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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. presented by John Timpson with WENDY JONES including at
6.45* prayer for the Day with THE REV PAUL BATES
71 8.0 Today's News
Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30. 8.38 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
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
JAMES cox and JOHN GILL Producer MICHAEL EMBER
NEM. p 30; It is a thing most wonderful (BBC HB 81); Psalm 22; Matthew
10, v 28 to 11, v 1 (AV);
Stand up, stand up for Jesus (BBC HB 368)
Old Men Do Not Forget by PHILIP HARRIES
Read by John Bennett
'The two old men sitting in the autumn sunshine watched the stranger approach. They sensed he was a man used to wearing uniform - an official or a policeman - and their stomachs tightened at the realisation.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Down with Skool!
Story: Abigail's Puddle-Pedal by MOIRA HERITAGE
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Information, views and advice for the home and family. Today JILL TODD heTpsyousavemoney with the latest food news and prices in the BBC Shopping Basket.
The quotations game.
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and voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Past, Present and Future: in its Centenary Year, present and past residents of Somerville College, Oxford, including Marghanita Laski, Dilys Powell and The Rt Hon Shirley Williams, talk about college life and women's education.
Reading your Letters
Moped Mania: Jill Cochrane goes road-testing North and South (17)
The weekend's listening on Radio 4UK
Live from the House of Commons
The Survivor
An uncertain comedy by JACK GERSON with Only one place would I leave Poland for. Eretz Israel. Would your shiksa countess take us to Israel? You ask her that.... you ask her ... as for the Germans ... what would they want with Poland ...? '
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland
The Blessing (4)
The news magazine Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
First Impressions
The poet Cliff Ashby presents the first of two selections of the poetry which fired his imagination in bis formative years.
Readers
John Franklyn-Robbins and Frances Horovitz Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
direct from Winchester Cathedral conductor George Hurst Martin Neary (organ)
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
Mozart Symphony No 40, In G minor (K 550)
Scotsman Bill Campbell was for many years a clown in the Russian State Circus. In this third talk he describes how. under his stage name of Villi. he entertained Russian troops throughout their ' Great Patriotic War ' against Hitler.
Producer HUGH PURCELL
Saint-Saens Symphony No 3. with organ
(A public concert given as part of the Winchester 900 Celebrations)
BBC Bristol
California Dreaming
The climate, landscape and life-style of Los Angeles are fertile raw material for the imagination of many native and expatriate writers living there.
Paul Vaughan considers the southern Californian literary scene. Contributors include JOAN DIDION. RAY BRADBURY , BRYAN MOORE and GAVIN LAMBERT
Producer DAVID PERRY
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
I Can't Stay Long
LAURIE LEE reads from his collection of short essays. 9: The Sugar Islands
' In every town and village the calypso poets were testing new songs.' long wave only
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The BBC Guide to Parliament, £4.50, from bookshops
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
