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Halfway through the Conservative Party Conference,
Brian Redhead assesses the mood in Blackpool. In London. John Timpson.
6.45* Prayer for the Day with FRANK TOPPING
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Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Bring on the Girls (9)
Robert Carrier
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Ion Trewin presents a series of live portraits of writers who, at the turn of the century, thrilled the nation with tales of derring-do and whose novels are still widely read today.
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318): Psalm 32; Jonah 1. vv 17 and 2, vv 1-10 (NED); To the name of our
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I Only Ask to Share by DEE HOLLlDAY
Read by Gillie Gratham
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
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including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Bill Breckon
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Presenter Peter Ruff
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with Sue MacGregor Including
Is Marriage the Only
Goalt . why do so many young girls feel that a career is unnecessary? CHERYL ARMITAGE investigates teenage attitudes and looks at our schools' attempt to find a solution.
Emma, the Celebrity
Guide Dog. SHEILA HOCKEN talks about her new book. Blood on the Snow (3) long wave only
Claglhorpe Viva by BRUCE BEDFORD with John Duttine Jack May and Magnus Magnusson asking the questions.
Harold Jarrold , balloon designer from Clagthorpe in Yorkshire, has won his way through to the final of the television quiz show Superbrain. The morning of the contest finds Harold atop the regal slag-heap that overlooks Arkwright's Balloon Factory. The townsfolk know Harold can win. But he isn't so sure.
Director PETER KOSMINSKY
A weekly look at some of the ' other news from around the United Kingdom.
King Charles II (4)
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including Financial Report
Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash. (Repeated: Sat 7.50 am)
Written by ALAN BOWER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Mementoes of Love
Presented by Kit Wright Readers GEOFFREY COLLINS and JILL BALCON
Producer ALEC REID
leader FELIX KOK conductor Simon Rattle Ida Haendel (violin) Part 1
Mussorgsky Prelude to Khovanshchina
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1, Op 99
. Just as people who've not been to Oxford or Cambridge stand on the towpath and shout for one or the other, I always shouted for China.'
But when Clement Freud had the chance of fulfilling a lifelong, long-distance affair with China, he found that all was not exactly what it at first seemed.
Part 2
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
(Direct from the Town Hall, Birmingham.
Given in association with 1MI Ltd)
BBC Birmingham
includes reviews of Harvest, a new play by Ellen Dryden starring Lynn Farleigh at the Ambassadors Theatre, London; and The
Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux , which is set in Central America and the Honduran jungle.
Presenter Colin Ford
Producer CARROLL MOORE
John Morgan reporting
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What was on your radio and television in the autumn of 1956. Producer EDWARD COLE long wave only
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