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7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Part 3
An extraordinary 55 minutes with extraordinary people. Tim Brooke-Taylor interviews this week's birthday guest.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
The team answers listeners' questions
A Walk to the Hills by GWYNNE BOSLEY
Read by John Westbrook
Nem. p 13: In the bleak mid-winter (BBC HB 51);
Psalm 8; Daniel 2. w 12.24;
God from on high hath heard (BBC iib 49)
with Richard Baker
...such as the 'chicken-like guinea-fowl' that isn't? Or the 'ashy-headed parrot-bill', which isn't either?
Problems with Names is the last of six programmes, in which Denis Owen shares some of the jokier nonsense names bestowed on the Brazilian stripe-bellied weasel. the common water vole and perhaps most ridiculous of all. the laughing jackass....
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Paul Heiney with more news and advice for consumers. If you have any comments on today's items, ring [number removed]after 11.0 am.
by DAVIDBEATY (6)
with Susannah Simons with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Sue MacGregor including Guest of the Week: the conductor and musicologist Dr Jane Glover
Over the Bridge (3)
French Leave
A frolic by SHIRLEY COOKLIN based on a story by GUY DE MAUPASSANT
Rosalie's seen it all before and today's going to he just another day. But she's wrong. There's the question of Monsieur's promotion for one thing. And for another Granny goes and does something extraordinary. After that all hell's let loose chez Caravan!
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
Travellers and Settlers
The first of a series of seven programmes presented by the poet Fleur Adcock 1: To the Islands
ReadersLIANE AUKIN .CHRISTOPHER SCOTT and HENRY STAMPER Producer ALEC REID
Faith and Food
CLAIRE FRANKELconsiders the influence of religious immigrant groups on American cooking.
2: The Quakers
BBC Manchester
The Wind in the Willows (10)
with Robert Williams
with CHARLES COLVILE
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
A new eight-part series
Did you know that
Patrick Moore drives the oldest Ford Prefect in Britain?
Discover the innermost secrets of the stars.
Chairman Gyles Bandreth On the panel
Maureen Lipman ,
Pete Murray and Russell Grant With guest celebrities
Stirling Moss , Richard Briers , Liz Robertson and Alan J. Lerner Producer PAUL SPENCER
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
On 31 December, Mr L.E. Rush one of the most respected names in pigeon-racing retired as manager of The Queen's Flight. Ray Gosling went to visit him at the Royal Lofts in Norfolk on the last race day of the season. As they waited among the cabbages for the first feather home, there was time to talk of many things.
1: Teazing, teazing man! Fitzwilliam Darcy meets Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice with Clive Wood and Kim Braden
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
On 6 January 1924 the BBC broadcast its first church service. It now transmits five hours of worship each week. In his survey of broadcast worship, Chris Kay asks listeners and participants: Is there really a need for it? Has it changed much in the last 60 years? Should it change now? and members of the BBC
Singers talk about the hazards and pleasures of worship with an unseen congregation.
The arrival of the first baby is a very special time for any couple.
Kate is 28 and Pete is 30, and they have known each other for eight years. They live in a small one-bedroomed flat on a busy road in the middle of London. In the spring, Kate gave birth to a baby boy Timmy. The programme follows Kate and Pete through the first few weeks of coping with their new baby at home, sharing both the good and bad times.
Presented by Maureen Galvin Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
To have petrol tank, saddle and crutch solidly united by one block of ice is to experience rockbottom motorcycling.... In theory I was on my way to
Africa, and the thought made me scoff within my helmet. In the first of 12 talks.
Anthony Smith begins the story of his motorcycle journey from Cairo to Cape Town last year retracing with his son Adam the path he first rode nearly three decades ago.
Certainly the best talk series of the year (THE LISTENERj
In a Strange Land
'For the 1788 settlers, going to Australia was like a journey to Mars and ever since there has been a sense, in Australians, of being on a space station.' Thomas Keneally ,
Sydney-based novelist and author of Schindler's Ark and The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith , in conversation with the London-based
Australian poet Peter Porter on the subject of Australia's search for a literary identity. Producer RICHARD DUNN
Nineteen Eighty-four (3)
reporting the news and the background to the news from around the world
10.30 Headlines
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight
René Cutforth talks to
Peter Mellors about being a foreign correspondent. Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
