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presented by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at 6 45' Prayer for the Day With ROSEMARY WAKELIN 7.0, 8.0 Today's News read by EOCENE FRtSEK
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
The Queen's English
.. do people speak different to what they ought in this day and age? Make a date, to thoroughly listen, and ask free)y questions in thit phone-insituation.
Mistakes. cliches (a" above), grammar, slang, class variations, word usage and derivations-telephone us with any nuery about the English language-M written or as spoken.
With Sue MacGregor in the studio are Dr Robert Burchaetd. Chief Editor.
Oxford English Dictionaries who recently reported on'BBCEng)ish';and Marghanita Laski. writer. broadcaster,and guardian of the English language, Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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The EEC s home correspondents and reporter! talk about the stones and the people behind the news.
Producer ELIZABETH SHE EHY long wave only
NEM, p 25; Jesu. guide our way (BBC BB 144); psalm 27. parti; Genesis M. vv 63-67 and 25, vv 20-26 <*v): Come, O thou traveller (BBC B:4)
by JOHN BUCHAN abridged for radio in 10 parts by JOHN ASHE
Read by TOM FLEMING (12)
Producer BRIAN MILLER
BBC Bristol long wave only
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Sunday bVGEMRDMCE.Et with Terry SeuOy as Colln JehnBottasDad peter Batdwtn as Reg Eva Stuart as Joyce
Sunday is definitely not a day of rest for Cohn ond his father. The weekly visit of interfering sister Joyce and her husband is becomingantghtn,are. So Co)in dev.ses* clan which he hopes wlU teep them away tor good....
Directed by CHERRY COOKSOtt long wave only
The waves of modem technology are sweeping us towards the turn of the century. What can we make of these new toots which are coming to hand? How wilt they shape ourtives?
Reporter Georgt Met Producer JOBN tDWARM tone MMfe ontM
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
MaeclesSeid.Cheshire
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presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Emergencies: how to cope if you're not trained. 3: Poisoning.
Tafttine Point; opinions and ideas ...
Letter from Ummie (3): BRENDA KtDMAN reads from five years' correspondence with an o)d Indian friend.
Children's Books and Writers; ELAINE MOSS looks at some children's books for Christmas.
The Age of innocence by EDITH WHARTON abridged by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by DAmEL MASSEY Last of 16 instalments
(Music: Schumann's Adagio and Ailegro for horn and piano) long wave only
Story: Toby Jug Does Well by CAROLINE W. DREDGE *
by WILKIE COLLINS. Part 6 (Broadcast Sun 9.3 pm)
(Broadcast Sun 7.0 pm)
Love Hurts by WILLIAM BOYD
Read by Barry Warre 'n
with John Sergeant and Susannah SimoM
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Kepert
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Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and Tim Rice Lance Percital
Tune Twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley
Devised and written by IAN MESSITER . Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated Wed. 1.40 pm)
Schoolchildren from Fitzjohn's Primary School London. read and discuss their poetry, with an introduction by Ted Hughes ' The readiness for poetry of a very intense and sophisticated sort: the ability both to respond to it and to produce it, liked by very many children.' Producer LIANE AUKIN
Presented by David SeettBtaekhan andJaneFinnis
This edition includes a review of the services being provided by special homes tor the elderly blind.
Producer THENA HESHEL
To check on information, or comment on issues raised, telephone [number removed]after the broadcast,
Insurance by Anthony Smith (Rpt)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting
by C. S. FORESTER adapted for radio in 20 instalments by VAL GIELGUD starring Nigel Anthony
Book 1: Mr Midshipman Hornblower
Part 5: The Duchess and the Devil
Location recordings on the I. P. Thorsoe with the assistance of Mariners International
Technical presentation DAVID FLEMING-WILLIAMS assisted by ROGER LUCAS and MARK SEYLER
Directed by CHRISTOPHER HAYTON WEBB
BBC Manchester
(Next week the start of Book 2, "Lieutenant Hornblower")
The Widower (2) tons wave on)«
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Weather report; forecast followed by an inter)ude
