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7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

A Summer Among Henna, Frankincense and Myrrh For three months this summer, the lions and crocodiles, tilapia fish and white-bellied turacos have had to share Kora National Reserve in Central Kenya with Malcolm Coe and a team of ecologists who, sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society and National Museums of Kenya, have made a thorough survey by satellite, aircraft and on their hands and knees of all the plants and animals in the area ...
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

If you want to keep your family united, you have to give in to whattheyoungergeneration accepts and I am very hopeful that Asian parents are learning— and learning very well indeed.
Sue MacGregor talks to
Kailash Puri. whose advice on personal problems is read all over the Punjabi-speaking world.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Seeing Things by MAGGIE TAYLOR
Read by Rosalie Williams 'Her mind had filled with sudden brilliance, unsought, uncontrollable and she'd "seen" him climbing the gangway of a ship. Then it had faded. Fone like a fragment of dream.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Advent Calendar: Daniel in the Lion's den
NEM p 89; Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell (BP 11); He that shall endure to the end
(Elijah);Daniel6.vv
1628; The race that long in darkness pined (BBC HB 496)

Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out yourqueries.
Questions, on a postcard please, to Enquire
Within Broadcasting
House. London WIA 4WW Producer ANGELA HIND

Paul Heiney with more consumer information and Les Cottington with his guide to food prices.

A Christmas chapter in the chronicle of our optimistic author
The Cousin by BASIL BOOTHROYD
Producer BOBBY JAYE (Repeal)

Presenter Sir Robin Day

Introduced by Sue MacGregor including Neball:
For many netball is a game played at school, but 33,000 women in Britain continue to play in their apare time.
FRANCES RATCHFORD has been out talking to netball players, theircoachesandfamilies about the state of the game
in this country and abroad. the Ladies of Lyndon (12) The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50 hardback,
£4.50 paperback, from booksellers

Hey Presto! byROBIN TAV1.OR and Bernard Cribbins as Bunny Bannister. As a child, Roland Prince was taken by his mother to the music-hall and there, he saw a conjuror. From that moment on, to become a conjuror himself was the burning passion of his life.
ButRolandfindsthepathto fame a very difficult one until he discovers a trick called 'Madame Guillotine'.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER

Travellers'Tale*

A Kind of Treason (11)

with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons

with Clive Roslin including Financial Report

Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
{Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Carole Rosen opens the door of the Edwardian drawing-room with its obligatory piano andpileofpopularballadsto discover that, though nice women of the time rarely worked outside their homes, women composers were unexpectedly successful. with musical illustrations from DEUA FLETCHER GORDON PULLIN and KEITH SWALLOW
Producers GILLIAN HUSH and MARK ROWLINSON BBC Manchester

leader MALCOLM STEWART conducted by David Atherton with Martin Roscoe (piano) direct from Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Part
Elgar Overture:
Cockaigne (In London Town)
Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 5, in E flat (Emperor)

Achancetoairyour subjects raised in last week'sAnyQuestions? Introduced, by David Jacobs
Producer MARY PRICE

Part 2
Hoist Egdon Heath Britten The Young
Person's Guide to the Orchestra
BBC Manchester

Paul Vaughan visits the new Roman Britain Room at the British Museum in which the Hilden Hall treasureandtheLullington Christian paintings are redisplayed, together with major discoveries of recent years, including the Thetford
Treasure,acollectionoflate Roman gold and silver, some oftheVindolandatablets, 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 with voices and opinions from around the world

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Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only

The BBC Guide to
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