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g 45* Prayer for the Day With POLLY HASLAM
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45 ; Thought for the Day
Part 3
8.57 Weather: travel
with guests from all walks of life, Including a special birthday personality interview by Sarah Dunant.
Producer JOHN LAVIS
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The Dance by CLEDWYN IIUGHES
Read by Sion Probert long wave only
NEM, p 71; ' Thy kingdom come! ' On bended knee (BBC HB 28); Psalm 145, vv 1-13; John 4, vv 3-14
(AV); Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27)
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Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY abbott long wave only
Presenter Jennl Mills
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Guest of the Week: the London Bureau Chief of Time magazine, Bonnie Angelo.
A Maze of Benefits:
FRANCES BENNETT helps yOU find your way around the maze of Social Security Benefits.
3: Disabled people
The Magic Apple Tree abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN written and read by SUSAN HILL (11) long wave only
The Peewit by GEORGINA REID with Bill Paterson as Thomas Carlyle
Rosalind Adams as Sarah Jennifer Piercey as Jane Carlyle
Eva Stuart as Mrs Welsh and John Webb as John Stuart Mill
A young servant girl is employed in the household of the writer. Thomas Carlyle , during the time he Is working on his celebrated history of the French Revolution. He is irritated by her boisterous nature, she by his creative temperament. But when disaster strikes, It is she who saves him.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Desmond Hawkins presents six programmes reflecting the inspiration poets have found in the sky.
3: Heaven
Readers pauline WYNN and DOUGLAS LEACH
Producer BRIAN patten BBC Bristol
Starting Out
John Mapplebeck talks about his first job in journalism.
Deep-Sea Drilling
Until recently two-thirds of the earth's crust lay beyond the reach of geologists trying to understand the surface and interior of our planet. But in the last
15 years scientists have begun to study the crust beneath the oceans by drilling deep holes from a specially designed ship, the Glomar Challenger. Peter Evans reports on what they have learnt by going to sea and how their findings have transformed the earth sciences.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty (8)
Presenter Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dllys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Irene Thomas and Peter Porter In the Chair
Antonia Fraser
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Producers TONY SHRYANE and PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
Roger McGough concludes his series in which he reflects on the ups and downs of writing for a living.
Producer JOCK Gallagher BBC Birmingham
A series of five programmes
4: The Criminal
If women who write so successfully about crime have little personal experience of it, how fair or real are their books? Does the crime have to be murder? Are real criminals at all tike the fictional ones?
Jessica Mann investigates, with the help of Anthony Storr. Sarah CaudweU. James Barnett.
Zena Scott-Archer . P. D. James , Elizabeth Ferrars.
Margaret Yorke and Janet Morgan.
Readers madi REDO and FRANCES JEATER
Music by JOLYON JACKSON Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM
A 13-part series In which Jeremy Siepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventures and reflections of composers abroad. 11: Paganini
' One individual affirmed that he saw nothing whatever surprising in my performance for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow.' with Benjamin Whitrow as Paganini Producer CATHY WEARING
Just over 100 years ago a small group of French monks arrived in Buckfast in South Devon, intent on rebuilding the abbey and monastery which had been almost entirely destroyed by Henry VIII. The community thrived. and still thrives today.
Bob Prizeman reports on the many activities which go on there and introduces some of the monks for whom Buckfast is home. Producer SALLY THOMPSON
includes a review of John Updike 's new novel Bech is Back, featuring the life of an American author coming to terms with being famous.
Presenter Richard Mayne Producer RICHARD DUNN
with Alexander MacLeod
An Ice-Cream War (8) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Busking in Bath
During the Bath Music Festival, Bill Wallis listened to an unofficial
' festival ' taking place in the streets of Bath, and talked to some of the itinerant music-makers who played at it.
Producer BRIAN miller BBC Bristol
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
