Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
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S.45* Prayer for the Day With THE REV ADAM FORD
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
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Strange Tales and Common Customs Do you remember children's rhymes. traditional songs and customs, and tales of witches and wizards?
Why do they still survive today? Why do we make masks at Hallowe'en, burn bonfires on 5 November and decorate trees at Christmas?
John Wlddowson. Director of the Centre of English Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield, and Tony Green , Lecturer at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at the University of Leeds, join Teresa McGonagle to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
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The Last of the Sack-
Judles by DAVID pownall Read by David Mahlowe Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester long wave only
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We consider a balanced diet necessary, so how does a panda keep fit on bamboo shoots? The team digests a mixed menu of your wildlife questions. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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Presenter Bill Breckon
Chairman Nigel Rees Guests Peter Jones
Irma Kurtz , Julian Mitchell and Gay Search
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
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Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor
Women of the Year 1982: extracts from the speeches at yesterday's luncheon. Fit for Winter: PAT
THORNTON Joins some exercise classes. 4:Yoga
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by EMILE ZOLA (2)
Four programmes
The playwright
Neville Smith celebrates a feature of his home town.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Liverpool lore sees the city as a racial and cultural melting pot. Yet for 150 years its Chinese community has been set apart by language and cultural barriers.
Actor David Yip makes a pilgrimage to Liverpool's Chinatown to find a community isolated by its own traditions.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON (David Yip is in Afternoon Theatre, Friday 3.2 pm)
BBC Manchester
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Presenters
Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Nunthorpe Grammar School, York v. Mount School, York
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin, Paddy Feeny
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with Geoff Watts reporting on the health of medical care.
Producer ALISON Richards
Major Issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Tim Hodlin
Producer DIANA GOODMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
The Instruments of Jazz A series of eight programmes
5:The Strings - Violin, Guitar and Bass
With JOE VENUTI ,
EDDIE LANG , STEPHANE GRAPPELLI DJANCO REINUARDT, BARNEY KESSEL , CHARLIE MINGUS
JEAN-LUC PONTY and others Producer ALAN OWEN
In the fourth of six programmes, Robert Rowe talks to men and women who have fled to Britain to escape persecution. South Africans - Waiting for the Revolution
Many Black South
Africans have become refugees because the weight of legal repression, such as Imprisonment, banning orders and preventive detention, has made life unbearable.
About 300 live In
Bfitain, even though there Is no British
Government programme to help them. They are self-help refugees. working for the day when they can return to a new order in South Africa.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN
Jane Finnis reports on close circuit television systems for the partially sighted and DR MICHAEL WOLFFE assesses their effectiveness.
Presenter Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.3010.0 pm
includes reviews of The Night of San Lorenzo, a new film by the Taviant brothers telling the story of a Tuscan villager's defiance of the German army in the summer of 1944; and Mick Elsson 's Ghosts, a new novel by John Gardner , which deals with a retired university professor whose own madness gradually pales in comparison to the greater insanity of the life he rediscovers In contemporary America. Presenter John Jacob
Producer CARROLL MOORE
with Alexander Macleod with voices and opinions from around the world
Maxwell Boyd chairs the second semi-final of this new motoring contest at the Motor Show in Birmingham. Four contestants face a wide selection of questions set by Autocar magazine. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
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