6-25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV GEORGE CASSIDY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
3: Blow Gently Down Your Nose
conducts 55 minutes of interviews, conversation and discussion.
Producer BILL ROGERS
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Ken Ford invites Bill Sowerbutts
Professor Alan Gemmell and Clay Jones to answer Questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Questions on a postcard please to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX
BBC Manchester
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NEM, p 79; God who spoke in the beginning (BP 24); Canticle 6, part 2;
Ephesians 17-31
(rsv); Father, we thank thee (BBC HB 201) long wave only
Loving Couples
Five stories of love and marriage.
3: Coming Home on the Bus by MARGARET SEYMOUR
Read by Brigit Forsyth
A middle-aged woman on a creative writing course finds herself curiously attracted to a boy young enough to be her son. Producer KAY JAMIESON BBC Manchester
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Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
by the Conservative Party
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Among today's Items Guest of the Week: Bill Sirs , General
Secretary of Britain's major steel union.
On Holiday - OAF style/ GYN FREEMAN joins a group of jubilant over-60s. Blood and Judgment (5) long wave only
Ring o' Roses by LISA EVANS
Christie and Sheila never look outside themselves for long enough to make friends and find new interests until Fred, a pensioner who digs an adjoining allotment, disappears.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
A series of six talks in which events from the past are recalled by a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch.
4: Do You Remember Next YearT
The sound of a bell-buoy tolling in a lightly breaking sea enables Jonathan Raban to summon the future.
1: By what Authority
Gerald Priestland looks at the nature of Christianity and the authority with which it claims to speak about God
Book (same title) to be published in October. An article by Gerald
Priestland based on this programme will appear in The Listener, issue dated 24 September
The Luck of the Bodkins (8)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
Sounds and scenes from a past year challenge the memories of residents
Terry Wogan and Ann Meo and guests:
Fred Housego and Susannah Simons Questions set by LIBBY SPURRIER
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Series of four programmes 1: Enid Hattersley
'I wanted a day with a beloved mayor of a Great British City. The Tories told me, oh dear.
Transport House said obvious - obvious, Enid, the Councillor,
Mrs Hattersley (Roy's Mum). And what a time I did have in Sheffield - three-wine Town Hall lunch (outside caterers) to honour as it happened the Ambassador of Korea. How strange! Which Korea? Oh dear. Enid said. Mr Straw is the Lord Mayor's pin-stripe trousers Secretary, a master of protocol. Now ... '
Producer joy HATWOOD
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
(The Rt Hon
Roy Hattersley , MP is in Any Questions? on Friday at
8.30 pm)
Why does it take so long to get on a TOPS course, and find a school leaver for a yops vacancy? Can I tell you about our self-help group? Why am I too old at 40, or over qualified for a job I'm prepared to take? Do make sure you show how much you want that job! - Some of the topics which Guy Dauncey , a writer on unemployment, and Graham Reid of the Manpower Services
Commission dealt with in a recent phone-in. In the ChairJillBurridge. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit (First broadcast as Tuesday Call)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Tudor Lomas Producer DAVID ROGERS Editor STUART SIMON BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Includes On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard , a National Theatre production with Felicity Kendal , Ray Brookes and Dinsdale Landen at the Lyttelton Theatre and Memoirs of a Survivor, a film version of the novel by Doris Lessing , starring Julie Christie.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer JANE STENNING
with Alexander MacLeod
Confessions of Felix Krull , Confidence Man (8) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late-night listening. long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
