Producers KEN POLLOCK and LESLIE COTTINGTON

A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland
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Introduced by KEN FORD BBC Manchester
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Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
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From the world of sport and leisure Tony Lewis presents a magazine programme that highlights the personalities in the news and the issues that matter, including today's Lincoln Handicap and the All-England Badminton Championships at Wembley. Plus up-to-the-minute coverage of the other events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and OB production

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The Stcel Crisis
The BBC's Economics Correspondent, James Long , reports on the international recession
A Radio News production b.V RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER long wave only

Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Robert Carvel
Producer PETER ROBINS long wave only

Anthony Howard reviews the weekly magazines. Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only

NEM, page 62; Happy are they, they that love God (BBC HB 274); Psalm 167, vv 31-42; Luke 12, vv 22-31 (RSV); The God of Abraham (BBC HB 283)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer NICK HUGHES
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A series of seven programmes on The Englishman Abroad compiled and presented by Anthony Thwaite with the poems read by GARY WATSON 2: Greece
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
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'How do land birds drink? That is, how do they get water into their beaks, and when they raise their beaks at the end of a drink, is it to help the water down? '
The Wildlife team dips into more of your questions. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer ROBIN PRYTHERCH BBC Bristol
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Fritz Splegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said. BBC Manchester

Andy Price makes life cheaper and easier for all the family with the help of Anne Brown and the You and Yours team of experts.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams Douglas Stuart and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Newsreader John Marsh Compiled and produced by Alan Dixon and Danny Greenstone
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
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Joan Lestor , mp Richard Ryder
Graham Dowson Arthur Marshall
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE
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Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about books.
Producer HELEN FRY
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Looking Back
A play for radio by VICTOR PEMBERTON with Arthur English
Autumn. Guy Fnwkes Day. Armistice Day. For Arthur Hobbs it is a time for looking back over his life - as far back as the 1914-1918 war. It is a time, too, for a re-assessment of time present.
Mouth organ played by HARRY PITCH
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (First broadcast in 1975) long wave only

Presenter Marilyn Alan
With the participation of the disabled themselves. Does He Take Sugar seeks to give practical advice to disabled listeners in all relevant fields. Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only

The second of eight programmes in which some of the leading Welsh choirs perform favourite items from their repertoire and relate briefly the story of the choir. Dunvant Male Choir conductor T. A. Walters accompanist OWENA LLOYD Presented by John Huw Davies
Written by JEN POSTON
Producer JAMES WILLIAMS BBC Wales long wave only

We all have niggling little questions in the corners of our minds that we mean to follow up some day ... when we have time.
Now you can unload your query onto Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Questions, on postcards, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London WIA 4WW
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Sheridan Morley introduces a selection from the books, plays, films, music and other arts reviewed during the past week. Editor ROSEMARY HART long wave only

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In conversation with his guests.
Musical accompaniment by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on records; the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Rev rpt: Friday 9.5 am)

A Coat of Many Colours by JIM CRACE with John Rowe Saeed Jaffrey and Trevor Martin
In March 1895. following almost 13 years of imprisonment by the Mahdist forces in the Sudan, Rudolph Slatin escaped and made his way to an English garrison at As-wan. Slatin, an Austrian officer, and ex-Governor of Darfur, survived to tell his tale by adopting new faiths and allegiances to suit the occasion. His credo of ' survival ' runs contrary to that of George Chesney , the young Victorian officer and gentleman to whom he tells his tale.
Directed by MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Mon 3.5 pm)

Clement Freud , mp, presents his personal choice of poetry and prose with readings by Denise Bryer and Simon Williams
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(From next week With Great Pleasure moves to Sundays at 12.15 pm)

Evening Prayers led by HUBERT HOSKINS

In a series of nine programmes Jeremy Siepmann follows the colourful progress of the piano from the palaces of 18th century Europe to the saloons of the Wild West. 6: The Gadgeteers or 'Encumber not with needless aid'. The piano suffers - and recovers - from a plague of ' improvements'.
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A Plug for the Cabinet bv BILL STANTON with George Cole and Michael McClain
To hang a cabinet you need a plug: to fit a plug you need a drill: to use a drill you need a steady hand, otherwise.... A sorry tale of Do-it-Yourself woe.
Lucius Tring...GEORGE COLE
Cockfosters MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Judge GERALD CROSS
Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT

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