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Presented by Peter Hobday and Phil Longman
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Phil Longman
Read By:
Brian Perkins
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Presented by Fergus Keeling and Lionel Kelleway
At Britain's first hedgehog hospital, there are at any one time over 100 prickly patients recovering from a variety of injuries, from a close encounter with a car, to the battle scars from a confrontation with a rhino
Producer TIM HAINES. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Presented By:
Fergus Keeling
Presented By:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
Tim Haines.

In 1864, Richard Watt sailed for Brisbane on the full-rigged Young Australia. Joan Leach introduces extracts from Watt's diary of the 14-week voyage...
WithPearceQuigley as Richard Watt
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R) revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Watt
Unknown:
Richard Watt
Producer:
Gillian Hush

Leslie Thomas
Maureen Lipman and Frank Thornton tell the stories.
Tim Brooke-Taylor , you, and the studio audience, try to spot the lie.
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced EDWARD TAYLOR Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Thomas
Unknown:
Maureen Lipman
Unknown:
Frank Thornton
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced:
Edward Taylor

1.55 Listening Corner WENDY CRAIG reads Noisy Natalie and Christabel's 's Grandad Stereo
2.05 Looking at Nature Autumn Activity (RV) Pupils at Steyning Primary School, West Sussex, work on their autumn nature projects. ASTLEY JONES reports on these primary science teaching ideas. Producer MIKE HOWARTH Stereo (R) (e)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! Spiff the Spider Storyteller jo MANNING WILSON Written by ANN BRYANT Producer SARA STRANGE Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Make Believe by GARETH OWEN Producer PADDY BECHELY (R) (e)
2.40 Listen! Return to Badlidrempt (1) by DEREK FARMER Producer PETER HUTCHINGS Stereo (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wendy Craig
Producer:
Mike Howarth
Written By:
Ann Bryant
Unknown:
Gareth Owen
Producer:
Paddy Bechely
Producer:
Peter Hutchings

Introduced by Jenni Murray Sick as a Parrot
Jenny Stuart looks back over 70 years of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, and considers its role today with the help of veterinary officers past and present.
Serial: Prenez Garde (8)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Jenny Stuart

Across the Ferry by TED MOORE
Three people have dreams: Alec of a job and a greenhouse; Jane of a trip beyond the harbour entrance; Sid of working as a skipper again. Perhaps the tug Henrietta will provide an answer for all of them.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Moore
Directed By:
Tony Cliff
Alec:
Christian Rodska
Jane:
Denise Welch
Sid:
Arthur Blake
RobbO:
Ronald Herdman
Boatman:
Adrian Stokes

Two live debates introduced by Gerry Northam
1: Education - the Choices
A wider choice for parents is one of the aims of the forthcoming Education Bill.
But are the choices it offers real ones for everybody, and will they help improve standards? From Solihull, site of the first proposed City Technology College, an audience at
Whitesmore School discuss their views with some of the people who have most influenced current educational thinking. Researcher DAVID HAGGIE
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gerry Northam
Unknown:
David Haggie
Producer:
Christopher Stone

2: At Home
Jenny Danks talks to a variety of women - and the occasional man - about how they organise their lives at home, at play and at work.
This week she finds out who feels guilty when the socks aren't washed, how lack of orange juice could lead to divorce, and why there are no books on how to tie shoelaces.

Contributors

Talks:
Jenny Danks

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London W1A 4WW Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday

Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

For the peoples of the East, an individual's animal sign, dictated by the year of birth, plays a central role in the formation of their relationships. With help from the BBC's
Sound Archives and comments from the Beverley Sisters, two roosters and a horse,
Barry Fantoni tests the accuracy of this ancient oriental game. Producer ANDREW PARFITT

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Fantoni
Producer:
Andrew Parfitt

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