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Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
S.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
Bryan Martin

During the boom years of the 1960s, millions of foreign workers moved into the EEC countries from places like Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East. Now, their children face a bleak future of unemployment and severe social problems in an alien society. David Smeeton investigates. A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Smeeton
Unknown:
John Allen

A portrait by NORMAN LONGMATE of Samuel Smiles author of the world-wide bestseller Self-Help.
'The spirit of Self-Help as exhibited in the energetic action of individuals has, in all times. been a marked feature in the English character, and furnishes the true measure of our power as a nation.' with Leonard Maguire as Smiles, and other parts read by GEOFFREY BANKS , ALAN ROTHWELL , PAUL WEBSTER and ROSALIE WILLIAMS Narrator DAVID MAHLOWE
Producer STANLEY WILLIAM-SON. BBC Manchester
Woddis On ... page 101

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Longmate
Unknown:
Samuel Smiles
Unknown:
Leonard Maguire
Read By:
Geoffrey Banks
Read By:
Alan Rothwell
Narrator:
Rosalie Williams

Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Lofthouse who meets Beryl Burton , OBE, ' the most successful woman athlete this country has ever known '. Twenty-five years of competitive cycling - and still a champion.
Secrets of the Black Pudding: PHIL SMITH seeks the bloody origins of this North country delicacy.
The Hardy Annual: millions of children find one in their Christmas stocking; almost half have been created under one roof in Manchester. cy PERCIVAL opens the covers on a British publishing tradition. BBC Manchester Pied Piper (9)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Unknown:
Beryl Burton
Unknown:
Phil Smith

Myself i by DOROTHY GHARBAOUI i with Maggie Shevlin
Dorothy Gharbaoui 's play traces the struggle of a talented young girl to free herself from the claustrophobic society of pre-war, middle-class Belfast. Today Marian Mer cer is internationally known as a novelist and academic; but the price of that success was (and still is) ostracism from family, friends and lovers. 1980:
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy Gharbaoui
Unknown:
Maggie Shevlin
Unknown:
Dorothy Gharbaoui
Unknown:
Marian Mer
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Julia Mercer:
Margaret D'Arct
Evelyn Barbour:
Eithne Dunne
Philip MacDonald:
Desmond McAleer
Mama:
Doreen Hepburn
Father:
Allan McClelland
Marian Mercer:
Maggie Shevlin
Rose Mercer:
Heather Tobias
Julia Mercer:
Eileen Pollock
Evelyn Mercer:
Susie Kelly
Tom Elwood:
Sean Barrett
Lizzie:
Gertrude Russell
Miss Herriott:
Kate Binchy
David Barbour:
Walter McMonagle

A series of seven programmes about the changing status and role of women and men. 6: Sex and Age
Women commonly live longer than men, but are changing social patterns closing the gap? And which sex adapts better to old age?
Presented by Peter Evans Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Evans
Producer:
Daniel Snowman

Lord Parry Neil Kinnock , mp
Arianna Stassinopoulos Nicholas Scott , mp tackle the issues raised by an audience from Cwmbran, Gwent
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord Parry Neil Kinnock
Unknown:
Arianna Stassinopoulos
Unknown:
Nicholas Scott
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Carole Stone

Tales of Offenbach
To be learned and boring isn't art, it's better to be pungent and tuneful.
(OFFENBACH on WAGNER)
JACQUES OFFENBACH (1819-1880), the German Jew who became composer-in-chief to the French Second Empire, poured forth a stream of witty, irreverant and melodious operettas which were never boring and learned. La Vie Parisienne, La Belle Hélène and Orpheus in the Underworld give a wickedly satirical view of the age of Napoleon III.
The climax of the British Offenbach centenary celebrations is a new production at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, of one of his greatest and most serious works The Tales of Hoffmann. Placido Domingo sings the title role and the opera is produced by John Schlesinger.
Michael Oliver traces the background to this masterpiece and talks to some of the artists taking part in this production. Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
(The Tales of Hoffmann will be broadcast simultaneously on BBC2 and Radio 3 on 2 January)

Contributors

Produced By:
John Schlesinger.
Produced By:
Michael Oliver
Producer:
Brian Barfield

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel and music by DAVID FIRMAN Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK, ANDY WILSON , BOB SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL , JEREMY BROWNE , CHRIS STRATFORD, DAVE MORLEY
Producer jimmy MULVILLE (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Music By:
David Firman
Written By:
Guy Jenkin
Written By:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Andy Wilson
Unknown:
Bob Sinfield
Unknown:
Brian Bethell
Unknown:
Jeremy Browne
Unknown:
Dave Morley
Producer:
Jimmy Mulville

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