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Presented byJohnTimpson with I.IBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROBERT RIETTY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Zelda Fitzgerald
plus regulars Dr Anthony Clare, Russell Davies, Fran Morrison in Edinburgh. and Gerry Monte in Cardiff, taking part in a live talk show that each week features a celebrity birthday interview as well as intriguing personal stories and musical interludes from The Bowles Brothers
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NEM, p 50; 0 King enthroned on high (BBC HB 158); Psalm 139; Matthew 3. vv 1-17 (av); Love of the Father. Love of God the Son (BBC HB 522)
a Girt by MICHAEL A. PEARSON
Read by Timothy Kightley ' "Fifty pence you don't dare go where I go." "You're on," I accepted, like a fool.'
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
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Story: The Clumsy Tiger by ANNE ENGLISH long wave only
Today JILL TODD helps you save money with the latest food news and prices in the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenters
Sue Cook and George Luce
Stereo
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Presented by Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor Talking Point.
A Matter of Divorce:,EDITH COURTNEY considers the options.
European Partners: MARY REDCLIFFE joins a group of people from Lewes visiting Waldshut, their ' twin town ' in Germany, Chelsea Child (8)
Chelsea Child, £5.25, from bookshops long wave only
Deep in verdant Derby-shire countryside stands one of the .most beautifully decorated country houses in England - Sudbury Hall. Built In the reign of Charles II. and formerly the seat of the Vernon family, it now belongs to the National Trust, Michael Oliver went over the house with Its curator JOHN HODGSON. In the servants' quarters of the house is a museum of childhood; NICHOLAS TUCKER explores the fantasy world within, complete withmouseholes, an authentic Victorian classroom, a chimney smaller visitors can crawl up and, at its centre, a Fairytale Quest, relating the story of Beauty and the Beast.
Producer CHRIS SWANN
A Kaleidoscope production (First broadcast on Boxing Day)
Polaris by FAY WELDON Grass Widows: The Attack Team: No 1 Mark Wing-Davey
On board the Polaris missile submarine, Christmas Eve dinner is eggs a la greque, goose with prune stuffing and chocolate mousse. At home in her inaccessible crofter's cottage, Meg is enjoying sausage and mash and contemplating several months' separation from her newly-married husband.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol
(Frederick Treves is a National Theatre player)
H. R. F. Keating describes one of the pleasures of life.
BBC Manchester
Marriage (4)
Presented by Gavin Scott and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report
Written by GWYN Richards (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
First Impressions
The poet P. J. Kavanagh presents the second of two selections of the poetry which fired his imagination in his formative years. Readers
John Franklyn-Robbins and Frances Horovitz Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.20 am)
Presenter Richard Cork Producer DAVID PERRY
direct from the Royal Festival Hall. London James Galway (Bute) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Walter Susskind Part 1
Grieg, orch Sitt Norwegian Dances
Nielsen Flute Concerto
From Theoretical Physics to Theology
This summer Professor John PolkJnghorne exchanges his chair of Mathematical Physics in the University of Cambridge for a student's place In a Theological College.
What has led him to this decision to change his entire way of life? Does he perhaps see a connection between science and religion?
Leslie Smith engages the Professor and his family in conversation. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER (Revised repeat)
Part 2 Sibelius
Symphony No 1, in E minor (A Royal Philharmonic Orchestra concert in association with the Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd)
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The Fox (4) long wave only
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A sequence of music for late-night listening.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
