presenters Peter Hobday and John Timpson with Brian Redhead from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers'
Conference in New Delhi. India
6.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6 45* Prayer for the Day
7.0 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in parliament

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Sisters by PAT BINCE
Read by Rosalind Knight ' When romance took
Netta, it took her hard.
She got a terrible urge to give everything, not just herself, but every blessed thing she possessed. Some one-night Johnny had even won the sheepskin rug from in front of the fire.'
Producer GILLIAN RUSH BBC Manchester long wave only

NEM, p 84; Jesus, where'er thy people meet (BBC HB 263); Psalm 25; Matthew 6 vv 25-34; Lord Jesus, think on me (Bp 54) long wave only

This is Thanksgiving Day, when Americans thank Almighty God for their nation and their preservation. But Is it right that, by tradition, the Pilgrim Fathers are always remembered and honoured on this day of spiritual renewal? No, say the Virginians. It can now be proved that a little band of adventurers from Berkeley in Gloucestershire held the first official Thanksgiving Service on American soil in Virginia in 1619, a year and 17 days before the Mayflower even dropped anchor.
From the James River in Virgina and the River
Severn in Gloucestershire, Gwyn Richards reports on an extraordinary detective story involving long-lost papers and a retired
English parson, which is turning history on its head.
Producers JOCK GALLAGHER GWYN RICHARDS
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with Neil Landor
Producer ANGELA HIND long wave only

with Paul Hciney
Les Cottington with his guide to food prices.

Presenter Sir Robin Day

Sue
MacGregor visits St George 's
Hospital in London to check the progress on the Ursula James Room - a new facility for handicapped children funded in part from the 1982 Children in Need Appeal.
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Jacob Creber and the Felsoe Worm
A comedy by GERRY MCKEE with Gordon Gostelow as Scobey Maggie McCarthy as Marjorie Rod Beacham as Les Elaine Lordan as Teresa A rebellious teenager runs away from home with an eccentric old gardener on a cross-country magical mystery tour, retracing the steps of a local legend. They are hotly pursued by her parents who have a few problems in keeping up with the clues ... Recorded on location OB engineers
JULIAN WALTHER , ANDY LESLIE ,
ROD DOLLIMORE. Technical presentation TIM STURGEON Directed by CHERRY COOKSON

Take a Spare Truss 3: Dealing with Foreigners
' Nothing so impresses and terrifies savages as fireworks, especially rockets, and judiciously set up, a rocket is very likely to frighten off an intended attack and save bloodshed.'
Simon Brett continues his search into travelling abroad in the 19th century.

How Green Was My Valley (9)

with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Written by DEBBIE COOK
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

with Jeremy Stepmann

leader EDWIN PALING conductor
Sir Alexander Gibson Hugh Seenan (horn) direct from City Hall, Glasgow
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides
Beethoven Viennese Dances
Mozart Horn Concerto No 4, in E flat (K 495)

with David Jacobs
Producer maky PRICE BBC Bristol

Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 5, in F BBC Scotland

Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition which includes reviews of The Dealer, a new play by Thomas Wiseman set in Vienna in 1938, about a dealer in fine art who has to adapt to the changing fortunes of the city of art and culture at the end of its glory, starring Cyd Hayman and David Yelland , at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton; and Required Writing -
Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN

John Morgan reporting

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