6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Tlmpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV JOE GIBBONS
7.9. 8.0 Today's News
Readbyiugenefraser
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Read by JACK WATSON (3)
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A series of six programmes in which Tony Bilbow takes a fresh look -at some fa\ourite stereotypes and asks ' but what's it really like?
1: The Private Detective Any citizen who goes to a private detective should really be going to a psychiatrist ... it is a myth of our time that there is a man sitting in a room who will risk his neck for you for 25 quid a day."
(CORDON WILLIAMS, creator of Hazell')
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester long wave only
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(A revised repeat of Sun-day's broadcast at 2.0 pm) long wave only
NEM, 84; Lone in the desert iBBC HB 343); Psalm 51; Isaiah 55, Vv 6-11 (AV); Forty days and forty nights (BBC HB 341)
Walk Oil by JENNY STEBBIN (;S
Road by Elizabeth Proud long wave only
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Story: Little Pig and the Big Potato by MARGARET GORE long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 Weather; programme news; long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by June Knox -Mawer
Guest of the Week: Conor Cruise O'Brien. Editor-in-Chief of the Observer.
Scandinavian Summer (2): DOREEN TAYLOR SURveys the holiday potential of Norway.
On the Bathroom Shelf (2): JANE FINNIS investigates soaps and skin cleansers. What are they made of and how do they work?
My True Love lluth My Heart and I Have His . . . HELEN PALMER continues her series on relationships.
Tortoise By Candlelight by NINA BAWDEN abridged in 12 parts by EVANGELINE HANKS
Read by ANGELA DOWN (12) (Music: Milhaud's Printemps) long wave only
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by SAMUEL JOHNSON adapted for radio by JINNIE SCHIELE with music by ROGER LIMB of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
' Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope. attend to the history of Rasselas.' (arleton Hobbs as the storyteller Curistopher Guard as Rasselas Julian Glover as his friend the poet Imlac and Joanna Wake as his sister, the Princess Nekayah
And MICHAEL HARBOUR
PETER HOWELL , TIMOTHY BATESON. JOHN ROWE , JANE KNOWLES , ANNE ROSENFELD , ANTHONY JACOBS , MARY WIM-RUSH and WILLIAM EEDLE
Directed hy PATRICIA BRENT (First broadcast in 1977)
on Ash Wednesday from St John's College, Cambridge
Responses (Thomas Ebdon ) Psalm: Miserere mei (Allegri, arr Guest)
Lessons: Joel 2, vv 12-17; Hebrews 3. vv 12-14; 4, vv 9-16
Canticles (Thomas Hunt: Short Service)
Anthem: Civitas sancti tui (Byrd)
Organ Student IAN SHAW Director of Music GEORGE GUEST
A Child in the Forest (3)
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Devised by EDWARD MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE PACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Presented by Roger Cook Editor DENNIS LOWER
An entertainment provided by Peter Christie David Barlow
Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis
From the BBC Paris Studio. London
Producer IAN PENNER
An affectionate portrait of an Irish country priest. Ash Wednesday has a very special atmosphere in a small village in the heart of rural Ireland, particularly if you spend it with a parish priest as engaging and frank as Father John Greene
A radio-link documentary Producer PETER ARMSTRONG (First broadcast in 1972) ... a most down-to-earth, way-itreally-is religious documentary for years! (DAILY MAIL) ... what he says whispers, breathes, damn near even thinks, is broadcast.
THE TIMES
Crossroads for Europe Presented by John Eidinow
The European Community is facing three big changes this year - enlargement, direct elections to the European Assembly, and the introduction of a new monetary system, ems. Yet it is seriously divided within itself. How will the Community resolve these problems? Will the conflicting views drive member states closer together or further apart?
Producer CAROLINE THOMSON (Rpfd: Thurs at 11.0 am)
Spender at 70
Poet, essayist, playwright, editor, critic - Stephen Spender in conversation with PAUL VAUGHAN on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Producer DAVID PERRY See page 3
Douglas Stuart reporting
Piescntod by Orson Welles written by BENNY GREEN 2: Cecil B. DeMille
' In the public mind a DeMille picture usually means a Biblical or historical pageant, crammed with spectacle, action, melodrama, a picture which makes the fullest capital out of the excesses of history.'
With the voices of YUL BRYNNER , CECIL B. DEMILLE. ALLAN DWAN. JOAN FONTAINE , JESSE LASKY JR , JOEL MAC-RAE, GROUCHO MARX. LEONARD SPIEGELGASS , CORNEL WILDE, EUGENE ZUKOR
Research JANE MERCER and BILL SULLIVAN
Reporters BARBRA PASKIN and CATRERINE PAVIOT Producer
DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
Mother Ireland 3 A Convent long ivave only
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Jack Resan in Scotland and Tim Maby in Wales report on the campaign. Introduced by John Hosken in London
Weather report; forecast followed hy an interlude
