Presented from the South East by BRYAN PLATT
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Presented hy
Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day with ROBERT RIETTY
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Moira Stuart
with the help of the BBC Sound Archives.
This week: The Dog
when he and the regulars, Mavis Nicholson , Dr Rob Buckman and Kenneth Robinson will be among those helping to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE long wave only
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NEM. page 38; Sing we triumphant hymns (BBC HB 130); Psalm 24; Acts 17. vv 4-15 (RSV); All Praise to thee (BBC HB 119)
Champagne Barn by NORMAN LEVINE
Read by Jon Glover
Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
Good Evening All
Songs, stories and monologues recalled by Jack Warner from a lifetime of entertainment.
'I didn't orta et it', 'I'm a bunger up of rat holes' and the memorable letter-writer 'brother Syd' are a few of the items in a programme of reminiscence that also features Britain's best-loved copper Dixon of Dock Green in: The Spirit of Christmas Past With GEOFFREY ADAMS, NICK DONNELLY, SALLY GRACI EDWARD KELSEY , REG LYE, MICHAEL MCCLAIN, MARIANNE STONE
Written by GERALD KELSEY Piano accompaniment by BOBBY ALDERSON
With THE JACK EMBLOW TRIO Producer BOBBY JAYE (long wave only)
Story: All it Needs is a Wash by KAY WALLING long wave only
The World of Work
With MARGARET KORVING Presenters Sue Cook and George Lute
Editor DENNIS LOWER
(Details; Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presented by Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
A Quiet Corner of England (2): The Staffordshire hills, the queen of moorland towns, and a footpath from Mow Cop to Rocester.
Talking Point.
Music Hath Charms: the best concert in town may be at your local hospital, The Council for Music in Hospitals books professionals like IAN WALLACE to perform for patients. CHRIS RILEY reports.
William Makepeace Thack eray - Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman by MARGARET FORSTER , abridged in 15 parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by RICHARD LEECH (15) (Music: The Scherzo from Maurer's Four Pieces for Brass Quintet)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
(Richard Leech is to ' Whose Life is it Anyway? ' at the Savoy Theatre, London) long wave only
The Wolves of Grapeuose Point
The Space Machine (6)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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Tim Brooke-Taylor In Albert the Lionheart With KENNETH CONNOR
PATRICIA HAYES. MOLLY WEIR JOHN GRAHAM and LOLLY COCKERELL
Written by DONALD BULL Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Repeated: Wed at 12,27)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Attracta by WILLIAM TREVOR with Mary Wimbusb
Kate Binchy , Kevin Flood and Allan McClelland
' She didn't know he was dead, not even missing. She opened the biscuit-box, maybe thinking it contained a present. Can you see her doing that? Can you imagine her, a girl in a flowered dress.pausing as she hurried out to her office, her fingers tearing off brown paper? '
An old Irish schoolteacher reassesses her life. 'There are the three places: Belfast. Haslemere and that town.'
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
(First broadcast in 1977) The resources of radio were wonderfully stretched by this play which a strong cast brought to life. (FINANCIAL TIMES)
The first of two weekly programmes reflecting the Devolution debate as seen in Scotland and Wales ten days before the referendums of 1 March.
Tonight Patrick Hannan, BBC Wales Political Correspondent, fills in the background and reviews the main aspects of the debate in Wales, in the company of politicians with opposing views.
Producer GARETH PRICE BBC Wales
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer DAVID PERRY
Anthony Howard reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
In tracing some of the political and social trends in Britain since the last war. George Scott talks to the people who were central to the most significant changes and invites them to view with the benefit of hindsight, their Personal part in events.
Lord O'Neill of the Maine. former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, talks about the breakdown of law and order in the Province.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
The Bottle Factory Outing by BERYL BAINBRIDGE abridged in ten parts and read by CAROLE HAYMAN (1) Brenda is befriended bv Freda and both women work at Paganotti's wine-bottling factory in North London. Their enclosed world is full of strange humour. passion and cruel surprise.
This book won the author The Guardian Fiction Prize.
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
