6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with DR FRED MILSON
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel
including Sarah Dunant 's birthday guest.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
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by Jill Norris
Read by Elizabeth Proud
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NEM, p 1; God moves In a mysterious way (BBC
HB 8): Psalm 63; Luke 18. vv 1-17 (NEB); Praise the Lord! ye heavens, adore him (BBC HB 16)
followed by travel long wave only
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Presenter Jenni Mills
by TED WILLIS (1)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Sir John Sainsbury
Santa's Book List - On Cookery: DELIA SMITH and MICHAEL SMITH discuss their selection With BARBARA MYERS. The Hidden Face by VICTOR CANNING abridged In 11 episodes by MADGE hart. Read by David McAlister (1)
Wrongfully imprisoned as the murderer of his father's blackmailer, Barlow determines to find the real killer. long wave only
Seven-Thirty for Eight a comedy for radio by JUSTIN GREENE. STEVE COOKE with Dinsdale Landen as Michael Trencham Suzanne Bertish as Susanna Trencham Tammy Ustinov as Jackie Rudcliffe and Nicky Hcnson as Julian Highsmith
The Trenchams are giving a dinner party in their house in Kensington. Their guests are two married couples, an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. A quiet, pleasant evening? Hardly! When the numbers are reduced to four and the resulting secrets revealed and solutions suggested, even the most permissive would raise at least one astonished eyebrow.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (Nicky Henson is in ' Noises Off at the Savou Theatre, London)
Six All presented by H. Colin Davis
3: All Hell Let Loose!
Readers DAVID DAVIS and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer BRIAN PATTEN
BBC Bristol
RAY BARRON reflects on encounters with four people who tried to make the leap from the Third World to the West.
2: Laleh the Iranian
Sagittarius Rising (3)
with Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.51 Weather; programme news
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
Devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SIIRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race
Questions by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Investigations into the problems of listeners. Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Arts Without Mystery
Denis Donoghue, the Henry James Professor of Letters at New York University, gives the second of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
2: The Domestication of Outrage
'The disproportion between the artist and his work - the fact that a little work goes a long way to sustain a personality, marks a reversal of the traditional relation between the two. It was long thought a sign of success in an artist that he disappeared Into his work, leaving no merely personal residue. But we have now reached a situation in which privacy and reserve can be converted to visible purpose.'
(Rptd: Sunday 5.0 pm, R3) (This lecture appears in the LISTENER dated 18 Nov)
A 13-part series in which Jeremy Slepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventures and reflections of composers abroad. 3:Milhaud in Italy and the Americas
' Losing all shreds of the most elementary self-control. a nun got up onto the platform against which 1 was leaning and literally climbed up on to my shoulders in order to reach a balustrade ... ' John Livesey as Milhaud
Producer CATHY WEARING
Six programmes
3: Duel of the Century
Japan now stands second only to the United States as the world's most important economic power. By the end of the century it may have overtaken America to become Number One. High technology holds the key to the future as the two economic giants fight it out for leadership in this field.
Mary Goldring considers which of the two has the all-important skills of inventiveness and innovation necessary to keep ahead of the other. Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Thurs 11.3 am)
includes a review of Tom Stoppard 's new play The Real Thing, starring Roger Rees as a playwright, and Felicity Kendal as an actress, at the Strand Theatre,
London; and CHRISTOPHER COOK reports on the British films being shown in the 26th London Film Festival
Presenter Michael Oliver
Producer PHILIP JORDAN
9.59 Weather
John Morgan reporting
Anthony Holden and Anne Gregg present.... entertainment to put the steam back into radio. Producers JULIAN HALE and DICK GILBERT
Turtle Diary (8) long wave only
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Weather report: forecast followed by an Interlude
