Presented from the North by Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
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Presenters John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With The Rev John Congdon
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Bryan Martin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Robert Booth
Producer KATE FENTON
Your chance to ask senior politicians about their party's policies and their campaign promises. Sir Robin Day is in the Chair to ensure fair play. Produced by the Special Current Affairs Unit.
Lines open from 8.0 am A simultaneous broadcast with BBCl
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The Gold-Widow by BETTY BURTON
Read by Mary Wimbush
Producer MITCH RAPER ( Rpt) long wave only
NEM, p 50; 0 Holy Ghost, thy people bless (BBC HB 156); Psalm 86; Acts 2, vv 14-21 (RSV); Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost (BP 25)
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Brian Johnston visits
Faringdon in Oxfordshire. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Presented by Dannie Abse Readers RAY SMITH and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol long wave only
Paul Heiney and Pattie Coldwell with the latest news for consumers.
Today's edition follows ub the recent item on slimming aids with an investigation into more products which the experts say don't work. Ring 01.[number removed]with your comments, questions and suggestions.
Nigel Rees and guests Alan Bennett.
Janet Suzman. Leslie Thomas
WynfordVaughan-Thomas Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian WidlaKe
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with Sue MacGregor A Circle ofCaring:
MARGARET COLES reports on a trust set up to support the work of the Surrey Probation Service.
The King's General (13) long wave only
My Brother's Keeper by R.E.T. LAMB
1851: a young Welshman sets sall for Australia to make his fortune ...of Taken from the letters of ÈBENEZER PARRY 'S family at home and of Ebenezer himself who speM the rest of his life searching for a dream at Gaffney s Creek, Victoria.
Scripted and produced by ANGELA JENNER
BBC Wales
The Vigil by W. W. JACOBS abridged and read by Manning Wilson
Mr Farrer is particularly unfortunate in having an ex-sergeant-major as his prospective father-in-law, but even a sergeant-major, it seems, may have an Achilles' heel. Producer JOHN CARDY
with Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Written by EELEN LEADBETTER
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Since May 1979, around four-million young people have joined the Electoral Register. How do they view the world of politics? Do they intend to use their vote and it so, how and why? And how important are they in determining who will form the next government? Presenter
Joshua Rozenberg
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN
Enemies by MAXIM GORKY
An English version by KITTY HUNTER-BLAIR and JEREMY BROOKS adapted for radio by LIANE AUKIN
It is the summer of 1905 and Russia stands on the edge of revolution. In the life of one landowning family with a small textile factory. th3 relations between owner, manager and worker are played out. The Bardin household:
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
includes reviews of The Ploughman's Lunch by Ian McEwan. directed by Richard Eyre and starring Jonathan Pryce as a BBC News Editor faced with the dilemma of writing a history of Suez in the light of current events; also The K-Factor, David Caute 's novel set in Rhodesia at the climax 0: the war in 1979. Presenter Paul Vaughan producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ROSEMARY HART
Stephen Milligan reporting Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presenter Peter Evans
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
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Extracts from the day's major speeches recorded at campaign meetings. Presenter John Hosken long wave only
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