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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
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A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
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The First Time I Saw
Britain by ANDREW TAYLOR Read by Robert Rietty
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NEM, p 17; How lovely are thy dwellings fair!
(BBC HB 458); psalm 99; Luke 1. vv 26-38 (AV);
Fill thou my life, Lord my God (BBC H8 271)
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A Variety of Nostrils If you peer into the nostril of a camel, tube-nosed bat or elephant shrew, what do you find? Mike Stoddart knows.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol long wave only
presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Wales by Noreen Bray
Village Theatre: KATHY EDWARDS looks at a plan to get big stars Into parish halls....... co-operatives: what is it like to be manager and machinist rolled into one. Producer JANE DAUNCEY BBC Wales
For Freedom to be Equal by JEAN SPENDLOVE abridged in seven parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY Read by SARAH BADEL (7) (Music: Tomasi's
Fanfares Liturgiques) long wave only
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Cherry Stones
CHERYL ARMITAGE brings the old nursery chant
' Tinker. tailor. soldier, sailor....' up to date. 4: Sailor
Jeff Houlgrave on sailing before other men's masts. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Three programmes
1: A Castle in New Castile Denis Owen and John Burton investigate the ruins of a 14th-century castle at Oropesa, not far west of Madrid, and discover an Intriguing community of plants and insectswithinits crumbling walls, to say nothing of the lesser kestrels, spotless starlings and white storks which nest there.
Producer JOHN BURTON BBC Bristol
A Russian Childhood
4: My Uncle
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
with Chris Serle bringing you the stories behind the scenes In the world of travel and transport with help from
EricTobltt,Alanafi Martin. Tom Boswell
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MAC DONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer IAN WILLCOX
A personal portrait In conversation, recollection and anecdote.
The Rev John Bach Rosalind Gilmore
Robert McCrlndle , MP Ian Mlkardo , mp tackle the issues raised by the audience at
Matlock, Derbyshire
Chairman David Jacobs Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
includes reviews of Victory by Howard Barker set in the chaos of the Restoration of 1660, starring Julie Covington at the Royal Court Theatre, London; and The Oxford Book of Aphorisms chosen by JOHN GROSS.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer CARROLL MOORE
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
with Bill Wallis
David Tate. Tracey Ullman and Nick Revell
Written by JAMES HENDRIE NICK REVELL , ANDREA
SOLOMONS, BOB SINFIELD IAN BROWN , ROY APPS, RICHARD QUICK,
JOHN LANGDON , JOHN COLLEE
PETER HICKEY and others Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
The Rover (5) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude