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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by Brian Redhead
With MICHAEL VESTEY t.45* Prayer fur the Day CANON ERIC JAMES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read hv PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
What's News?
If dug bites man: that's life, runs the saying. But if man bites dog: that's news. But is it? What is news? How is it selected? Should there be more good news, and less bad? Do we get too much news, or not enough of the right kind? Why do newspapers, radio and television all appear to value news differently? Put your questions to Fleet Street editor Harold Evans. and Dick Francis. the BBC's Director of News and Current Affairs for Radio and Television. In the Chair
Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Bob Langley Producer .JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long trace only
nem, p 79: Praise. 0 praise our Goil and King (BBC HB 4411: Canticle 8, pt 2; I ThessaJonlans. 5, w 1-11 (rsv); The spacious firmament on high i BBC in 21)
A Girl Called Peter by H. E. BATES
Read by Hugh Dickson
' At first, when he had called her Peter, it was quite charming and there was a softness about it; 2nd then it had become Pete. and as the name hardened she herself hardened.' long wave only
Tall Story by ROBERT HUXTER
Geordie con-man Ray rescues his tattooed geordie sister Trixie from the clutches of cockney tattooist. and collector of priceless musical scores, Mike: ' and that brings me to the salient point. that's the take-off point for this story - collectors and collecting.'
Directed by ROBERT COOPER
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In the last talk in his series Hamish Maclnnes of Glencoe looks at lost valleys, and describes a visit to the remote sanctuary of Kembalung in the Himalayas. BBC Scotland lung wave only
Story : The Happy Little King's New Suit by MOIRA HERITAGE long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Fastest on Four Wheels; ROSALIND .morris meets roz PRIOR on the dragster racing strip.
A Plain Woman's Guide: today, economics correspondent FRANCES CAIRN-CROSS looks at the Retail Price Index and explains the meaning of the inflation figures.
Dipping into Diaries: CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW shares with JUNE KNOX-MAWER the small detail of other people's lives.
High Blood Pressure?: ,JENNIFER MAY reports on a national screening research programme.
Good as New!: in a new series on repairing antiques, JENNIFER MAY talks to JANA STUART JONES , a pottery restorer.
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Live from the House of Commons
by HOWARD SPRING. vt; freely adapted for radio in eight episodes by KEN WHITMORE starring with and 2:Thrown to the Wolves
Directed by TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
A Crime of Passion (7)
The news magazine Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A marital comedy starring Betty Marsden
and Hugh Paddick
6: The 28th Anniversary - All Roads Lead to Home featuring SIMON CALLOW and SALLY WATTS
Written by BARRY PILTON
Producer GEOFFREY PFRKINS
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pirn
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events at home and abroad - with reports by steve BRADSHAW and DAVID HRNSHAW
Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
Written by BARRY CARMAN
with
Narrator David Strong
Never in the history of printing can the launching of a new magazine have been greeted with such hostility as that of The Listener in 1929. 'The BBC', said the New Statesman. has quite enough power as it is. That it should seek also to invade the press seems to us a wholly intolerable and indefensible proposition. Are we presently to have a BBC Times and BBC Daily Mail?' Despite the opposition The Listener was published and now celebrates its 50th birthday today. This programme. based largely on documents in the BBC's written archives, tells the story of the magazine's hectic early days.
The 50th anniversary edition of The Listener this week includes extracts from this programme and other special features.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Presented by Geoff Watts and Peter Evans
A monthly review of recent discoveries and developments in science. medicine and technology. Also a report from last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Houston. Producer michael BRIGHT
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Anthony Howard reporting
savs Cardew Robinson to Tom Mennard. Jan Harding. Peter Robinson KEN FRITH (piano)
Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
{.Broadcast Saturday 12.27)
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
