Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE REV IAN GREGORY BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by DAVID HITCHINSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Children's Books
To celebrate Children's Book
Week, Tuesday Call explores the world of children's literature.
What makes a book a classic? Do children's stories reflect today's world? Is television threatening our children's literacy?
Answering your questions are Julia Eckleshare , associate editor of the 1986 Good Book Guide to Children's Books, and the author and critic
Robert Leeson. best known for his Grange Hill books.
Jill Burridge is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am
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Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's team of foreign correspondents
Mistaken Identity Written and read by Eiry Palfrey
'He was well-dressed compared with his classmates, but, try as she might, Nerys could not draw a reaction from his blank sallow face....'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
NEM. p 102; Lord, teach us how to pray aright (BBC HB 344); Psalm 98; 11 Timothy 1, vv 11-18;
Soldiers, who are Christ's below (BBC HB 337) Stereo
'The call of the screech-owl has long been held to foreshadow a ghastly death, but is it also uttered as a wail of lament?' Derek Jones and team decide whether to offer advice or condolences in response to listeners' questions.
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news and advice for consumers
Round2
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn indulge in cerebral callisthenics with a team from the North of England represented by Patrick Nuttgens and P. J. Fitzpatrick. Chaired by Gordon Clough and Louis Allen
Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcaston Thursday at 6.30 pm)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner The Cow who Fell in the Canal by PHYLLIS KRASILOVSKY
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago The Motor Car by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL
2.25 Contact A Hindu Festival by PRABHU GUPTARA Presented by PAUL MCDOWELL
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): Child Rowland adapted for radio by PHILIPPA PEARCE
Introduced by Sue MacGregor How long will it be before you get that hospital appointment? Will you have to wait hours when you do get to the clinic?
LINDA WOLFE has been finding out why the Out Patients system isn't working as well as it might. Serial: Underfoot in Show Business
6: The Miser
by JIMMY MCGOVERN
An account of what might have been the events that prompted poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins to write his famous poem Felix Randal. ... events that struck terror into the soul of the farrier.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
WithcLIVEROSLIN including Financial Report
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Helen Boaden Producer MARK FIELDER Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
Leaving Home
The last of six programmes presented by Dr Christopher Dare , Family Therapist and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley hospitals.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0 am)
Worcester Sauce
A brief anthology of the writings of the Midlands novelist Francis Brett Young Compiled and read by Gabriel Woolf
Narrator Edwin Richfield with GILLIAN FISHER (soprano) and ROWLAND COTTERILL (piano) Widely read in the years between the wars, Brett Young had become an almost forgotten figure. Recently, however, there has been a revival of interest in his work and this programme offers a short selection of its variety.
ProducerROGER PINE
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Ian MacRae ProducerTHENA HESHEL
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David Roper presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer KEVIN JACKSON
Scoop
7: The End of the Rains
Presented by David Sells
The Nutcracker
Music from Tchaikovsky's ballet played by the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH Stereo record
followed by an interlude
Microtechnology
12.30 Three Legs are Better than Two and at
12.50 Making Life Easier (RV)
