4.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with John Timpson and Hugh Sykes
6.45. Prayer for the Day RABBI LIONEL BLUE
7.9, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Read by IAIN CUTHBERTSON
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE long wave only
long wave only
long wave only
NEM, p 30; Beneath the cross (BBC HB 301); Psalm 22; Jonah 2, v 10 and 3, vv 1-10 (NEB); Praise to the Holiest (BBC BB 88)
Read by JUNE BARRIE (13) long wave only
long wave only
with Richard Baker
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Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Lynn Seymour , CBE, Royal Ballet principal dancer, choreographer and Director of the Bavarian State Opera Ballet.
Reading Your Letters. Oh to Be in New England in the ' Fall
SONIA BEESLEY from the true home of the ' yankee
Christmas Presents to Make: suggestions from LAYE ANDREW
3: Appliqué Work
Look Back with Mixed Feelings (5) long wave only
Story: Hannibal by DOREEN COATES
My Daughter, Oh My Daughter! by JOHN GRAHAM
Stanley and Hilda Fried -man are justifiably proud of their daughter Maya who is amply fulfilling all their dreams and plans for her.
She has been accepted by Girton College, Cam-bridge, and will one day become a doctor, marry nice Ronald Singer , a dentist, and be a source of pride and joy to her family.
However, Maya returns from a holiday in Italy with a nasty surprise and a few pertinent questions for her parents.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
from
Canterbury Cathedral
Versicles and Responses (Leighton)
Psalm 89 (Hopkins, Mornington)
First Lesson: Isaiah 55
Canticles: The St Paul's Service (Geoffrey Bush )
Second Lesson: Luke 1, vv 1-4
Anthem: 0 Lord, Thou hast searched me out (Robert Walker )
Organist ALLAN WICKS Assistant organist DAVID FLOOD
As Luck Would Have It Written and read by Joan Bakewell
' became aware of his approach only gradually. I was chatting against the dusty sunlight in the saloon bar. Then, suddenly, his bulk was billowing towards me. Adrian Floss , actor. Huge, shambling, like a great bear.'
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden. In the chair John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Action Desk Edition in which the team try to solve listeners' problems. Presenter Vincent Kane (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
A comedy by MATTHEW WALTERS with Peter Baldwin Rosemary Martin and John Westbrook
Applethwaite was a fly in the ointment - always had been. Champion of this, prizes for that. This time, though, Applethwaite was in for a pretty nasty shock.
Directed bv DAVID GEARY (First broadcast in 1971)
Presenter
Peter Oppenheimer
Reporter DAVID HENSHAW Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
The Lyric. Hammersmith Michael Oliver reports on the re-opening and discovers that behind the concrete and glass facade the Victorian interior of the old Lyric has been lovingly restored. Sir John Gielgud pays his first visit to the new theatre and recalls landmarks in the Lyric's history. Also taking part are the artistic administrator Bill Thomley ; the resident director, David Giles ; architect, Derek Woolland ; actress, Fenella Fielding; composer, Sandy Wilson : and the grandson of the Lyric's first great actor/manager, John East. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting
Six contests between teams in London and in New York. Round 5 London:
Louis Allen (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
John Julius Norwich New York:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Brendan Gill , drama critic of the New Yorker and Shana Alexander , journalist and author End of Round 4 score: London (54i marks)
New York (531 marks) Series producer TREVOR HILL
BBC Manchester
An Integrated Man (3) long wave only
long wave only
Edward Cole presents a sequence of music for late-night listening.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
