News, weather, paper* and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
Presenters Brian Redhead and David Byrne
6.30.7.3., 8.30 New, Summary
6.45' Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
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and good company with 55 mlnutee of lively conversation.
Llbby Purves says Happy Birthday to this weeks special guest.
Producer PIPPA BURSION
Gardeners' Question Time visits Leicestershire where members of the Long Clawson Women's Institute put their questions to Geoffrey Smith, Daphne Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
by Jill Norris
Read by Elizabeth Proud
NEM. p 54; 0 God of Jove, whose spirit wakes (BBC m 23); Psalm 119, vv 49-56; Genesis 13, vv 1-18; Lord of mercy and of might (BBC Hi 295) long wave only
Richard Baker 's musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT long wave only
Pattie Coldwell has the latest consumer news.
For queries, comments or suggestions about any of the items In the programme ring rrogrammering21.0 am. l-58»4411after11.0am.
by Anthony Olcott
dramatised for radio In live parts by Matthew Walters
with Anton Rogers as Duvakin
Duvakin, a night security guard at the Red October Hotel in Moscow has reported the mysterious death of an American at the hotel. This has led him inexorably Into dealings with the KGB, and he is now about to step further into the world of drugs and murder.
presenter Sir Robin Day
with Saudi Marshall
Guest of the Week: the comic actor and writer, star of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, John Cleese.
The House of Women (8)
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suntrap by RUTH GORING with,.v—
Withdrawn Audrey has come to prefer the security of her large Yorkshire house to venturing outside. Then. one day, she is left at home in the company of a past business associate of her husband's - a slightly pathetic but sinister old figure ...
Directed by RICHARD WORTHY
In seven programmes the The Anglo-Welsh poet
Gillian Clarke introduces poetry of her choice.
1: Battle
Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE PAUL WEBSTER producer enyd Williams BBC Wales
The Restless Americans CLAIRE FRANKEL looks at some of the American women who have made the British connection.
2: Lady Frankland, the barmaidwhomarriedthe Boston harbourmaster Just before that Tea Party and later came back to Britain with him.
Reporter Stuart Simon
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
The Picture of Dorian Gray (3)
Presented by Susannah Simon. and Robert Williams
with BRIAN PERKINS
Including Financial Report
A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain
First Round 4: West Bodmin School v The High School, Truro
Questionmasters TIM GUDGIN, PADDY FEENY
Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY, NIGEL RICHARDSON and PADDY FEENY
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
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Written by MARY CUTLER
(Repeated: Thuri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Four programmes
2: Day of Reckoning
In 1974 the largest peace-time explosion ever shattered the rural tranquility of Lincolnshire. Could It happen again and, if so. who would pay?
Brenda Kidman talks to people now living on the edge of an Industrial complex with a much greater explosive potential than Flixborough.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Written and presented by Dr Roy Foster
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-
1973) once described the lunatic giant' Inside each of us as knocking and screaming to be listened to. Despite frequent comparisons with Henry James. Bowen was a writer greatly interested In the wildness of feeling and sensation contained In everyday social life and she wrote of It with wit. daring and passion. Her friends,
CHARLES RITCHIE and MOLLY KEANI , biographer VICTORIA clendinning and critic
FFERMIONE LEE discuss her personality and her writing. Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM
(' The Heat of the Day ' by Elizabeth Bowen begins next Monday, in A Book at Bedtime 11.0 pm)
Peter Hobday with the magazine which goes to the shopfloor ana boardrooms across the country where work is done and decisions are taken affecting the wealth of the nation.
This week: the explosive growth of the business magazine and a retailer's view of plastic money. Producer ROGER PARRY
(Repeated: Thurs 10.0 am)
Moonshine is an unreliable, non-committal, unsentimental and inconsistent light, such as is shed by this inconclusive and distracting assemblage of verse songs, stories and archival oddments on relatives.
Presented by Judi Dench
with additional readings by Joss Ackland
Music from Cambridge City Jassband
Vocal refrains David Skitani and the Rhythm Boys
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Includes reviews of Time After Time, Molly Keane 's new novel about the Swifts, a brother and two sisters condemned to live together, by their mother's last wishes, in a decaying house on the flanks of an Irish mountain; and the Berlin Philharmonic's recording of Bizet's Carmen, conducted by Herbert von Karajan , with Agnes Baltsa , José Carreras and Riccardo Ricclarelli.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer PHILIP JORDAN
with Alexander MacLeod with voices and opinions from around the world.
Stranger in the House (8) long wave only
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Not Wagner, but a natural history of an apparently modest circle of metal which Is part ornament, part symbol: some wear rings as a mark of authority, some for decoration, some as a token of love. But does your ring have a story to tell? Or has it a secret magical power you are not aware of? Could It be a cure for a headache, or even a passport to the Otherworld?
Ron Alldridge investigates Producer peter Griffiths long wave only
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