News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WBIGBT
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Presenters John Titnpson and Brian Redhead
6.45' Prayer for the Day With JOHN MATTHEWS
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
Dressmaking
How do I adjust a pattern to improve the fit? What advice do you have for beginners? How do I handle border prints? What sort of fabric is suitable for making Continental quilts?
Betty Foster, fashion and sewing consultant, joins Teresa McGonagle to answer your questions. A call In time could save nine!
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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A Kind of Rape by ARLINE LIGGETT
Read by Dlllwyn Owen
' Bill has never been out among people. It's important that he must not be thrown into sudden, confusing situations with unknown people.'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales long wave only
from the Chapel of Unity. Methodist College, Belfast NEM, p 93; Christ, whose glory fills the skies
(BBC HB 137); Psalm 90. vv 1-6. 12-17; John 5, vv
1.17 (AV); Come down. 0 Love divine (BBC m 149) BBC Northern Ireland
followed by travel long tDQVC OTlfff
parish Magazine by JOAN BAKEWKLL
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I I know that hares are supposed to go mad in March, but recently I saw a big tough looking hare with piebald mottlings, a dark brown back and spotty ears. Is this very unusual? '
Penny Anderson,
Chris Mead and Pat Morris leap In with answers to more of your natural history questions.
Presenter Derek Jones
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated.- Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon
A radio card game
In which John Junkin Aimi Macdonald and Kenneth Williams are dealt with by Paul Daniels
Cards devised, shuffled and scribbled on by IAN MESSITER produced and cut by RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
11.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day wtth voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Who Can I Turn tof : a series about groups and agencies which help people with problems - and their families. 1: The Drug Addict
The Tenant of Wlldfell Hall (4) long wave only
Pending by ANTONIO SKARMETA translated by MARGARET ETALL
Exile is not for ever - or so Gabriel's grandparents think. They remember their former life in Chile with love and longing, and their determination to return is not as far-fetched as it seems. Gabriel shares their secret but he wiU never give them away.
Directed by Margaret etall
Drawn from the Wood Random reflections on Northern life from Francis Wood.
Producer GILLIAN BOSH BBC Manchester
John Walters takes a wry look at the strange and ridiculous history of make-up - from woad to patterned punks and beyond.
Producer ANNE MORRISON
The Beautiful Visit (2)
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
with PAULINE BUSHNELL
Half-anbour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world
Including Financial Report
Ned Sherrin and his studio guests look for entertainment wherever they can find it, and sometimes discover It in unexpected places.
Producer IAN GARDROUSE
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 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 GP's surgery.
Producer JULIAN BROWN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
In the last of three programmes. John Ebdon offers some more oblique reflections on present-day life in the Greek Islands.
The Eclipse of Ideology Among the Communists who came to power in Eastern Europe after the war were men who had kept the Marxist-Leninist faith through the purges of the 30s, the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the deification of Stalin himself. Their belief in a total solution to the evils of the world enabled them to dismiss such events as necessities. Yet cracks in this philosophical monolith soon appeared, and with Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin the retreat from Ideological certainty became a stampede.
Under the impact of the explosions in Poland and Hungary in 1956, then of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the critics from within the party ranks came to perceive Communist ideology as irrelevant. In the third of four programmes,
Michael Charlton traces the story of the Intellectual defection from
Communism, the eclipse of ideology, with contributions from those In Eastern Europe who have been foremost In mounting the critique: Milovan DJilas
Leszek Kolakowski Eugcn Loebl and Edward Goldstueker
Producer DAVID MORTON
News. views and Information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White
Producer THENA hcshel Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm
includes a review of Airplane 11, the Sequel, starring Robert Hays , Julie Hagerty and Ray Bridges ; and The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States. which provides information about literary shrines and sights in all 50 states.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CARROLL MOORE
with Simon Winchester with voices and opinions from around the world
Tips and techniques to save time and money from Colin Sheffield, David Holloway and David Nye. In response to questions from DIY enthusiasts from
Satchwell Domestic Heating Controls
(Motherwell factory).
In the chair Libby Purves Producer CATHY STEWART Editor JIM BLACK
(Repeated: Thurs 12.27 pm)
An Ice-Cream War by WILLIAM BOYD abridged in 12 parts by DOREEN MAHON Read by RONALD PICKUP (12) Producer
MICHAEL BEPTERNAN long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
