Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON , MARTIN SMALL
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withJohnTlmpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Dall THE REV ALEC GILMORE
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON 7 25', 8.25* Sport
7 30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
Part 2
8.57 Weather; travel
Cooking for Christmas
With less than eight weeks to go, it's time once again to think about festive food. Will it be turkey or goose? What can you offer your vegetarian guests? How much can you prepare now and freeze? What will you serve on Boxing Day? In the studio to offer advice and ideas on Christmas catering are two expert cooks, Mary Berry and Glynn Christian.
Sue MacGregor in the Chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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Thanksgiving by NORA
WINDRIDGE. Read by Kerry Shale. Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol long wave only
NEM, p 71; Thy kingdom come, O God (BBC HB 27); Psalm 97; Luke 13, vv 10-21 (NEB); The Church of God a kingdom is (BBC HB 183)
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Principles of Rocketry by BOB COULTIE
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A plague of daddy-long-legs: dolphins at play; the nightjar; animals, yawning and the Mystery Sound competition - these are some of today's topics. Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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. Presenter Jenni Mills
Chairman Nigel Rees with Alan Bennett Janet Suzman Leslie Thomas
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; travel-programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor Motherland: ANGELLE
BRYAN-KANE hears from a group of West Indian mothers and daughters who share their experiences of Britain in words and music.
Pick of the Paperbacks PRANCES DONNELLY and SEBASTIAN FAULKES choose. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (7) long wave only
by EMILE ZOLA (3)
Phil Smith pauses on the brink of some personal nightmares and - undaunted - peers within. This Mean, Unpleasant Land
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
For five years Prime
Minister H. H. Asquith corresponded with Venetia Stanley , nearly 35 years younger than him. sometimes writing several times a day. He wrote with great franknessaboutnational events before and during the First World War. Mark Bonham Carter talks about how these letters came to be written by his grandfather and assesses their historical significance.
Landscape with Dead Dons (2)
with Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
(Details: Thurs 12.27 pm)
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What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
Reporter Stuart Simon
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR
The Instruments of Jazz A series of eight programmes
6: The Oddities with ADRIAN ROLLINI
LIONEL HAMPTON , FRED KATZ ,SLAM STEWART HERBIE MANN. TOOTS
THiELEMANS, and others Producer alan OWEN
The fifth of six programmes about people who have come to
Britain seeking shelter from persecution. 5: Ugandan Asians
When General Idi Amin was President of Uganda. he declared that immigrants from India and Pakistan were sabotaging his economy. So he froze their bank accounts and expelled about 40.000 from the country. Uganda's economy never recovered. But what of the men and women he dispossessed? Ten years on, Robert Rowe investigates whether the ' made-good ' myth i.; actually true.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. This edition includes a description of some of the braille writing frames that are now available. Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbook of aids and services, 12.95, from BBC Publications, PO Box 234, London SEl 3TH
Includes reviews of the film version of the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds ; and an exhibition of the 18th century landscape painter Richard Wilson at the Tate Gallery, London. Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
with Alexander Macleod with voices and opinions from around the world
Maxwell Boyd chairs the final of this new motoring contest, at the Motor Show in Birmingham. The four finalists face a wide selection of questions set by Autocar magazine.
BBC Birmingham
I Like it Here (7) long wave only
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In conversation with dkrek PARKER. Sir Laurens van der Post talks about his books, his philosophy. his friendship with Jung and his anxieties for the African people.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
