with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*,8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
invites you to join her and Tim Brooke-Taylor for conversation with the people who are in and out of the news this week. Producer PIPPA BURSTON
Smith by ANN CHADWICK
Read by Elizabeth Proud
True Penitence
NEM, p 25; Lord, who throughout these 40 days (BBC HB 83); Psalm 130;
Matthew 6, vv 13-34; Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (BBC HB 369) long wave only
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A series of six talks in which Harry Soan looks back at his youth.
5: More Teenage Love
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham long wave only
Presenter John Howard
Presenter Sir Robin Day
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Dr Raymond Hoffenberg , President of the Royal College of Physicians. A Little Fear by PATRICIA WRIGHTSON abridged in six parts by JACK SINGLETON
Read by Madge Ryan
1: Mrs Tucker 's daughter thinks she has happily settled her mother into the old people's home. But Mrs Tucker has been left a remote cottage in the country....
(Music: Danielsson's Concertant Suite) long wave only
The Spine-Chillers
A series of five plays 4: Dracula in White by PETER REDGROVE
Prisoners up and down the country seem to be disappearing mysteriously from Her Majesty's prisons. Joanna, a television journalist, suspects that they have been used as guinea-pigs in some unspeakable experiments, and sets out on a perilous course to verify her suspicions.... other parts played by RICHARD CURNOW and JOHN LINSTRUM
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Authorised Versions
John Mole presents some poetic variations on Biblical stories and themes 3: The Gates of Eden Readers JILL BALCON and GARY WATSON
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
The Cottage Garden Year: Winter with Lys de Bray (2)
Vera (8)
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with BRYAN MARTIN including
Financial Report
devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into the problems of listeners. Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
Impressions of SOE 1940-46
SOE was so secret that few people knew of its existence and even fewer what the initials stood for. Special Operations Executive was involved in sabotage, subversion and secret armies.
Henrietta March Phillipps and Penny Jones talk to survivors of the organisation and to historians who have explored the exploits and achievements of SOE. Producer JANE MORGAN
The Frontiers of Thatcherism
Has the radical thrust of Thatcherism lost its cutting edge? Many of the policy changes promised by Mrs Thatcher when she first came to power in 1979 are now firstly established as part of the political landscape. So much so, that some critics are saying that the Government has lost its momentum and lacks any fresh ideas. What new policies are being spawned in the Tory Think Tanks and what do Conservative leaders think of them? Presenter Hugo Young Producer TOM READ
Anthony Smith continues the story of his motorcycle journey from Cairo to Cape Town last year.
Presenter Paul Allen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Irish Journal (3)
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