Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES BBC Walt's
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Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES
6.45*Prayer for the Day With TONY LACK
7.0. 8.0Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Moira Stuart
reflects on people, places and things as they were, and how they are, with the help of BBC Sound Archives.
This week: Derring-Do
Studio guests join Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument, humour and some music.
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Fred Wbitsey talks about gardens opened this year in aid of District Nurses' Benefit Funds.
Booklets: Gardens of England and Wales. 50p from bookstalls, or 65p from 57 Lower Belarave Street, London SWI OLR long wave only
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NEM, p 110; O brother man (BBC HB 376); Psalm 138; Acts 21, vv 26.36 (RSV); Forth in thy name (BBC HB 406)
An Evening In by THOMAS LERWILL
Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
Most of us from time to time find it difficult to settle our bills. Some of us get red letters and final demands; Pay Up or Else. If it should come to the ' Else then enter those bowler-hatted bogey-men of our childhood Cinderellas - the Bailiff's Men. Nobody it seems lotes a bailiff. but they themselves - despite their public image - seem to love their work:
'it's the best job I've ever had. Every day you meet someone different and from all walks of life. And you try and help them if you can because, like I always say, there but for the grace of God go I ... '
Ray Gosling , whose chequered life has included several personal scrapes with the County Court bailiffs, now meets some of them professionally. Producer joy HATWOOD long wave only
Story: Mary Jeans Paper Tooth by WILLIAM RANKIN long wave only
The World of Work
With MAR(;ARET KORVING Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon Editor JOHN TURTLE
A nationwide general knowledge contest.
Chairman Robert Robinson 2: West of England (2)
JILLIAN MOUNTER , Computer Liaison Clerk (Somerset); MICHAEL SOUTHERN, Local Government Officer (Devon); SHEILA DENYER (Devon); MICHAEL DAVIES , Retired Civil Servant (Somerset)
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
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Presented by Brian Widlak * Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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Live from New York.
With Sue MacGregor in this American breakfast-time edition from the BBC studios high above 5th Avenue are the Mayor of New York, Ed Koch; Elizabeth Holtzman, a Congresswoman for Brooklyn; and authors Helene Hanff and Fran Lebowitz. SONIA BEESLEY visits the theatres on and off Broadway and talks to Liv Ullman, and Judy Kaye, who overnight became the star of the hit musical On the 20th Century. Producer PETER ESTALL
Call For The Dead (3)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
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A Dream of Murder by J. C. W. BROOK
A Child in the Forest (5)
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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[Starring] Tim Brooke-Taylor
With Patricia Hayes, Kenneth Connor, John Graham, Molly Weir, Lolly Cockerell, Glynis Brooks
Written by Donald Bull
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(Repeated: Tuts 1.40 pm)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world report
Produceralaniucdonau
Miracles by PETER WHALLEY
' If this is a matter of superstition or trickery then I want it exposed as such. If it is anything else - if it could possibly be anything else - I want to know. Religious faith is such a finely-balanced thing that the prospect of a miracle is just as likely to upset it as to inspire it. You will have to judge people's reactions very carefully ...'
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
Lubavitch is a worldwide movement of Jews who are prepared to use 20th-century methods to spread the message of traditional Judaism among their fellow Jews. How does Lubavitch's mystical philosophy fit in with its very practical approach? How do its followers seek fulfilment in life? And what is their relationship with the 77-year-old Chassidic Rabbi in New York who leads the movement?
Presented by he Davis Producer Lf.... RAHAM
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Pretienter Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
In tracing some of the political and social trends in Britain since the last war, George Scott lalks 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.
Mary Quant talks about how the clothes she designed in ' Swinging London ' changed the fashion market and the appearance of women all over Europe-
Producer JENNY DE YONG
Wide Sargasso Sea by JEAN RHYS abridged for radio in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT Readers Ian Holm and Jane Lapotatre (1) One of the most enigmatic ' villainesses ' of English literature is the first Mrs Rochester in Charlotte
Bronte's Jane Eyre. What happened in the early stages of her life? What turned her from a beautiful young girl into the crazed" woman locked in an attic in Thornfield Hall? This much-acclaimed novel is an imaginative reconstruction of her story-Producer CHERRY COOKSON (Jane Lapotuire is member of the RSC) long tc-ave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
