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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
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
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel
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A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Sat 4.2 pm) long wave only
The Time of Testing by JOHN G. MILLER
Read by Sean Barrett long wave only
from St Andrew 's and St George's Church, Edinburghh
NEM, P 79; Father who on man dost shower (CH3
515); Metrical Psalm 24. vv 7-10; John 11. vv 14-32 (av); Almighty God thy word is cast (CH3 635) BBC Scotland
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Can Insanity be measured? The diagnosis of schizophrenia, the mentalillnessthatmost closely resembles the stereotype of insanity, Is beset by two major difficulties. We do not know what causes the illness, and there is still uncertainty over the physical symptoms that characterise it.
Geoff Watts examines the reliability of present techniques used for assessing schizophrenics, and considers recent brain research which may make possible more exact methods of detecting the illness. Contributions from PROFESSOR JOHN WING
PROFESSOR ROBERT KENDALL
PROFESSOR ROBERT BLUGLASS , PROFESSOR JOHN COOPER. DR TIM CROW and DR GARETH JONES
Producer JULIAN BROWN long wave only
Guinea Pigs
If you were to go into a farmer's house in Peru. high up in the Andes, all over the floor would be a tumbling, squeaking. higgledy-piggledy mass of little grey guinea pigs.' Presenter Wilma George Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Jennl Mills Editor JOHN GETGOOD
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
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from Manchester with Marjorie Lofthouse, who meets Liverpool playwright Willy Russell and singer-turned-actress Barbara Dickson. They have just co-operated In their second theatrical venture together, the musical Blood Brothers.
'We are a very happy family and we love Glyn but these breaks do help Susan Booth visits Rossendale Hall, short-stay home for the mentally-handicapped, specifically run to help parents.
BBC Manchester
School for Love (7)
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by JANE AUSTEN (1)
Home and Abroad olive SHAPLEY remembers her lodgers.
A series of five programmes about coronary heart disease presented by Dr Alan Maryon-Davls
1: Heart Attack
The pain was across his chest, round his shoulders, down his arms, everywhere, and I had horrible thought - heart attack.' For many people the first sign of coronary heart disease is a heart attack, but what does it feel like and what is happening to the heart at the time? One In every four people die from heart disease. What can you do to lower your risk? Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
Trouble for Lucia by t. p. BENSON abridged In 12 parts and read by AUBREY WOODS (12)
Producer JOHN CARDY (Starting on Monday:
' The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene )
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with BHYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
with Chris Serle bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport with help from
EricTobitt.Alanah Martin , Tom Boswell Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer PETER HOARE
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote.
The Rt Hon Dame Judith Hart , mp
Julian Critchley , mp Sir Alec Jarratt and Brian Tyler tackle the issues raised by the audience at Wellingborough, Northants
Chairman John Timpson Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
includes reviews of the Channel 4 series of plays by Terence Feely ,
Number 10. based on the fives of seven Prime
Ministers: William Pitt ,
Ramsay Macdonald , Lloyd George. Gladstone, the Duke of Wellington,
Asquith and Disraeli; and Three Six Seven by Peter Vansittart. the story of an ambitious
Roman businessman who attempts to exploit the potential assets of Britain in AD 367.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer JOHN POWELL
John Morgan reporting
with Bill Wallts.
David Tate and Tracey Ullman Written by JAMES HENDRIE NICK REVELL. ANDREA
SOLOMONS. IAN BROWN , ROY APPS. BOB SINFIELD , RICHARD QUICK, JOHN LANGDON , JOHN COLLEE , PETER HICKEY and others. Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Work Suspended by EVELYN WAUGH abridged in five parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by HUGH BURDEN (5) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
