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An Elizabethan farmhouse in Devon.... a girl in a blue dress ... a series of unanswered questions. The poet Vernon Scannell tells the story of a strange meeting in the summer of 1975. Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

Massage
Written and read by Brian Glanville

Advent Calendar:
Ruth NEM , p 13; Creator of the starry height (BBC HB 31); Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
(Carols for Choirs 2); Ruth 2, w 1-12; Spirit of mercy, truth and love (BBC HB 163) Stereo

Presenter Paul Heiney

Presenter Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner
5: King Jolly has a Party
2.0 Business French 3: Buying and Selling and at 2.15 4: Messages
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Hard Times (5)

Introduced from Northern Ireland by Wendy Austin
Travel writer DERVLA MURPHY talks about her extraordinary travels through the Andes on a mule with her nine-year-old daughter, traversing the Ethiopian Highlands on foot, and exploring Northern Ireland on a bicycle. Producer COLIN lewis BBC Northern Ireland
Life's Rich Pageant (7)

The Lotus and the Wind (2) by JOHN MASTERS
Stereo

with Isla St Clair , who is from a family of traditional singers. Producer JULIAN HALE

Last of the series 5: Memory
We often seem to remember some things better than others. Can the memory be trained? And is there any truth in the suggestion that, deep down, we never really forget anything?
Peter Evans chairs a discussion between Dr Alan Baddeley , Director of the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit,
Donald Broadbent , Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and Steven Rose , Professor of Biology at the Open University. Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
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The Woman in Black (5)

Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

with Clive Jacobs and ALANAH MARTIN. TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

with Margaret Howard Producer ANNA PARKINSON

with Nigel Rees
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

The team includes
Emma Nicolson , Vice-Chairman, Conservative Party;
Lesley Abdela , founder 300 Group and Geoffrey Robinson , mp.
Chairman John Timpson from Thame, Oxfordshire
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol

Good news or bad news? China's main daily newspaper rebuked for 'flawed' story of the country's potential move to a capitalist economy. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Sheridan Morley presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD DUNN

Mr Facey Romford's Hounds by R. S. SURTEES abridged in 15 parts by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Read by JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS 15: The Finish
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham

Presented by Charles Wheeler

with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by LAN BROWN . RICHARD QUICK,
PAUL B. DAVIES. MARTIN BOOTH,
PETE SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER.
DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY and others Producer PAUL SPENCER

followed by an interlude