News, weather, papers, sport
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Introduced by John Timpsen With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
WithMONSIGNOR PATRICK. MCENRO1
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
by ROBERT GRAVES (9)
's broadcast at 7.30)
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NEM. p 102; The star of morn has risen BBC HB 410); Psalm 119, part 5; Luke 20, v 41 to 21, v 9 (NEB): Christian, unflinching stand (BBC HB 350)
medium only The Petrol Pill
Written and read by Tom Coyne
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
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A book you loved in childhood - how well do you remember it now? Terry Wogan , in conversation with JEAN Davis , recalls one of his own favourites.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
News and information that affects the way you live, including Getting the Best from Your Radio and the BBC Shopping Basket with MARGARET KORVING ,.
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Presented by Brian Widlakc
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk Till Two: a discussion on a matter of current concern,
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Good Health Begins in the Kitchen: EVELYN rose takes a fresh look at vegetables.
The Pleasures of Playing: MAR GARET MAJOR PACEY and PRUNELLA PACEY on the viola.
Temples of Convenience: LUCINDA LAMBTON talks to JOHN EAST about her new book, in which she takes the lid off the historical British loo. Ruined City (6)
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Story: Young Hedgehog Follows a Smell by VERA RUSHBROOKE
A Slip of the Disc
A farcical comedy by JOHN GRAHAM withand
It all started quite innocently - well, no, not innocently, but it was perfectly simple. Until Peter got stuck in Sally's bath and Sally's husband returned home and Peter's wife turned up, not to mention the piano tuner, the television director. the doctor ... One little lie so easily leads to another and life gets awfully complicated.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
A new view of outer space and perhaps of the beginning of time.
At the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, scientists and engineers together are probing some of the deeper mysteries of the Universe. Two new telescopes and very advanced technology are combining to give a sight of the previously unseen. This is a story both of an enterprise in high astronomy and of the people who have come together to make it possible.
Presented by George Luce
Producer HUGH PURCELL
Period Piece (4)
The news magazine Presented by Robert Williams and Suzannah Simons
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme newt
and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm
Cast for the week; [see below]
BBC Birmingham
with Frank Lincoln
Winds and Weathers: the pleasures - and penalties - of the British climate expressed in poems by A.E. Housman, Idris Davies, Edward Thomas and Dylan Thomas.
BBC Wales
(Repeated: Saturday 11.10 am, medium only)
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Vtrdi Overture: The Forct ot Destiny
Rachmantnev Piano Concerto No 2
'I have often thought a storytetter isbornasweHasapoet.'
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The art of the raconteur is a giftweaUenvv.Inthenrstof sixprogrammes. J.W.Lambert browses through the BBC Sound Archives and discovers a fund of entertaining stories. (N<'.r< progromwc; 19 October)
Part 2
Brahms Symphony Ne < BBC Bristc)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan
ProducerALANN)Xox
Dcugtas Stuart reporting with John Tusa at the Labenr Party Centtrenct in Btacttpoo)
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
BBC Bristol
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Kegue Matt (9)
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Radio 4's International Business Report. Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
