News, weather, papers, sport
Presented by John Timpson at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, with LIBBY PURVES in London including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with RATTI HEILBRON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER JEFFERSOM
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by COLETTE (4)
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NEM, p 9; The Lord of Heaven confess (BBC HB 478); Psalm 8; Luke 22, v.v 54-65 (NEB); Praise, 0 praise our God and King (BBC BB 441)
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A Touching Memory by DAPHNE FAE GLAZER
Read by Sonia Elliman
' As she sipped her mug of tea and listened to the spluttering of the gas fire, she imagined him sitting in the house next door. Odd, she couldn't even remember what he was called. That must be a trick of the unconscious.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
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Picture restoring is still In many cases literally a matter of spit and polish, but there have been great scientific developments in bringing old masters back to life. The world's major art galleries now use equipment from lasers to nuclear reactors to examine and restore paintings. These studies are providing new insight into the way artists worked and are revealing new facts about paintings, as well as helping to identify fakes more easily.
Presented by James Wilkinson BBC Science Correspondent A Radio News production Producer JOHN WILLIAMS
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A book you loved In childhood - how well do you remember It now? Arthur Scargill, president of the Yorkshire miners, in conversation with JEAN DAVIS, recalls one of his own favourites. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Presented by Sue Cook and George Luce
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Weather and programme news
Presented by Brian Wldlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk Till Two: a discussion OB a matter of current concern.
1.0-2.2 News
Thirteen: TONY BARNFIELD. wary of tomorrow, chooses Thursday the 12th to look at some of the superstitions surrounding the unluckiest number.
New Term in a New Town: DAVIS HAWKSWORTH talks tO t student about to start at university,
Hand Made for Christmas: BARBARA MYERS gets practical advice from LAYE ANDREW on money-saving gifts. 4: Pressed flowers and leaves. Ruined City (11)
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Story: My Naughty Little Sister and the Icy Cold Tortoise by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Hush Hush by JACKY GILLOTT with Deryck Guyler as Harold and Barbara Mullen as Hilda
' Hush, hush whisper who dares, old Harold Sutdiffe 's not saying his prayers ... I'd rather talk to you. Anyway, there's no one to say prayers to. Pathetic spectacle I'd make talking to myself ... Talk to yourself and they take you away. Well, I'm not going. Not yet. I've things to attend to.'
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
'Nothing had ever been built like the radio telescope before, so that it is no wonder that I overspent ... The university thought that there would be a court case against me and that I was certain to go to prison, then the Russians launched Sputnik I, and that saved me completely!'
In conversation with Arthur Garratt, Sir Bernard Lovell, Professor of Radio Astronomy and Director of the Nuffield Experimental Station at Jodrell Bank, recalls the many vicissitudes experienced during his struggle to build what was then the world's largest steerable radio telescope.
Period Piece (S)
Presented by Robert Williams and Suzannah Simons
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Weather and programme newt
Written by KEITH MILES
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
with Frank Lincoln
A selection of love poems including The Good-Morrote by JOHN DONNE and To Lizbie Browne by THOMAS HARDT Reader SIÖN PROBERT
Producer HERBERT Williams
(Repeated: Saturday 11.20 am, medium only)
A play about a play within the play by John Arden
With Elizabeth Bell, Peter Jeffrey, David Calder
'I find nowt now in the whole of England fit for the tip of my pen. We spoke once to the whole people. But these days we have rejected the home-spun jackets, the square-toed shoes, and the forthright word of the godly tradesmen. And by God, they've rejected us. There are those in Parliament have said openly they'd close down every playhouse if they once attained full power. And I want them to attain full power.'
BBC Manchester
(Stereo) (Repeat)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting with John Tusa at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionsr Introduced by David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
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Weather report and forecast followed by an Interlude
