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Presented from Wales by GERRY MONTÉ. BBC Wales6.40 Prayer for the Day CANON WILFRED GARLICK
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: Today
Introduced by John TimpsonAt 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Thought for the Day 7.45-7.5K
English Regions: see column 5
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: John Bird
asks ' Whatever happened to the Wireless? ' and finds part of the answer in the BBC Sound Archives.(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
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: Start the Week with Richard Baker
Aided and abetted by Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl , Mavis Nicholson , Sheridan Morley and their guests. The weekly mixture of argument, music and wit that's specially intended to chase away that Monday morning feeling.Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
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: * Children's Country Holidays Fund
Tommy Trinder on the need for summer holiday homes for less fortunate London children, Further enquiries to: CCHF, 1 York Street, Baker Street , Lon, don W1H 1PZContributors
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: Wildlife
Cold weather and our birds-green flowers - deer and their antlers - your letters - and the wildlife sound competition. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISONSeries producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
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: Daily Service
NEM, p 122: Our Father's home eternal (BBC HB 233); Psalm 34, vv 11-22; Luke 12, vv 47-57 (Rsv); 0 what their joy and their glory (BBC HB 252): News
: Any Questions?
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)11.50 Announcements
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: You and Yours
Presenter Mavis Nicholson The World of WorkWith .jobs hard to find, MARGARET KORVING studies the market. Your Money. Editor DENNIS LOWER
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: Desert Island Discs
12.55Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
: The World at One: News
Robert Williams: Woman's Hour
from 2.0Introduced by Sue MacGregor 1 Sextuplets! ' Mrs Susan Rosenkowitz gave birth to the only surviving sextuplets in the world in January 1974 in Cape Town. Today she talks about her six two-year-olds; and a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecologyin London comments.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
A Maid of Honour: Glenda Jackson talks to GORDON GOW about acting in general and in particular about her latest film release The Maids.
Consumer Commentary: NORMAN TOZER.
Images of Rose (9) Editor WYN KNOWLES
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: Listen with Mother
Story: Piggy and Marmalade his Cat by A. M. BRAZIERContributors
: News
: Afternoon Theatre
The World Turned Upside Down: Story Time
Death on the Nile by AGATHA CHRISTIE abridged in 12 parts by DONALD BANCROFTRead by Anna Massey
1: Passengers, Pearls and Poirot
As a tribute to the late Dame Agatha Christie , one of the world's greatest writers of crime stories, Radio 4 presents one of her most intriguing and baffling cases, in which the indefatigable Hercule Poirot sets about solving an alarming number of murders which all take place amidst, the exotic riches of Egypt.
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
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: PM
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
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: News
: What's it all About?
or How to identify a situation given a few obscure facts and a little lateral thinking. Panellists:Sheila Hancock , Peter Jones Arianna Stassinopoulos
Chairman John Timpson Hidden voice JOHN BENSON Compiled by JOHN DAVIS Producer TONY LUKE
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: Collapse of Stout Party
SYMPATHETIC VISITOR: Poor dear Mr Smith , how he must suffer with all that sneezing and coughing!MRS SMITH : He does. indeed: but you can't think how it amuses the baby:
In the second of two programmes Richard Stilgoe continues his sidelong glance at what made the Victorians laugh. The songs of the music-hall, the polished wit of sophisticated dons. the oaths and invective of the hackney-cab drivers, or the quips of society hostesses, were often cruel. for beneath the sentimentality of the age was a hard streak and the ' collapse of stout party ' gave endless amusement.
Taking part:
JUDY BENNETT , ANNABEL BUNT CHARLES COLLINGWOOD Based on the book by RONALD PEARSALL
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
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: Brief Lives
by the 17th-century biographer and antiquarian John Aubrey : the Radio Premiere to celebrate the 350th anniversary of his birth, starringRoy Dotrice as John Aubrey Compiled by PATRICK GARLAND
John Aubrey , who was born in March 1626, is now acknowledged as one of the foremost memoirists of his day. Although little has been known of him outside specialist literary circles until comparatively recently, Roy Dotrice 's virtuoso performance of his work has established him as a fascinating, witty, bawdy commentator on the events and, more particularly, the leading personalities of his time.
Producer ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham
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: Kaleidoscope
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France Editor ROSEMARY HARTContributors
: Weather
: The World Tonight: News
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the worldContributors
: A Book at Bedtime
The Stone Angel by MARGARET LAURENCE Read by MARGARET ROBERTSON (11)Contributors
: The Financial World Tonight
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops: News
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