Presented from Wales by Handel Jones BBC Wales
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Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day With THE RT REV
MICHAEL HARE-DUKE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Harriet Cass
salhes forth into the BBC Sound Archives in" search of the sublime ana the ridiculous
(Repeated: Fri 11.15 pm)
A mystery tour with the personalities who will be making the news this week. Mystery man with field-glasses, Kenneth Robinson, mystery voice, Fred Housego.
Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM, p 97; Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 190);
Psalm 0; Matthew 13, vv 10-23 (AV); Spread, 0 spread, thou mighty word (BBC HB 182) long wave only
The Dog. Days by PAMELA A. LUNT
Read by Elizabeth Proud Producer
FRANCES DONNELLY
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'There is a story of a group of journalists discussing the type of reader for whom they wrote. They talked of the middle class man the working class man and then they hed to the Daily Express man and enquired what sort of reader he wrote for. He replied "I write for one little old reader - Lord Beaverbrook".'
(A. J. P.Ã Taylor)
Alexander Frater examines the influence that the great newspaper proprietors, men like Northcliffe, Beaverbrook, Rothermere and Thomson, have had on the British Press this century, and attempts to put present day events in Fleet Street into a historical perspective.
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Poetry requested by listeners.
Bristol long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
Editor DAVIS HARDING
Peter Jones, Brian Matthew, Peter Porter and Rosemary Anne Sisson are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous.
Quotations, read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by NIGEL REES.
Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Chris Mohr Growing the Best (1): lettuce and cucumber tips from CLAY JONES. Reading Your Letters.
Curtain Up: on the world of arts and entertainment, with TONY BARNFIELD. An Open Book by MONICA DICKENS a bridged in nme parts by ANN REES-JONES. Read by JENNIE GOOSSENS (9)
(Music: Arnold's Brass Quintet)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
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A Long Way Home by MIKE WALKER
(Broadcast Sat 8.30 pm)
What would it be like to live in circumstances totally different from your own?
Six programmes in which Margaret Korving talks with people who explain what home is to them and how it affects the way they live and think. 1: Just Off the Parade
Ground-meeting a couple who have spent their married life living under military authority, Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
The Trumpet Major by THOMAS HARDY abridged in 15 parts by MICHAEL BOWEN
Read by Robert Powell (1) In a sleepy Wessex village, Anne Garland has three suitors wooing her; but across the Channel,
Bonaparte is threatening invasion and the Victory
Is sailing to the coast of Spain with her great admiral aboard.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presenters Gorden Clough and -Susannah Simons Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Greed
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks find the humour of this human failing in jokes, quotations, press clippings, and recorded comedy from
ALAN BENNETT , DUDLEY MOORE WOODY ALLEN , THE SCAFFOLD ERIC IDLE, JOHN CLEESE and JEREMY TAYLOR
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
The Woolworth Madonna adapted by the author from her novel of the same title with Miriam Marsolyes as Julie R David Daker as Terry Barnes and John Rowe as Edward Rayburn She was a sort of Woolworth Madonna , hundreds like her, their faces looming out of tower-block windows all over Europe.'
Julie, a harrassed working-class mother, Is encouraged to develop her interest in classical music by Edward, a curious upper class journalist. In doing so. she learns a sfor for Herself.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
by J. H. B. Peel who talks about the land of legend, bog and gramte, which was the inspiration ' and the setting of R. D. Blackmore 's great romance, Lorna Doom ?. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer TOM SUTCLIFFE Editor ROSEMARY HART
John Morgan reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science?
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
The Painted Veil by SOMERSET MAUGHAM abridged for radio to 12 parts by FIONA MACPHERSON
Read by Anna Massey (1) Kitty Fane quickly understood that as the wife of the Government bacteriologist in Hong Kong she was of no particular consequence. And Walter was so unexciting. It was all too easy to be seduced by the charm and good looks of Charlie Townsend - until Walter found out. Producer PAT MCLOUGHLIN long wave only
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MONEY MATTERS: p.81
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude ; 12.25-12.23* am Shipping forecast; inshore forecast
