Producer MARTIN SMALL
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With ROGER GRAINGER
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7 30, 8 30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel
The Craft of Writing Do you write prose, poetry or plays in your spare time, and if so, how can you improve your techniques, and ultimately get published? To answer your questions on the craft of writing and the processes of publishing, Sue MacGregor is joined in the studio by novelist and short-story writer Jack Trevor Story , and by editor, novelist and lecturer in creative writing. Carole Burns. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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Out of the Shadows by STAN BRADSHAW
Read by Alan Rothwell Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester long wave only
NCM, p 46; 0 God of Bethel, by whose hand (BBC HB 495); Psalm 32; Matthew 4. vv 18-26
(NED); Jesus call us! O'er the tumult (BBC HB 354)
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The Foreigners by GRAHAM SWANNELL
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' Our robin has been pressing bits of sawdust into its breast feathers and under its wings. What pleasure can it get from doing this? ' The naturalists take pleasure in answering your questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
including this week advice on ante-natal care. Today: new ideas on the extent to which cigarettes, alcohol and drugs taken during pregnancy affect the health of your baby. Presenter Jenni Mills
Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben in A Liberal Education with Pat Heywood as Mrs Kelly and Tony Millan as Alastair
' I'd like it to be a coeducational school. I'd like one within walking distance; one that doesn't cram them, but has high academic standards, good on drama and music. And I'd like the uniform to be dark blue and white because that'd go with their colouring.'
Written by SIMON BRETT Producer PETER ATKIN (Rptd: Thurs 6.30 pm) 12 55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor Preparing for the Christmas Rush: JULIA BROOKE goes behind the scenes in a large department store.
With Faith, Love and Practical Care:
JEAN SNEDEGAR meets Dirk and Sandra van Zuylen and talks to them about how they deal with the kidney disease that Dirk has suffered from for over ten years.
The Hidden Face (10) long wave only
No Fixed Address by ELSPETH SANDYS and When you're actually faced with The Man who came to Dinner it's not such a joke. Vivienne Is a girl who came to tea and looks like staying forever. She's obviously in need of help and you can't just turn your back onanoldfriendor politely ask her to leave, no matter how unsettling her presence becomes.'
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(James Laurenson is a National Theatre player)
Advent Calendar
The first window opens on The Rev Tony Burnham who examines the meaning of the season and the preparation for Christmas. Producer GILLIAN IIUSH BBC Manchester
Over 2,500 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho lived and flourished as a lyric poet, and ever since her work has been acclaimed by writers and scholars. Frank Delaney , in conversation with the poet Judith Kazantzis and two classical scholars, Professor Mary Lefkowitz and Dr Angus Bowie , seeks out the woman beyond the myths and her poems which still speak directly to us today.
Lyre music
OR CHRISTOPHER PAGE
Reader BARBARA JEFFORD Producer SUSAN DENNY
Murder Unprompted (2)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
(on VHF until 5.55)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain.
Exeter School, Exeter v Nunthorpe Grammar School, York
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 nm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer ALISON Richards (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Roger Finnigan Producer PAUL CAMPBELL Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)
The BBC is for the free mind, what Oxfam is /or the hungry.
(NEW YORK TIMES)
The External Services of the BBC began as the Empire Service in 1932. Over the years, they have established a reputation for broadcasting the truth to the world with accuracy and impartiality, and today they transmit programmes round the clock to 100-million regular listeners in 37 languages.
Margaret Howard tells the story of the past 50 years, with recordings from the BBC Sound
Archives, and with the voices of the programme makers and the listeners. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. As a child I didn't realise my mother was different.' Terry Williams talks to David Clark about his memories of childhood with a totally blind mother.
Presenter Ian MacRae Producer THENA IIESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]. 8.30-10.0 pm
visits the new £2-million concert hall in Nottingham which opened on Saturday and has a civil gala with massed bands on Thursday; and reviews a new production by Tadeusz Kantor and his company Cricot 2 from Cracow at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. Presenter Michael Oliver Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
with Alexander MacLeod
An epic fantasy in at least four parts by A. P. R. MARSHALL and j. H. w. LLOYD Producer
GEOFFREY PERKINS
The Years (7) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
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