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Presenter Brian Redhead
with Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With Dom Edmund Jones
7.0, 8.0* Today's News
Read by Pauline Bushnell
7.30, 8.30* News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Savings and Investments
I'm 20: what is the best way for me to start saving?
I'm 30: how can I raise the money to buy a Sat? I'm40:how can I ensure my family's future financial safety?
I'm 50:. is it too late to start saving for my retirement?
I'm 60: how can I protect my savings against inflation?
Whatever age you are. and whatever your financial probiems. ring Mavis Moulin, tax specialist, and John Davis. City Editor of the Observer,who join Sue MacGregor to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am long wave only
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The BBC's home correspondents and reporters talk about the stories and people behind the news. (long wave only)
NEM.p 46: Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137): Psalm 1l9, part 4; Isaiah 2, vv 1-5 (AV); Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC HB 519)
by D!CK FRANCIS (5) )ongM!at;eonte
fono tt-ooe only
by PETER TONG
'Darling? My love? My dear? Geraldine, my dear, I want to ask ... I shouldn't have to say anything.... I should only need to think what I want to say and she'd understand.'
Directed by TONY CUFF
BBC Manchester
Khrushchev MM said that if the Russians had shot six prominent writers, there would have been no Hungarian revolt. These six programmes, introduced by John Harriett, show how writers have responded to harsh treatment and imprisonment by governments who fear the power of the pen. : Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright whose recent trial and imprisonment have shocked the free world.
'Seldom in recent times has a social system offered scope so openly to unprincipled and spineless men.'
Reader George Pravda Singer JAROSLAV HUTKA
Producer smpLEYCuBOULAT tonsu'at;eon[j/
J. R. L. Andersen laments the decline in letter-writing.
BBC Manchester tong wave only
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
BourneviUe ViHagt Trust
M.55 Weather; programme news: tone maoe only
presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Ch(tf)c and Totfc.' BAViB tfAWKswoRTH looks at the issues behind the tLEA's recent decision to end corporal punishment. heading Your Letters.
At! Anglo-Japanese Alliance: ROBERT AND AKAtKO BARNES telt JtLL COCHBANE how they met and married in Japan.
Emeroenc<e<: how to cope if you're not trained. 4:Chofcino
Dordogne Diary: ANNETTE MASSIE recounts the events of her new life in south-west France.
The Cats of Funchbowt Farm
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Story: Abioait'sBouncinc BOOM by MOtRA MILLER
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An Obedience Lesson by THERESE EtOEN
Read by Jon Giover
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
'twixt Eleanor Summerfield, Gillian Reynolds and Tim Rice, Lance Percival
Tune Twisters from Steve Race
In the chair Roy Plomley
(Repeated; Thurs 12.27pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
'Communists' in the US State Department 'lost' China to the Free World -Senator Joe McCarthy alleged 30 years ago. McCarthy's charges led to a purge of the China experts who had foreseen the success of the Communist revolution.
Three victims of McCarthy's attack, Owen Lattimore, Theodore White and Edmund Oubb , recall their experiences of the purge, while Dean Rusk and William Buckley assess its effect on American-Chinese relations.
Written and presented by Peter Paterson
Producer Mvin powELL
Presented by Jane Finnis and Peter White
Are there any large print greetings cards? Where can a blind person learn to dance? What makes a good present for a house-bound, partially-sighted lady of 80 This edition includes the answers to these and other questions sent in by listeners.
Producer THENAHESHEL
To check on information. or comment on issues reused, teiephone [number removed]after the broadcast, .from 8.30to9.30
The Oft/mpic Garnet byAnthony Smith
Douglas Stuart reporting
starring Niget Anthony with Terence Skelton
The second of four novels by C.S. FORESTER, adapted for radio by VAL GtELGUD
Book 2: Lieutenant Hornblower
Part 1: The Peculiar Captain
Admiral Lord Hornblower the Narrator, and as a young man.NIGEL ANTHONY
Technicat assistance by members of the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth
Music composed and conducted by JOHNNY PEARSON
Directed by TREVOR HILL assisted by CHRtSTOPHER HAYTON WEBB
BBC Mancheste
The Widower (7) long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast fotlowed by an interlude
