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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Dr John Newton.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Dr John Newton.

Brilliant House by Stephen Amidon.
Walter's personal losses force him to change tack. He decides to rewire the house - with startling and poignant results. Read by Ed Bishop. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Amidon.
Read By:
Ed Bishop.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

Come Down, 0 Love
Divine (Down Ampney, BBC HB 149); Galatians
5, w 16-26; Listen Sweet Dove (Grayston Ives ); Of All the Spirit's Gifts to Me (Ripponden, BP 70). With the BBC Singers directed by Barry Rose. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Grayston Ives
Directed By:
Barry Rose.

The quiz game that delves into the origins of well-known phrases and expressions.
With Chris Serle in the chair, team captains Sheila Steafel and Leslie Thomas , and guests Jeffrey Holland and Noddy Holder. Producer Paul Z Jackson Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Serle
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
Leslie Thomas
Unknown:
Jeffrey Holland
Producer:
Paul Z Jackson

A four-part drama of race and power, told with irony and dark humour and set in the sweatshops, factories and immigration offices of Manchester and Dacca between 1917 and 1981. Written by Mike Harris. 1: God Loves You, Mr Goldberg
Jack Goldberg is in hospital. His oldest relatives keep popping in for a visit. This is worrying because they all died years ago ...
Director Clive Brill Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Mike Harris.
Unknown:
Mr Goldberg
Unknown:
Jack Goldberg
Director:
Clive Brill
Cathleen Goldberg:
Susan Brown
Radio reporter/Local pj:
Nigel Carrington
Mama:
Maria Charles
Papa:
Alfred Hoffman
Rebecca:
Jenny Howe
Moishe:
Harold Kasket
Jack Goldberg:
Alfred Marks
Vijay Patel:
Zia Mohyeddin
Milly:
Carmen Munroe
David Goldberg:
Bob Peck

Introduced by Michael Rosen.
What's popping up, splashing out and spilling over? Illustrator and author Shirley Hughes and writer Tony Bradman select the best of new publications for the under-5s.
Producer Jill Burridge

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Rosen.
Unknown:
Shirley Hughes
Unknown:
Tony Bradman
Producer:
Jill Burridge

As society becomes progressively non-religious, Chris Dunkley examines the secular alternative to divine rites, in four programmes.
2: The Wedding
'In the early days, I thought, let's at least talk to a vicar. But I was just giving in to the church notion ... We've chosen the most difficult option we could.'
Producer Fiona Couper

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Dunkley
Producer:
Fiona Couper

Brian Sibley discusses Tom Stoppard 's film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Michael Goldfarb finds nausea rising as he looks at the latest surge in lovable Hollywood movie children.
Producer Ariane Koek
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Tom Stoppard
Unknown:
Michael Goldfarb

NFW June Knox-
Mawer in conversation with six concert performers.
Today: the pianist Alfred Brendel talks about his childhood in Europe during the war and about his own children.
He discusses his approach to music and introduces his recordings of a Schubert Impromptu and Mozart's Piano Concerto
No 27 in B Flat (K 595). series producer Derek Drescher. Stereo

Contributors

Pianist:
Alfred Brendel
Producer:
Derek Drescher.

The second of two programmes about German propaganda broadcasts in English during the Second World War.
The Voice of the Nazi Who was the first Lord
Haw-Haw? Was it the traitor Norman Baillie -
Stewart, or an anglophile German who read P
G Wodehouse and rounded off his broadcasts with the expression 'hearty cheerios'?
Denys Blakeway investigates, and talks to surviving traitors and Nazi sympathisers whose blend of lies and half-truths mesmerised British listeners in the early years of the war.
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Baillie
Unknown:
G Wodehouse
Unknown:
Denys Blakeway

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