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6.45 Prayer for the Do, with REV RICHARD HARRIES 7,0. 8.0 Today's News
Read hy PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Unload your query on to
Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Questions, on postcard. to: Enquire Within. BBC, London [Postcode removed] long wave only
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BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in. Producer ANTHONY SARGENT long wave only
NEM, p 38; Blessed Jesus, at thy word (BBC NB 257); Psalm 20; Genesis 32, vv 22 to 33, v 4 (Av); Look, ye saints, and see how glorious (BBC HB 127)
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Gwyn Richards
Readers Hugh Dickson and Maria Aitken Series producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Btistot
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Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
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Introduced by Maureen Staffer
Child's Play: Jocelyn Ryder-Smith and teacher Jenny Peacock assess some mail-order schemes that offer activities at home for mothers with pre-school children. How useful is the material they send out? Do they give value for money?
A Musical History: The Jackfield Band from Shropshire is among the oldest bands in the country. Helen Lloyd looks back over its history, which provides a telling commentary on social and industrial change through nearly two centuries.
Mixed Marriages: Ann Tennant talks to Fiona Chaudhary who has made a study of inter-racial marriages both in this country and in India.
BBC Birmingham
The Cats of Punchbowl Farm: 3: Cheetah and Mr Forsyte
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Story: Miss Mabel and the Cat and the Parrot and the Dog by ANNE WELLISGTOH Presenters
ALISON MCMORLAND and MICHAEL BEACON
Written by MARY HAYDON and VALERIE MCCARTHY producer MARY HAYDON
Face in the Mirror by DELORES BARON
Kay is faced with a familiar problem. Her children have grown up and left home, her husbandispreoccupiedwith his job, she feels useless and unwanted. And when she accidentally takes something from a shop without paying for it, her troubles really begin ...
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
P. H. Burton left Wales about 27 years ago to live in America. As a teacher in Port Talbot he taught and encouraged a young boy called Richard Jen kins. The boy later became the international actor Richard Burton ; and at his home in Florida P. H. BURTON talked to Paul Ferris about his own life and upbringing and of course Richard Burton , Producer
TELFRI SEVAN BBC Wales
True Love and the Tuba Player by MICHAEL.J. BUTLER Read by Nigel Lambert ProducerJANE MARSHALL BBC Binninaham
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
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Richard Hudson-Evans brings you stories behind the scenes in travel.
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
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Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
Veteran Paris columnist Sam White is the subject of this week's Profile. Erik de Mauny has been talking to a man with a unique insight into the foibles of post-war France. Producer ALASTAIR OSBORNE (Postponed front 26 Oct)
Joan Lestor , mp Ronald Harwood
John Selwyn Gummer , up and Charlotte Mitchell tackle the issues raised by the audience in Burton Bradstock in Dorset
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 4.15, to Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed]'
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter
Michael Billington Producer ROB WHITE
with Alexander MacLeod
An irreverently critical look back at the week news with David Jason, Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sheila Steafel and The David Firman Trio
Woddis On...: page 23
The Widower (5) long wave only
Radio 4's international Business Report; Market Trends long trace only
by Allen Saddler, with Philip Lowrie as Shaw and Rosalind Adams as Julie
Having won a whole houseful of furniture on a quiz programme, Julie comes back to see about the small question of a house...
BBC Bristol
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