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 LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Richard Baker takes you through the morning with lively guests joining him for entertaining and sometimes provocative conversation wise words from
Laurie Taylor and Vic Lewis Smith about how to behave doing things you might never dream of even trying in Modem Manners
... listeners' live telephone calls to people in the studio discussing one of the big issues in the news during the Thursday Exchange.
Regular items:
The News on the hour from BRIAN PERKINS
10.30 Morning Story
Read by Peter Adamson as Harry Kemp , a northern photographer
Lemmy the Liar by WALLY K. DALY
10.45 An Act of Worship conducted by David Winter
... advice to someone in the studio asking Can
You Help?, with resident psychologist Sonya Hinton
... an update on the strange goings-on observed by Able Seagull Herring which may or may not have any bearing on reality
... Pattie Coldwell once again takes a modem-day Daniel into the Lion's Den
... a live link-up with commentators in BBC studios all over the country in Network UK, in which national and local stories big and small get an airing.
Produced by the Rollercoaster unit long wave only from 9.5
Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
This week Mae West the sex goddess who invited ordinary mortals to 'come up 'n' see me sometime'. Producer WENDY CLAY
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Click Go the Shears: every year teams of travelling shearers from Australia and New Zealand arrive in Britain for the shearing season. ANDREA ADAMS tracked down one team to a farm in Hampshire and met some shearers, a roustabout and 'the boss cocky'.
Little Sister (7) long wave only
Westmorland by ROBERT FERGUSON
Billy is a dreamer. Even as a child he found it easier to weave fantasies rather than face reality. Rose grew up with him, but the qualities she loved in the boy she now finds destructive in the man.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC
Reference Library sort out the answers.
Producer LUCY LUNT
The Year of the Lion by GERALD HANLEY abridged in 12 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by Nigel Anthony (1) The story of a hunt for a man-eating lion in East Africa in the 1930s.
Producer ROBERT COOPER
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams 5.50-5.55
with PETER DONALDSON including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Compiled by LAURIE MASON Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
As the climax to a 12-week search to find a winner in the RADIO
TIMEs/Radio 4 Competition for Small Businesses,
Marjorie Lofthouse hosts a special presentation ceremony in Broadcasting House, London. The prizes - il0,000 in cash, plus two BBC micro computers - is presented by The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , mp, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. The Judges:
David Trippier , mp, Minister for Small Businesses
Jeffrey Archer , best-selling writer
Alan Stote , Chairman of the CBI's Smaller Firms Council
Stuart Young, Chairman of the BBC
The Finalists:
ASQUITH MOTOR CARRIAGE m co LTD
GEORGINA VON ETZDORF
HEAL FARM QUALITY MEATS
UNK.UP EXPRESS
M. K. LTD
MARKET ANSWERS LTD
NOVA WEIGH LTD
PERSONAL SOFTWARE SERVICES
PRECISION LABEL DIES LTD
SHERWOOD FLEXIBLES LTD
STAGE ELECTRICS
STRAIGHT LINES
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
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Stanley Williamson opens the file on life in Leicester 100 years ago, as it was reflected in the local newspapers.
Readers RANDAL HERLEY and GEOFFREY WHEELER Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Belfast
A personal view by playwright and schoolteacher
Robin Glendinning
'"What's it like to live in Belfast?" Faced with this question I have found myself either telling astonished listeners how boringly normal it all is or attempting to astonish them with tales from the battle zone ... I don't like to admit to ambivalence, to walking away from a confrontation, to being the mere observer in a situation which demands action ... It is the truth however....'
Technical presentation COLM FLANAGAN
Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Far Away and Long Ago A History of My Early Life by W. H. HUDSON abridged in ten parts by JEREMY MORTIMER Read by IAN HOLM
9: Birding in the Marshes Producer JEREMY MORTIMER
National and international news, background, analysis and comment. Presenter
Alexander MacLeod
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