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Presenter Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROSEMARY WAKELIN
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45- Thought for the Day
In Old Age
A You and Yours Special As the number of elderly people in the community increases, the cuts in public spending spell a decrease in support and care.
What problems are the elderly facing? How can they and their relatives be helped to cope? Who will provide support?
Ring David Hobman , Director of Age Concern, and Heather MacKenzie of the National Council for the Single woman and her Dependants, with your problems and suggestions.
In the Chair: Nancy Wise Producers WALTER WALLICH and MICHAEL GILLIAM
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This week Barry Turner and Maureen O'Connor look at what can be done about school closures.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON Correspondence to: Parent Power, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA IAA long wave only
NEM, P 106; Put thou thy trust in God (BBC HB 313); Psalm 95; John 10. v 40 to 11, v 15 (AV); The God of love my Shepherd is (BBC HB 474)
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The South Africans
2: Looking Beyond the Laager
South Africa's Prime Minister P. W. Botha : are his countrymen re-thinking their attitudes to the hostile world outside the laager?
The Rhodesian elections have made South Africans, black and white, rethink their role in Africa and indeed, the world. In the second of two programmes on South Africa, Mary Goldring reports on how they see themselves today, how it is affecting the domestic political line-up, and who now pulls the strings.
Producer TOM READ
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P. J. Kavanagh puts down his pen for ten minutes to ponder over the view from his home in the Cotswolds. BBC Bristol long wave only
Out of Workt
A You and Yours Special Fewer jobs and cuts in job training programmes - both for school leavers and for redundant workers - that's the bleak prospect for 1980. Where can we turn for help and advice?
Margaret Korving , looks at the prospects, with Geoffrey Holland of the Manpower Services Commission, and Elizabeth Hoodless , Director of Community Service Volunteers.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
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Stories of crime and detection in London
A series of 13 programmes
Written by Robert Barr
with Ray Brooks as Det-Sgt Brooks, and Christopher Blake as Det-Con Maxton
(Harry Towb is a National Theatre player)
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Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
I've Managed to Live the Things that I have Dreamed of Living: the actress ANGELA LANSBURY talks to SONIA BEESLEY about her successful career on stage and in films.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Reading Your Letters.
Children's Books and Writers: what do they read and why? Stepsons (9) long wave only
Story: The White China Mug by JO DONOVAN
Guffy and the Dangerous Question
A comedy for our time byBARBARA FOXE
' Why don't people ask themselves why they're doing whatever they are doing? I know they'd only answer " sex or money or because I want to" but half the time that's not it.' with Joss Ackland as Guffy
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
A chance to air your views, on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
A Will to Endure by REARDEN CONNER
Read by Michael Duffy Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
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(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by MARY CUTLER Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Most subtle of lures
Desmond Hawkins introduces poetry which takes up the theme of the dance. Readers Pauline Wynn and Douglas Leach
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Presented by Richard Cork Producer JOHN POWELL
Gidon Kremer (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, leader
BARRY GRIFFITHS , conducted by Riccardo Chailly direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London Part 1
Rossini Overture: William Tell
Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor
the county of Greater Manchester in the first of three programmes.
In his book Britain in the 60s - The Other England, Geoffrey Moorhouse in 1964 described Manchester as being in a decline. After a recent return visit, he now confesses to -a change of mind.
Producer PETER ESTALL
Part 2 Franck Symphony in D minor
(In association with Martini and Rossi Ltd)
with Anthony Howard
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