with MICHAEL SHOESMITH. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer NICK UTECHIN
● LINES OPEN: from 8.00am
with Geoff Watts
Producer JACKIE LUNN
The Business Launch by MARK BOURNE.
Read by Roy Noble
Producer HERBERT Williams
BBC Wales
New Every Morning, page 75; Lord of all hopefulness
(AMNs 395); Psalm 116, w 11-19; Mark 7, w 24-30; Put thou thy trust in God (AMNS 223) Stereo
The last of three programmes. The memoirs of Dr Henry Shinglewood Taylor edited by PETER HADLEY.
Read by Graeme Garden General Practitioner in a London Suburb, 1870s
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
Presented by Debbie Thrower
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
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Sophie Goes to the Park. Stereo (R)
2.05 History Lost and Found China Project. The Poet ofChu by BERLIE DOHERTY. China in the Third Century BC Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT .
9: Geography. Stereo (e)
Imagine seeing your children once a week - and trying to make a bleak bachelor flat look like home. You never have breakfast together or read the bedtime stories or see their faces on Christmas morning. Men who have lost custody of their children share their experiences.
Serial: Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1) by HILARY MANTEL abridged in 12 episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY Read by Carmen Lynn.
After living abroad in Zambia and Botswana, Frances Shore considers herself an experienced expatriate. But when her husband's new job takes them to Saudi Arabia, the culture shock is brutal. Presenter Jenni Murray
by CHRIS THOMPSON.
'I ve got this theory about education. I've tested it on loads of teachers and it never fails. I get them to think of the most disruptive class they've ever come across. Those names are always there. As theories go it knocks Pavlov into a dog's gob.'
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
By the end of the last century, the harpsichord had become the dinosaur of the keyboard family, but the work of Wanda
Landowska changed its fate and inspired a whole generation of performers. Trevor Pinnock and Ruth Dyson compare their experiences and views on its revival.
Producer JUDITH ROLES. Stereo
Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton with the best stories from BBC Local Radio stations around the country. A Load of Bawls
From market traders to town cryers ... The Local Network meets people whose tonsils are the tools of their trade. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
● YOURS LOCALLY: pages 72-3
Stereo
Presented by Hugh Sykes and Valerie Singleton
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 The TimeslPM Environment Award
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55
including Financial Report
A series of eightprogrammes. Starring with 6: Family Album
'Look at this old dear - roses round her cottage door, a cosy smell of making cake wafting from her kitchen. I can imagine a lot of people buying that, putting it in a frame and claiming it as their own grandmother. Probably easier to cope with than the real thing.'
Written by SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 4.05pm)
A series of fourprogrammes from universities around the country.
1: The Oxford Debate
In the world-famous debating chamber of the Oxford Union
Society, distinguished speakers and students debate the proposition:
That the nation is failing to invest in the future of the universities'.
Proposing Lord Peston (Labour Party Education Spokesman in the House of Lords) and Professor Denis Noble.
Opposing Robert Jackson , mp
(Minister for Higher Education) and Sir Douglas Hague.
Chairman Brian Redhead Producer MARGARET HILL
A series of five programmes. 2: Marjorie Lofthouse talks to Dave Willetts, star of Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera, about the best day of his exciting career.
BBC Pebble Mill (R)
News and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
0 QUESTIONS and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between
8.30pm and 10. 15pm.
0 INFORMATION: the 'In Touch' handbook, a comprehensive guide to services and equipment for blind peopk, £5.95 from: [address removed]
The Berlin Film Festival ends today - Nigel Andrews reports on the new films; and Natalie Wheen talks to the versatile singer-songwriter Elvis Costello.
Producer JOHN GOUDIE. Stereo
Opposite the Cross Keys (2)
with Sally Hardcastle
FM joins at 12.10
UrduBoliye! Spoken Urdu A course of scenes and conversations for beginners. Episodes 6-10. Stereo (R) (e)
