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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45' Prayer for the Day
With BISHOP DAVID KONSTANT
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
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

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
David Konstant
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell

Cricket
An important cricket season starts next week with the third Prudential World Cup, a test series in June between England and New Zealand, and a great deal of debate about the future structure of County cricket. Fred Trueman and Christopher Martin -Jenkins, editor of the Cricketer International magazine, join
Sue MacGregor to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Trueman
Unknown:
Christopher Martin
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor

Why does my cat fly into the air every time I use the television remote control unit?
Jim Flegg , Peter Moore and GUI Sales leap Into action with more of your wildlife questions.
Presenter Derek Jonet
Producer MILINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Flegg
Unknown:
Peter Moore
Presenter:
Derek Jonet
Producer:
Milinda Barker

A nationwide general knowledge contest. Chairman
Robert Robinson
6: South of England Ann Hudson (historian)
Peter Hollies
(former history lecturer) Charles Freyer
(company director)
Christopher Stacy Waddy (banker)
The programme Includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer richard EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Ann Hudson
Unknown:
Peter Hollies
Unknown:
Charles Freyer
Unknown:
Christopher Stacy Waddy
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies

Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Ooo-Aah: BOB PRIZEMAN investigates the anonymous lives of backing groups.
Your Place or Minet: at home, at work. even travelling on the bus. we are always staking out little areas of space for ourselves. Psychologist JOHN NICHOLSON explores this sense of territory. The Watcher Bee (10)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Bob Prizeman
Unknown:
John Nicholson

by Grant Eustace
with Martin Jarvis as Scott Mortimer

A car is found apparently abandoned on the Forth Bridge Road and a fishing boat finds a young naval officer's body washed up on Inchkeith. Was his death an accident, suicide, or something more sinister?
(Repeat)

Contributors

Writer:
Grant Eustace
Director:
Christopher Venning
Scott Mortimer:
Martin Jarvis
Lt-Cdr Tony Waterman:
Jonathan Kent
Lt John Palmer:
John Wheatley
Ronnie McLevy:
Alexander John
Fiona Campbell:
Ciaran Madden
Mrs Duncan:
Eva Stuart
Bruce Taggart:
Frank Ellis
Edward Cawton:
Christopher Scoular
Sir Spencer Beamish:
Richard Hurndall
Berlosov:
John Livesey
]Janet:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Young flsherman/Bateman:
Graham Faulkner
Semeonova:
Mary Zuckerman
Russian conductor:
Peter Forest

Suspended in Contentment Columbus called the island " The Madonna of the West ", The rainbows over the central mountains reminded him of haloes
Andrew Joynes talks about life in the Windward Islands before tourism changed the Caribbean forever.
Producer JULIAN COLES

Contributors

Talks:
Andrew Joynes
Producer:
Julian Coles

Tom Vernon confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television.
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television to: Feedback, BBC,
Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon
Producer:
Maggie Redfern

In January, Britain's leading evangelist was told that he had cancer. Canon David Watson , a leader in' Britain's charismatic movement, has been deeply involved also in a ministry of healing. Last month,
Nick Page talked to him about his own reaction to his illness and his understanding of a divine purpose in it.
Research ALISON BURNETT Producer CHRIS REES

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon David Watson
Unknown:
Nick Page
Unknown:
Alison Burnett
Producer:
Chris Rees

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbook of aids and services, £2.95, from [address removed]

includes a review of The Carmelites by Poulenc, a production revived for the first time in 20 years at the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden; and The Other Man, conversations with Graham Greene by Marie-Franjoise Allain. Presenter
Richard Mayne
Producer PHILIP JORDAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Greene
Unknown:
Marie-Franjoise Allain.
Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Producer:
Philip Jordan

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