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Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with ROGER GRAINGER
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 JOHN LAVIS
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by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
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NEM. p 50; Lord of all being, throned afar (BBC HB 11); Psalm 89: Luke 22, vv 39-53 (NEB);The spacious firmament on high (BBCHB21)
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Including this week ante-natal care. Today: eating for two? Your diet and your baby.
Presenter Jennl Mills
by Ted Willis
A serial in five parts adapted by the author from his novel. with Annette Crosbie and Richard Pasco
Mark Ritchie is in Tangier, Christine is in a 'safe' house near Cambridge - but where is Letitia?
(Richard Pasco is a member of the RSC)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
by the Labour Party
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with Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week: the fashion designer
Caroline Charles
Pumping Iron - Female Style: over the past few years, more and more women have been taking up body-building. KAREN DECO investigates. The Hidden Face by VICTOR CANNING abridged in 11 episodes by MADGE HART
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by Grant Eustace
with Steve Hodson and David McAlister
An English diplomat is found dead during a vital international conference. How can the other delegates be prevented from calling the meeting off? Enter Simon Cochrane, Insurance Investigator, whose instincts tend to be right for the wrong reasons...
Six Alt. Presented by H. Colin Davis
5: All Passion Spent
Reader ROSALIND SHANKS Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Advent Calendar
Martin Jarvis reads some of Graham Greenwell 's letters from Flanders at Christmas during the First World War.
(Martin Jarvis is a National Theatre player)
Murder Unprompted (3)
Presenter Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
The last In the present series of the musical quiz devised by EDWARD j. masonandtonyshryane 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)
Written by DEBBIE COOK
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
A series of weekly
Investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud. 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 fourth of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
A Cherishing Bureaucracy
'Modern societies have a surprising interest in assimilating the arts: you would have thought that the arts could safely be allowed to go their own way. The question is: do modern societies domesticate the arts because they can't bear not to comprehend them or because they are determined to keep everything under control.' (Rptd: Sun 5.0 pm, R3) (This lecture appears in THE LISTENER dated 2 December)
A 13-part series with Jeremy Siepmann 5: Stravinsky
' One day in Munich I saw a squad of Brownshirts enter the street below the balcony of my hotel and assault a group of civilians. The civilians tried to protect themselves behind sidewalk benches but were soon crushed beneath them ... '
Producer
GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
Dangerous Waters
Under the surface of the Pacific, political currents and counter-currents run, keeping the area in a constant state of jitters. Here the four great powers confront each other, three of them - America, Russia and China - very visible and the fourth. Japan, pretending that it's just a collection of tiny islands and not the second richest country In the world. The frustrated efforts of the Americans to make Japan assume some political and defence responsibility would be comic if it were not so serious.
In the fifth of six programmes,
Mary Goldring looks at this, at the fears of the smaller Pacific countries. Korea, Taiwan, and particularly Hong Kong. and the ambitions of that enigmatic giant, Indonesia.
Producer TOM READ
(Repeated: Thurs 11.3 am) (N"xt week: Community Spirit)
Includes a discussion with Richard Hoggart. Warden of Goldsmiths' College and Peter Conrad of Christ Church. Oxford, of Denis Donoghue 's 1982 Reith Lectures. The Arts Without Musterv.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer CARROLL MOORE
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Anthony Holden and Anne Gregg present entertainment to put the steam back into radio. Producers JULIAN HALE and DICK GILBERT
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
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