With THE REV MICHAEL TAYLOR Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With RICHARD QUEST
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Not so much after dinner conversation as kitchen table chat
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
Clay Jones calls on the expert knowledge of Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward to answer listeners' gardening queries sent in by post.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time- BBC,
POBox27, Manchester M60 ISJ Plant lists and topical tips are displayed on Ceefax page 188
Goodbye Dolly byjOHNHALSTEAD
Read by Kathenne Pan -Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM, p 38; Happy are they they that love God (BBC HB 274);
Psalm 119, w 9-16; Matthew 19, w 16-26; All my hope on God is founded (BP 3). Stereo
Fritz Spiegl wonders how the Abbe Franz Liszt found the time for 1 000 musical compositions and heaven knows how many lady-friends.
Readers GARARD GREEN and ANNE JAMESON producer ANDREW MUSSETT
tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family
Presented by John Buckley If you are concerned about health, education, housing or financial matters, or if you are the victim of incompetent or unhelpful traders or authorities, write to: You and Yours, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Crackers and the Duchess by VALERIE WILDING Stereo
2.05 WPFM Radical youth radio with a live mix of music, opinion, youth politics, innovative new courses and training schemes, new sounds and airtime for fresh new voices. Presented by GARRY CROWLEY Stereo (e) Call [number removed]/rom 2. 15-3. 15pm for more information on programme items
In the programme where men and women tell their own stories, Corinne Julius meets those shadows behind the stars: the understudies.
Serial: Smile and Other Stories by DEBORAH MOGGACH Five stories abridged by MEG CLARKE 1: Smile
Read by Susie Brann
'We had to wear these "smile" badges. It was one of the rules. It's American, the hotel. The first time I noticed the man he pointed to the badge. "Cheer up," he said. "It might never happen." I thought: it has.'
by HARRY BARTON based on the recollections of JOHN WILLIE BARKER 3: Dinah Afloat
VJ Day in the Pacific:
Lt Guy Lambert and PO Tim Straw sit on the hot steel roof of a battleship contemplating the years of peace that stretch ahead, when suddenly their ; vision of tranquillity literally explodes in front of them.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester. Stereo
The third of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks to Fiona Pitt-Kethley about her life and poetry.
Reader NATASHA PYNE
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Max Easterman Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Toni Morrison
For most of this century, the black experience of America has been defined and written about by men. Since the 1970s, though, the novelist
Toni Morrison has stood alongside Alice Walker as a major influence in the reshaping of the landscape of American literary life. Her most recent novel, Beloved, was judged a major literary event. In conversation with Christopher Bigsby ,
Toni Morrison discusses her work and the nature of being a black woman writer in America.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
A series of 12 horror and suspense plays introduced by Edward de Souza , the Man in Black 8: The Face by E. F. BENSON dramatised by MICHAEL BAKEWELL In a lonely hotel a woman, terrified and praying for release from a mounting fear, is told all will be well - but it isn't, and she stands the prospect of coming face to face with the final terror.
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am L W)
The thrilling story of Britain's first communist football club.
2: 'Frankly admitting a mistake, ascertaining the reasons for it, analysing the conditions which led to it, and thoroughly discussing the means of correcting it - that is the earmark of a serious party, that is the way it should perform its duties.' Starring
Written by MARCUS BERKMANN and the producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
0 HEAR THIS! page 16
A six-part inquiry by Ray Gosling
5: A Foot in the Door
Commercial entrepreneurs reveal the principles behind their property portfolios.
They all trade in office blocks, hotels and shopping centres and what they own today may not be what they own tomorrow.
The Great Cathedrals of Britain
Presented by Paul Allen Producer SALLY MARMION
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at
4.35pm)
Confessions of Felix Krull , Confidence Man (13)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
Urdu Boliye! Spoken Urdu Episodes 9-12 Stereo (e)
