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Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones f 45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV ADAM PORD
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7.80, 8. SO News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.15* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
Wendy Jones
Read By:
Brian Ferkins
Source: Radio Times
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on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Source: Radio Times
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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Goodnight Mr Zero by MICHAEL WALL
Bernard makes a robot and discovers to his amazement that it seems to have human emotions.
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Written By:
Michael Wall
Directed By:
Alfred Bradley
Bernard:
Andrew Schofield
Penny:
Noreen Kershaw
Terry:
Mark McGann
Mr Zero:
Tony Robinson
Frank/Yop:
Jonathan Barlow
Molly:
Mart Cunningham
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Questions by stevi RACE Producer PETS ATKIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

4 August 1853: I began my services (such as they are) on Monday last and here I sit in my private room in the Consulate.
The office is a little patch o/ America with English life encompassing it on a sides.
(NATHINIEL HAWTHORNE)
The American novelist
Nathaniel Hawthorne was US Consul in Liverpool tor four years, and his journals give a sharp
Impression of Victorian Merseyside.
Stanley Williamson Introduces extracts with Producer
GILLIAN RUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Producer:
Gillian Rush
Hawthorne:
Peter Marinker
Source: Radio Times
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on BBC Radio 4 FM

In 1942 a group met in Oxford to decide what to do to alleviate the famine in Nazi-controlled Europe. They had a particular concern for Greece, and for the children.

Forty years on, the organisation we now call Oxfam works worldwide, and its budget runs to tens of millions of pounds. Richard Stanley looks at the growth of an Idea and questions today's Oxfam workers - from Haiti to the high street shop.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Stanley
Producer:
Helen Fry
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The 1982 Wexford Festival continues a 31-year tradition of adventurous programming with performances of three operatic rarities in the Theatre Royal: Haydn's L'IsolaDtjabitata.
Alfano's Sakuntala and Massenet's Griseldis.
Paul Vanghan reports on the performances and meets some of the artists and visitors.
Producer BRIAN sarfield

Contributors

Producer:
Brian Sarfield
Source: Radio Times
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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Anthony Holden and Anne Gregg present.... entertainment to put the steam back into radio.
Stories behind the news and people behind the stories - a run around the Inside track of showbiz, the media, money, books, music, fashion and politics.

Contributors

Presenter:
Anthony Holden
Presenter:
Anne Gregg
Producer:
Julian Hale
Producer:
Dick Gilbert
Source: Radio Times

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