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with Brian Redhead and Alison Leigh
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by DAVID HITCHINSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Alison Leigh
Read By:
David Hitchinson

Dance
From body-popping to ballet, tea rooms to skating rinks, Britain is experiencing a dance explosion. You may want to find out more about tap, classical Indian, or Afro-Caribbean dancers, jazz, disco and ballroom, how to become a professional dancer or choreographer. What's a good age to start?
Put your questions to director and choreographer Gillian Lynne and writer and dance critic Jan Murray. Sue MacGregor is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Lynne
Unknown:
Jan Murray.

Now in its fifth year, this series - about people who are successful against the odds - features the finalists in a £10,000 competition. 4: Precision Label Dies Marjorie Lofthouse meets a group of redundant engravers who bought their former employers' machinery to set up a new factory in altham Abbey.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer:
Jock Gallagher

'Does every type of cuckoo in the world lay its eggs in other birds' nest?'
Michael Clegg ,
Keith Corbett and Denis Owen answer your queries about frogs and snakes, birds and butterflies, mammals and moths.
Presenter Derek Jones
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Revised rpt: Sat 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Clegg
Unknown:
Keith Corbett
Unknown:
Denis Owen
Presenter:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Anne Blair

Twenty years ago, while she played in Goodnight, Mrs Puffin , Irene Handl wrote the first of her two startling and original novels. Now The Sioux is to be reissued; and the author talks to Monty Haltrecht.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Contributors

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Mrs Puffin
Unknown:
Irene Handl
Unknown:
Monty Haltrecht.

Chairman
Robert Robinson 6: SOUTH ENGLAND James Bitton
(retired civil servant) Maurice McGrave (reference librarian)
Graham Port (teacher) Dr Henry Parris (research director) including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions by IAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD edis

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
James Bitton
Unknown:
Maurice McGrave
Unknown:
Dr Henry Parris
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Producer:
Richard Edis

A portrait of Martin Luther (1483-1546)
This programme recently won the 1983 Sandford St Martin Open Radio Award 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. with Joss Ackland as Martin Luther
Research RACHEL VINEY Producer HUGH FAUPEL
(Revised repeat)

Contributors

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Martin Luther
Unknown:
Pope Leo
Unknown:
Martin Luther
Unknown:
Robert Foxcroft
Unknown:
Martin Luther
Unknown:
Joss Ackland
Unknown:
Martin Luther
Unknown:
Research Rachel Viney

by Tony McHale
with Gary Waldhorn as Alan Best

Between the adverts Alan Best hosts a radio programme. You ring up and air your views - your problems. Alan maintains a sharp objectivity until 14-year-old Debbie rings in.

(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Tony McHale
Director:
Peter King
Alan Best:
Gary Waldhorn
Helen Best:
Helena Breck
Kathy Best:
Oona Kirsche
Debbie Thomas:
Catherine Clarke
Eileen Thomas:
Alex Marshall
Maurice Thomas:
Bernard Gallagher
Liz Stafford:
Carole Boyd
TV Producer:
Colin Starkey
Dora:
Hilda Schroder
Don:
David Sinclair
Bernard:
Michael Bilton

We are losing our country stores and sub-post offices, strangled by the motor car and cut-price supermarkets. Yet despite the financial perils, many people pursue the dream of owning a shop on the village green. Claire Powell takes stock of rural economics and the country way of life.
Producer GWYN Richards BBC Birmingham
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Contributors

Unknown:
Claire Powell

her native Russia and finally settled in Paris where, as a nun in the Orthodox Church, she worked to help the poor. During the German occupation, as a result of her work with the French Resistance,
Mother Maria was arrested and sent to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, where on Good Friday 1945, she was gassed.
Mary Craig presents a documentary portrait of her life.
Producer DAVID PEET BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizaveta Pilenko
Unknown:
Mother Maria
Unknown:
Mary Craig

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