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7.45' Thought for the Day Ednor JUMAN HOLLAND

A look ahead with Susan Rae

by Joseph Conrad, abridged in five parts by Janet Hitchman
Read by Edward Fox

'I saw at once something elongated and pale floating very close to the ladder. Before I could form a guess. a faint flash of phosphorescent light, which seemed to issue suddenly from the naked body of a man, flickered in the sleeping water with the elusive, silent play of summer lightning in a night sky.'

Witty, provocative. outrageous, unpredictable table talk from RICHARD BAKER 's live guests.
Producer ian strachak
(Revised repeat: 7.20 pm)

by Jill Norris
Read by Mary Wimbush

NEM, p 75; Father, 0 hear us seeking now to praise thee (BBC hb 260); Psalm 148: I Corinthians 10, vv 1-13; Teach me, my God and King (BP 80) long wave only

Brian Johnston visits Holmflrth in West
Yorkshire. Associated with the early days of filmmaking in Britain the town is the location for the television series
Last o/ the Summer Wine. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Dannie Abse
Readers MARTIN JARVIS and DIANA BISHOP Compiled by MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Requests to:
Poetry Please/. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR long wave only
(Martin Jarvis is a National Theatre player)

Paul lieiney with the latest news. information and advice for consumers. Ring in on [number removed]with your comments from 11.0 am

Sentimentality
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of Jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from TONY HANCOCK. PETER
SELLERS. ROWAN ATKINSON TOM LEHRER. WOODY ALLEN and BILLY BENNETT
Written by FRANK muir and SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pmi

Presenter Brian Wldlake with views and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS

Introduced by Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today: Arriving Where We Started
Once the initials VSO were synonymous with a select band of school leavers who would delay going to university to work in Third World countries. On this, its 25th anniversary Voluntary Service
Overseas has published a book which illustrates how that youthful image has altered in favour of skills and maturity.
MARGARET PERCY reports. The Woodlanders by THOMAS HARDY abridged and read In 17 parts by GABRIEL WOOLF (8) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS long wave only

Logic and Futility by CHRiSTonrER RUSSELL

What makes a megastar or a tycoon? Who will soon be called ' carbon material extraction executives '?
In the first of six programmes
Patrick Hannaii looks at the way we verbally package people.
Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales

December Flower (6)

Presenters Gordon dough and Valerie Singleton Editor derek lewis

With Bryan Martin
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report

Broadcast Sat 12.27 pm.

(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)

(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)

Armistice by LOUISE PAGE with Marjorie Westbury as Evelyn and Hugh Dickson as Cedric Kathryn Hurlbutt as young
Evie Simon Chandler as young
Cedric Pauline Letts as Lizzie
In times of crisis a nation bands together. At the outbreak of the First World War,
Evelyn Zimmermann , a young teenager, wishes to help the war effort. But she has a German name and the petitions will eventually read: ' We demand the eradication of the enemy in our midst.'
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
'Repeated: Sun 2.30 pin'

Includes reviews of Jane Eyre, the current television serialisation of Charlotte Bronte's novel starring Zelah Clarke as Jane and Timothy Dalton as Mr Rochester on BBC1, and Rebecca, Opera North's world premiere production of a specially commissioned opera by Wilfred Josephs, based on the story by Daphne du Maurier, at the Leeds Grand Theatre, which will be broadcast on Radio 3 tomorrow night at 7.15 pm.
(Jane Eyre Sunday 6.0 pm BBC1)

with Alexander MacLeod Editor KEN GOUDIE

Presented by Colin Tudge A weekly review of what is happening in science Producer DEBORAH COHEN

The Heat of the Day by ELIZABETH BOWEN abridged in 15 episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY Read by ELIZABETH SPRIGGS (11) long wave only

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Jeremy Siepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventure and reflections of composers abroad.

'Dickens and Thackeray are the only two men that I can forgive for being Englishmen. One ought perhaps to add
Shakespeare, but he lived at the time when that dirty nation was not so mean ...'

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