Presented from the North by Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
with Peter Hobday and Michael Stewart
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with David Hitchinson
The former foreign correspondent puts an ear to the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 pm)
who invites you to meet some of the names who are hitting the headlines this week.
Kenneth Robinson adds his own brand of humour.
Producer IAN STRACHAN
Hannah Gordon talks about gardens open this summer in aid of The Gardeners' Royal
Benevolent Society and The Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund.
The Pilgrims by JOHN G. MILLER
Read by John Westbrook Producer MITCH RAPER
The Blind Do See
NEM, p 21; Jesu, lover of my soul (BBC HB 145); Let thy merciful ears, 0 Lord (Weelkes); Mark 10, vv
46-52; Blessed Jesu, at thy word (BBC HB 257)
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Dannie Abse
Readers ANGELA DOWN and ANDREW SACHS Compiled by MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Presenter John Howard lends a sympathetic ear to your phone comments and queries on [number removed]. Editor KEN VASS
Every week for the next six weeks from a health farm to the Ideal Home Exhibition, from the World Wine Fair to Guy's Hospital. Today he's been to the Boat Show with Sheila Steafel, Charles Collingwood and the Cambridge Buskers.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 6.30 pm)
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
with Sue MacGregor Oh to be in England? ex-patriots dream of England, but does reality measure up to the memories? JEAN SNEDEGAR talks to people who've returned from living abroad to find they're suffering from reverse culture shock.
Variations on a Theme of Oscar Wilde's by J. I. M. STEWART abridged in three parts by SHIRLEY COOKLIN
Read by John Rye (1)
'The picture was modern, but as Upton looked at it, incongruous names - Samuel Palmer ,
John Varley - flitted through his head. Had the strange power of visionary painting touched the artist?...'
(Music: Hedge's Scenes from the Humber)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Murder for Pleasure Tragedy at Law by CYRIL HARE
...or in this case, who's in a name such as 'Bonelli's warbler', or 'Blair's shoulder-knot', 'Montagu's Harrier' or 'Glanville fritillary'.
Denis Owen , of 'Owen's redwing' fame explains how to achieve immortality by having a butterfly or a bird named after you....
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD
BBC Bristol
Futility (6)
with Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Freddie Fortescue-Smythe and Reggie Biffen are on the town in Victorian
London tonight leaving a trail of girls and champagne corks all the way from the Bachelor's
Club to the Silken Garter. accompanied charmingly at the pianoforte by Miss Helen Crayford Written by THE HANDSOME CADS
Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) is a chemical used widely in large electrical installations. But incidents in which the chemical has leaked, causing pollution, the death of wildlife and illness in humans has concerned environmentalists, safety experts and legislators. In Japan a leak of PCB into a rice-packing plant poisoned 15,000 people. In San Francisco a fire involving PCB led to an office block being abandoned for ten months. There have been other incidents in Belfast and Leeds. Sean Maffett investigates these concerns and asks what is being done to minimise risks to the environment. Producer LESLIE ROBINSON
Burning the Arc by MIKE DORRELL
'It's a funny sort of town this,' a welder comments as day breaks over the South Wales industrial community. This play traces 12 hours in the life of one town as it struggles to shake off the 19th century and come to terms with the 20th.
GREG SAUNDERS
GLYN GOLL (guitar)
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Richard Mayne presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY HART
I'm Not Complaining (6)
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON long wave only from 11.0
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