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with SYLVIA SANDYS Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FIMGAN
7 o, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Your chance to get advice, information and insight. Producer JENNY DANKS Lines open from 8.0 0 am

by ALEXANDER CORDELL
Read by Dillwyn Owen
Like peas in a pod were they, with black hair down to their waists, almond eyes, golden faces.... their perfume, mixing with the sarsaparilla, was having a profound effect. producer HERBERT WILUAMS BBC Wales

nem, p 1; Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140); Psalm 63; Acts 10, w 34-44; Hail thou source of every blessing (BBCHB66) Stereo

Presented by Jeremy Cherfas Ants are plentiful, and nutritious, but have formidable chemical defences. Tom Eisner , of Cornell University, tells how ant-lions make their prey more palatable, and also sheds light on 'anting' in birds. Some species of tree frogs are visually identical, causing problems at breeding time. Carl Gerhardt , of the University of Missouri, finds that a female frog chooses a mate by taking her own temperature.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol

Presented by Susan Rae

A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Walter Crumpton and the Short-sighted Kangaroo
2.0 La parole aux jeunes: French III
2: Nos deux pays; au collège; on parle commeca (R) (e)
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems A Man for All Seasons (2) (R) (e)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor The Glamour Girls of Europe: each year thousands of British secretaries apply for jobs in Europe, working for international organisations such as NATO and the European Parliament. The jobs are glamorous and extremely well paid, but are they as good as they sound? Ann Morris has been finding out.
Serial: Equal Rites (7)

Sunshine by ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT withand
A holiday in Llandudno at the start of Tom's retirement.
Something to look forward to - or is it?
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD

Anthony Burton goes into the past in the footsteps of five literary travellers whose inquiring spirits found excitement in what, to 20th-century eyes, seems everyday. 2: Working the Water
Down the Thames in 1632 in company with the waterman poet John Taylor.
There's many a Seaman, many a Navigator
Watermen, fishers, bargemen on this water
Who doe their Prince and Country often serve
And wer 't not for this river might goe starve ... with Manning Wilson as John Taylor
Producer SIMON ELMES. Stereo

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

novelist and polymath, reads from the opening chapter of his autobiography Little Wilson and Big God, to be published on 25 February to coincide with his 70th birthday.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

'Julius Caesar in south China was a unique experience, and playing God in the Wakefield Mystery Cycle in Hong Kong
Cathedral lagged not far behind. But my chief curiosity was for the mainland....'
Stephen Boxer reports on his travels in China. BBC Manchester

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

by Gillian Reeve
with Morag Hood as Alice James and Anna Massey as the Narrator
Alice James was the sister of William and Henry James and, though little known outside her family, she kept a journal which Henry saw after her death and described as 'magnificent... rare... wondrous', before ensuring that it was suppressed - rather like the family's treatment of Alice during her life.
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Presented by Michael Oliver Producer CARROLL MOORE

The Hottentot Room (7)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude