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8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
invitee you to join him and Libby Purves for conversation with the people who are in and out of the news this week.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
Ken Ford invites
Geoffrey Smith , Daphm Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczackl to answer questions which listeners have aent in by post.
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An act of thanksgiving for the life of Andrew Stuart
Hibberd, MBE (1893-1993)
Stuart Hibberd , one of the outstanding figures in BBC Radio from its earliest days, died on 1 November.
such as 'setaceous hebrew character' or 'true-lover knot' 'maiden's blush' or 'cream-spot tiger'? Whether descriptive or collective, classical or colloquial, names of plants and animals have some very strange origins not least the moths which include the 'anomalous', the 'uncertain', the 'stranger and the 'delicate'.. -
Presenter Denis Owen
Producer ANNE BLAIR COULD BBC Bristol
John Howard with more news and advice for consumers.
A story of the R101
A serial in seven parts by David Beatt
After a major refit the two halves of R101 had now been joined together, but there were still defects, of which the Secretary of State for Air, Lord Thomson, appeared oblivious. Yet a date of departure for India of midnight 26 September 1930 had been fixed...
BBC Bristol
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Guest of the Week:
Dorienne Wilson-Smillie ,
Director of the Commonwealth Women's Development Programme.
The Ladies of Lyndon (11)
The Inkpen Gibbet by Maureen Donecan
When Dorothy Newman hires George to help her on the farm, it isn't long before he starts neglecting his wife. In the village, the rumour starts that Dorothy is a witch, and it seems to be confirmed when tragedy strikes.
The Song of Hiawatha Six extracts from the epic poem by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, chosen and read by Johnny Morris
5:TheWhiteMan'sFoot BBC Bristol
Travellers' Tales
Jan Morris outwits the rivals to bring vital news from Everest.
A four-part series in which Vincent Kane investigates the resilience of the human spirit and how some people are able to recover from the sort of traumas and disasters that most of us dread in our lives.
3: Personal Trauma
Seven years ago, Jane Ewart -Biggs' life was changed overnightwhensheheardthat her husband had been murdered by the IRA in a car-bomb explosion In 1965 '
Commander
Anthony Courtney , a prominent Tory MP. became the victim of a KGB smear campaign. As a result be lost his parliamentary seat, bisbusinessandhiswife.Ten yean ago Heutwen Haf entered a menta] hospital followingasuddenbreakdown. It would be two years before she'd leave the hospital.
Today they reflect on their periods of trauma and how they set about rebuilding their lives.
Series compiled and produced by JAN TAYLOR BBC Wales
A Kind of Treason (10)
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with PETER DONAUMON including Financial report
South - Colchester County High School for Girls v. last week's winner
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm)
A series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud,
Presenter Roger Cook
Government and the Governed
The last of six talks by Sir Douglas Wass. GCB.
Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and Joint Head of the Home Civil Service until his retirement in spring this year
Participation— the Sole Bond The Greek city state, the polls,wassmallenoughto permit all free men to share in the taking of political decisions, and it was an important duty laid upon the citizen to accept this responsibility. Representative government, as we know it today, would have been a peculiar, indeed a questionable .. The challenge today is to make the political process more publicly acceptable. And the key lies in seekmg to re-establish the Greek ideal in concept if not inpreciseform.
compiledbyPatrickpollard from The Traveller's
Conversational Handbook by MADAME DE GENLIS . first published in four languages in 1804,withAnthony wrote it for those rich and reckless enough to go on the Grand Tour of Europe. But her Handbook is not simply an ancestor of the modern tourist's phrase-book. She wrote dialogue to cover any eventuality in early
19th-century travel. It is amusing and absurd-but then so is the predicament of any traveller who cannot speak the language.
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS (Repeal)
Pax Americana
The rhetoric of President Reagan's foreign policy statements have alarmed many of his European allies.
Americans seem increasingly impatient with Europe. After Grenada, are they more prepared to go it alone? David Wheeler reports from
Washington on the thinking behind the phrases: the reasoning and the reality of America's foreign policy. Producer ANNE WINDER
including interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter PAUL ALLEN
Producer CARROLL MOORE
John Morgan reporting and voices and opinions from around the world
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