News, weather, papers, and sport
Presented from the North by Ken Ford. A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
BBC Manchester
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Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE RT REV MICHAEL HARE-DUKE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Charles Colvile
dusts off some further treasures from the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
The personalities who will be in the news this week with live conversation to brighten your Monday morning.
Stage whispers from Kenneth Robinson
Producer PETER ESTALL
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nem, p 71; Blest are the pure in heart (BBC hb
318); Canticle 7; Matthew 22, vv 34-46 (AV); Thy kingdom come! On bended knee (BBC HB 28) long wave only
The Coldest Winter Since 1854 by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read by Barry Warren
'It was very cold the year I broke a ligament in my right leg and fell in love with Emma Haines and got a job as a messenger boy and sent away to New York for a booklet on how to get the most out of anything and everything.'
Producer mitch RAPER
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A Portrait of John Donne by PETER PORTER
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Presented by Norman MacCaig
Readers DIANA OLSSON and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer Brian PATTEN BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
featuring Carole Hayman, Nick Maloney, Simon Molloy and Brian Southwood
The third in a series of six comedy sketch shows.
Script and songs written by ROB GRANT and DOUG NAYLOR
Musical accompaniment by PETE LINGWOOD and TOM STEER
Producer RON MCDONNELL
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Kay Alexander in an English Country Garden: HELEN PALMER , surrounded by a cornucopia of hollyhocks, honeysuckle and hairy aphids.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ..
Forthcoming Attractions: GORDON gow previews films on BBCtv during the next fortnight. Lady Jane to All
Breakers: JANE FINNIS unravels the mysteries of CB Radio.
A Friend of Mary Rose by ELIZABETH FENWICK abridged in eight parts by SHIRLEY COOKLIN
Read by William Roberts (l) Old Mr Nicholas is convinced that his son and daughter-in-law are leaving some of his
Drecious possessions behind when they move house. He returns to their old home to find out and stumbles into a nightmare situation (Music:
Martinu's Sixth Symphony) long wave only
The Dancing Faun by PAUL BRYERS
Six programmes in which Margaret Korving talks with people who explain what home is to them and how it affects the way they live and think. 6: Home is a Dream - if you have nowhere to go but a short-stay hostel offering an evening meal, a bed in a dormitory, and breakfast. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
A Study in Scarlet by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE adapted in six parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Nigel Lambert as Dr Watson
In this, the first of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Dr Watson and Holmes meet and decide to take rooms together at 221b Baker Street. Almost immediately, the great detective tackles his first case.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD Woddis On ... page 81
Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
Editor DEREK LEWIS
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
by JOHN LE CARRE (1)
(Details: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
The Old Jest by JENNIFER JOHNSTON dramatised for radio by DENYS HAWTHORNE with Marcella O'Riordan Pauline Delany and Norman Rodway ' 15 August 1920: a momentous day.
Momentous. It is my 18th birthday.'
Nancy Gulliver 's life in a genteel Dublin suburb is seemingly untouched by the violence of Ireland in 1920. But a chance meeting with a stranger rapidly initiates her into those bloody and truly momentous changes.
Rankin CHRISTOPHER SCOTT
Corporal JOHN WEBB Directed by ROBERT
COOPER
BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
A series of five talks in which a memory is triggered off by a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch.
4: Short Commons and Long Vistas
Tchaikovsky's 1812
Overture, carnations, horse manure, the crunch of trodden snow. prison guards and hunger, all are in the memory of Geoffrey Jackson.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer TOM SUTCLIFFE Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
John Morgan reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science?
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DEBORAH cohen
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MONEY MATTERS: p 81
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