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: Shipping forecast
tong wave only: Today
Presenters John Tiinpson and Libby Purves6.45' Prayer for the Day DR FRED MILSON
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Book. Thoughts. Prayers, Reflections, 1135, available from bookshops
Contributors
: Trust to Talk
Part 7: News
: The Little Swallow and the Happy Prince
An entertainment for narrator and brass band adapted by ALFRED SHADLEY from the storv by OSCAR WILDERobert Powell tells the story of the swallow who befriends a golden statue of the Prince who wants to make the world a better place.
Specially composed music by ROGER PAYNE is played by BESSES 0' Til' BARN BAND conductor ROY NEWSOME
Producers ALFRED BRADLEY and JAMES I.ANGLEY BBC Manchester
(Oscar Wilde's ' The Selfish Giant ' is on Friday at 11.5 am)
Contributors
: News
: Fat Man in Italy
The Olive, the Cross-bow and the Caterpillar Lucca to SienaIn the fourth of six bicycle trips. Tom Vernon goes to Tuscany, where he hears of ancient civilisations and modern patterns of agriculture. He sees the working of alabaster, and discovers medieval rivalries still fervent - and dangerous - today. Producer JOY HATWOOD
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: Daily Service
NEM. p 13; 0 little one sweet (OBC 1091: Psalm 66, vv 1-3. 12-17: Romans 4, vv 8-16 (NEB): Here we bring new water from the well (Carols for Choirs Bk 2. 13): long wave only: Story Time
Tom's Midnight Garden (5): News
: Ana:ysis
Comrades: We Face Difficulties1980 has been the year of food shortages at home, the year of Afghanistan and Poland. the year when the remnants of western belief in peaceful Soviet intentions were shattered. Why has the USSR provoked such distrust? Is the threat of force the only political and diplomatic weapon the Soviets have left?
Presenter John Eidinow Producer DAVID MORTON
Contributors
: It's Just Like Playing with Sand
(Broadcast on Boxing Day at 11.50 pm;: News
: You and Yours Special
1980 brought many changes in SocialWelfare and 19S1 brings
International
Year of Disabled People. You and Yours assesses the likely impact on those most affected.
Producer DAVID HARDING
Contributors
: Never Too Late
12.55 Weather; programme news: The Archers
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only: News
: Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sue MacGregorTalking Point: opinions and ideas ...
The Sweeney Syndrome: ANNE JONES casts herself in a new role.
Future indicative: some predictions from CHARLES PANATI about scientific breakthroughs in 1981 and after.
Invasion: SONIA BEESLEY takes a look at the ubiquitous games from ' outer space '.
A. J. Wentworth , BA (4)
Contributors
: News
: Afternoon Theatre
Sweet Logic by BOB WILSON with Victoria Plucknett as Vera Dromgocilie and Tim Woodward as the Computer MindVera is a beautiful, blende, serious lady. But she doesn't understand men They get so emotional. She likes logic. Is it surprising she gets on better with LIMBO the computer?
Directed by PETER KING
Contributors
: Fritz Spiegl's Musical Alphabet
This week M ' is for mnemonics and mathematics gramophone records: PM
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons5.50 Shipping forecast long ware only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Contributors
: The Six O'Clock News
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.: Any Answers?
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David JacobsProducer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Contributors
: It's a Bargain
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash. (Repeated: Sat 7.50 am)Contributors
: News
: The Archers
This is the 30th Anniversary edition of The Archers - the longest-running radio serial in the world.BBC Birmingham
Contributors
: Handel's Messiah
A BBCManchester
Master Concert FELICITY
PALMER
(soprano)
HELEN WATIS (contralto) RYLAND DAVIES (tenor) ALAN TRUSS (baritone)
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD Part 1
Contributors
: Memories of Walter de la Mare
A talk from the BBC Sound Archives by VITA SACKVILLE WEST.(FIrst broadcast in 1953)
: Handel's Messiah
Part 2BBC Manchester
: The World Tonight: News
David Lay reporting: A Book at Bedtime
My Apprenticeships (4): Whisky: A Celebration
Professor David Daiches equally well known as a literary scholar and connoisseur of Scotch, looks at whisky's impact on society and art in Scotland over the ages. He is assisted by MARY RIGGANSBROWN DEREY , TONY ROPER and JOHN SHEDDEN.
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
Contributors
: News
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