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Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With DOM EDMUND JONES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News ReadbyHarrietcass
7.30, 8.10 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE long wave only
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KEN FORD invites FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and CLAY JONES to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards, to Gardeners' Question Time BBC, Woodhouse Lane ' Leeds LS2 9PX BBC Manchester
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NEM. p 54; Holy Spirit (BBC HB 155): Psalm 48: Isaiah 2, w 6-12, 17-19 (AV); Lord, pour thy Spirit (BBC HB 224)
by DICK FRANCIS (6) long wave only
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Records presented by Richard Baker
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Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
A selection of plays from Just Before Midnight
Tunes by ALAN PLATER with Ronald Herdman as Tattersall Malcolm Hebden as Frond Janet ..... FIONA MATHESON Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY House Husband
Words and music by ALEX GLASGOW
Music arranged and conducted by KEITH STATHAM
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
(Broadcast Tues 7.5 pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast
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with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Eric Morecambe
Pets - What Shall We Haver 5: Mice, Rats, Hamsters and Gerbils.
Records and Cassettes for Christmas: TONY BARNFIELD samples what's available for children. Reading Your Letters.
The Cats of Punchbowl Farm by MONICA EDWARDS abridged in six parts by DELIA PATON
Read by MARY WIMBUSH 6: Pardos and Hula
(Music: Francaix's Concertina for piano and orchestra)
(Mary Wimbush is a National Theatre player) long wave only
Story: The Jelly that Couldn't Wobble by ANN ROSS
Alice by DENNIS POTTER adapted for radio by DEREK HODDINOTT
George Baker as Dodgson Richard Bebb as Dean Liddell and Heather Bell as Alice He was a mathematics lecturer at Oxford in 1864. A brilliant man, he fell in love with a ten-year-old child whom he was to immortalise. Her name was Alice. This is the story of :heir strange relationship ...
Directed by DEREK HODDINOTT. A BBC World Service production
from Paisley Abbey Responses (Aylward)
Psalms: 136, 137, 138 (Lloyd, McPhee, Cutler)
Canticles: Magdalen Service (Leighton)
Anthem: 0 how glorious (Harwood)
Organist and Master of the Choristers GEORGE MCPHEE
Assistant organist NORMAN MITCHELL. BBC Scotland
The Sea Change by ZORINA ISHMAIL-BIBBY
Read by Elizabeth Proud ' She and Richard led separate lives now that the children had grown up and left home. " We must learn to be independent of each other ", he had urged. But Owen still felt lonely. Tranquillisers now helped her file away the hurt.'
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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5.55 Weather; programme ,news
Including Financial Report
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden. In the chair John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Action Desk Edition in which the Checkpoint team take on bureaucracy and business to solve listeners' problems.
Piesented by Vincent Kane (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
- HELP! page 20
Ali Mazrui, Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, examines the paradox of Africa's immense mineral wealth and agricultural potential co-existing with some of the lowest standards of living in the world. Professor Mazrui argues that much of the problem arises from the nature of the economic change which Western colonialism imposed on Africa. African economies have been distorted to serve Western needs. Can Africa modernise without Westernising?
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sunday at 6.0 on Radio 3, and printed in THE LISTENER dated 29 November)
A lighthearted anthology of new words and old-time music, introduced by Peter Wheeler with Ronald Baddlley Bob Grant and Kathleen Helme
Music-hall songs sung by TONY BATEMAN with TOM STEER (piano) . Producer KAY JAMIESON BBC Manchester
Presented bv
Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad.
Reporter Steve Bradshaw Producer GERRY NORTHAM Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Presented by Jaeky Gillott
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting
Six comedy plays 4: Cut and Thrust
The Widower (8) lonj wave only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
