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6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
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7.45* Thought for the Day

2: A Bank Fraud (R)

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Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.00am

What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect?
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 DEBORAH COHEN

Near the Sea by WILLIAM PALMER
Read by Dillwyn Owen Producer JANE DAUNCEY BBC Wales

New Every Morning, page 42; Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC HB 481); Psalm 15; Isaiah 52, w 3-12; Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27) Stereo

The traditional ceremony in which HM The Queen opens a new session of Parliament with a formal announcement of the Government's plans for the future.
Commentator John Hosken describes the arrival of the Royal Procession in the House of Lords and the summoning of the members of the House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
The speech from the throne by HM The Queen will be followed by an assessment of its political implications by Chief Political Correspondent John Sergeant. Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

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A series of eight programmes in which Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars 4: Doris Day
What people tend to remember about Doris Day is the excessive respect the ex-singer seemed to pay to her virginity when it was under siege from Rock Hudson in a series of sex comedies in the 1960s. Today the women's movement claims her as an early cheerleader - a prematurely liberated woman. Producer WENDY CLAY

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1.55 Listening Corner Dogs and Dumplings Stereo (R)
2.05 History Lost and Found The Mystery of the Lusitania Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT 5: History Stereo (e)

Jenni Murray meets the National hunt jockey Penny Ffitch-Heys. Serial: Memory (10)

by Arnold Evans
Peter Marshall 's personal and professional life are both in total chaos. His ex-wife, a murderous poet and a weird novelist besiege him at the office.
BBC Wales. Stereo

Richard Baker talks to
Dame Ninette de Valois , creator of the Royal Ballet, who danced with the Diaghilev Ballet in the 1920s at the outset of her long and distinguished career. Producer JUDITH ROLES. Stereo

A series of six programmes
2: David Puttnam, film producer, talks to
Bel Mooney about turning points in his life.
Married and a father before the age of 21, he experienced 'a crash course in reality', which meant forgoing the hedonistic lifestyles of the early 60s and embarking on a career. He went into advertising and began to earn a lot of money.
Later, as President of Columbia Films in Hollywood, he says:
'I developed a toughness and a better armour-plating, and I'm not sure if I'm a better person for it.'
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE

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by JAN ETHERINGTON and GAVIN PETRIE starring with 4: She Who Hesitates
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

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An exploration of contemporary spirituality. Hope Sealy examines the spiritual signs of the times and uncovers a quiet revolution taking place as ordinary people, both in and out of the churches, find rich new resources to help them in their search for meaning and pursuit of God.
Producer BEVERLEY MCAINSH. Stereo (Broadcaston Sunday at 4.00pm LW)
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The Rediscovery of Politics
Six talks on authority, culture and community in the USSR given by Geoffrey Hosking ,
Professor of Russian History at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
3: A Civil Society in Embryo 'Nothing could change the nature of the system more than the stable existence of political associations independent of the Party's control and with secure access to the public media. That is not the case yet, but things are moving in that direction, and if the trend is consolidated, we shall be able to speak with confidence of the end of totalitarianism.'
This series of lectures can oe read in the 'Listener'

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The Turner Prize is announced at the Tate Gallery, London, today; new films include a dramatisation of the Killing of Father Popieluszko, ; and on the 75th anniversary of Benjamin Britten 's birth, Derek Jannan films the War Requiem. Presenter Mark Steyn Producer JOHN BOUNDY

A Far Cry from Kensington 7: Tom -and William

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

Sounds Inventive (1) Stereo (R) (e) at 12.30
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