PRYDERI LLWYD JONES reflects on the theme A Time for Age Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
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7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8. 00am
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after you? Is your money being spent to best effect?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer JACKIE LUNN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at & 15pm)
You Must Know Daphne by PAT BURCHARD
Read by June Barrie Producer PAMELA HOWE
BBCBristol
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Lone in the desert (BBC HB 343); Psalm 57; Isaiah 52, v 3 to 53, v 6; My song is love unknown (Bp 62) Stereo
Dan Cherrington 's farming childhood taught him that not all sheep blindly followed the flock - some Welsh ewes were very independent individuals. BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by Susan Rae
The dilemma facing people approaching retirement. To move or not to move? You and Yours looks at the pros and cons of moving home at 60. Plus the usual magazine features.
A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo (R)
Presented by Nick WorraU
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Mrs Speckle Stereo 2.05 History Lost and Found Life in the Past 'And we called England home....' A family on Anzac Day by CHRIS LEE. Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT Coursework and assessment; examiner phone-link; problem-solving; issue for discussion; real world application; career and course opportunities. 10: Religious Studies Stereo (e)
The programme that puts you in touch with politics, public affairs, fashion, finance and food. So who needs women's programmes? You do!
Presenter Sarah Dunant
Serial: Out of the Shelter (9)
by ROGER D.POWELL
Paula is Boyd's wife and Don's daughter, but does it really matter to the family business if Boyd is having an affair? After all, 'money is thicker than water'.
Also featuring ZELAH CLARKE.
JOHN BADDELEY.
STEPHEN RASHBROOK and RICHARD TATE Directed by NED CHAILLET Stereo
Richard Baker 's guests this week are two concert pianists brought up in Australia and now resident in London: Leslie Howard , currently recording the complete works of Liszt; and Ian Munroe , second prize-winner at the 1987 Leeds International Piano competition.
Producer NIGEL Wilkinson. Stereo
Presented by David Lomax The programme which investigates innovation, initiative, enterprise and success in the world of business and issues which affect it both at home and abroad. Research by SIAN JAR VIS Producer ROD POUNSETT
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Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
5.00,5.30 News Summary
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5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5. 55
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The official record for a human life stands at 120 years and 237 days. The majority, of course, will not make the century, but life expectancy is rising; a young man today can look forward to reaching 73, a young woman to around 80. Will this trend continue, or is there a limit beyond which humans are not made to last? Georgina
Ferry examines this question, in the light of the latest biological ideas about ageing, and discovers from scientists, doctors and the elderly if there is anything people can do to give themselves the best chance of surviving to have a healthy old age.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Laurie Taylor presents 30 minutes of essential listening for the radio addict.
Rupert Murdoch started it with his takeovers of the Sun and the Times. Once word got back to the boardrooms of Australia about the gold to be mined in the City of London, the rush began in earnest.
Heather Payton has been to
Australia to discover how and why corporate raiders from
Down Under, like Alan Bond ,
Robert Holmes a Court and the Fosters lager baron John Elliot , managed to outwit and outbid the British bulldogs.... and where they'll strike next. Producer RICHARD QUEST
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Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition, which includes a look at the Temba Company, whose aim is to broaden the Black theatre repertoire to include the classics of Shakespeare as well as work by contemporary writers.
Christopher Bigsby visits the company's new production of Romeo and Juliet which has just opened in Manchester. Producer RACHEL YORKE
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Memoirs of a Midget (12)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Secondary English Twenty Ways of Writing 2: Pictures in Words Stereo (e)
