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with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30.8.30
News Summary
6.45. Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.15*. 8,25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Clive Roslin

[number removed]Autumn Gardening
The gardener's chores are never-ending. What should be done as autumn turns to winter to prepare the ground for the next year? What can be pruned or planted now? What mistakes of the past year can be avoided next?
Plantsman Roy Lancaster and Peter Robinson.
Principal of Capel Manor Institute of Horticulture, are in the studio to put you on the right road to a beautiful garden next spring.
In the Chair Jill Burridge Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Lancaster
Unknown:
Peter Robinson.
Unknown:
Jill Burridge

Strange Lovers by TIM HAIGH with David Peart as Tom and Molr Leslie as Sue Sue , trying to find shelter from the rain, meets Tom. A relationship develops, but then he disappears and when Sue phones him another woman answers.
Directed by BRIAN DEAN long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Haigh
Unknown:
David Peart
Unknown:
Molr Leslie
Unknown:
Sue Sue
Directed By:
Brian Dean
Jerry:
Eric Allan
Café man:
James Bryce
Helen:
Carole Boyd
Girl:
Maggie McCarthy

The magazine edition in which Derek Jones looks at the stirring spectacle of migrating cranes and the appealing alpine marmot.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 5.0 pm) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Green is taking over in three rundown inner city areas of London, Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent. ROGER CLARK reports.
I Start Counting (2) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Roger Clark

by DELORES BARON with Sarah Davies leaves Wales for the chance of work and Independence. It's now or never. She's 23, bright, and determined to have fun. All she has to do Is to get a job and meet a few people. But it's not that simple - Is it?
Directed by JAMES RUNCIE

Contributors

Unknown:
Delores Baron
Unknown:
Sarah Davies
Directed By:
James Runcie
Sarah Davies:
Emily Morgan
her Mother:
Elizabeth Morgan
Mr Davies:
Jon Strickland
Ruth:
Wendy Murray
Vi:
Moir Leslie
James:
Pip Torrens
Juan:
Alfredo Michelsen
Vicky:
Carole Boyd
Landiady:
Carole Boyd

Today being All Saints' Day, Miles Kington glues together a few old relics to create a totally new saints list. Meet St Leger, St Louis and St Michael as we are led to the very gates of heaven.
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Presenter:
Miles Kington
Producer:
Julian Hitchcock

Major Issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Stuart Simon
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)

Contributors

Reporter:
Stuart Simon
Producer:
Max Easterman
Editor:
David Taylor

Six lurches round England by Ray Gosling - not quite in the wake of J. B. Priestley 's English Journey.
When Priestley visited Manchester in 1933, he found a fog-bound city of grim, blackened warehouses. Gosling's progress through the north west in 1983 finds culture mills replacing cotton mills ... and other mills which have blown the wheels off
William Blake's chariot of fire ...
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presenter:
Ray Gosling
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

News, vtews and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HE SHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White

Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition which includes reviews of Francis, the world premiere of a new play by Julian Mitchell. starring Kenneth Branagh at the Greenwich Theatre; and Boris Godunov. Mussorgsky's opera produced by the Soviet film director
Andrei Tarkovsky. with Robert Lloyd singing the title role, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Play By:
Julian Mitchell.
Unknown:
Kenneth Branagh
Unknown:
Boris Godunov.
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky.
Unknown:
Robert Lloyd
Producer:
Richard Bannerman

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