The market reports plus news from the Royal Smithfield Show
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Presented by Brian Bedhead with LIBBY PURVES including at 6.15* Prayer for the Day with FR VINCENT WHELAN
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
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Wine
Whether as a topic of conversation or a thirst quencher, a social lubricant or a source of vitamin C, the two quests this morningwillhelpyoua make the most a a bottle, and enjoy a glass to the full. So whether your taste is for champagne or ' plonk you can call Pamela Vandyke
Price. wine correspondent of The Times. and David Rutherford , Chairman of the Wine Development Board. Your hostess is Sue MacGregor produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
The BBC's home correspondents and reporters talk about the stories and the people behind the news.
Producer ELIZABETH SHEEHY
NEM. p 67; Lo. God is here: let us adore (BBC
HE 264); Psalm 93; Isaiah
6. vv 1-10 (AV): When all thy mercies BBC HB 221
by DICK FRANCIS (10)
by Sheila Hodgson
'You had to force yourself to stay there, it set your nerves jangling: a black despair colouring every single object like infection.'
Khrushchev once sjid that If the Russians had shot six prominent writers there would have been no Hungarian revolt. These programmes introduced by John Har riott. show how writers have responded to harsh treatment and imprisonment by governments who fear the power of the pen.
2: Kim Chi Ha - the Korean poet who has been imprisoned for the last 15 years ' That's what 1 hope for now - the chance to write freely. With the voices of MURIEL RUKEYSER and FR DANIEL BERRIGAN Reader KO WON
Research SUE HARRIS
Producer SHIRLEY DU BOULAY
Charles Marowitz
' In England today drama criticism is bogus, self-deluded and intrinsically uncritical.
BBC Manchester
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Dudley, West Midlands
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Emergencies: how to cope if you're not trained. 5: Being accosted.
Tulkinq Point; opinions and ideas .. .
Reading Your Letters.
Cooking for Christmas: JOHN TOVEY suggests starters for your Christmas meals...
Letters from Ummie 14): BRENDA KIDMAN reads from five years' correspondence with an old Indian friend. The Ginger Tree (4)
Story: Joey and the Kite by FRAN DAVIES
bv EVELYN WAUGH. Part 2
Water under the Bridge by CLIVE RICHE
Read by Peter Craze
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and reports from BBC Newsmen round the world
'twixt
Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and Tim Rice
Lance Percival
Tune Twisters from Steve Race
In the chair Roy Plomley
Devised and written by IAN MESSITER. Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Thurs 12.27)
What is the proper function of the police in a democratic society? Should they have a social role to play as well as a legal one? How should they respond to demands to get tough ' with criminals and demonstrators? And can the state give the police enough powers to do their job properly without placing unacceptable restraints on I ho freedom of its citizens? These are some of the questions raised in a new book Policing Freedom by the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall. John Alderson Together with former Home Secretary. Lord Carr: Peter Hain ; Chief Supt Giinter Kratz , a director of Germany's Police Staff College; and Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, Peter Nievens ; he joins Hugo Young to discuss their implications.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
A programme of special interest to the visually handicapped. Presented by Peter White and David Scott Blackhall
Whatever is happening to the braille book? A report on the current situation in braille publishing. Producer THENA HESHEL
To check on information, or comment on issues raised, telephone [number removed]after the broadcast, from 8.30 to 9.30 pm
(Broadcast Sat 4.4U pmi
Talking to Strangers by Anthony Smith
Mary Renault
Actually, I got the name
Renault out of Froissart's Chronicles of the Hundred Years War ... It was the name of one of the French knights. I'd forgotten there was a car! Mary Challen adopted that pseudonym when she started to write her first hook The Purposes of Love during the war. Since then she has published a sequence of seven novels set in ancient Greece, including The Mask of Apollo, Fire from Heaven, and The Praise Singer.
A: her home in Cape TCwn, MARY RENAULT talks to Sue MacGregor about her lifelong fascination with the world of Socrates. Pericles. and Alexander the Great Reader
Michael Pennington
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
by C. S. FORESTER adapted for radio by VAI. GIELGUD starring Nigel Anthony with Terence Skelton
Book 2: Lieutenant Hornblower
Part 2: Sealed Orders
The Location recordings made in conjunction with Mariners International by DAVID FLEMING-WILLIAMS and CHRISTOPHER HAYTON WEBB
Music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON
Directed by TREVOR HILL
BBC Manchester
A Cab at the Door
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
