with Brian Redhead and John Timpson
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
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
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A Natural Death written and read by Celia Dale
Sophie had always been a cherished and desirable woman. And now she was to be a grandmother? Ridiculous?
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
from Manchester led by THE REV NEIL RICHARDSON with the MANCHESTER BOYS CHOIR
The two dwellings (Shaw); I Peter 1, vv 1-5; Love divine (BBC HB 328) long wave only
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Let Neil Landor sort out your queries, quibbles and quandaries
Producer JAN TAYLOR long wave only
News and advice for consumers with Paul Heiney and Les Cottington with his weekly shopping guide.
Rugby Union, according to the laws of the game, is played and administered in 'a sporting spirit'. That's why there's no violence, greed, corruption, drunkenness, lechery or anti-social behaviour of any kind associated with it. Patrick Hannan examines how Wales in particular has produced so many clean-limbed heroes who, on and off the field, are an example to us all.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Presenter Sir Robin Day With news and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Children Need Fathers: how many fathers are forced to sever all ties with their children through divorce or separation? And what help is available for them? KAREN DECO reports. Wycliffe and the Pea-green Boat (6) long wave only
Diary of a Suburban Housewife by SANDRA CLAYTON with Jill Meers as Anne 'After all the emotional capital I have expended upon my family, not to mention physical toil - my husband has become a grunt in front of the telly, my son has transmogrified into a mound of washing and my daughter leaves me in no doubt that when the revolution comes, I shall not be marching with the sisterhood!'
Directed by VANESSA WH1TBURN BBC Birmingham
(Roger Hume is a member of the RSC)
Wood on Water
Francis Wood , sailor, pays tribute to the lifeboat service.
Vera (4)
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
with HARRIET CASS including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by JAMES ROBSON Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Brian Redhead spent three weeks in India last November covering, among other things, the Commonwelth Prime
Ministers' Conference. Tonight he talks about some of the other things.
as Radio 2
with David Jacobs
Compiled by LAURIE MASON ProducerMARY PRICE BBC Bristol
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The Cathedral at the End of the World
'... And so we came to the end of the world, where the Patron Saint of Wales sleeps by the Western
Sea ...' (The Rev Francis Kilvert 's diary - Tuesday 17 October 1871)
Paul Vaughan makes a pilgrimage to St David's
Cathedral, on the coast of Pembrokeshire, to explore its architecture, its music and its history.
Producer JOHN POWELL
The Lost Domain (14)
11.0 Headlines long wave only from 11.0
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Anthony Howard presents Radio 4's coverage of the most significant by-election of this Parliament.
Comment and analysis by Robert Carvel of the London Standard and David Butler of Nuffield College, Oxford.
In the studio The Rt Hon John Biff en, mp and The Rt Hon
Gerald Kaufmann , mp among others, discuss the implications of the result. Producer PETER ROBINS long wave only
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