with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Animal Behaviour
Why do birds change their song.... how do salmon find their way home.... why do cats and dogs turn round several times before lying down? Animal behaviourist Dr David MacDonald and animal psychologist Dr Roger Mugford join Sue
MacGregor to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
Featuring the finalists in a S10,000 competition.
12: Market Answers Ltd Marjorie Lofthouse meets John Nettleton and his co-directors at their Esher factory where they are working on ways of extending the life of perfumes and flavours.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham ('Enterprise 84', the final of the RADIO TIMES/ Radio 4 competition for small businesses: Thursday
7.40 pm)
Penalty by WILLIAM MILLER Read by Jonathan Watson
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
NEM, p 67; Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty (BBC HB 169); Psalm 50; Exodus 9, w 22-34; The Lord will come, and not be slow (BBC HB 479) long wave only
A Little Behind on the Video by RICHARD EVERETT long wave only
Chris Mead , Frank Perring and Phil Richardson tackle questions from members of the Northamptonshire Trust for Nature
Conservation as part of their 21st anniversary celebrations.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
with Paul Heiney
14: SCOTLAND Chairman
Robert Robinson
Hamish Henderson (lecturer)
Kitty Stephens (writer) Dr Ian Matheson (teacher)
Robert Irvine (civil servant)
The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILUES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
Introduced by Sue MacGregor On Equal Terms:
... JEREMY HAYES follows a management course designed to train women for executive posts. Little Sister (5) long wave only
War Song by MICHAEL DA VIES
1961: the Swansea Valley. Harry Morgan and his brother-in-law Hans Bemhoft have been feuding since the end of World War II. Now a Berlin choir is coming to sing in Wales and Harry is determined to prove that his local choir is better. with the SWANSEA MALE
CHOIR, conducted by KEN WHEELER
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales
'When my grandparents settled here, it was covered by a thick forest.
You had to be armed to go out, otherwise wild animals would eat you.
But my ancestors chopped down the trees and the soil is now exhausted. Now all you can see is wide open space - it is everywhere.' (Farmer from
Upper Volta)
Deserts are on the march. West Africa's Sahel region is one of the worst affected. Desertification is a man-made problem caused by too many people pressing too hard on a fragile environment. But is there a man-made solution?
Hugh Prysor-Jones investigates.
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
Laughing Gas (12)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
with BRIAN PERKINS including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Reporter Stuart Simon Producer PAUL CAMPBELL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.0 pm)
Geoff Watts reports
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone in on [number removed]8.30-10.0 pm Book, £2.95, from [address removed]
Written and presented by Vincent Kane
A motley crew of Britons are stranded in Rome
Airport. To pass the time each traveller tells a story and gradually a vivid picture of life in Britain emerges.
1: The Au Pair
Producer EU Williams BBC Wales
with Natalie Wheen
Producer CARROLL MOORE
Far Away and Long Ago 7: Serpent and Child
with Richard Kershaw
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