A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Priestland
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Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
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with Norman Tozer
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with Tony Lewis
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This week John Stapleton meets holidaymakers coming home to Dover with their tales of horror, adventure and romance. Producer JILL FREEMAN

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From the Cradle to the Grave
The Welfare State, the services it provides, and the way it's financed, are once again one of the most keenly debated issues in British politics. But have other countries found better ways of caring for their citizens?
David Smeeton and BBC foreign correspondents compare the various forms the Welfare State has taken around the world.
A Radio News production by BOB DORAN
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Anthony King reviews some of the new batch of autumn political books. including A Time to Heat by former us President Gerald Ford , Arguments for Socialism by Tony Benn and The Anatomy of Power by James Margach. Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG long wave only

Bill Grundy reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only

New Every Morning, page 75; Blest are the pure in heart (BBC HB 318); Psalm 112; Hebrews 10, vv 1-10 (rsv); Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277)

by Margaret Howard
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10: The Long Black Passage
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'I've just seen some crows thrusting their heads down into the thick smoke coming from a chimney. There was no nest down there, so why were they doing it? And why didn't they choke?'
The team clears the air around some natural history mysteries. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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John Calder
' We have been robbed of that one thing that enables us to face our troubles: we have been robbed of hope.' BBC Manchester

Sue MacGregor talks to Rabbi Hugo Gryn about his life and work.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
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The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams and guests
Compiled by the producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
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Ladv Barnett
Tam Dalyell , mp Steve Race
Russell Johnston. mp
Chairman David Jacobs
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Malcolm Billings presents a magazine of items of archaeological interest. Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
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by Bram Stoker, adapted for radio by Eric MacDonald
David March as Dracula
There he lay looking as if youth had been half renewed, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with repletion.'
'Like all best melodrama it was absurd, but it was real... you knew what was coming, the acting was roughly lifelike and the music told you when to grip the arm of the chair.' (THE OBSERVER)
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Macrozoology and the Art of Lawn Maintenance Written and read by Jim Andrew
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A practical and topical magazine for and with disabled listeners.
Presenter Marilyn Alan Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Monday 2.0-4.0 pm [number removed], ext 2531
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London [Postcode removed]
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Kenyon Emrys-Roberts chooses one of his favourite pieces by Vaughan Williams - the Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis : records
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'Yesterday as a nation we showed no interest in our Colonial Service. Today, when we're in the process of writing off the District Commissioner as being as dead as a dodo, the younger generation is just beginning to ask "What did you do in the Colonial Service, Grand-pa?".'

Anthony Kirk-Greene, who has researched the story of the Colonial Service, gives a framework to the memories of some of those people who served colonial Africa, and whose voices can be heard in a new series of five programmes starting tomorrow at 10.15 pm.
See feature: page 15

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Introduced by Sheridan Morley
Editor ROSEMARY HART
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An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK, ROGER WODDIS , JEREMY BROWNE , BARRY BOWES , GEOFFREY ATKINSON
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in conversation with his guests. Musical interlude by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on records.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Rev rpt: Friday 9.5 am) (Opera Gala from Vienna, introduced by Richard Baker : Thurs 7.30 pm)

Sins of the Father by BILL LYONS
' Feeling your age ' isn't easy for any of us. and Jimmy Vogel is certainly feeling his. He's managed to make the rank of Inspector, but he's separated from his wife and daughter, he's failing to score with the younger generation of policemen - and women - and Superintendent Fraser still criticises his lack of tact. Middle age is proving to be an uncomfortable time and the case he's on doesn't make life any easier.
Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Mon 3.5 pm)

Three programmes on the history and development of Science Fiction, compiled and presented by Bryan Silcock
Bryan Silcock discusses the special imaginative quality of Science Fiction and how it can express subconscious fears and hopes. He also looks at the cult of the disaster novel - how many ways are there to destroy a planet?
Extracts performed by Peter Baldwin, Roger Hammond, Philip Sully and Sandra Freeman
Also taking part in the series were Brian Aldiss, Kingsley Amis, J. G. Ballard, Alfred Bester, John Christopher, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas Disch, Harry Harrison, Peter Nicholls, Frederick Pohl, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Norman Spinrad, Theodore Sturgeon

A meditation led by JOHN WILCOX. BBC Birmingham

Sidney Harrison offers some gentle advice on 6: How to Compose Light Music
Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Night Shift by DEREK RABY Touch of indigestion? Can't drop off? You might try counting sheep. But what if one answered back ... ?
Dinsdate Landen as Henry Joan Sanderson as Sheep Directed by MARGARET ETALL

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