Presenters 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 BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
And good company - 55 minutes of conversation with people from all walks of life, including birthday guest Ken Livingstone.
Ken Ford invites Geoffrey Smith Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Questions should be on postcards only please and addressed to
BBC, Woodhouse Lone , Leeds [Postcode removed] BBC Manchester
Mother of the Bride by BARBARA ROBERTS
Read by Mary Wimbush 'There was nothing quite so competitive as a wedding. Nothing equalled it for announcing where you were on the social scale. No other occasion exposed family skeletons with such grinning teeth.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
NEM, p 71; The Lord of heaven confess (BBC HB
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Ten programmes
7: A Matter of Tolerance Johnny Morris calls on 25 years of dealing with animals - and their dealings with him. BBC Bristol long wave only
with Pattie Coldwell
A serial in six parts by JOHN FLETCHER , with 5: An extensive nationwide search is underway for Terry Prince , which he has so far evaded. He is making his way to a mansion in Oxfordshire, the setting for a deed he has been blackmailed into carrying out ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Presenter Sir Robin Day
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Carroll Baker , the original baby-doll sex symbol who fought for 20 years to become her own woman.
Little Sister (6) long wave only
A series selected from the work of one of radio's leading dramatists.
with Jo Kendall as Jane, Christopher Godwin as Desmond and Aubrey Woods as Alfred. Jane tries to deliver some flowers at Desmond's flat. She finds him in bed and unprepared to get out of it. And there are other surprises in store...
(Christopher Godwin is in 'Noises Off' at the Savoy Theatre, London)
Three programmes in which a notable ancestor is recalled by a notable descendant.
3: William Douglas Home on Lady Jane Douglas (1698-1753)
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Laughing Gas by P G. WODEHOUSE abridged and read in 13 parts by DAVID MCAUSTER (13)
Producer GRAHAM GAULD (David McAlister is in 'Peg' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)
Presenters
Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with LAURIE MACMILLAN including
Financial Report
devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thurs 12 noon)
with Peter Hobday
This week: sponsorship of the arts - what's in it for business?
Producer ROSALIND BEW
A ten-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann casts a generally benign but occasionally cynical eye on the history of music-making in the home. 6: A Foot in the Dooror.... How Supply Creates Demand
Domestic music-makers sample an exciting range of new, improved products, and succumb to the promise of something for nothing.
Readers JILL BALCON and JOHN WESTBROOK Producer RAY ABBOTT
The Tito Heritage
Yugoslavs have survived four years without Tito but the system he bequeathed is under strain. Massive foreign debt and a creaking economy have made shortages endemic.
Popular discontent has fuelled the confederation's old rival nationalisms. What changes is
Yugoslavia facing? Is
Titoism on the horns of the universal Communist dilemma: crack down or crack up?
Presenter Chris Cviic Producer DAVID MORTON (Repeated: Fri 11.0 am)
Five talks in which playwright
Brian Thompson attempts to catalogue random memories as preparation for an autobiography. 2: Cambridge
BBC Manchester
Richard Mayne presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer JOHN POWELL
Far Away and Long Ago 8: A Delight in Nature
with Alexander MacLeod
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