with MONICA DITMAS. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30.7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The pith of the week Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo
This week the team visit Bolton where members of the Bolton and District Horticultural Society put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Plant lists and topical tips are displayed on Ceefax page 188
Picnic by LESLIE HALWARD Read by William Eedle Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 118; The Lord's my shepherd (BBC HB 480); Psalm 119, vv 33-40; I Peter 2, w 18-25; Just as I am (BBC HB 292). Stereo
Fritz Spiegl tells the story of Debussy, with Gaby, Lily, Emma ... and ? Reader GARARD GREEN
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
Presented by John Buckley
Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Oscar Mouse Finds a Home by MOIRA MILLER Stereo (R)
2.05 WPFM Radical youth radio with a live mix of music, opinion, youth politics and training schemes. Presented by TERRY CHRISTIAN Stereo (e) Call [number removed] from 2.15 to 3.15pm for more information on programme items
If women have equality, why do they still need their own programme? Find out with Jenni Murray and guests. Serial: Home Life by AUCE THOMAS ELLIS abridged in six episodes by PAT MCLOUGHUN
Read by Sheila Steafel (1)
Alice Thomas Ellis 's Home Life has graced the pages of the Spectator since 1985.
Rarely, according to one source, has the 'minefield of domestic life been charted so accurately'! The funniest anthology I have read in years TIMES (Music: Bridge's Miniatures Set 1)
by CHRIS THOMPSON
When Billy James was too pickled to make the pigeon fanciers' do at the Miners'
Welfare and Arthur Appleyard sank without trace standing in for him, Dave Nelson 's Allstar Agency was obviously in trouble. But Dave believed in the legends of show business....
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester Stereo
The fourth of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks to Fiona Pitt-Kethley about her life and poetry.
Reader NATASHA PYN Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
The National Health
Inside Stories
Geese Theatre Company perform literally for a captive audience. They give workshops and plays in prison all round the country specifically designed to address the problems of life inside.
Impressive claims have been made to show how drama programming helps rehabilitation and combats recidivism.
Nick Baker joins the company in Holloway to follow the story from inside out.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5,00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL
Half and hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
A series of 12 horror and suspense plays, introduced by Edward de Souza , the Man in Black
9: Mind Well the Tree by WILLIAM INGRAM
Aunt Hestor 's bequest of an old border mansion worries David Hollis , but his wife is captivated by the spirit of their new home. Literally.
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo
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(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am L W)
The ripping story of Britain's first communist football club. 3: 'If we succeed, then the revolutionary conflagration will spread. The revolutionary wave will convert an epoch of a few revolutionary years into an epoch of several revolutionary decades.'
Senior Praecucumber
Written by MARCUS BERKMANN and the producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
The final programme in a six-part inquiry into ownership To Them That Hath?
A third of the people of Britain still own no part of it. If we knew more about who owns what, would we be so quick to reward ownership?
In 1818 a group of Yorkshire
Quakers, led by Daniel Wheeler , embarked for St Petersburg at the invitation of Tsar Alexander I. Their task was to drain 100,000 acres of marshland around the city. Barry Carman has compiled the human story of this undertaking from the letters sent home over the next 23 years.
Narrator VALERIE WINDSOR Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)
with Christopher Bigsby Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)
2: The Palace of Culture
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
Reading Corner Computer Assisted Learning Tonight's stories: The Boy in the Sack; How the Birds Changed their Feathers; The Doko; Mother of the Waters Stereo (e)