Producers LESLIE COTTING -TON and KEN POLLOCK
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Priestland
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Producer KEN POLLOCK BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
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Tony Lewis introduces the programme that takes a different look at sport. Featuring the off-beat and the humorous as well as tha up-to-date news at home and abroad.
This week: a report from soccer-mad Manchester on this afternoon's 100th .derby match between UNITED and CITY.
A Radio Sport and 01 production
from routine with Barry Norman , intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas and advice on ways and means of spending your leisure hours.
Including this week: Paris in the spring - a weekend for two.
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD
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Geoffrey Smith reviews the weekly magazines.
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Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Elinor Goodman
Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG long wave only
New Every Morning, page 97; Father of mercies, in thv word (BBC HB 189); Psalm 119 pt 6; John 16, vv 22-23 (AV); Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371): long wave only
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. long wave only
First Among Equals
' We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil.'
(MAO TSE-TUNG)
The BBC's East Europe Correspondent, Tim Seb astian, looks at the structure and membership of Communist parties in the Eastern Bloc, and compares them with Marxist parties in other parts of the world.
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with Louise Botting
Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money.
A Financial World Tonight production
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The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to
Richard Ingrams John Pardoe John Wells and Bel Mooney
Compiled and produced by DANNY GREENSTONE and ALAN NIXON
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Sir Roy Shaw Elaine Stritch Antony Jay and Derek Jameson
Chairman David Jacobs from Amersham, Bucks
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' How is it that furry mice and moles, slimy slugs and snails, and hard-coated beetles and millipedes, can all pop out of muddy ground perfectly clean? '
JOHN CLOUDSLEY-THOMPSON , MALCOLM COE and KEITH CORBETT dust off another heap of listeners' questions.
Introduced by DerekJones Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
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A Life Here Between Us by JANE BEESON
, How much longer am I going on, standin' at the sink all day, no money to shop with, and buckets stood all round the house to catch the leaks? When's it coming to an end? '
Starved of any glamour in her life, Eve gets herself financially involved with a travelling salesman over the purchase of new clothes ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol long wave only
Fritz Spiegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said.
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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 2531
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 4WW
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The first of four programmes in which Robert Foxcroft , an Anglican priest, looks at the ways we mark moments of transition in life, from birth to death. He asks whether, with the decline of religious commitment, our modern society feels deprived at those points in life. those ' changing places '.
1: The Birth of a Child
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Coot Tombs
In the last of six programmes Desmond Haw-kins recalls some church-yards in poetry and some famous epitaphs.
Readers Pauline Wynn and Douglas Leach
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Introduced by Tony Lewis featuring recordings made at the recent MASSED MALE VOICE CHOIR CONCERT at the Royal Albert Hall , Lon-
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South Wales, conducted by Alun John
Research ELAINE WILLIAMS Producer DEWI SMITH BBC Wales
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An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sheila Steafel ,David Jason and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO long wave only
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Unpredictable and often animated table-talk that is meant to arouse or to amuse and yet it occasionally manages only to annoy.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on record; the mixture leavened, occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests. Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)
Go Down in Darkness
A thriller by ROD BEACHAM
' Just about the last time I saw Sue before she vanished, she said something very odd ... she said that when she was 25 something terrible was going to happen to her. I didn't really take her seriously .. -. but the night before last, this dream ... she was standing in front of me, staring at me and just repeating it over and over again: " Something terrible is going to happen. Something terrible is going to happen".'
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Mon 3.15 pm)
Encore
Michael Billington re-plays and reflects on the movies. music, books, television, radio, plays and personalities from the nightly review of the arts - Kaleidoscope.
Editor ROSEMARY HART
An evening meditation led by LESLIE MITCHELL BBC Scotland
A collage of poems, prose and music on the themes of love and hate, compiled by FRIDA DOWIE Readers and singers Michael Hordern Frida Dowie
Denys Hawthorne and Geoffrey Collins
Musicians: IAIN KENDALL (piano) TERRY BUSBY (clarinet) BRIAN BROCKLEHURST (double-bass) TONY MCVAY (drums)
Special effects created by IAIN KENDALL and STEUART ALLIN
Directed by ALEC REID
The last in the series in which David Rider investigates the world of the signature tune, past and present. This week he includes themes that introduced some famous quiz shows.
Producer RAY ABBOTT (Revised repeat)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
