At the end of the year. the five marketeers give their views to Bryan Platt and Leslie Cottington.
A note from
Gerald Priestland
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Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
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As 1979 bows out, Tony Lewis takes a different look at the events and personalities who've stood out for him in the past 12 months. And some of sport's top names make their predictions for the next decade.
The rest of the news at home and abroad, including a close-of-play report from CHRISTOPHER MARTIN -JENKINS in Melbourne on the second Test between AUSTRALIA and the WEST INDIES, and also news of ENGLAND'S match with QUEENSLAND in Brisbane. A Radio Sport and OB production
Kevin Mulhern reports on the cost and the practical problems that would be involved in sending traditional Christmas gifts, such as turtle doves, milk-maids, drummers, leaping lords, as well as a partridge in a pear tree. Producer THENA HESHEL
by the Liberal Party
with Barry Norman
Including this week: Special guest John Laurie ; Hi-fi: more myths exploded: Singles holidays: what's on offer for going on holiday on your own. Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROOER MACDONALD
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George Luce reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
Anthony King puts questions about the past year in Westminster to Joe Ashton , MP The Rt Hon
Joel Barnell , MP
Lynda Chalker , mp and John Selwyn Gummer. MP In a not-too-serious battle of wits and memory.
Questions compiled by ROSEMARY PHILLIPSON
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
NEM. p 5; To us in Beth-lem city (BBC HB 315); Psalm 19. vv 1-11; Philippians 2. vv 1-11 (Rsv);
Angels, from the realms of glory (BBC HB 42)
As the decade draws to close, BBC foreign correspondents offer personal views of what the 70s have meant to them and the people they work among, and look forward to what the 80s may bring. A Radio News production by BOB DORAN
Louise Boiling and the Money Box team look back at how attitudes have changed towards saving and borrowing during the inflationary 70s, and forward to what the priorities are for the 80s, with accountant, Philip Hardman : stockbroker, Michael Prag ; economist, James Morrell : and financial consultant, Harry Brown.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: New Years Eve at 10.5 am)
presents
Eric Pode of Croydon Easter Special starring
Jo Kendall. Nigel Rees
Chris Emmett. Fred Harris Written by ANDREW MARSH ALL and DAVID RENWICK Producer DAVID HATCH
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Derek Jones and the team answer your wildlife questions.
Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
(Postponed from 24 Nov)
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The Great Balloon Debate by ALICK ROWE with Patrick Barr as the Colonel and Roger Hammond as the Vicar
VICAR: We must contain our emotions. We are, after all, civilised beings. Flying without control at a thousand feet in a renegade balloon we may be. but we must keep calm!
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Presenter Marilyn Alan Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Producer JANE WOOD Editor MARLENE PEASE
by RODERICK KALBERER
Bernard Crlbblns tells the story of the dragon and examines how our attitudes to this great mythological beast have changed over the years. Also taking part:
PETRA DAVIES, JACQUELINE MORGAN. DAVID TIMSON JOHN BOTT , MARTIN FRIEND Producer MARTIN JENKINS (Revised repeat of Boxing Day's broadcast at 10.5)
(Bernard Cribbins is in ' The Gingerbread Man ' at the Royalty Theatre, London)
with Peter Porter
An excellence collecting excellence: the last in a series of six programmes which take their theme from a line of poetry, Readers Philip voss and Mary Elliot-Nelson Producer AI.EC REID
Compiled and written by Julia Keay
Gemma Jones as Eliza Fay
Narrator Philip Sully
'We reached Dover in the evening of 10 April; thoughts of all we suffered on parting that day can never be banished from my mind. My constant prayers are that we may be enabled to support this dreadful separation with fortitude. I dare not trust myself with the subject; my very heart seems to melt as I write.'
In 1779, Eliza Fay, 23 years old and newly wed, set off with her husband for Calcutta. En route she described the torments and terrors of the journey in letters to her sister, the first account by a woman of the voyage to India.
According to E.M. Forster, the letters reveal 'a soul courageous and gallant, an eye and an ear always on the watch'. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
A variety show specially recorded in Edinburgh, featuring the best of comedy and music and a few oddities from the Fringe of this year's Festival.
Including extracts from The Oxford Revue, The Aberdeen Revue, Cambridge Footlights, Rowan Atkinson.
Producers GEOFFREY PERKINS and GRIFF RHYS JONES
(Rev rpt)
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The Rt Hon David Steel , UP, presents his personal choice of poetry and prose, with readings by Moira Shearer , Tom Flem ing and Billy Dodds Steel Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
with Richard Baker Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated; Wed 11.5 am)
by John Kirkmorris
with Michael Jayston, Caroline Blakiston, Patrick Troughton, David Daker, John Bott
Algeria 1962: towards the end of the war for the independence of the Moslem population, a deputation from Gaullist headquarters arrives at a French army base. Their mission - to locate an irreconcilable rebel who has been hunted without success for years. He is urgently required to attend a peace conference. An old friend of his, a woman journalist, is escorted by a cynical but brilliant soldier on a highly dangerous expedition to track him down.
(Repeated: 28 Jan 1980)
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Sheridan Morley invites regular contributors Robert Buckman, Michael Oliver, Liz Cowley, Paul Vaughan, Hilary Spurling and Tony Palmer to identify some of the authors, performers, films, radio and television productions that have been featured during the year.
Some thoughts for the New Year, led by RONALD FARROW
Presenting music on the lighter side of the ensemble's repertoire from the 16th century to the present day. Guest
Susan Drake (harp) Introduced by Philip Jones. Producer RICHARD WILLCOX: Stereo
by Valerie Windsor
Once upon a time there was a king who had many daughters - then his troubles began.
BBC Manchester
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
