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Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
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3: In which a search is organised, and Piglet nearly meets the Heffalump

There is a distinctly nautical flavour as we meet some of the people who are in the last hour of preparation for the opening of this year's Boat Show at Earls Court.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo

visits Buckinghamshire, where members of the Marlow and District Horticultural Society put their gardening queries to
Dr Stefan Buczackl Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

The Man Who Knew How by DOROTHY L. SA YERS
Read by David Ashford There's nothing very remarkable about the man on the train. But what he tells Mr Pender - a peaceful, law-abiding citizen - is both bizarre and disturbing.
Pender must take action. Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, pl22; King of glory, King of peace (BBC HB 325); Psalm 9; Isaiah 60, w 1-12; Light's abode, celestial Salem (BBC HB 250) Stereo

by MICHAEL PITTS StereolBinaural

We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries that we mean to resolve, but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds. Let Neil Landor , with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out the answers.
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Enquire Within,
BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producer ANDREW PARFTTT

Winter Warmth
Each year E2 billion goes to waste as heat escapes from windows, doors and chimneys. That's equivalent to 16 million tonnes of coal, enough to keep several power stations going all year rpund.
In thisTou and Yours special report, Jeremy Hayes explains how to keep warm this winter, without gomg into the red. Producer HAZEL CASTELL

A serial in six parts by JOHN FLETCHER (1)

Presented by Nick WorraU

Stories from Piggery Green Today: Snow at Piggery Green

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Jazz musician Ronnie Scott Serial: Equal Rites (3)

by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated and adapted by SUE GLOVER
'It's the most intriguing story I ever heard. Imagine coming into the world like that! Imagine such a boring family having such a wonderful secret!'
Carol singing by the girls of ST MARGARET'S GIRLS SCHOOL.
EDINBURGH
Directed by MARILYN IMRIE BBC Scotland. Stereo (R)

Minor Victorians
Six programmes compiled and presented by Kingsley Amis 5: Charles Kingsley
Readers MARTIN jarvis
ISABEL DEAN and PAUL GREGORY Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Martin Jarvis is in 'Woman in Mind' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London:
Isabel Dean is in 'Breaking the Code' at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London)

The story of the humorous trench newspaper, first published in Ypres in 1916, which was forbidden to mention the war or the enemy. Instead, it parodied life on the Western
Front and likened the Germans to a rival firm of solicitors.
The Wipers Times soon became the Somme Times, and even the Better Times changing its name whenever the editorial team shifted to a new battle line. With Terry MoUoy Arnold Peters and Graham Roberts Producer ROY SAATCHI BBC Pebble Mill

Moments into Poetry
Peter Jukes talks to the poets Wendy Cope , Douglas Dunn and Grace Nichols about a moment in their lives which became a poem.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

with CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report

An entertainment in words and music designed to help you beat the weather as David Barlow , Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together again, with their special guests, the British Wind Quintet
Producer RICHARD edis. Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 40 pm)

Presented by John Waite

All over the country you can find ruins of once great castles, abbeys and stately homes. Some were ruined by man, most by the passage of time. Some were even built as ruins. But in common with all buildings, ruins consume millions of pounds each year in care and maintenance.
Malcolm Billings investigates some of the hazards facing rains in 20th-century Britain and the efforts being made to conserve this historic legacy.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN (e)

An appreciation of Elizabeth David
(Details tomorrow at 11.0am)
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Quint by JULIA STONEHAM with Miss Quint is a mistress at a polite girls' school and has always understood the virtues of control and discretion.
Alone in her study, her private reflections reveal more of her emotions than she would ever dream of expressing in public. Directed by PENNY GOLD . Stereo (R)

Serious, and not so serious, poetry from the pen of Nigel Forde.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH

Presented by Christopher Cook Producer JOHN BOUNDY

The Hottentot Room (3)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

It is a long way from the Punjab to the Outer Hebrides, yet
Punjabis have lived and worked on the remote Scottish island of Lewis since the beginning of this century.
Hazhir Teimourian visits the Stomowegian Asians and finds out how well they have bridged the gaps of climate, culture and generation.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON. Stereo (R)

followed by an interlude