6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE VEN PETER COLEMAN
6.55. 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News with PAULINE BUSIINELI.
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Dan
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel
Theirs is the country most Britons who have been abroad have at least passed through: theirs is the foreign language we most frequently try to learn. How much do we know about our nearest neighbours?
Put your questions on matters Gallic to Marie-Francoise Golinsky, London Correspondent of Ouest France; and to John Ardagh, writer and broadcaster on France. Sue MacGregor is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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A Handful of Halfpennies by MAGGIE TAYLOR
Read by Elizabeth Kelly Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester long wave only
nem,p118;Fightthe good fight with all thy might (BBC hb 302):
Psalm 46; Deuteronomy 11. w 8-21 (RSV); My God. accept my heart this day (BBC hb 356)
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A Member of the Family by UYLES RUDGE
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Peter Ferns , Pat Morris and Roger Lovegrove answer more of your natural-history queries. Presenter Derek Jones
Producer anne blair GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
The Weight-off Rip-off PAUL HEINSKY and PATTIE COLDWELL launch an investigation into a disturbing range of expensive, so-called slimming products which are downright useless. Why are they on sale?
Why are they allowed to be advertised? What is your experience? Ring [number removed]
Chairman
Robert Robinson
9: North of England Peter McBride (history teacher)
Rosemary Waugh Ronald Chapman
(retired schoolmaster) Edward Isaacs (local government official) including
Beat the Brains
Programme devised by john P. WYNN. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD edis
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor
Going it Alone (5): with two small children and a computer for company, CLAIRE SPOTTISWOODE IS trading with Thailand from her own home.
The King's General (4) long wave only
by Sylvia Townsend Warner, dramatised by Michelene Wandor, with Gwen Taylor as Lolly
It is 1921 and Lolly escapes from enforced self-effacement as the spinster Aunt in her brother's family in London to the sanctuary of country-green and gentle witchcraft in Great Mop, a village in the Chilterns. There she meets with the Devil himself....
BBC Birmingham
Them Old Horse Chaps
A Lincolnshire waggoner in conversation with Charles Rightly about the old days when horses were the power on the land.
Producer JOHN LAVIS
Forty years ago. 20.000 teenage boys received a letter telling them that their war service was to be done in a coalmine. The scheme had been devised by Ernest Bevin , then Minister of Labour. These young men are now MPs, barristers, civil servants, journalists, entertainers and businessment
Jack Danbv has been talking to: Peter Allen Jack Berry , Joe Clarke Douglas Dickson
Professor Ian Gregor Bill Lang
Bill Smith and Michael Webber Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Woddis On ... page 85
The Russian Interpreter(7)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Anthony Holden brings you insights from the worlds of showbiz, the arts, books, the media, music, politics ...
Producers JULIAN hale and ROSEMARY ATKINS
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Stuart Simon
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
Three programmes in which Christopher Matthew talks to travellers about the reality rather than romance of their journeys.
2: The Courier's Tale Peter Mitchell is a professional tour director who ferries large parties of Americans round
Europe on luxury tours. His clients are generally rich and culturally omnivorous. Does his misanthropy increase with the mileage?
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter While Producer Ireena HESHEL
includes a review of Ian Hamilton 's eagerly awaited biography of the American poet Robert Lowell which weaves together an account of his poetry with a narrative of Lowell's troubled life.
Presenter Chris Bigsby Producer JOHN POWELL
with Simon Winchester
The Handyman (7) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
