canvasses the views of youngsters in Edinburgh.
Producer Gillian IIUSH BBC Manchester
The extravagances of Elizabethan entertaining inspire Roger Worsley to do a little research into the finer points of 16th-century cuisine. The result is a banquet
(without swans and with the merest six courses) prepared according to the recipes of the day. His neighbours in Pembrokeshire,
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas and Professor Brian Morris, join him for the feast. Producer
KATE FENTON
Sagittarius Rising (7)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with BRYAN MARTIN
Including Financial Report
i Details: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the cp's surgery.
Producer geoft dekhah
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Reporter Stuart Simon
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
Pink flamingos in Kenya. a drought in Australia, and life in the western
Himalayas are just some of the subjects featured in this special programme by some of our foreign correspondents about the varied countryside abroad.
Presented by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Producer
Caroline ELLIOT
News. views and information for people with a visual handicap. In this edition Jane Finnis reports on TIG
(Tactile Image
Generator) which
' translates ' print into tactile material. Presenter
Peter White
Producer thena heshel Listeners can phone in queries and comments relatino to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbook of aids and service. £2.95. from [address removed]
includes reviews of Artists at the Colony
Room Club - founded by Muriel Belcher including works by Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Eduardo Paolozzi and Frank Auerbach at
Michael Parkin Fine Art, London.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer CARROLL MOORE
with Alexander MacLeod with voices and opinions from around the world
An epic fantasy in at least four parts by A.P.R. Marshall and J.H. Lloyd
The Years (2) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
