with FR PATRICK CRILLY
Presented by Sue MacGregor 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 CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
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, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC. PO Box 27. Manchester M60 1SJ Plant lists and topical tips are displayed on Ceefaxpage 188
Do You Like Bartok? by DOUGLAS YOUNG
Read by Paul Young Producer BRUCE YOUNG BBC Scotland
NEM, p67; Christ is alive (bp 8); The Lord doth reign
(BBC HB 476); Colossians 3, w 1-4 and w 12-17; Christ for the world we sing (BBC HB 172) Stereo
The final programme of the present series in which Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions, with advice from experts and help from the BBC Reference Library. Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions to: Enquire Within. BBC, London W1A IAA
tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family.
Presented by John Buckley For information about this week s programme, write for Factsheet No 17 7 to: [address removed]
The convoluted chronicle, in six parts, of an optimistic author starring and with Lolly Cockerell
Jane Knowles , Brian Haines and Michael Spice 2: The Villa
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE (R)
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner Captain Betty and the Pirates (3) (R)
2.00 Running Your Office (e) 5: Correspondence and at 2.20
6: Filing - Information Flow and Retrieval
2.40 The YTS Road
3: Something Different (e)
Politics, places and people; motherhood, management and money - Jenni Murray and guests puzzle out the meaning of life, love and anything women worry about and laugh about together.
Serial: Helen of Burma (7)
by RONALD FRAME with Jane Asher , Eleanor Bron Sarah Badel and Martin Jarvis 'Shall we start with a drink? ... Waiter, two Bloody Marys and the you-know-what in the ice-bucket....'
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland. Stereo
The second of five programmes in which Dannie Abse talks to George MacBeth about his life and poetry.
Reader ANTHONY HYDE
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
Going Home
What kind of Afghanistan will emerge as the Russians prepare to withdraw? David Levy examines the chances for peace or an intensified civil war, with the Afghan rebels and their backers.
Producer DAVID powell Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
In the Grand Manner
Last night saw the curtain rise on Ziegfeld, a musical re-creating the life and style of the American impresario of the 20s and 30s. Florenz Ziegfeld.
Glamorous costumes, the music of Gershwin, Kern and Berlin. and behind it all the British impresario Harold Fielding. Michael Berkeley reports on what happened on Tuesday night at the London Palladium. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
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 PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge Maurice Hayes and Paddy Fitzgerald
Researcher AMANDA MARES Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester (R)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Patricia Hayes recalls some highlights from her first 66 years as an actress in a two-part conversation with Michael Pointon
1: Early Girlhood to Middle-Aged Boyhood with the voices of FLORA ROBSON. CHARLES HAWTREY and TED RAY
Researcher MICHAEL pointon
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo
with the Earl of Pembroke
Portraits of four aristocratic families by Alison Plowden
The Herberts were created Earls of Pembroke by Henry VIII, who also gave them land at Wilton in Wiltshire and elsewhere. Shakespeare, Inigo Jones and Florence Nightingale figure prominently in the family history. The black sheep was the seventh Earl, whose claim to fame is the number of people he killed.
(Stereo)
The fourth of seven programmes in which Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT. Stereo
Presented by Paul Allen Producer FIONA MCLEAN
God's Snake 3: God's Love
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
FM joins at 12.10am
