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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day
THE VEN ANTHONY BALMFORTH
6.55,7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
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
with Christopher Matthew 1: Hello. I Am the Nincompoop! '
In the first of four programmes of true household horror stories, forgotten friendsand remote relations turn up uninvited. Producer
SIMON ELMES
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Gone with the Wind
What lives on a breeze? Paul Vaughan follows a westerly wind over field and stream, and discovers the birds, plants, insects, spiders and mammals which make this element their home.
Written by PAUL THOMAS
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol
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The School Tie by JENNY HURSELL
Read by Shirley Stelfox Producer GWYN Richards BBC Birmingham long wave only
NEM, p 46; 0 thou In all thy might so far (BBC HB 312): Psalm 119, pt 4; John 18, w 12-24 (av): Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB 323)
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with Nell Landor
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the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Jenni Mills
Another chance to hear two of radio's great stars, the late Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley, in their celebrated roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in a series of plays by Michael Hardwick based on the short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Josiah Amberley's pretty young wife has disappeared with her lover. With them has gone the greater part of Amberley's fortune To solve this mystery Holmes has to resort to burglary.
(First broadcast in 1964)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Chris Mohr
Making the Grade:
BOB PRIZEMAN investigates ... music examinations.
Animal Bites and Stings: DR SIMON SMAIL advises on what to do about them. For Freedom to be Equal (6) long wave only
Tidal Race by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL A tanker has gone aground, spilling a lot of oil and the coastguard station mounts a full-scale anti-pollution exercise. Meanwhile the normal work goes on ... Helicopter pilot.JOHN WEBB Directed by BRIAN DEAN
CherryStones 3: Soldier
Major General Geoffrey Howlett reflects on modern army life to CHERYL ARMITAGE.
with Frank Delaney , including this week the actor/writer Dirk Bogarde
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
A Russian Childhood 3: Metamorphosis
Presenters Gordon Clough and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
With PAULINE BUSHNELL
Including Financial Report
A nationwide general knowledge contest
Chairman Robert Robinson 2: London
Michael Spittal (teacher) Charles Arthur
(financial futures trader) Celestria Noel
(publishers' reader) Michael Skalfe d'lngerthorpe (telephonist)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer richard EDIS
Written by JAMES ROBSON (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham
Includes reviews of Peter Porter 's Collected Poems, written over a period of 20 years, which are published for the first time in one volume; and The Art of Beniamino Gigli , Vol 3: The Operatic Recordings 1918-1943.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
CLARE SELERIE-GREY
with Jeremy Siepmann
conducted by Jacck Kasprzyk
Erich Gruenberg (Violin) direct from the MacRobert Arts Centre. University of Stirling Part 1
Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
Martinu Violin Concerto No 1
Subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? withDavidJacobs
Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 9, in E minor BBC Scotland
Gyn Freeman canvasses the views of youngsters in Edinburgh.
BBC Manchester
John Morgan reporting
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Presented by Anthony Howard The result of the Darlington by-election is discussed and analysed by senior politicians and commentators. Producer CAROLINE MILLINGTON including
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