Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and KEN POLLOCK
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by John Timpson
With LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV JOHN DUNLOP
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by JOHN MARSH
J-30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for tfie Day
Fight it? Cope with it? Is it best to avoid it and go for early retirement? Is it really unfair dismissal? What are your legal and financial rights? What's your position on Pension and tax? What do You do next - retraining?
Talk to Laurie Sapper, General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers, and Louise Botting, Financial Consultant, Sue MacGregor is in the chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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Producer Elizabeth SHEEHY long wave only
NEM, p 71; 0 come, let us Sing (BBC HB 465); Canticle 7; John 4, w 27-42 (AV); crown him with many crowns (BBC m 124)
by THORNTON WILDER (6) long wave only
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A Nest of Ravens by JOHN EMLYN EDWARDS
Well done, Henry, my lad. You've made your break for freedom and You've pulled it off. Just look at it - wave-crested ocean shining in the sunlight, the wings of gulls against a blue sky, and the infinity of space.... And there's a cliff path. See how it winds away along the coast? Follow it, Henry. It could lead You anywhere.' Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol long wave only
Khrushcher once said that if the Russians had shot six prominent writers there would have been no Hungarian revolt. These six programmes. introduced by John Har. riott show how writers have responded to harsh treatmentandimp"sonment by governments who fear the power of the pen.
6: - the Ghanaian poet. Professor of English at Cape Coast
University, who was imprisoned for sheltering a friend.great
' Prison was my great university my great school where I discovered the power of language. Research SUE HARRIS Producer
SHIRLEY DU BOULAY long wave only
Tony Bilbow
'Woody Allen said "There is no God. And furthermore, try getting a Plum; ber on the weekend ...'
BBC Manchester long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
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Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Meeta-Mum: FRANCES BERTHELSEN finds out about a network of self-help groups.
Talking Point.
Looking for a Mogul's Empire: or BA MASON recalls her problems of finding a husband.
Jethro Tull at the Ballet: IAN ANDERSON describes how his rock group wrote a score for Scottish Ballet. The Grass Harp (6) long wave only
Story: Trains Wait by RUTH AINSWORTH
Tea at Gunters by PAMELA haines, adapted for radio by CHERRY COOKSON with Angela Down and Isabel Dean in the late 1940s, the annual trip from Leeds to London to take tea at Gunters was Winifred's only link with her past. She clings to it, dreams whatmighthavebeen but for the First World War. and tries to live her dreams through her daughter Lucy.
Directed by KAY PATRICK
BBC Manchester
by JENNY STEBBINGS
Read by Fraser Kerr
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.5t Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Peter Jones
Derek Nimmo and Tim Rice endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Kenneth Williams is in ' The Undertaking' at the Fortune Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Women's magazines in the 18th and 19th centuries
'If we are endu'd with rational faculties, why are we denied the due improvement of them? Why are we kept in total ignorance of everything but domestic affairst Drudging in a family or taught to set off our persons to arrive at the sum-mum bonum of every woman - a husband!
THE LADY'S MONTHLY
MUSEUM, 1725
The first regular magazine for women appeared in the 1690s and others followed quickly. Many early publications had a surprisingly radical tone containing an ingredient well-known to modern readers - the problem page '. June Knox-Mawer looks at some early ' agony columns and examines the light they shed on prevailing attitudes to women. with Frances Jeater David Mnhlowe Paul Rowland
Marlene Sidaway and Helen Worth
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
Presented by David Scott Blackball
Including a review by PeterWhiteofnational magazines and journals that are available on tape for blind people.
Producer THENA HESHEL
Free quarterly bulletin summarising information broadcast is available from [address removed] Send four large saes for a year's supply
Trees
Presented by Judi Dench Additional readings by Joss Ackland. Music from Cambridge City Jassband Vocal refrains
Dave Skitani and the Rhythm Boys
Written and compiled by PETE ATKIN and RUSSELL DAVIES Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-UOORE
(Judi Dench is a member of the RSC)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer WAYNE DREW
Douglas Stuart reporting
A comedy by ROY CLARKE
The gate needs fixing, there's an old wreck in the garden, the big house is full of vagrants and Foley's given up his job at Interplanetary Motor Accessories. He wants to bring out the music in his soul.
Music performed by THE MATTHEW SCOTT QUINTET Producer
GRIFF RHYS JONES
Lord of the Flies (11) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
