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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With PEGGY MAKINS
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7 3t. 8.30 News headlines 7 45* Thought for the Day Book, Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections, £1.35, arailable from bookshops
NEM, p 30; 0 dearest Lord (BBC HB 358); Psalm 31; Isaiah 57, vv 15-21 (AV); Praise to the holiest (BBC HB 88); long wave only
My Brilliant Career 4; Five Bob Downs
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialised experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries. Producer SIMON ELMES
Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Within BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Jenni Mills
( Broadcast Tues 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
Hercules of Exeter: David Rayvern Allen discovers how Brian Varley combines comedy with strength, and social work for the blind with supervision of the delinquent.
Runes and Isms: Frances Cairncross explains a piece of economic jargon.
Towards a Creative Career: Jill Cochrane reports on a scheme to encourage crafts in schools.
The Snow Kitten by Nina Warner Hooke abridged in four instalments by Pat McLoughlin Read by Brenda Bruce (1) ' The campers had gone. Slyly and silently they had stolen away in the night ... leaving behind them a straw mattress, a heap of empty tins, a debt of over two pounds for eggs and vegetables from Mr Trim - and the striped kitten.'
(Music: Francaix's Wind Quintet)
(Brenda Bruce is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Bobby Wants to Meet Me by JANEY PREGER
Summer 1978 and Bob Dylan is due to give a concert at Earls Court. In the north of England in the offices of a rather seedy music magazine called Changes, the life of one Neville Morris is about to be transformed utterly by this event.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
This week ' L ' is for lyres, letters and laughter gramophone records
The news magazine
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.5* Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world including Financial Report
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Question? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
Written by MARY CUTLER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pin) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
As the Story Goes ...
Thirteen programmes of narrative poetry chosen and presented by David Davis
11: The Arrow that Flieth by Day
Readers SONIA FRASER and ALEXANDER JOHN
Arthur Lowe introduces a programme of music and words for Christmas direct from the Town Hall, Birmingham with Alan Sinclair (tuba)
Heathfield and Lezells Primary School Choirs conductor SYLVIA BAILEY C'BSO Chorus assistant chorus-master PETER KING. and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra leader FELIX KOK conducted by Guy Wolfenden
Nearly 30 years ago, the young and newly-married June Knox-Mawer found herself plunged for five years into the heart of Arab society in the British Protectorate of Aden, soon to become the Peoples' Republic of South Yemen.
In the last of four talks she describes her life both in and outside the confines of a colonial society in its declining years.
The Kingdom in the Clouds
Part 2
BBC Birmingham
Presenter Chris Dunkley Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Anthony Howard reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Tales of the Supernatural Man-size in Marble by E. NESBIT
Adapted by MICHAEL ELDER Reader John Shedden
' The path was called "the bier-walk ", for it had long been the way by which the corpses had been carried to burial.' Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude