Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
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6.45* Prayer for the Day With POLLY HASLAM
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7.0, 8.9 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
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7.39, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 2
8.57 Weather; travel
Mental Handicap
How can parents help mentally handicapped child to reach his or her full potential? What educational services are available to help them? Is it fair to place a mentally handicapped teenager in an institution? What are the rights of a mentally handicapped adult?
Joan Blckncll , professor of the Psychiatry of Mental Handicap at St
George's Hospital Medical School, and Brian Rix , Secretary General of MENCAP. are in the studio with Sue MacGregor to answer your questions. 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.
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The Fixer by KEITH GOODALL
Read by Michael Angelis Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester long wave only
nem, p 67; Jesus, these eyes have never seen
(Bp 44); Psalm 93; John 3. vv 22-30 and 4, vv 1-3 (AV); Light's abode, celestial Salem (BBC HB 250)
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Blind Spot by PAULINE SEYMOUR
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How can a chicken lay eggs without being mated - and are there any wild birds able to do this?
A real chicken and egg situation for the naturalists to brood over. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jenni Mills
A radio card game In which John Junkin Alml Macdonald and Kenneth Williams are dealt with by Taul Daniels
Cards devised, shuffled and scribbled on by IAN MESSITER
Produced and cut by RICHARD EDIS
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Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
1 Had To Keep Her Quiet: ANCELLE BRYAN-KANE investigates the hidden problem of granny battering.
A Maze of Benefits:
FRANCES BENNETT helps yOU find your way around the maze of Social Security benefits.
2: The One-parent Family The Magic Apple Tree (10) long wave only
Under the Hammer by STEPHEN FAGAN
In a celebrated London auction house, a Van Gogh recently imported from the USSR arouses interest, suspicion - and antagonisms. As much as he wants to maintain his professional reserve,
Harry cannot forgive the Communists for stealing pictures - or forging them.
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM
Starting Out
David Bellamy talks about his first job to KEITH ALLAN.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Margaret Horsfield presents an eye-witness account of the launching of the Sir John Fisher -
' as high as a seven-storey house, as long as a street - at the Govan Shipyard In Glasgow.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty (7)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
With PAULINE BUSHNELL
Half-an-hour of reports i from BBC newsmen around the world. including Financial Report
Ned Sherrin and his guests in the studio look for entertainment wherever they can find it.andsometimes discover it in unexpected places.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
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Written by MARGARET PHELAN
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
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.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
In the second of three programmes. John Ebdon offers some more oblique reflections on present-day life in the Greek Islands.
Fatal Resentments
Stalin had Insisted at Yalta on the establishment of friendly governments in the countries liberated by the Red Army. As his meaning became clear he dealtaratalblowtothe hopes of Yalta. ' Salami tactics ' paved the way for Communist governments wholly subservient to Moscow. There were to be no separate roads to socialism in the manner of Tito's Yugoslavia and the Soviet model was to be followed down to the letter of the purge trials which Stalin ordered for Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
In the second of four programmes.
Michael Charlton argues that the Imposition of an alien ideology backed by terror created resentments which may now be fatal to the stability of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe.
Producer DAVID MORTON
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. John Wyley , who is registered blind. talks to IAN MACREA about his work as an industrial designer with a special interest in aids for the handicapped.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]. 8.30-10.0 pm
includes a review of Kings and Queens, paintings, drawings, miniatures, sculpture and portrait medals from the Royal Collection at The Queen's Gallery,
Buckingham Palace.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CARROLL MOORE
Peter Paterson reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
This week a group of De-It-Yourselfers join
Libby Purves to pool their knowledge on some of the household repairs and projects that active householders may need to undertake this year. Producer CATHY STEWART Editor JIM BLACK
An Ice-Cream War (7) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Records of VLADIMIR
ASHKENAZY directing the PHILHARMOMA ORCHESTRA in Mozart's Concert Rondo (K 382). accompanying
ELIZABETH SODERSTROM in a song by Mussorgsky and conducting the AMSTEROAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA in Rachmaninov.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
