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In this six-part series, Bill Breekon probes the personalities of some modern innovators, seeks clues to their success and failure, and asks if, in Britain today, a man invents a better mousetrap, will the world beat a path to his door? This week: Clive Sinclair , the electronic wizard In pocket calculators and miniature TVS,
Series producer RITCHIE COGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Breekon
Unknown:
Clive Sinclair
Producer:
Ritchie Cogan

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Today's author is JAMES JOYCE Allan McClelland reads Araby I had never spoken to her except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Allan McClelland
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

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A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne , oc, and an audience of jurors in Plymouth
Today's proposition: Britain'* Fish is Britain's Property
ItisproposedbyAustinMltehell, Labour MP for Grimsby and opposed by Tom Ellis , Labour MP for Wrexham and Member of the European Parliament
Each advocate will call his witnesses, cross-question his opponent's, and argue his case. The jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial, so that any swing of opinion may be measured.
Producers DAVID ANTHONY TURNER and ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Taverne
Unknown:
Tom Ellis
Producers:
David Anthony Turner
Producers:
Anthony Smith

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Marian Montgomery , singer
2.1-2.2 News
I We Don't Solve Crimes in 30 Minutes ': SUE MACGREGOR with some of the real-life cops of New York's Sex Crime Unit.
I See No Ships: there are times when Dorothy DRAKE turns a blind eye.
Science in the Kitchen: susan GOODMAN goes to work on an egg.
Emma by JANE AUSTEN (3)
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Contributors

Singer:
Marian Montgomery
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Dorothy Drake
Unknown:
Susan Goodman
Unknown:
Jane Austen

WoU Harvest by MICHAEL DAVID ANTHONY
'Come to the window, look at these . ... that path leads to Finland and on to Russia, and you must know what's happening there.'
In 1917 war and revolution had seemed very remote to the inhabitants of a small village in neutral Sweden.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael David Anthony
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Anders Neilson:
Ronald Herdman
JuliaNeilson,:
Sandra Clark
Johan steiner:
Ian Hogg
Doctor Lindroos:
Ronald Baddiley
Erik Jacobson:
Kevin Hart
Arthur Jacobson:
Anthony Newlands
Anna:
Mary Elliott Nelson

from York Minster
Responses (Thomas Tunnard ) Psalms 93, 94 (Deffel)
Lessons: Isaiah 47, vv 10-15; I Corinthians 9, w 1-14
Office Hymn: Why impious Herod (EH 38); Canticles (Dyson In D); Anthem: Of the Father's love Begotten (Bairstow)
Organist and Master of the Choristers FRANCIS JACKSON Assistant organist
JOHN SCOTT-WHITELEY BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Tunnard
Unknown:
Francis Jackson
Organist:
John Scott-Whiteley

Conversations with Cooper
People belong to a congregation for intricate reasons, but I have met few. people who have no belief in God.
Derek Cooper meets The Very Rev James Matheson. former Moderator of the Church of Scotland, now Minister of the local church in Portree, Skye. Producer DENNIS LOWER
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Weather and programme news VHF Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
James Matheson.

Devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and DenisNorden.IntheChair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace

Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by STEVE BRAD-SHAW and DAVID HENSHAW , Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Oppenheimer
Unknown:
David Henshaw

The Five Red Herrings by DOROTHY L. SAYERS. adapted In eight episodes by CHRIS MILUK starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter
3: Bicycles
Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy L. Sayers.
Unknown:
Chris Miluk
Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Producer:
Simon Brett
Insp Macpherson:
Don McKillop
PC Duncan:
David Strong
Jock Graham:
Christopher Scoular
Jamie Mair/Constable:
Jonathan Scott
Ferguson:
Iain Blair
Mrs McGregor:
Miriam Margolyes
Helen McGregor:
Yvonne Gilan
PC ROSS:
Gordon Kane

Change in British Society
2: Class-Ridden Prosperity
Dr A. H. Halsey , Professor of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Oxford, reflects on the question why it is that, though we have become a rich country, social inequality is a continuing fact of British life. (Repeated: Sunday R3)
(This talk will be printed in the LISTENER of 19 January)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr A. H. Halsey

England v Poland. Round 2 (End of Round 1 Scores: England 14 - Poland 14) England
Anthony Qulnton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Jnlius Norwich Poland
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Karol Malcuzynski , journalist and politician and Dr Janusz Stefanowicz
Editor of the Catholic Weekly Universe. Question researcher DAVID MACKAY
Producer TREVOR BILL BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat: Tues 10.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Karol Malcuzynski
Unknown:
Dr Janusz Stefanowicz
Unknown:
David MacKay

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