News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
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The third of ten programmes about people who are successful against the odds. The Birmingham
Enterprise Workshops
We follow the fortunes of three people who have set up their own businesses in small workshops provided by the local authority in converted factories. Some use the chance of low rent and free advice and machinery to invent their own designs; others, who were made redundant, develop the skills they have used all their lives. Presenter
Margaret Horsfield Producer JAN PICKUP BBC Birmingham long wave only
NEM, p 102; 0 splendour of God s glory (BBC HB 409); Psalm 147, vvl-12; Genesis 3, vv 1-13 (rsv); Love of love, and light of light (BBC HB 521) long wave only
Diary of a Moorland Winter (4)
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We all have queries. quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds. Let
Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC
Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Questions on a postcard to: Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
(Broadcast. Sat 3.50 pm) long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers.
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Down by the Sea: DR PAUL CRAGG talks about the marine life around our shores.
The Mysterious Magic of Manilow: PETER SPINKS seeks the secret of this popular singer Barry Manilow 's appeal. Secret Places (3) long wave only
Roaring Boys by RON HUTCHINSON
Years ago Sammy Nelson left his native Ulster and began a new life in the English Midlands. He has a prosperous building firm, an English wife and a son who has never been to Ireland. Then his mother is bombed out in Belfast and comes to stay. The passion and the commitment she brings with her involve the family in a situation
Sammy has spent his life trying to avoid.
Directed by ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham
(First broadcast in 1977)
This week BBC reporters and correspondents in the West Midlands report on the people and the places that don't always make the national headlines.
A Radio News production
The Moonspinners (9)
Presenters Robert Williams and Peter Ruff on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
Written by MARY CUTLER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Libby Purves and Paul Heiney celebrate Guy
Fawkes Night at Stourton - in the heart of Worcestershire, where the gunpowder plotters fled after their abortive attempt to blow up
Parliament. They are joined by the Radio 4 narrowboat, complete with its crew of Pam Ayres and Roger McGough. Music from GUNPOWDER KEG Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham
leader FELIX KOK conducted by LEIF SEGERSTAM
COLIN PARR (clarinet) Part 1
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet: Overture-fantasia Nielsen Clarinet Concerto
The third in a series of six talks given by people who have been on journies of discovery.
Historian and poet A. L. Rowse talks about his search for Shakespeare's ' Dark Lady '.
Scries producer DAVID PEET BBC Wales
Part 2
Beethoven
Symphony No 7, in A, Op 92
BBC Birmingham
(Gicen on 3 Nooember 1981 in the Town Hall, Birmingham)
A BBC Digital Recording
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Sun and Moon by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Read by Eileen Atkins
A short story based on a dream the author had which showed her the adult world through the eyes of a 5-year-old. Sun and Moon, two small children, watch the preparations for their parents' party with wonder.
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
