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Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45*Prauer for the Day THE VERY REV ALAN WEBSTER
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Readbybryanmartin
7 30 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by Saki
Read by Ian Carmichael
'I suppose it is a case of partial loss of memory. I was in the train coming down here; my ticket told me that I had come from Victoria and was bound for this place. I had a couple of £5 notes and a sovereign on me, no visiting cards and no idea as to who I am.'
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A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice. Presented by Roger Cook
NEM p 13; Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB 323);- Psalm 116; Acts 22, vv 17-29 (AV); Love of love (BBC BB 521) long wave only
Chinsky by PETER FINCH Read by Dillwyn Owen The trouble with Chinsky was that he d spent so long pretending to be things he wasn t, that by now he was unsure just what he was. The other week he had been a concert pianist.'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Major issues, changing attitudes, events at home and abroad.
Reporter Tudor Lomas
Producer GERRY NORTHAM Editor STUART SIMON BBC Manchester
including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Jenni Mils
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor Science Simplified: is evolution a fact or an elaborate fiction?
Darwin's theory of how life on earth developed has been under attack from creationists ever since the last century, but recently the controversy has risen to a new pitch. PETER EVANS looks at what all the fuss is about.
Talking Point.
Reading Your Letters.
Tolstoy Remembered (7)
Jack Warner (1894-1981) in Jubilee by VICTOR PEMBERTON with Irene Sutcliffe and Derek Seaton
What's in a name? On the eve of the Queen's
Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977, that seemed a vital question to members of a certain club.
Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin , Lassie, etc played by FRANK SINGUINEAU , ALARIC COTTER and members of the cast. MARY NASH (piano) Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(First broadcast in 1977)
5: Out of Town
John Julius Norwich narrates a series of six programmes looking at
Britain and its inhabitants through the writings of foreigners who have visited us through the centuries.
Readers CRAWFORD LOGAN and JOHN WEBB Written by MARY ANNE EVANS
Producer BRIAN COOK
The last part of a series which builds up a picture of the deep-rooted effect that the places we live in have on our state of mind and our pattern of life.
4: Miners' Rote
' At one time you could go right from one end of street to other and name everybody. Now they just push anybody down here they wants. There's half of them across there don't go to work at all.' Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Five Short Stories by ANTON CHEKHOV
4: The Black Monk translated by JESSIE COULSON
Read by SIMON CADELL
A sinister figure haunts the mind of the scholar Kovrin.
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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Half-an-hour of reports from BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash. (Repeated: Sat 7.50 am)
Written by JAMES ROBSON (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Kingsley Amis introduces Spenser's
Epithalamion - a poem to celebrate a wedding. Reader RONALD PICKUP Producer ALEC REID
Part 1 as Radio 3
' Memories are precious things, and whether good orillareneversad.A county known and loved in all its moods becomes woven into the pattern of life, something to be shared, to be made plain.' DAME DAPHNE first visited Cornwall when she was 5 years old. Captivated by its beauty, she was later to make her home in the county which has been the setting for many of her world-famous novels. Following the publication of her book Vanishing Cornwall, she reflects upon the changing face of the Cornish countryside.
Part 2 as Radio t
includes a review of Quartermaine's Terms, a new play by SIMON GRAY , starring EDWARD Fox and PRUNELLA SCALES at the Queen's Theatre, London; and a portrait of EDITH SITWELL. A Unicorn
Among Lions by victoria GLENDINNING.
Presenter Richard Cork Producer CLARE SELERIE
John Morgan reporting
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