Presented by 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 PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Read by Eileen Atkins
A short story about two writers who use a conversation about the importance of truth in their work to cover up their attraction, each for each.
Producer CLARE TAYLOR
Marjorie Lofthouse and Donny MacLeod invite you to join them once more at the Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham -for a variety of stimulating and entertaining items including
... 9.5 Families:
Robin Skynner , therapist and writer advises on how to survive them; others concentrate on how to enjoy them.
... A Dream Within a Dream: Howard Burnham abandons his role as a schoolteacher to recreate the enigmatic personality of Lewis Carroll in a performance based on original letters and diaries.
... Mellow Harvest: Ted Moult takes a trip through the fruit orchards of England.
Regular items
The News on the hour from BRIAN MARTIN
10.30 Morning Story
10.45 An Act of Worship
...In The Lion's Den: a latter-day Daniel confronts a hostile audience.
... Network UK: a round-up of stories - big and not so big - from BBC Radio Stations around the country.
Produced by the Pebble Mill Rollercoaster unit on VHFIFM until 11.0
11.0 Religious Education Religion m the Community Muslim communities in Britain
11.20 Make Up Your Mind Risks and Nuclear Power
11.40 Listening To Music 1: 11-13 A Night on the Bare Mountain Mussorgsky Part 2
Twenty-five years ago the Spanish poet, Garcia Lorca described New York as the 'unsleeping city'. It is still described today as the city that never sleeps. It has captivated the imagination of writers, painters and pop stars. It became the last resting place of John Lennon. This word picture is a contemporary expression of the images of New York city. Producer MARTIN DILLON
(First broadcast on Radio Ulster)
An excursion into the unpredictable reaches of how to get there - and back. In the pilot's seat
Christopher Matthew
Feet firmly on the ground Miles Kington Hazel Evans Tom Vernon
Departures from the script announced by EUGENE FRASER Travel details
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW Tour Organiser
DANNY GREENSTONE Stereo
Presenter Gordon Clough
Maureen Morris and David Peart with rhymes and poems
Arthur's Angel by KEN BLAKESON
Arthur has spoken to no one in all his years in psychiatric care. Now another patient, Nelly Fothergill , arrives on the scene. Soon she is reviving his interest in life. announcing their engagement and telling the authorities she wants to set up home with him - and this is where the dilemma really begins.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS Stereo
Let Neil Landor together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference
Library sort out your queries. Producer LUCY LUNT
Teresa McGonagle invites
Sandy Boler and Christopher Matthew to pick some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Act of Mercy (9)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID HTTCHINSON including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm) Wntten by JOANNA TOYE Cast for the week: BBC Birmingham
One in three people in Britain today has used some form of alternative medicine and there are almost as many alternative practitioners as there are GPs. Can complementary or alternative still be regarded as fringe medicine? Why do people seek it and how are they helped by it? What is its relationship with conventional medicine? Barbara Myers investigates some of the many alternative therapies available today, only to find that there is much common ground between them and also between the people who try them.
8.20 Phone-in If you would like to put a question on complementary medicine and its place in our system of healthcare ring [number removed]
Lines open from 7.45 pm
Producer VANESSA HARRISON
HELPLINES: page 85
for disabled listeners Presenter John Mills Producer ANN KAYE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC Broadcasting House, LondonW1A4WW.Phone
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Terence Blacker advises the sinner on how to recognise those virtues and deal with them.
4: Loyalty
With MICHAEL JENNER
RICHARD HUW. PAUUNE SIDDLE and MOIR LESLIE
Producer HELEN FRY (Repeal)
with Paul Vaughan
Producer CARROLL MOORE
Wide Sargasso Sea (9)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHFIFM until 11.0
Prefaces to Shakespeare Six programmes
4: Prunella Scales on 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'
