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Brian Redhead
With PETER RUFF Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With MARTIN MUNCASTER
7.8 and 8.0 Today's News Read by SUSAN DENNY
7 39. 8.30 News headlines
7.45*Thought for the Day
Laurie Lee reads from his collection of short essays.
2: Mexico
Healthy Eating
After Christmas our figures - both personal and financial - may be in a sorry state. And all the stodgy foods and fattening drinks we have consumed so far this winter may be adding to our sluggish state. So how do we get back into healthy eating habits? How do we feed ourselves and our family well without rigid dieting? And aren't all cheap foods fattening anyway?
Cookery expert Hilda Woolf and nutritionist Jenny Salmon will be in the studio to take your calls and questions. In the Chair
Sue MacGregor
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are open from 8.0 am
Material from local and regional broadcasting. selected and presented by Bob Langley.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
NEM,p 50: 0 Holy Spirit, Lord of Grace <BBC HB 157); Psalm 86; Colossians 3, vv 12-17 (RSV); To thee, 0 Comforter Divine (BBC HB 164)
A Word to Scoffers by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read by Barry Warren
The Filleting Machine by TOM HADAWAY
Davys ma wants him to get a white-collar job, but his da is convinced that he will be better off working on the quayside thanintheTownHall.
Directed by ALFRED BRAD -LEY. BBC Manchester
In his second talk Hamish Maclnnes. leader of the Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team, reflects on changing rescue methods in the hills at home and abroad. BBC Scotland
Story: Mrs Trotter Forgets Her Keys by DAPHNE MEEK
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Presented by Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Reading Your Letters.
Go East Young Woman: more and more women are now flying out to the Middle East, attracted by highly-paid, tax-free jobs. But is the money enough?
BERNARD JACKSON Investi gates.
Born without Violence: CHRISTINE HEWITT gave birth the Leboyer way.
A Pick of the Paperbacks: chosen by JUNE KNOX-MAWER and EDWARD BLISHEN. The Last Place Left by MARSHALL PUGH ,abridged in ten parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by John Samson (1) The Isle of Fada was remote and beautiful - an ideal wildlife reserve, and an ideal place to work on as a conservationist. Ideal that is until the ' Gasworks ' moved in - a biological research station guarded by its own private army. And then the animals started dying. (Music: Bozza's Sonatine)
Four programmes on how Parliament works.
3: The Making of the Law Many of Parliament's legislative decisions have a direct and permanent effect on all our lives. With the help of recordings from the 1978 proceedings of the Houses of Commons and Lords, Anthony Howard looks at the processes by which bills become laws.
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR
by HOWARD SPRING freely adapted for radio in eight episodes by KEN WHITMORE with Ian McKellen as Hamer Shawcross
1: Born in Captivity
This is the story of John Hamer Shawcross , his boyhood rise from the streets of Ancoats,
Man Chester , and his pursuit of power and fame. Through the lives of Hamer and his wife Ann there flows the wider current of England's life; the challenge to the power of the landed aristocracy in the late 1880s; the birth of the Labour Party; the Suffragette Movement in which Ann plays a heroic part, and the aftermath of the 1914-18 War.
Lizzie Lightowler , Ann's aunt ROSALIECRUTCHLEY
Other children played hy JIMMY BRADDOCK , PHILLIPPA CONNELL and RUTH WILLIAMS Theme music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON
Directed by TREVOR BILL BBC Manchester
4.31 Announcements
A Crime of Passion (2)
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
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A marital comedy starring Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick
5: A Pill a Day Keeps the Doctor at Work featuring ALISON STEADMAN and RICHARD PEARSON
Written by BARRY PILTON Producer
GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated. Wed 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad - with reports by Steve Bradshaw and David Henshaw
BBC Manchester
Presented by John Maddox
Why do some animals behave strangely before earthquakes? Why do flames shoot out of the ground during earth tremors? How did the carbon we see at the surface of the earth come to be there? Professor Thomas Gold of Cornell University discusses his new theory that seeks to explain these phenomena and makes the prediction that the earth's crust may contain enough hydrocarbons to sustain the world's energy needs for the next million years.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
A Czech landlord dreams of a journey to the moon where the inhabitants recite poetry all day. He then finds himself in 15th-century Prague about to be burnt at the stake!
These drunken adventures of Mr Broucek form the plot of Janacek's only comic opera. Fifty years after the composer's death, the English National Opera have staged a new production of the work at the Coliseum. Michael Oliver discusses the project with conductor Charles Mackerras, producer Colin Graham, and the singers, who literally have to fly.
(The opera can be heard on Radio 3 next Tuesday; more Janacek this Thurs 2.0 Radio 3)
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard reporting
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A selection of music for late-night listening.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
