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Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45* Praver for the Day with BISHOP DAVID KONSTANT
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7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
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7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament

who Interrupts your week for 55 minutes of convivial conversation. Libby Purves says happy birthday ' to this week's special guest. Producer PETER ESTALL

visits Herefordshire where members of the Ross on Wye Horticultural Society put their questions to
Dr Stefan Buczackt Geoffrey Smith and Clay Jones
Questionmaster Ken Ford

by Jill Norris
Read by Mary Wimbush

nem, p 38; Crown him with many crowns (BBC HB 124); Psalm 20; I
Timothy 2, vv 1-7 and 3. vv 1-7 (GNB); The head that once was crowned with thorns (BBC He 132)

followed by travel

Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT

News. views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jennl Mills

Life's Journey
The midwife wheels us in and Death he wheels us out
- God lackaday, how we are wheeled about!
J. W. Lambert Invites you to join him as he gives thanks for that sense of the ridiculous which helps us all through this mad, mad world.
Reader James Grout Producer JOHN KNIGHT

Presenter Sir Robin Day

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Guest of the Week:
Merseyside folk group The Spinners who have been together for 25 years.
A Day Out with the Children (1): JENNY CUFFE and small friends sample the delights of Tucktonia. the model village in Bournemouth.
New York Report: from HELENE HANFF
The Watcher Bee (11)

The Gigantic Boar by JOE O'DONNELL
Southern Ireland, 1798. Following the storming of Ennlscorthy, two Irishmen, fleeing the wrath of the English army, come across and capture an enormous wifd boar. Led by a Scots showman,
Donal Mac Ivor , they bring the boar to London where it is put on show in the Tower. Up to that moment all has gone surprisingly well for the Irishmen, but success can go to the head ...
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

Six programmes about work with Martin Booth (5)
Surfaces are glossed over in my trade. I know the conspiracy of cover-ups. I'm always in a scrape
(ROBERT PHILLIPS)
Readers RONALD PICKUP and ROSALIND SHANKS Producer
SHAUN MACLOUCHLIN BBC Bristol

The Marguerite and the Rose
' ... We are the people of the Marguerite. We are a peace-loving people. But the people of the Rose keep bothering us
Andrew Joynes remembers a strange mixture of French manners and English laws in the Windward Islands.

Goodbye to All That (8)

Presenter
Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
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with BRIAN PERKINS
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden in the Chair Steve Race Questions complied by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE AITKEN

(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)

A series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger Cook

A Portrait of Martin Luther
As Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, an Augustinian friar in a remote German town challenged the central authority of Christendom. Martin Luther saw the corruption in the Church as a fire destroying the city of Christ, but for Pope Leo X

Martin Luther was 'a son of Iniquity hurling himself upon the church of God'. Robert Foxcroft has been to Martin Luther's Germany and with the aid of Luther's writings, traces the life of the friar of Wittenberg from the posting of his 95 theses on the church door to his stand before Pope and Emperor. with
Research RACHEL VINEY
Written and presented by ROBERT FOXCROFT
Producer HUGH FAUPEL

A series of interviews conducted by Dr Anthony Clare with various well-known people from different walks of life.
A repeat of the interview conducted last year with the playwright Arnold Wester.
Remarkable series of programmes
(THE SUNDAY TIMES)
Producer MICHAEL EMBER followed by an interlude

includes a review of The Wicked Lady, Michael Winner 's remake of the Margaret Lockwood film starring Faye Dunaway as the highwaywoman. Presenter
Jeffrey Richards
Producer RICHARD DUNN

John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around :the world.

Anthony Holden with the show that brings you the geople and the stories ehlndthenewsentertaining insights from the worlds of showbiz, the arts, books, the media, music, politics ... Producers
JULIAN HALE and ROSEMARY ATKINS

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