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Introduced by John Timpson with Libby Purves
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6.45* Prayer for the Day
With The Rev Adam Ford
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by John Marsh
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45 Thought for the Day
medium nave only
NEM, p 93; Put thou thy trust (BBC HB 313); Psalm 90, w 1-12; Genesis 8, vv 15-22 and 9, vv 12-15 (RSV); 0 thou not made with hands (BBC HB 180)
Aunt Suzanne by MICHAEL MCLAVERTT Read by Trudy Kelly
' The McKinleys all went down to the station to meet their Aunt Suzanne , who was coming to take care of them now that their mother was dead." Producer JUDITH EILLOTT BBC Northern Ireland
medium ware only
' A violin is an instrument played by a person, a piano is played by a person, but a voice is a person, and Kath's personality was absolutely implicit in her voice.'
Kathleen Ferrier , one of the best-loved of all English singers, died 25 years ago this year.
Sir Peter Pears introduces some of her records and recalls the colleague he knew and loved, with other recorded memories of her from ROY HENDERSON , GERALD MOORE , JOHN FRANCIS , BEnNIE HAMMOND , WINIFRED FERRIER , BENJAMIN BRITTEN and BRUNO WALTER.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT (Rpt)
Today: BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
12.55Weather; programmenews
Presented by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor ' New Wane Woman ' Quiz: ROSEMARY BALLASTER from Berkshire. JANE KOE from Northants ami KLEANOR JAMES from Dyfed match their minds for the Woman's Hour Radio Prized
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Havina a Healthy Baby: MAUREEN GALVIN reports on how to increase your chances.
Winter's on its Way ... but let's celebrate with some music and poetry.
Hedingham Harvest (3)
from 2.0
Story:Chris and the Caterpillarby PENNY PECORELL)
Live from the House of Commons
The Elephant and the Panda by A1I.EEN LA TOURETTE with Maureen O'Brien and Liza Ross
1 seem to see gaps between people everywhere - between me and people. I try to hide them or till them up and that only makes it worse, they swallow me up. There's such a feeling of danger all around.' And indeed Panda herself is in danger - her uninhibited approach to sex threatens her sister's whole way of life.
Directed by JANE MORGAN
Omar (4)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Keport
First Round:
8: Northern Ireland
ROYAL SCHOOL. DUNGANNON v ST PATRICK'S HIGH SCHOOL, DOWN PATRICK . Questionmasters TIM GUDGIN and JOHN ANTHONY
Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Light Verse
The second of 13 programmes in which Kingsley Amis introduces poems from The New Oxford Book of Light Verse. Readers HUGH DICKSON and KINGSLEY AMIS Producer ALEC REID.
leader MARTIN MILNER conductor James Luughran direct from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Part 1 Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro Tippett Suite in D (A Birthday Suite for Prince Charles)
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
I. W. Lambert invites you to join him once again in the bar during the interval in this evening's concert for a few tall stories culled from the BBC Sound Archives and the pages of literature.
Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 8. in BBC Manchester
Gerald Priestland reports on today's proceedings.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE THEROUX
Douglas Stuart reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Tolstoy Remembered (9)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
