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America Votes
John Timpson reports direct from New York on polling day in the United States. In London: Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day with VALERIE FISHER
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Cooking for Christmas
Christmas is less than two months away, so it's time for the organised cook to be planning the menus for the holiday break. What can be done in advance? Should cakes and puddings be made now? What alternatives are there to the traditional meals?
Mary Berry and Zena Skinner have many ideas. hints and tips on how to make your Christmas food a pleasure both to cook and to eat. In the chair
Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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NEM. p 93; 0 God, thou art mv God alone (BBC HB 468); Psalm 34; Jeremiah 31. vv 27-34 (AV); God liveth still (BBC HB 5131: long wave only
Towards the End of the Morning (2)
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One for the Album by PETER GIBBS
When Walter retired his daughter expected him to sinkintooldage,butshe reckoned without his new hobby. Walter took up photography and, in his search for subjects, Norma found him less than retiring.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester long wave only
The special edition with topics suggested by you - the listener. We read your letters, play your favourite sounds, and puzzle you with the mystery sound competition.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm)
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon
Brian Johnstone in Wadebridge, Cornwall
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Theatre Quiz: FELICITY KENDAL talks to TONY BARNFIELD and sets questions three and four of the competition.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Food for Thought:TIM DEAN reports on some new approaches to cancer prevention.
Wear and Care (7): MURIEL CLARKE , home economist, on looking after upholstery.
Unreliable Memoirs (5) long wave only
by George Eliot
Six talks in which the novelist Joseph Hone describes his travels last year through Spain and Portugal.
2: Do You Remember an Inn, Mirandat
Producer JOY HATWOOD
Compiled by MAURICE KANARECK in 1916, a six-year-old girl sent some chocolates to the British army in France. On the carton her father had written ' From Little Joan. White-rock. Wadebridge '. A few weeks later a green field-envelope arrived. It was the first of many letters from the young man who was to become known as Little Joans ' Chocolate Soldier
Producer DAVID SPENSER
Getting Fresh by JOHN COLLEE
Read by Robert Rietty
presenters Joan Bakewell and Robert Williams
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A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain.
Wycombe High School, High Wycombe, v. Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
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(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and operating theatre. to the dentist's chair and GP'S surgery.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Robin Ray traces, with records, the artistry of the Viennese violinist Fritz Kreisler (Postponed from 21 Oct)
A crucial missing element in the last Labour Government's strategy was the absence of a dynamic increase in investment in the private sector. George Edwards ' work shows why investment was failing and how it could have been remedied.
(HAROLD LEVER)
The secret of economic success is investment - the Japanese have organised their financial institutions so that investment finance is cheap and plentiful. George Edwards argues Britain does not possess institutions capable of lending such large amounts of money and that, until the banks do for investment what the building societies have done for home purchase, Britain's economic decline is likely to continue.
Harold Lever joins GEORGE EDWARDS in the presentation of an important new contribution to the economic debate.
A Financial World Tonight production by WILL HUTTON
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but comes to no serious conclusion.
If I have to share a room, I'll take it, but I'll put my name down for a single one.
Gladys Robbins talks about the prospect of moving into a home for the elderly blind, after 52 years in her own home. Presented by David Scott Blackball Producer THENA HESHEL
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Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer RICHARD DUNN
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
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Brian Redhead reports direct from New York on the American Presidential Election - the election that belongs to America but whose outcome belongs to the world.
What's Happening?: the first indications of who's winning the race for the White House, state by state results as they come in, and details of the elections for Congress also held today.
Why Does it Matter': in New York, Anthony King , Professor of Government at Essex University. Anthony Lewis, political columnist of the New York Times, and Professor Austin Ranney of the American Enterprise Institute, look at the impact of the results on future policies, and the powers and limitations of the American Presidency today.
In London, leading British politicians including The Rt Hon Peter Shore , mr. Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs, and Anthony Kershaw , up. Chairman of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs explain how it will affect us.
How Is the World Reacting to the Result?: as the night progresses, politicians and correspondents join the programme live from Moscow, Peking, the Middle East and Europe. Within the United States. Clive Small reports from the White House, Paul Reynolds from the Reagan HQ, Los Angeles, and Peter Palerson from Atlmta, Georgia. A BBC Radio News/ Current Affairs co-production Executive producer
ANNE SLOMAN including at
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