6.25 Shipping forecast long wave onlu
presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6 45* Prayer for the Day THE REV MICHAEL MAYNE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Bryan Martin
7 30 8 30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
plus Libby Purves, with a birthday interview of the ten unfamiliar figures to enliven and enrich your Wednesday morning with live conversation and confrontations.
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visits Wales, where members of the Conwy and District Horticultural Society put their questions to Bill Sowerbutts
Professor Alan Gemmell and Geoffrey Smith
Ouestionmaster Ken Fora BBC Manchester
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nem. p 118; I to the hills will lift mine eyes (BBC
HB 459); Psalm 91, vv 1-13 I John 5, vv 1-6, 8-13, 18-21 (av); Through the night of doubt (BBC HB 186) long wave only
Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz by DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER
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Including A New
Retirement Hornet
3: Choosing a New Area to Live in Andy Price reports on how many people retire to the seaside and country. How do you choose somewhere to retire to?
Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Guest of the Week:
Peter Newsam , Chairman-designate of the Commission for Racial Equality.
Milltown: PHIL SMITH 'S picture of a northern town. Today, the women. Get Ready for Battle by RUTH PRAWER JKABVALA abridged in 15parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by SAM CASTOR
(Music: Shankar's Dehati) Jong wave only
followed by travel
A Dizzy Turn by LYDIA RAGOSIN
Middle-aged George works in an office, looks after his old mother and does woodcarving as a hobby. It is a humdrum life. Will he ever escape?
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
A six-part series
5: Live Shows and Dead Beer
Phil Smith ventures south to sip at some of the delights of London's night Jife.
BBC Manchester
Marjorie Lotthouse looks at the enterprise of the Poldark Mining Company, Curnow Shipping Ltd and Trathens European Coaches.
Producer JOCK Gallagher
The Last Resort by PAMELA HANSFORD
Johnson, abridged in 13 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Read by Marian Diamond (1)
' I felt guUty enough to die.' Love is selfish, but sometimes we can't escape from the knowledge of the hurt that we do to others. Producer JANE MORGAN
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 Denis Norden
In the Chair John Julius Norwich
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Laurie Taylor visits a stag night boxing dinner. (Details: Thurs 9.5 am)
1930s: Damon Runyon writes stories about the guys and dolls of Broadway. 1950s: a musical comedy is made of them, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser who is known as the humorous guy with the words and an equally sharp operator with the naturals and flats. For his scripts, he turns to Abe Burrows who has also some notoriety as a wit.
Robert Cushman tells the story of their collaboration, helped by the voices of Abe Burrows , Loesser's wife Jo Sullivan , one of the original producers cv FEUER, Vivian Blaine and Stubby Kaye from the original cast, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz who writes and directs the movie. Also Sir Peter Hall , Director of the National Theatre, which now delights by reviving the show, and guys and dolls from the cast
BOB HOSKINS. JULIA MCKENZIE IAN CHARLESON and JULIE COVINGTON.
Written by ROBERT CUSHMAN Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
A quite probable story written and read by Leonard Barras
' One day Kenneth Tully founded the Hereward
Appreciation Association, and in case nobody noticed, he also took over the moribund Agnostic Society, restoring it to a healthy state of vacillation, when it had for years been beset by beliefs.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Reporter Stuart Simon
Producer GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
includes reviews of Kent Opera's new production,
Agrippina by Handel; and Spring Moon, a novel by Bette Boa Lord which spans almost a century of China's history.
Presenter Paul Allen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
John Morgan reporting
Gorky Park (8) long wave only
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