Presented from the North by KEN FORD
BBC Manchester
6.10 Prayer for the Day DAVID PARTRIDGE
with John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with 7.23* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather: and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
reflects on life in and out of the BBC Sound Archives.
who, together with Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson, Sheridan Morley and their guests, will be providing the incentive to face Monday morning once again, as they confront their foes and embrace their friends with elan, panache and their tongues firmly in their cheeks, at least half the time.
Recently I noticed a ladybird on one of my indoor plants. After a while it fell off the leaf - a distance of about ten inches. I calculate that this would be the equivalent of me dropping 456 feet, so how did it survive undamaged?
A problem for the Wildlife team - though obviously not for the ladybird!
Introduced by DEREK IONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM. Pp 93: God is our refuge and our strength (BBC HB 454) : Psalm 90. vv 1-12: Wisdom of Solomon 9. v 17 to 10, v 14 (RSV): A safe stronghold our God is still (BBC HB 297)
mediumicurconly The Poll Scene by NORMAN P. KAUFMAN Read by Jim McManus
' Thirty-seven was hardly the optimum age for embarking on a career as a Pop Star.... and the Managing Director of Disco Spin Enterprises was nol impressed. "Nul just no good." he said, "but rather awful.....
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Presenter Sue Cook The World of Work
With jobs hard to find, MARGARET- KORVING studies the market and looks at new opportunities in training and employment.
Your Money: what should you be doing with it now? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is anatomist and anthropologist John Napier. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
A Bewildering Choice: ROY DAY attempts a guide to some DIY materials on the market todav. 2: The Great Cover Up - Wall-papers.
Women in Crisis: BRENDA KID-MAN talks to ' Mary ', who in middle age found herself totally responsible for her aged mother.
' But Babies Need Sheep-brain Soup : VIRTUE JONES tells how she fed her baby on a recent trip to Greece.
Family Units by RUTH FINCH abridged in 15 parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Rend by Shirley Cooklln (1)
" Many people assumed Naomi had gone to Israel merely to look for a husband-there was nothing spiteful in the assumption: Israel was the obvious place in which to seek Jewish men.' (Music: Khachaturyan's Gayaneh)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Auntie Bel's Kitchen Drawer by JILL ROWE
(Saturday's broadcast)
by Max Beerbohm, abridged and read in ten parts by Geoffrey Beevers
A fantasy based on reality and set in Oxford at the turn of the century. An Oxford unprepared for the arrival of the beautiful and charming Zuleika Dobson. All the undergraduates are captivated but none more so than the proud and arrogant Duke of Dorset.
Robert Williams
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 medium wave onlu Financial Report
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5.55 Weather, programme news
or How to identify a situation given a few obscure facts and a little lateral thinking.
Panellists: Sheila Hancock Peter Jones. Sheila Steafel Chairman John Timpson Hidden voice JOHN BENSON Compiled by JOHN DAVIS Producer TONY LUKE
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
A new daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed.
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
by John Arden, adapted for broadcasting by H.B. Fortuin
A radio adaptation of the stage play produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
John Tusa reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The novel by Rumer Godden abridged in ten parts and read by David Davis (1)
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