with John Marsh
Brian Redhead in Manchester John Sergeant in London
(Brian Redhead 's A Word in Edgeways returns tomorrow,
10.15 pm. Radio 4)
Editor KEN GOUDIE
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Items from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Francis Matthews. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
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Johnny Morris recalls with records and happy memories. his days in a small amateur orchestra, when the repertory was chosen, on the night, to suit the available players.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
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NEM, p 89; Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard (BBC HB 491); Psalm 118, vv 1-14; Acts 11, vv 19-30 (NEB); 0 for a faith that will not shrink (BBC un 310)
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The Night We Rode with Sarsfield by BENEDICT KIELY Read by J. G. Devlin
' That was the house where I put the gooseberries back on the bushes by sticking them on the thorns. It wasn't one house, but two houses under one roof, a thatched roof. There's an Irish proverb: you don't know anybody until you've lived in one house with them. Two houses under one roof may be the next best thing.' Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
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Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov was presented last year at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, with a cast which includedand
Michael Elliott , who directed the play, describes, with recordings made during the rehearsals. how the production grew and was shaped.
Technical supervisor GRAHAM HARWOOD. Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON. BBC Manchester
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DENNIS LOWER
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Weather and programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
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IntroducedfromManchester by June Knox-Mawer
The Best Way of Carinp: for single women with elderly parents the choice between home and work can be hard to make.
2.0-2.2 News
Househusband into Artist: when the children went to school, RON DICKENS took up wood carving.
Surrounded by the Sea: ANN and MARTIN PARR live in Lindisfarne Castle.
BBC Manchester
Airs Above the Ground (5)
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Story: Albert the Traction Engine Goes to a Rally by BETTY CULCHETH
Presenters ALISON MCMORLAND and SAM KELLY
Written by MOIRA HERITAGE Producer JANEY GORDON Editor JENYTH WORSLET
Polaris by FAY WELDON Grass Widows The Attack Team:
On board the Polaris Missile Submarine. Christmas Eve dinner is eggs a la Grecque. goose with prune stuffing and chocolate mousse. At home in her inaccessible crofters cottage Meg is enjoying sausage and mash and contemplating several months separation from her newly-married husband.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
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- The Drink of a Nation
'An excellent and by all physicians approved China drink, called by the Chineans, Tcha. by other nations. Tay. alias Tea. is sold at the Sultan's Head in Sweeting Rents by the Royal Exchange, London.' 1658 and the first mention of tea in Britain. John Green traces the history of this crucial British drink with a little help from JACK BUCHANAN , DR JOHNSON, BINNIE HALE , H. G. WELLS and QUEEN VICTORIA, not to mention THE GOONS, TONY HANCOCK , BERNARD CRIBBINS , QUEEN ANNE and JOHN WESLEY.
Further flavour added by FRASER KERR. HAROLD KASKET , GREGORY DE POLNA Y and ANNS ROSENFELD
DUDLEY STEVENS (tenor) GEOFFREY BROWN (piano)
The whole concoction stirred by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas walks from Plynlimon to Llanbrynmalr
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
We all have niggling little questions in the corners of our minds that we mean to follow up some day.... when we have the time. Now you can unload your query onto Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Questions - on postcards - to: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
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Weather and programme news
with Barry Norman
A weekly look at the problems and the personalities in the world of travel and transport. with up-to-the-minute advice for people on the move this weekend. ProducerCEOFFDOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard 's selection Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.3* am)
Sir Charles Curran Robert Kee
Sally Oppenheim , ur Hugh Scanlon
Chairman David Jacobs from Bangor, Northern Ireland Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.15 pm)
Presenter Jim Hiley
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
with David Jason. Bill Wallis David Tale. Sheila Steafel and the keyboards of Bill McGuffie
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
John Arden describes one of the pleasures of life. BBC Manchester
Out of Africa (5)
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Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
