News, weather, papers, sport
Presented from the South West by David Butler.
BBC Bristol
Introduced by Brian Redhead
With Libby Purves
including at:
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With The Rev Leslie Stokes
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by John Marsh
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by COLETTE translated by HELEN BEAUCLERK and abridged for radio in ten parts by JOAN HART
An autobiographical account of this famous French novelist's life in Paris at the turn of the century, and of her unhappy but eventful first marriage to Henry Gauthier -Villars. who she calls I Monsieur Willy
Read by Rosemary Leach (1)
Producer CHERRY cookson (RpO
When he and the regulars, Mavis Nicholson. Bernard Falk and Kenneth Robinson , are among those helping to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
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The team answers your questions on woodpeckers, territorial butterflies, birds of prey, and a wasp from the continent that is celibate in Britain. Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
NEM, p 118; Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard (BBC hb 491); Psalm 46; Luke 22, w 7-23 (NEB); Thy hand, 0 God, has guided (BBC hb 187)
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The Man Who Looked Like Ronald Colman by ALICE POND Read by David March
'It was a gesture you didn't often see now. It had a certain quality - like some old romantic movie on television.' Producer mitch rapes
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'My assumption was that I would be thrown in jail for the rest of my life.' (Daniel Ellsbero)
Contributions from Leslie Gelb, who edited the Pentagon Papers in the Defense Department; Daniel Ellsberg, who photographed them illicitly; James Greenfield, who was in charge of publication by the New York Times; and William Bundy, who held senior Government office throughout the Presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson.
Presented by Michael Charlton
(First broadcast on Radio 3 in the Many Reasons Why series)
(Repeated: Tuesday 8.0 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presented by Sue Cook and George Luce
News and information that effects the way you live including today The World of Wort With MARGARET KORVINO Editor DENNIS LOWER
Blessed Edward Jones High School, Rhyl v. The High School, Denbigh
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and John Anthony
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only Weather and programme news
Presented by Brian Wldiake Sequence editor DEREK liwis
medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two: a discussion on a matter of current concern.
2.0-2.2 News
Mike Sheils In America ...hi New York with The Time. Diarist, MICHAEL LEAPMAN. Reading Your Letters.
Hand Made for Christmas! BARBARA MYERS gets practical advice from laye ANDREW on money-saving gifts. 1: Candles. Ruined City (8)
Editor WYN knowlis
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Story: Blip by HELENA tati
Flora Robson stars In
The Soft September Air
A new play for radio specially written for Dame Flora by CHARLOTTE HASTINGS with Andrew Branch
Ere dead Winter snaps the heartstrings,
Or the trees stand bleak and bare,
Let the quiet mind remember The soft September air.
Title song composed by MICHAEL BLANCHARD ERIC HILL (guitar)
Directed by GRAHAM gaoib
Period Piece (6)
Presented by Gordon Clongh
and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Sequence editor DEREK lewis
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
New stories about the characters created by A.J. Cronin
This week: A Gift of Love by Donald Bull
Starring Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron, Barbara Mullen as Janet, Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Andrew Cruickshank is a National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Choice by PETER TEGEL
The time and place is Czechoslovakia between March 1938 and March 1939. This is a love story involving conflicting family loyalties and national groups. It is also set in the tense atmosphere prior to annexation when many Sudeten Germans were pressing for ' union with the Fatherland '.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
by Anthony Smith
Presenter Michael Oliver
Douglas Stuart reporting with John Tusa at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
by John Le Carre, adapted for radio in five parts by Rene Basilico.
Starring George Cole as George Smiley and Alfred Burke as Mendel with Douglas Blackwell as Peter Guillam and Richard Hurndall as Maston
Did Samuel Fennan commit suicide or was he murdered? The Department would like to think it was suicide, but Smiley is not inclined to sacrifice truth to political expediency. And he finds in Mendel a willing ally.
BBC World Service production
medium only. The House with the Green Shutters by GEORGE DOUGLAS BROWN abridged for radio in 15 parts by STEPHEN MULRINE
Read by John Shedden (1)
The most influential Scottish novel of the 20th century, this powerful drama dynamites the Kailyard image of the couthy Scot and portrays Scottish life in all its colour, humour and tragedy. Producer
TOM KINNINMONT. BBC Scotland
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Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
