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The Colourful
Conversation of the Cephalopods
Octopuses, cuttlefish and squids do not seem to have colour vision and yet they have developed fantastic technicolor pulsing patterns all over their skin - displays of a visual language which scientists are only just beginning to understand....
Presenter Michael Jordan Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
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The Grass is Greener by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Rex Holdsworth Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only

NEM. p 89; Sing we triumphant hymns of praise (BBC HB 130):
Psalm 47: Matthew 5. vv 1-12: I sing a song (BBC HB 353): long wave only

America, for so long regarded as the land of the young, is rapidly ageing. This year's census shows that for the first time teenagers have been outnumbered by the over-65s. Within 40 years it is estimated that60percentofthe population will be over 70 and the country's the first in the world to push up the retirement age to 67 for men and women.
Marjorie Lofthouse examines the reaction to what is seen as one of the more difficult social and economic problems of the 21st century. She talks to social workers and politicians, and looks at the psychology of the body's ageing process.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham long wave only

with Nell Landor
Producer ANGELA HIND long wave only

John Howard with more consumer information and Les Cottington with his guide to food prices.

Presenter Sir Robin Day

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Sue MacGregfor. Including Music and Medicine: ANNA LANDAU finds OUt how Bart's Hospital In
London combines the two. A Tiger for Malgudi by R. K. NARAYAN abridgedinnineparts by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by Sam Dastor (1)
Raja, an Indian tiger, who Is now the contented companion of a sadhu - a Hindu holy man - looks back on his life. (Music: Mayer's Sri Krishna) long wave only

Ask a Silly Question by JACQUELINE WILSON
Lyn has ' done well for herself '. She has a husband who is a successful businessman and a daughter studying for her O-levels. Many would envy her, not knowing how stale she finds her life. She is almost resigned to her existence, when suddenly an alternative presents
Itself.ShouldshetakeIt? Or is that a silly question?
Directed by GERRY JONES

My Kind of Folk (3)
Today: Ashley Hutchings , leader of the Albion Band and founder of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span.

' Fanny, with all her faults of ignorance and timidity. was fixed at Mansfield Park. and learning to transfer in its favour much of her attachment to her former home, grew up there not unhappily among her cousins ...' Inspired by BBC television's current adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. Hunter Davies investigates the genius of this great Knglish novelist.
Producer SIMON ELMES

How Green Was My Valley (4)

with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons

with BRYAN MARTIN
'including Financial Report

Written by SUE TEDDERN
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

leader MALCOLM STEWART conducted by Lothar Zagrosek
Karlne Georgian (cello) direct from Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Mozart Symphonv No 40. in G minor (K 550)
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Roccoco theme

with David Jacobs
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol

Part 2 Beethoven
Symphony No 4, In B flat BBC Manchester

Paul Vaughan visits the new Roman Britain Room at the British Museum in which the Hilden Hall treasure and the Lullington Christian paintings are redisplayed together with major discoveries of recent years. Including the Thetford Treasure, a collection of late Roman gold and silver, some of the Vindolanda tablets. the oldest group of historical documents so far known in Britain, and the Augustan silver cups from Hockwold. Norfolk. Producer RICHARD DUNN

John Morgan reporting

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