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Presented by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day With CANON WILLIAM PURCELL
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7 30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
by PAUL TEEROUX (4)
A lighthearted account of the chequered history of the crossword puzzle - from the three-letter birds, and two-letter Sun God , to the mind-bending, esoteric and even Interchangeable clues.
Anagrammatically compiled by BASIL BIRNEY (anag.) Presented by LenH. Jowls (anag.)
With PATRICK BARR , LEONARD FENTON , MARTIN FRIEND, BRIAN HAINES , MICHAEL MCSTAY
, PEGGY PAIGE and ELIZABETH RIDER . Directed by H. JEATHON-CHOIRS (anag.)
Being the ponderous pedallings of Tom Vernon from Muswell Hill to the Mediterranean and what befell him in the land of the French.
Part The Fifth (of 6): The French Liver and its Uses
How our Hero was
Brought to the Water but Refused to Drink; Machines for Manipulating Humans and One for Removing the Skin of a Pig;
The Rustling of the Wind in the Forest of Dried Sausages; and What
Cheer was Made for Him at a Chateau.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
NEM, p 54; Come, Holy
Ghost, our souls inspire (BBC HB 151); Psalm 126; John 3, w 22-30 and 4, vv 1-3 (AV); Come, Holy Ghost, our souls Inspire (BBC an 508)
by THORNTON WILDER (3)
2: Preacher Man
Harry Soan recalls his teenage transition from apprentice gas-fitter to student minister.
BBC Birmingham
News, views and advice for consumers. Including jill todd and the BBC Shopping Basket.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Stories of crime and detection in London
A series of 13 programmes written by Robert Barr with Ray Brooks as Detective-Sergeant Brook and Christopher Blake as Detective-Constable Maxton
(12.55 Weather; programme news - long wave only)
Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Intricate blue hills and a confused and shaggy country HEATHER WILL-INGS talks to ANNE REDMILE about a little-known region of France.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Reading Your Letters.
Wine and Song - but No Women: except HELEN PALMER , who has been hearing about monks and their medieval habits. The Grass Harp (3)
Story: David and the Fing by ARMOREL KAY WALLING
The Elephant and the Panda by AILEEN LA TOURETTE with Maureen O'Brien and Liza Ross
' I seem to see gaps between people everywhere - between me and people. I try to hide them or fill them up and that only makes it worse, they swallow me up. There's such a feeling of danger aU around.'
And indeed Panda herself is in danger - her unInhibited approach to sex threatens her elder sister's whole way of life.
Directed by JANE MORGAN (First broadcast in 1978)
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last weeK'sAnyQuestionsT
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The Unicorn by STEPHEN JACKSON
Read by Finlay Welsh
' From the platform, the dancers had been just one big blur in the smoke. But whenever David came forward to play his saxophone solo, her face seemed to emerge in sharp focus among the jerking, swaying mass. A face as grave as a nun's, yet capable of sudden radiance.'
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Strong Poison by DOROTHY L. SAYERS , adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER
5: Pongo
Freddy Arbuthnot
CHRISTOPHER SCOULAR
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by MARY CUTLER
BBC Birmingham
The Voyage Out
John Mole with poems which take us a little further out each week. 2: Gardens. Readers
John Franklyn-Robbins and Frances Horovitz Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 4.30 pm)
1876-1973
A concert on records In which the great musician is featured as cellist, conductor and composer Part 1
Beethoven Cello Sonata in c (Op 103 No 1) with RUDOLF SERKIN (piano) Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian) MARLBORO FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
the art and artifice of making oneself understood. The last of five programmes
5: The Arty and the Crafty
Producer SIMON ELMES
Part 2
Casals Les rois mages ENSEMBLE OF 100 CELLOS
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor with the CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CLARE SELERIE
9.59 Weather
with Anthony Howard
Lord of the Flies (8) long wave only
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1 The best weekly programme in television history,' says one American critic.
From Hollywood, John Williams reports on what makes M'A'S'H a smash. Producer JAMES WILKINSON A Radio News production
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
