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presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the.Day with ROGER GRAINGER
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Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
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7.45* Thouaht for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
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Hist Child by LINDY WILSON Read by Brigid Erin Bates Julie Barnes crossed her fingers. said a silent prayer, and dialled her husband. It was the best offer they had had, and she hoped he would not refuse it. ' They've got a little boy for us, and we can go and get him right away.'
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland long wave only
NEM, p 54; Breathe on me, breath of God (BBC hb
148); Psalm 48; Luke 22, vv 54-65 (NEB): Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove (BBC HB 150)
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Let Nell Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer HELEN FRY long wave only
News, views and advice plus the BBC Shopping
Basfcetincluding this week advice on ante-natal care. Today: how the life-style you lead before your baby is born affects your baby's development. Presenter Jennl Mills
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Robert Louis Stevenson : LIZ STUART talks to Helen Ross about her admiration for the work of the writer who died 88 years ago this week in Samoa. Stammering:
MOYRA BREMNER investigates one of the most debilitating and embarrassing social handicaps.
A Traveller In Time by ALISON UTTLEY abridged in 15 parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by Jan Carey (1)
As a young girl Penelope Cameron spends her holidays with farming relations of her mother's in Derbyshire. Thackers Farm is very old and was once the home of the Babington family, a family that was to pay dearly for its allegiance to Mary, Queen of Scots. Penelope, blessed, or cursed, with second sight, is a reluctant, and helpless witness.
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William Barton 's Dream A comedy by MICHAEL CAMPBELL and Both awake and asleep, odd and unrelated quotations keep coming into William's head - and it takes a rather unusual literary critic to interpret William's dreams for him.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGIILIN BBC Bristol
Advent Calendar
Celia Thomson explores the Christmas tree business.
Presented by Frank Delaney
Murder Unprompted (4)
Presented by Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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With BRIAN PERKINS
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
( Repeated; Fri 1.40 pm)
Jeremy Siepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
direct from the Free Trade Hall
Gybrgy Pauk (violin)
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by Bernhard Klee Part 1 Bartok
Violin Concerto No 2
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
Haydn Symphony No 85, in B flat major (La Reine) Strauss Symphonic Poem: Death and Transfiguration
includes reviews of Canaletto by J. G. Links. a comprehensive survey of the artist's work; and ' The glory of Venice ', a recording of music by Monteverdi, Gabrieli and Barrano by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, the Monteverdi Choir and the Choirs of Magdalen - College, Oxford, and St John 's, Cambridge.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
John Morgan reporting
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
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