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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
John Morgan takes up your comments on BBC programmes with producers and management. (Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm)
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
NEM, p 118; Lord, it belongs not (BBC HB 355); Psalm 118, vv 13-24; Isaiah 53, vv 7-12 (AV); Oft in danger (BBC HB 363) long wave only
Northanger Abbey by JANE AUSTEN
Read in 15 parts by JOANNADAVID
15: Hastening to Perfect Felicity
Producer JENYTH WORSLET
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
Malcolm Coe chooses those aerial scavengers, the Vultures. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT. BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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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)
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
Eight programmes
5: Only a Look and a Voice....
Ann Meo , intrigued by the way coincidences happen in her life, follows a train of thoughts leading to the memory of a strange encounter. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
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
Nicole by STEWART MACKAY Read by John Hewitt
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
Presenters Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough
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including Financial Report
The world of travel and transport.
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Man 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard
Producer JEREMY BIRCHALL (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
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)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
John Lennon’s assassination
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The shooting of John Lennon on the 8th December 1980 sparks a debate over the need for national gun control law in America.
by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am)
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)
with Alexander MacLeod
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)
Novel on Yellow Paper by STEVIE SMITH abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
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