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Presenters Libby Purves and Mike Wooldridge including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FATHER ERIC DOYLE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Libby Purves
Presenters:
Mike Wooldridge
Unknown:
Father Eric Doyle
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

A selection of plays from the series "Just Before Midnight".

"The Dissolution of Dominic Boot" by Tom Stoppard
with Derek Fowlds as Dominic
(Repeat)
(Every Good Boy Deserves Favour: next Wed BBC2)

"Desert Island Risks" by William Fox
(Repeat)

12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Writer (The Dissolution of Dominic Boot):
Tom Stoppard
Writer (Desert Island Risks):
William Fox
Director (The Dissolution of Dominic Boot):
Glyn Dearman
Director (Desert Island Risks):
John Tydeman
Dominic:
Derek Fowlds
Vivian:
Maria Aitken
Taxi driver:
John Junkin
Girl clerk:
Amanda Murray
Shepton:
Jon Glover
Man:
Peter Wickham
Miss Bligh:
Eva Stuart
Cartwright:
Anthony Newlands
Mother:
Noel Hood
Father:
William Fox
Julia:
Fenella Fielding
Polly:
Nicola Pagett
Rupert:
Michael Cochrane
Himself:
Roy Plomley

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week:
Harold Evans. Editor of The Sunday Times
Pets - What Shall We Havel 2: Dogs
Reading Your Letters.
Sewing Club: BETTY FOSTER helps solve the problems which arise in home fashion sewing and looks at developments in the industries which serve the needlewoman.
The Age of Innocence (7) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Evans.

On Some Road by PHILLIP CALLOW
Malcolm finds that marital breakdown is not the only kind of breakdown he has to face ... with Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Phillip Callow
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Malcolm:
Barry Foster
Janis:
Jacqueline Tong
Helen:
Sally Sanders
Consultant:
Gordon Dulieu
Bernard:
John Bull
Mrs Newman:
Barbara Crundell
Ben:
Brian Carroll
Mrs Knowjes:
Nancy Gower
Griffin:
Pavel Douglas

from
St Anne 's Cathedral Belfast
Introit: Ubi Caritas (Durufle); Responses (Clucas); Psalm 37 (Soaper. Turle); Office Hymn: Rejoice, the Lord is King (Handel); Canticles (Stanford in c); Lessons: Ecclesiastes 5; Luke 14, v 25-15, v 10; Anthem: 0 clap your hands (Vaughan Williams) Organist and Master of the Choristers
JONATHAN GREGORY Assistant organist CHRISTOPHER BOODLE
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
St Anne
Unknown:
Jonathan Gregory

The Great Locked Bathroom Mystery by H. R. F. KEATING
Read by Sheila Mitchell
'Mrs Craggs had very often nearly left the cleaning job she had with Mrs Marchpane, of Fitzjames Avenue. But somehow she stayed on. And so she was there, when there occurred one of the great mysteries of our time. Or anyhow, a mystery. And one that made the papers for nearly two weeks.'

Contributors

Unknown:
H. R. F. Keating
Read By:
Sheila Mitchell

A panel game 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)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Antonia Fraser
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
John Julius Norwich
Unknown:
Peter Moore

Ali Mazrui, Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, begins his series of six lectures.
'I have used a metaphor from the medical field for two reasons. One is diagnostic. To some extent, this series is about Africa's aches and pains. I also chose this title because it echoes the phrase "the human condition". I want to examine the state of Africa partly as a way of measuring the state of the world.'

Professor Mazrui suggests that although Africa was probably the first home of mankind, the continent is the last to be made habitable. He considers the reasons for this paradox and argues that Africa will become habitable only when it is free from external control and has learned to define its own goals and to curb its own political excesses.

(BBC Manchester)
(Repeated next Sunday at 6.0 pm on Radio 3 and printed in "The Listener" dated 8 November)

Contributors

Persenter:
Professor Ali Mazrui

A lighthearted anthology of new words and old-time music, introduced by Peter Wheeler with Ronald Baddiley, Bob Grant and Kathleen Helme
Music-hall songs sung by Tony Bateman with Tom Steer (piano)
(BBC Manchester)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Wheeler
Reader:
Ronald Baddiley
Reader:
Bob Grant
Reader:
Kathleen Helme
Singer:
Tony Bateman
Pianist:
Tom Steer
Producer:
Kay Jamieson

with Peter Oppenheimer Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad.
Reporter Eric Robson
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Oppenheimer
Reporter:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Max Easterman
Editor:
Colin Adams

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