6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Bedhead and Peter Mayne
6.45* Prayer for the Day With PIERS PLOWRIGHT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather: travel
and his guests attempt to suspend shamrocks, shillelaghs and any St Patrick's Day shenanigans at all during the entire duration of the programme.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
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visits Bedfordshire. where members of the Caddington Produce and Gardens Association put their questions to Bill Sowerbutts
Professor Alan Gemmell and Clay Jones
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
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NEM, P 114: For all thy saints, 0 Lord (BBC HB
228): Psalm 42; II Peter 3, vv 8-14 <RSV); I bind unto myself today (BBC m 170) long wave only
The Man Who Knew How by DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Read by Richard Hurndall producer MITCH RAPER
followed by travel long wave only
with Richard Baker long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
by the Labour Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Presenter Laura de Vere
Including Sally Thompson and Liz Mardall reporting on aspects of a country which ranks itself the tenth industrial nation in the world, has launched its own satellites into space, but travels on this earth in bullock carts, bicycle rickshaws and scooter taxis!
Get Ready for Battle (10) long wave only
followed by travel
Plan by STEPHEN SWAILES with At the age of 18, Arthur Groombridge draws up a plan that will direct his life until he dies. At certain ages he will: become an articled clerk (22); travel to America (26); become deputy audit manager (28); audit manager (30) and marry (32). Everything goes very successfully according to the plan until Arthur reaches the age of 32 and discovers you cannot ' plan a wife.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
A six-part
4: Odours of the Abyss
Venturing south from his Pennine stronghold, Phil Smith takes a backyard view of London and flies to the suburbs.
BBC Manchester
The Canon in Residence (6)
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
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Barry Took In the Chair
John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated; Thurs 1.40 pm)
The last in a series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners. Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated; Thurs 9.5 am)
by RICHARD MULLEN with Narrator Garard Green
The publication 150 years ago of Fanny Trollope 's book Domestic Manners of the Americans was an Immediate sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. An Englishman in New
York reported: ' At every hoteltable,onboardof every steam-boat, in every stage-coach, and in all societies, the first question was, " Have you read Mrs Trollope ? " '
The book was a scathing indictment of almost all things American. When she sailed for America, Fanny Trollope was 47 and the mother of five children (including 12-year-old Anthony) and in this programme we see and hear the New World through her eyes and ears.
With FRANCES JEATER , JOHN LIVESEY , DAVID MARCH, JOHN RYE and PETER WHITMAN Producer
ALAN HAYDOCK.
(Barbara Leigh-Hunt is a member of the RSO)
As winter ends, turf-stacks beside the small farmhouses of south Mayoarestartingto dwindle. Michael Viney and his neighbours there are already preparing for their springtime task of cutting and drying another year's supply of turf - the traditional fuel of the far west of Ireland.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Reporter Stuart Simon
Producer GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
includes reviews of the new Ballet Rambert season at Sadler's Wells; and a new ballet choreographed by Michael Corder for the Royal Ballet Company at Covent Garden.
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer JANE STENNING
with Alexander MacLeod
Gorky Park (3) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
