Presented from the South East by Bryan Platt
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by John Timp son in London and Brian Redhead in Harrogate
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV ALEC GILMORE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Paul Lcighton
by D. R. LAWRENCE abridged in five' parts by ANGELA THOMAS
Read by Ann* Massey (1) 'She felt him Invisibly master her spirit. She knew the way he lowered his chin as he looked up, she knew his muzzle, the golden brown and the greyish white. Producer MAURICE LEITCH
The live talk programme Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM, p 67; 0 day of God (BBC RB 24); Psalm 146; Psalms 122. 133 (AV); The race that long in darkness pined (BBC HB 496) long wave only
Edge of Darkness, Edge of Light by R. c. SCHIVEN abridged in ten parts by ZOË BAILEY. Read by Michael Hordern (1)
The story of the childhood and youth of a man who became deaf at the age of eight and later, blind. These early experiences, happy and tragic, were so vividly remembered that they became the wellspring of his poetry and masterly radio plays.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
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Presenter P. J. Kavanagh Readers HUGH DICKSON and BRENDA KAYE
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
Editor DAVID HARDING
The Nine Tailors by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in eight episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON
1: The Bells are Rung Up
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only..
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from Sheffield, home of cutlery, steel and angling. with Sue MacGregor who meets Lynne Perrie cabaret artiste and resident of Coronation Street
Sounds Mouthwatering (2) Mary Berry on the art of making omelettes.
Forthcoming Attractions: Gordon Gow previews films on BBCtv.
Gone Fishing!: Michael Cook casts a line with the Sheffield lady anglers.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (6)
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The First Flame by PETER TERSON
Today Arthur Askey recallsMauriceChevalier Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
Huby Falling by STAN BARSTOW
Read by Geoffrey Banks
'Stealing food in the days of rationing was a serious business. We knew who it was and would never have given him away but the head-master was a very good interrogator....' BBC Manchester
Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only i.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
JEFFREY ARCHER 'S novel dramatised for radio in seven parts by BETTY DAVIES
Narrator Jeffrey Archer 1: The Set-Up
Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you've made it is perhaps the most difficult of all. Harvey Metcalfe had managed all three.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (Rptd: Thurs 10.2 am)
(Franc Matthews is in ' Middle Age Spread' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Douglas Adams , Judl Dench. Russell Harty and Kenneth Robinson are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous.
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer ALAN NIXON
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Four programmes about people who are happy at their work.
3: Philippa Fearns Teacher
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
"How can you write, how can you create as an artist, if you can't draw on real people and incidents for your subjects?" (Julia O'Faolain)
Paul Vaughan looks at the complex libel laws which affect the sensibilities, subjects, and ultimately, the books of writers of fiction and biography. With Francis King, Clancy Sigal, Peter Mayer, Tom Rosinthal and John Mortimer, QC.
Douglas Smart reporting
Presenter David Simmons A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer GEOFF DEEBAN
The Franchise Affair (6) long wave only
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Last of three programmes of Lieder in English.
Composers Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Schumann Singers SANDRA DUGDALE ANN MURRAY
BRIAN RAYNER COOK
Pianists PAUL HAMBURGER ANTONY SAUNDERS ROGER VIGNOLES
Original English texts by Tennyson and Scott; translations of other songs by Leslie Minchin.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
