A regional view' of farm ingjn the week ahead. Presented from Wales by Gerf Monté BBC Wales
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Presenters' John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV ALEC GILMORE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHERSLADE
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Thoughts,Pray«rs,Reflections, a collection of shorttalks,£1.35, available from bookshops
A look ahead with Christopher Slade
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
The live talk programme which takes its own unpredictable look at some of the predictable topics of the forthcoming week - helped, as always, by the personalities who'll be in the news.
Producer PETER ESTALL
RAYMOND BAXTER talk) about this national organisation's work and aims:
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NEM, p 54; 0 holy Spirit, Lord of grace (BBC m 157); Psalm 48; Jdremlah 1, vv 4-10, 17-19 (AV);
Hall, blest Spirit, Lord eternal (BBC HB 154) long wave only
Edge of Darkness, Edge of Light (6)
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Some of the poetry requested by listeners. Presented by P. J. Kavanagh
Readers DOUGLAS LEACH and BRENDA KAYE
Producer BRIAN PATTER BBC Bristol
Requests: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Jennl Mills Editor DAVID HARDING
by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in eight episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON
2: Lord Peter is Called in
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Sounds Mouthwatering 3: MART BERRY demonstrates making Christmas cake.
Personal Vieu;: ANN LESLIE , speaks her mind.
Reading Your Letters.
Children and Music; buck-toothed, extrovert and 3ft 9in - some of the factors you might do well to consider when starting a child on a musical instrument, as BOB PRIZE-MAN finds out.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (11)
Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
The Last Invasion of London by JOHN ROBERT
Arthur Askey recalls some stars of a few years ago.
Today: Jeanne De Casalls And Nellie Wallace producer EDWARD TAYLOR
by Hazel Barker
Read by Gerald Cross
'The Invicta 104 is the most advanced chess computer in our range,' he read 'So the most or least experienced player will gain hours of pleasure from it. In addition, this model comes with a unique audio feedback device. It will issue instructions and inform you of illegal moves or if the game has reached check or checkmate. Like a polite opponent, it will thank you for the game.'
The news magazine
Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWI.
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5.55 Weather; programme "news
Half-an hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world, including FinanciaTBeport
JEFFREY ARCHER 'S novel dramatised for radio in seven parts by BETTY DAVIES With and Narrator Jeffrey Archer 2: The Team
Four men have invested large sums of money into a nrm called Prospecta Oil.- They are as yet unaware that it is a fraudulent company and behind the whole venture is an unscrupulous American millionaire - Harvey Metcalfe. and LORD LICHFIELDas himself
Directed by GLYN DEARMAM
(Francis Matthews is in ' Middle Age Spread Apollo Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Bernard Bresslaw, David Buck, Mary Malcolm and Ned Sherrin are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply over- heard.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. (O. HENRY)
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer ALAN NIXON
by Ron Hutchinson
with and
A satirical fantasy specially commissioned to be broadcast to coincide with the United States Presidential Election and to examine what might happen next time, when the potential candidates have become very strange indeed.
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
'I was very frightened of having my face changed and my name changed and then sent home to Sweden. But one day David Selznick said "I have an idea. I'm not going to change anything. You are going to be the first natural actress in Hollywood" and he left me the way I was!'
Ingrid Bergman, who has just written her autobiography, talks to Michael Billington about her career in films and the theatre.
1.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Presented by Peter Evans A weekly review of discoveries and developments.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
The Franchise Affair (11) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
