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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Smoking and Health
Medical experts agree that smoking is bad for you, but what's the best method of giving up? Can acupuncture or hypnotherapy really work or is willpower still the answer? Why do women find it so much harder to give up than men? And will you really put on weight as you cut down on cigarettes?
On the eve of National No Smoking Day, the Director of ASH. David Simpson and Dr Bobbie Jacobson of the Chest Unit at London's
Whittington Hospital, join Sue MacGregor to answer your questions.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
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A Good Firm to Work For by JACKIE EDWARDS Read by Terry Molloy Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
from Manchester led by THE REV
ERNEST SANDS with the choir of ST WINIFRED'S SCHOOL
Amazing Grace; I Peter 1, vv 10-16; The Lord has shown his goodness; Sing for joy.
BBC Manchester long wave only
Mary by FRANCES GRAY
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'What is the world's most poisonous animal? And plant?'
Mike Stoddart ,
Peter Ferns and Malcolm Coe discuss some of your more general natural history queries.
Presenter Derek Jones
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
with Patti Coldwell
David Tench tackles your legal problems. This week: HP and other credit
by GUY JENKIN and JON CANTER Happiness ... is a career in advertising starring with and the voices of JOSS ACKLAND.
MIRIAM MARGOLYES. JAMES GRIFFITHS.
JOHN SHRAPNEL. IMELDA
STAUNTON and DAVID TATE Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30pm)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
by the Labour Party
Presented by Sue MacGregor
Is Too Much Soap Bad for You? can an overdose of The Archers or Dynasty damage your health? and what is the attraction of all those everyday stories? roz DAVIES investigates ... Wycliffe and the Pea-green Boat (4) long wave only
Another Applicant by NICK FISHER
Cummings seems just the man for the new position that Mr Wheeler is creating in his vast business consortium, for 'the old firm' is not adapting too well to the strains of modern life.
New reserves need tapping and fresh supplies are harder to come by. After all, it has become more difficult to wander the streets with fangs for all to see....
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Wood on Water
Francis Wood , sailor extraordinary, learns the art of galley-cooking.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
Who has the superior right: the smoker to smoke or the non-smoker to breath unpoluted air? On the eve of National No Smoking Day,
Julian Hale reports from California and Scotland. In San Francisco, voters have told the tobacco companies to 'butt out' - and the non-smoker now has the right to insist on clean air at the workplace. In Glasgow, a campaign is underway to make the entire city 'smoke free' by the year 2000.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS mFEATURE: page 3
Vera (2)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
with EUGENE FRASER including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports Producer JEREMY WEBB (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
Reporter Roger Finnigan Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)
An essay for radio
Jonathan Raban went to Fowey in Cornwall to winter out. He wanted air and solitude and Fowey seemed right. The tourists were gone, the summer restaurants closed.
Gradually he became absorbed in the life of the water outside his window; the estuary with its ferries, the people of Fowey and Polruan and the water-business.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Yesterday evening at the Oxford Union,
E. P. Thompson , leading light of the nuclear disarmament movement, spoke for the motion: That there is no moral difference between the foreign policies of the USA and the USSR.
Speaking against was the American Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger.
Michael Charlton introduces highlights from the debate.
An Analysis production
The Lost Domain (12)
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Takeaway Service
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