Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and KEN POLLOCK
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent herald Priestland
6.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Producer LESLIE COTTINGTON BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
7.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
A different look at the world of sport in this magazine programme introduced by Jim Rosen -that. Featuring the offbeat and the humorous. All the news at home and abroad including a report from GERALD WILLIAMS as the Winter Olympics draw to a close at Lake Placid. A Radio Sport and ot production
Breakaway from routine with Barry Norman and intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas and advice on ways and means of spending your leisure hours.
Richard Vaughan consumer tests orienteering as a hobby, and Bill Breckon examines travel pills - a cure or a menace?
For information sheets, send a large sae to: [address removed]: long wave only
Geoffrey Smith reviews the weekly magazines.
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Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Hugo Young
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NEM, p 67; 0 for a thousand tongues to sing (BBC HB 278); Psalm 93; Isaiah 6, vv 1-8 (RSV); Stand up. stand up for Jesus (BBC HB 3681; long wave only
with June Knox-Mawer long wave only
With Rhodesia gaining legal independence from Britain, Angus McDcrmid reviews the progress of other African nations to have made the break.
A Radio News production long wave only
Presenter Louise Botting
Radio's key to the ever-present problem of getting the best from your money.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated; Mon 10.5 ant)
Barry Took questions Alan Coren. Simon Hoggart, Richard Ingrams and Gillian Reynolds
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
12.55Weather: programme news: long wave only
Barbara Woodhouse, Austin Mitchell, MP, Woodrow Wyatt and Russell Profitt
Chairman David Jacobs
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Between the snow and frost, recently there have been some half-sunny days. On these, without fail, midges come from somewhere to dance above my lawn. Could you please tell me where they come from and are they always the same ones?
CHRIS MEAD , DICK VANE -WRIGHT and MIKE STODDART answer some mid-winter queries.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol long waveonly
Luxury Weekend by ALEC KARON
' What do you plan to do on this special weekend leave then. Corporal? '
' Birds and grub. In that order.'
' But when you get a bird. how are you going to talk to her? '
'French money speaks French. So I'm very fluent.'
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester long wave only
Phil Smith looks at life. BBC Manchester long wave only
A practical and topical magazine for and with disabled listeners.
Presenter Marilyn Alan Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Mon 2.0-4.0 pm [number removed]. Ext 2351
Correspondence address:: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only
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adapted in two parts by MICHAEL Foss from The Truce and If This is a Man by PRIMO LEVI with Kenneth Cranham as Primo Levi
David Troughton as Cesare and Wolfe Morris as The Greek
1: The Journey Begins
Early in 1944 Primo Levi , an Italian chemist, a Jew, was deported to Auschwitz. Almost one year later the first Russian patrol came in sight of the camp, signalling a liberation which for Levi would take eight arduous months to realise. With PETER BALDWIN JOHN CHURCH
LEONARD FENTOTf
SONIA FRASER , JOSIE KIDD
MICHAEL MCSTAY , CYRIL SHAPS and JENNY TWIGGE
Directed bv MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
"Faint and sickly winds for ever hou'l around"
Desmond Hawkins explores ways in which poets have written about the desert.
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Nuclear Stand-Off
The last of five programmes about these remarkable craft. Over four centuries the submarine has developed from a crude submersible shell to its pre-eminent position among the fighting ships of modern nuclear navies. Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGooch, former NATO Commander, Submarines, Eastern Atlantic, introduces an assessment of the submarine in an age of near-confrontation and deterrence between East and West. with Ed Bishop , Garard Green, John Baddeley, David Buck, Geoffrey Matthews, David Graham and Admiral Ike Kidd. US Navy Captain John Moore, Editor Jane's Fighting Ships Lieut-Cmdr Peter Kemp
Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES long wave only
with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sheila Steafel, David Jason
and The David Firman Trio
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5.50 Shipping forecast
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5.55 Weather: programme news
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Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on record: the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)
A radio version of Paul Scott's novel
'Three things are to be considered. A man's estimate of himself, the face he presents to the world, the estimate of that man made by others. Combined, they form an aspect of the truth.'
India: during the 1939-45 war
Michael Billington replays and reflects on the movies. music, books, television, radio, plays and personalities from the nightly review of the arts - Kaleidoscope.
A meditation led by JOHN NEWBURY
A six-part series, which takes you on a merry progress through London - prying into its secrets, its mysteries and its many surprises, in the company of Bernard Miles. Illustrations unearthed and performed by The Barrow Poets
3: Disasters, Food and Drink - being a ' tale of frost fairs, wine fountains and beer drownings!
Research by SYBIL HARPER and PATRICK BEAVER
Compiled and written by BARRY PILTON
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
In the third of seven programmes David Rider considers the mystique of the signature tune, the musical key which so often opens the door on radio and television, as well as in the cinema and the theatre.
Producer RAY ABBOTT (Revised repeat)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude