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Long wave only: Today
Presenters John Timpson and Hugh Sykes6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read bv BRIAN PERKINS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Contributors
Presenters:
John
Timpson
Presenters:
Hugh
Sykes
Unknown:
Richard
Harries
Unknown:
Brian
Perkins
: The Giant Under The Snow
Part 5: News
: Desert Island Discs
Lord Harewood has been involved with music for most of his life in various capacities, including that of Artistic Director of the EdinburghInternational Festival, editor of Kobbe'.s
Complete Opera Book and now as Managing Director of the English National Opera. In conversation with ROY PLOMLEY , he chooses the eight records he would most like to take to a desert island.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER
Contributors
Unknown:
Roy
Plomley
Producer:
Derek
Drescher
: Ebdon's England
In the third of six programmes, John Ebdon offers some oblique reflections into the interests, institutions and idiosyncrasies of his fellow countrymen.Contributors
Unknown:
John
Ebdon
: News
: International Assignment
BBC correspondents around the world survey the year ahead.A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
Book, From Our Own Correspondent, £6.50, from booksellers
Contributors
Production By:
Adam
Raphael
: Daily Service
NEM, 6 21; I sine of a maiden (BP 34): Canticle 9; Romans 4, vv 8-16 (rsv); In dulci jubilo (OBC 86) long wave only: Morning Story
Saihnaker by ALAN SPENCERead by Fraser Kerr ' My father was a sailmaker. The fact that he was working as a credit collector instead, made no difference to that.
To others he might be no more than the tick man. But that was no part of my reality. He was my father, and if anyone asked me what he did, I would tell them proudly that he was a sailmaker, in much the same way I would have answered if he had been a pirate or an explorer.'
Producer MITCH RAPER
Contributors
Unknown:
Alan
Spence
Read By:
Fraser
Kerr
Producer:
Mitch
Raper
: News
: Alistair Cooke Recalls 1 January 1932
What was it like to be British 50 years ago today? ALISTAIR COOKE reviews the music, personalities and the events of the time.Producer ALAN OWEN
(Repeated: Sun 10.15 pm) Book, Alistair Cooke 's
America, hardback £12.00, paperback 17.75, from booksellers
Contributors
Unknown:
Alistair
Cooke
Producer:
Alan
Owen
Unknown:
Alistair
Cooke
: News
: You and Yours
Every year millions of people are injured in their own homes and over a million of them need hospital treatment. This makes the home a more dangerous environment than either the roads or the workplace. What are the causes and consequences of this frightening statistic? Do we need to adopt a new approach to home safety? Bill Breckon investigates Producer JOHN GETGOOD Editor DAVID HARDINGContributors
Unknown:
Bill
Breckon
Producer:
John
Getgood
Editor:
David
Harding
: My Word!
12.55 Weather; programme news: The World at One: News
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlinesContributors
Presenter:
Brian
Widlake
: The Archers
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only: News
: Woman's Hour
Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis This year will be important for The Rt Hon David Steel , MP, Leader of the Liberal Party, who talks about his personal and political life.DEE MCINTOSH Visits ScOtS in Hong Kong who keep the home fires burning. CLIFF HANLEY casts a jaundiced eye over his New Year resolutions. Ski-ing for all: MURIEL
CLARK finds you can break a leg at any age!
Producer ROSALIND BEW BBC Scotland
A Start in Life (3)
Contributors
Unknown:
Mary
Marquis
Unknown:
David
Steel
Producer:
Rosalind
Bew
: News
: Afternoon Theatre
Shakespeare on Five Dollars a Day by DOUGLAS KENNEDY Visiting American academics usually arrive in Dublin with intense enthusiasm and a set of skeletal keys toFinneaan's Wake ... not so Bradshaw, whose main reason for accepting his present post was to meet alimony payments to his ex-wife in Florida, and whose social mobility among the female students cuts no ice with his new employers.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
Contributors
Directed By:
Robert
Cooper
Bradshaw:
Blain
Fairman
Miss Hennessey:
Margaret
D'Arct
Morrow:
John
Shedden
Davies:
Alan
Stanford
Quinn-Liven:
Denys
Hawthorn
Vicar/Tour guide:
Maurice
O'Callaghan
Student/Waiter/Thompson:
Colm
Meaney
Fedelma:
Felicity
Hayes-McCoy
: Poetry Please!
(Broodcast on Holiday Monday at 11.50 am): Diary
Compiled by Joan BakewellTo start keeping a diary is probably one of the most common New Year resolutions. It also seems to be one of the first to be abandoned. Yet for some people, it becomes a habit they can hardly break. Why do they keep a diary? How frank dare they be in it? What therapeutic or other purpose does it serve?
JOAN BAKEWELL looks into the world of the regular diarist by kind permission Of PETER BARKWORTH , SIR HUGH CASSON , LADY ANTONIA FRASER , CLIVE JENKINS , R. D. LAING , ERIN PIZZEY, MARY WHITEHOUSE and KENNETH WILLIAMS
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
Contributors
Unknown:
Joan
Bakewell
Unknown:
Joan
Bakewell
Unknown:
Peter
Barkworth
Unknown:
Hugh
Casson
Unknown:
Lady Antonia
Fraser
Unknown:
Clive
Jenkins
Unknown:
R. D.
Laing
Unknown:
Mary
Whitehouse
Unknown:
Kenneth
Williams
Producer:
John
Theocharis
: PM
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only5.55 Weather; programme news
: Going Places
Clive Jacobs brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Contributors
Unknown:
Clive
Jacobs
Editor:
Roger
MacDonald
: News
: The Archers
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm): Pick of the Year
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past year.Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
Contributors
Unknown:
Margaret
Howard
Producer:
Phyllis
Robinson
: Profile
Above and below the tiles of one of London's finest 18th-century churches, Eddy Stride is working for renewal. Below the floor, Hawksmoor's magnificent ChristChurch, Spitalfields, is a fully-residential unit for the recovery of alcoholics in vagrancy. Above, a £1-million scheme of restoration goes on. Until recently. the REV EDDY.
STRIDE was chairman of the Nationwide Festival of Light, yet at tea in the Rectory, you could well
'meet drug addicts and prostitutes.
Presenter Oliver Scott Producer WILL BAYNES
Contributors
Unknown:
Eddy
Stride
Presenter:
Oliver
Scott
Producer:
Will
Baynes
: Any Questions?
John Palmer, Frederick Raphael, Chris Patten MP, and Barbara Woodhouse tackle the issues raised by the audience at Reading, BerkshireBBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 13.10)
Contributors
Panellist:
John
Palmer
Panellist:
Frederick
Raphael
Panellist:
Chris
Patten
Panellist:
Barbara
Woodhouse
Chairman:
David
Jacobs
Producer:
Carole
Stone
: Letter from America
by Alistair Cooke(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am)
Contributors
Unknown:
Alistair
Cooke
: Kaleidoscope 82
Sheridan Morley looks forward to some of the likely trends and outstanding events in the arts promised for the year ahead.Producer ANNE WINDER
Contributors
Unknown:
Sheridan
Morley
Producer:
Anne
Winder
: Weather
: Injury Time
Get the new year off with a thwerrkh!Wild comedy written and performed by Robert Bathurst Jimmv Mulville Rory McGrath
Emma Thompson and Griff Rhys Jones
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Bathurst
Unknown:
Jimmv
Mulville
Unknown:
Rory
McGrath
Unknown:
Emma
Thompson
Unknown:
Griff Rhys
Jones
Producer:
Geoffrey
Perkins
: A Book at Bedtime
A Cab at the Door4: Literary Skirmishes
: Ready When You Are, Mr DeMille!
CECIL B. DEMILLE , the legendary movie director and producer, was born on 12 August 1881. Film critic and writer John Baxter both celebrates and re-evaluates the career of a man whose name was a byword for fast action, heavy melodrama and opulent spectacle. with a cast of thousands including ELMER BERNSTEIN , DE WITT BODEEN,YUL BRYNNER , AGNES DEMILLE , KATHERINE DEMILLE ,
WILLIAM K. EVERSON , EBITB HEAD. CHARLTON HESTON , CORNEL WILDE,
CHARLES IIIGHAM , DOROTHY LAMOUR JESSE LASKY JR ,
ROBERT PARRISH , GLORIA SWANSON FRANK WESTMORE , HENRY ' WILCOXON and CECIL b. DEMILLE Hollywood research
BARBRA PASKIN
Producer JOHN POWELL
A Kaleidoscope production
Contributors
Unknown:
Cecil B.
Demille
Unknown:
John
Baxter
Unknown:
Elmer
Bernstein
Unknown:
Yul
Brynner
Unknown:
Agnes
Demille
Unknown:
Katherine
Demille
Unknown:
William K.
Everson
Unknown:
Charlton
Heston
Unknown:
Charles
Iiigham
Unknown:
Dorothy
Lamour
Unknown:
Jesse
Lasky Jr
Unknown:
Robert
Parrish
Unknown:
Gloria
Swanson
Unknown:
Frank
Westmore
Unknown:
Barbra
Paskin
Producer:
John
Powell
: News
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