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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead t.45* Prayer for the Day
FR CHRISTOPHER PEMBERTON
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Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Ned Sherrin presides over live interviews. reviews and gentle mischief. Including RUSSELL DAVIES 'S look at The Week So Far Producer UN GARDHOUSE long wave only from 9.35
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visits South Yorkshire where local gardeners and members of the Doncaster Metropolitan Institute of Higher Education put their questions to Geoffrey Smith, Bill Sowerbutts and Professor Alan Gemmell
Questionmaster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
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NEM p 58; Father, most holy, merciful and loving (BBC HB 167); Canticle 2; Jeremiah 6. vv 10-16a (AV); All praise to thee (BBC HB 401) long wave only
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Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden. In the chair John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
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Presenter Bobin Day
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with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Brian Rlx
Fashionable Froth: RON ALLDRIDGE takes a look at the vagaries of earrings.
Never at Sea: DOREEN TAYLOR celebrates the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Women's Royal Naval Service Association.
With Tinsel ond Holly (2): you can make all kinds of Christmas decorations. SALLY TARRANT WILLIS and NATALIE WHEEN have some suggestions. Unreliable Memoirs
Clive James reads his autobiography abridged in nine parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN (1)
' I remember one Christmas dinner Grandpa choked on a coin in a mouthful of plum pudding. It was the usual Australian Christmas dinner Despite the temperature being 100°F, there had been the full panoply of ragingly hot food. Grandpa gave a protracted, strangled gurgle which for a long time we all took to be the beginning of some anecdote. (Music: Ibert's Flute Concerto) long wave only
Melissa by DOROTHY GHARBAOUI
Melissa is a ' normal two-year-old child in every respect save one: she is deaf. If she is to survive in a world where a sense of hearing is taken for granted, then she will obviously require special attention from her parents. Naturally everyone expects Melissa's mother to give up her job as a teacher and devote her life to her child. In fact this solution seems natural to everyone except Melissa's mother
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
from the Queen's Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle
Introit: Lord, we beseech thee (Batten)
Responses (Tomkins)
Psalms: 142, 143 (Peppin, Barnby)
First Lesson: Proverbs 2
Canticles (S. S. Wesley in E)
Second Lesson: Revelation 2. vv 12-29
Anthem: Bring us O Lord (William Harris)
A Lover by Geoffrey Heptonstall Read by Shirley Dixon
with Robert Williams and Joan Bakewell
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including Financial Report
Andrew Cruickshank in an eight-part series 4:Regina v Rowanby DONALD BULL , With
JOE DUNLOP , NANCY MITCHELL JOHN KANE , AUDREY MUIR and MICHAEL MCSTAY
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Rptd: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Andrew Cruickshank is a National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
by don marquis a dialogue between archy a free verse poet now in the body of a cockroach who types like this and the cat mehitabel who nearly ate him with peter marinker and don fellows verse chosen by anton gill and directed by jenyth worsley
Next week Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law and Executive Director of the Centre of Law, Medicine and Ethics at King's College. London, will begin the 1980 Reith Lectures.
The lectures, the 33rd in the series, are a critical analysis of the practice of modern medicine.
In conversation with Robert Kee , IAN KENNEDY talks about his ideas and how he has become involved with matters of health and illness.
This year's Reith Lectures - Unmasking Medicine - begin next week. They will be broadcast on Wednesdays on Radio 4, repeated on Sundays on Radio 3, and printed weekly in The Listener. Producer DAVID PATERSON
(An interview with Ian Kennedy in next week's RADIO TIMES)
Andrew Sachs, whose role as the downtrodden Spanish waiter has endeared him to fans of Fawlty Towers, is himself a fan of animals.
Derek Jones talks to him about his lifelong interest in them, and plays some wildlife recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JOHN BURTON BBC Bristol
This week a report by Peter Oppenheimer
Producer GERRY NORTHAM Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE
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Douglas Stuart reporting
The Franchise Affair (13) long wave only
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