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Introduced by John Timpson and Brian RedheadIncluding at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; at 6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35* and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. English Regions: see column 5
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: The Moon's a Balloon: 7: War with Goldwyn and then Hitler
David Niven reads from his best-selling autobiography.Having finally established himself as a film star in Hollywood, he is overtaken by world events and goes back into uniform.
Seventh of eight parts
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: News
: In Britain Now
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.Introduced by SHEILA TRACY Producer TERRY LLOYD
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: Daily Service
nem, p 54; Away with our fears (BBC HB 147); Psalm 143; Luke 9, vv 27-36 (RSV); Come, gracious Spirit (BBC HB 150): Morning Story
Nanushká by ROSEMARY TIMPERLEYRead by Gladys Spencer
'She wasn't all that old - but to the children in the ward she seemed ancient.... When Nanushka smiled at you, she took you in her arms without touching you....'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Gladys Spencer is a National Theatre Player)
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: News
: Sweet Songs of Zion
Introduced by Cliff Morgan who explores the treasures of English hymn-writing.7: Hymns of the Oxford Movement
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
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: Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Running Sore by FRANCES MCENANEYTAM: Never saw anything like the trays o' loaves an' buns an' parcels o' meat.
WOMAN: I'm not easy about this at all. I know we have only two o' the children wi' us but wha'll happen if they find out who we are?
Producer MICHAEL HEFFERNAN BBC Northern Ireland
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: News
: You and Yours
Presenter Nancy WiseI Know My Rights - or Do I?
: Top of the Form
(Starting next week at this time: Brain of Britain 1976)12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
: Woman's Hour
from 2.0Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Ian MeKellen (now appearing in ' Too True to be Good ' at the Globe Theatre, London)
2.0-2.2 News
A Modern Mustard Plaster?: DR SAMPSON LIPTON speaks on acupuncture and the relief of pain.
Reading your letters.
Sewing Snips -and Tips from BETTY FosTER-3: to line or not to line.
Second Start: SUSANNE BRAY tells DAVID HAWKSWORTH about her first month in the Open University.
MARTIN JARVIS reads Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY AMIS (8)
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: Listen with Mother
Story: My Naughty Little Sister Wasn't Well by DOROTHY EDWARDSContributors
: News
: Afternoon Theatre
The Innocent Libertine by COLETTE dramatised for radio by MICHAEL VOYSEY with Elizabeth Proud as Minne' You don't believe me, Antoine, do you? Because I am just 15 you don't take me seriously! And suppose I showed you him, alive? He's handsome, much more handsome than you'll ever be. He's got a red and blue jersey and a black purple check cap. He's the head of a gang that terrorises Paris, and he waits every night for me at the corner of the Avenue Gourgand ...'
Other parts: JEFFREY SEGAL
ROGER SNOWDON , JOANNA WAKE Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
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: News
: You're a Brick, Angela!
This 'new look at girls' fiction, 1839-1975 by Mary Cadogan and Patricia Craig , is published tomorrow.AMANDA THEUNISSEN invites Margery Fisher and Arthur Marshall to explore the changing fantasy worlds which have been offered to a girl when all she's wanted to do is ' curl up with a book.' Producer PAMELA HOWE , BBC Bristol
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: Story Time
A Murder of Quality (3): PM
Nicholas Woolley5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
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: News
: The Archers
(Repeated; Thursday 1.30 pm): It's Your Line: [number removed]
When a pound of home-grown potatoes costs as much as a pound of imported oranges. Ring Robin Day to put your questions on our fruit and vegetables, at what cost they are grown and at what prices they are sold, to Peter Hills, Conservative mp for Devon West, a farmer; and Sydney Tierney, Labour mp for Birmingham, Yardley, an official of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. Producer WALTER WALLICHCall [number removed]from 6.0 pm
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: Wellington
The first of three programmes written by NESTA PAIN based on the biography by ELIZABETH LONGFORD with Paul Rogers as Wellington 1: The Making of the HeroWellington was born the same year as Napoleon. The two men were to meet only once, 46 years later, on the battlefield of Waterloo. For Wellington, Waterloo was the triumphant climax of a military career which had taken him to India, Portugal and Spain.
Tonight's programme tells the story of the years before Waterloo when Wellington to begin with was, in his mother's words, 'food for powder and nothing else.' By the eve of Waterloo, he had become the most honoured of living Englishmen.
Narrator NOEL JOHNSON
With MICHAEL BURLINGTON YSANNE CHURCHMAN
LESLIE HERITAGE. GODFREY KENTON DENIS MCCARTHY , DEBORAH PAIGE STEPHEN THORNE and GORDON GOSTELOW as Private Wheeler
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
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: Weather
: A Book at Bedtime
A Handful of Dust (11): News
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