6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With CANON PETER HALL
7.1, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
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It's all up in the air today - a Radio Nature Trail from a balloon Boating high over the autumn countryside, being blown in whichever direction the wind decides.
Anthony Smith and Peter Fowler take a bird's-eye view of a West Country landscape, interpreting its history - and natural history.
Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
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Eight programmes presented by Orson Welles
Written by Benny Green
'They were an extraordinary contrast. Mayer the ruthless brigand, Thalberg the artistic creator of films.'
'He knocked out Charlie Chaplin. He wanted to use Chaplin's name and Chaplin didn't want him to The upshot was that Charlie was on the floor and Mayer rubbing his fist.'
'Thalberg was very quiet, businesslike. A workoholic, and he knew exactly what made films tick and how to deal with artists in a way that brought out the best in them. I think everyone liked Thalberg. He could be a bit cold at times but never abusive or tyrannical as Mayer could be.'
'His greatest find was Greta Garbo.'
(John Douglas Eames)
with the voices of Jackie Cooper, John Douglas Eames, Jack Haley Jr., Joseph Mankiewicz, Rouben Malmoulian, Groucho Marx, Mickey Rooney, George Sidney, Leonard Spiegelgass, King Vidor and Billy Wilder
Research JANE MERCER and BILL SULLIVAN
Reporters BARBRA PASKIN and BILL SULLIVAN
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
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NEM, p 9; God of love, and truth and beauty (BBC HB 273); Psalm 65; Genesis 18, vv 20-33 and 19, v 29 (AV); Sing praise to God (BBC HB 18)
by JOHN BUCHAN (9) long wave only
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Patricia Carroll introduces and plays Victorian piano music. This week: Tripping through the Daisies and other floral fancies long wave only
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor Talking Point.
Almost Professionals!: TONY BARNFIELD visits 'The Questors ', England's biggest amateur theatre company, in its Golden Jubilee Year.
Practical Books for Christmas .chosen by HONOR WYATT Maybe I Can Help ... 1: WENDY GREENGROSS With some of your problems.
The Age of Innocence (13) long wave only until 2.40
Story: The Snowman by BARBARA RICHARDS
Hal by CHARLOTTE HASTINGS
My love, my little love, is gone.
She lieth cold
Under the great stone,
Nothing left but ivory bone
And 1 am cold
And must wait here alone For my little love ...
ANTONY MIALL (recorder) Song composed by NICHOLAS AUSTIN
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The Draught Gets Me Just by Here, written and read by Ray Handy
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) by HELEN LEADBEATER Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Country houses and cottages figure in the last of five programmes looking at aspects of a landscape. Presented by Frank Lincoln
Reader John Darran
Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
(Repeated: Sat 4.30 pm)
JAIME LAREDO (violin)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader JOSÉ-LUIS GARCIA director and solo viola PINCHAS ZUKERMAN Part 1 Mozart
Symphony No 35. in D major (Haffner) (k 385)
Sinfonia concertante in E flat (K 364)
How does one get a harp into a car, or a double bass on to a train? Soloists can often find themselves with some tricky problems of transportation on their way to the concert platform, and in the first of two programmes Kevin Muthern reports on some of the more unusual solutions they have found for their problems.
Producer THENA HESHEL
Part 2 Mozart
Symphony No 41. in c major (Jupiter) (k 551) BBC Manchester
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer JOHN BOUNDY
9.59 Weather
with Anthony Howard
The Doll's House by KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Read by Eileen Atkins
'Days passed, and as more children saw the doll's house, the fame of it spread. It became the one subject, the rage. The one question was: " Have you seen Burnells' doll's house? Oh, ain't it lovely!" " Haven't you seen it? Oh, I say!"'
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
(Tomorrow: 'Mr Reginald Peacock's Day')
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
