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What Britain is getting op to. News and views from home and around the world.
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day With MAURICE HARDY
7.0. 8.8 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.36. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
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A series of six programmes in which Tony Bilbow takes a fresh look at some favourite stereotypes and asks ' but what's it really like? '
3: The Witch
' can't imagine a witch these days taking the simplest of jobs for a fee of under 50 guineas. Witchcraft is a craft and the witch, like everybody else, has to go to work.'
(CECIL WILLIAMSON , Curator,
Boscastle Witchcraft
Museum, Cornwall)
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester long wave only
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visits Bedfordshire where members of the Laporte Social and Sports Club, Horticultural Section, put their questions to FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMUELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(A revised repeat of Sunday's broadcast at 2.0 pm) long wave only
NEM, p 21: Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC HB 122); Psalm 15; Acts 24, v 27 to 25. v 12 (rsv); A stranger once (BBC BB 70)
Flitting Tenant by JOHN BURKE
Read by Shirley Dixon
' The Harpers had bought the house 25 years ago, when Stanley came out of the army. Three months after moving in. they became aware that they had inherited a sitting tenant. The house was haunted.' long wat'e only
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Story: Charlie and the Bright Moon by DOROTHY EDWARDS long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
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Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the week: Thelma Holt , Director of the Round House.
On the Bathroom Shelf: JANE FINNIS investigates shampoos and hair conditioners. What are they made of and how do they work?
Come Let Vs Kiss and Part: HELEN PALMER concludes her series on relationships.
Mommie Dearest: Chris-TINA CRAWFORD , daughter of Joan Crawford , talks to SONIA BEESLEY about her life and her mother. The Hiding Place (3) long wave only
Mate o' Mine
A comedy for radio by EDNA NADLER
Rita and Daphne's peaceful existence is shattered when for her 45th birthday. Rita's mother pays for her enrolment with a computer dating organisation in the hopes that at last, Rita will find Mr Right. Rita is enthusiastic. Daphne more sceptical ...
'Don't you see this system eliminates all the time-consuming formalities of getting to know the casual acquaintance you might meet at a club, party. Think of the enormous scope it offers, the element of adventure. Think of the unknown! ' ' Think of the shocks.'
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON (First broadcast in 1977)
from
Peterborough Cathedral
Introit: 0 Lord, turn not away thy face (Bull)
Versicles and Responses (Byrd)
Psalms 73 and 74 (Vann, Keeton, Goss)
Lessons: Isaiah 55; Colossians 4, vv 2-18
Office hymn: 0 kind Creator. bow thine ear (EH 66) Canticles (Fourth Service: Batten)
Anthem: In ieiunio et fletu (Tallis)
Master of the Music CHRISTOPHER GOWER
Assistant Master of the Music ANDREW NEWBERRY BBC Birmingham
Risk (3)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm) Steve Race 's Preview: p21
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook Editor DENNIS LOWER
A history of taxation written and compiled by NESTA PAIN
Narrated by Gabriel Woolf
From earliest times kings and governments have had to extract money from the people in peace and war. They have ' soaked the rich imposed wage freezes, fined employers who paid above the permitted rate, taxed roads, cattle, stamps, toys, tombstones, and human heads. And always the people have greeted each new demand with ' murmurings and smothered curses ', and sought ways most devious and desperate to avoid handing the money over. With GREGORY DE POLNAY ADRIAN EGAN , LEONARD FEN-TON, DAVID GARTH , SHEILA GRANT , JOHN JUSTIN , BILL MONKS, WOLFE MORRIS , CLIFFORD ROSE and KENNETH SHANLEY
Producer JOHN CARDY
The Six Million Barrel Question
Iran may have started exporting again but that does not mean the crisis is over. Mary Goldring examines the prospects for oil supplies and, even more seriously, prices to the West. What are the longer term political and economic Implications. Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Thurs 11.0 am)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer JOHN POWELL
Anthony Howard reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Presented by Orson Welles and written by Benny Green.
'Thalberg was very quiet, businesslike. A workoholic, and he knew exactly what made films tick and how to deal with artists in a way that brought out the best in them. I think everyone liked Thalberg. He could be a bit cold at times but never abusive or tyrannical as Mayer could be.'
John Douglas Eames with the voices of Jackie Cooper, John Douglas Eames, Jack Haley Jr, Joseph Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Groucho Marx, Mickey Rooney, George Sidney, Leonard Spigelgass, King Vidor and Billy Wilder.
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
