With MICHAEL SHOESMITH Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
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 Thoughtfor the Day
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
Four programmes in which Jenny Cuffe charts the forward march of the marketing battalion.
3: Packaging the Professions
Dentists selling a sweeter smile, architects signing up image consultants and lawyers soliciting on radio commercials ... contrary to all traditional practice, the professions have now been pushed into the market place.
Producer JOY RATWOOD
Do fish sleep and frogs scream?
Fergus Keeling , Jessica Holm and Lionel KeUeway go out and about in the search for answers to your wildlife questions.
Producer MILES BARTON BBC Bristol , ,
Stereo
This 'round-robin series of biographers in conversation continues with Michael Holroyd asking
Robert Skidelsky about his work on Oswald Mosley and John Maynard Keynes. Producer ED THOMASON
New broadcasters with stories to tell and opinions to air.
Theo Barker considers traffic problems and solutions - past, present and future.
Presented by John Howard
Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Sophie Goes Shopping. Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Worms and Slugs Primary science projects witn TIMMY MALLETT and ROBIN ROBBINS. Stereo (e)
2 20 GCSE: Real Maths Supports GCSE coursework and stimulates low-achieving pupils.
7: Quiz Show Presented by FRANK PARTRIDGE Stereo (e)
2.40 Quest
7: Christian Festivals Christmas Compiled by DAVID SELF (e)
The programme that puts a female perspective on politics, places and people.
Serial: Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (3)
Presenter Jenni Murray
byTONYBENGE. With
Suffolk 1835: George Pulham is arrested on a charge of incendiarism and sent to
Suffolk assizes where he awaits his fate, which is either liberty or death.
Directed by CLIVE BRILL BBC Manchester. Stereo
Nigel Forde takes a look at the science of graphology, and meets Tony Parker , whose book A Place Called Bird, based on interviews with real people in Kansas, creates a portrait not just of one small town, but of America itself.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
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Stereo
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 The TimeslPM Environment Award
5.25PMLetters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
Half an hour of reports from BBC correspondents at home and abroad including Financial Report
by JAMES HENDRIE and LAN BROWN. The return of the piping-hot comedy show served with extra relish, added capers, some new jokes and a side salad. Serving up the pizza fun are Robert Bathurst ,
Brenda Blethyn , Mike Grady ,
Jonathan Kydd and Enn Reitel. With special guest appearance by Jonathan Ross.
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo (R)
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
BBC Pebble Mill
A series of ten programmes. 6: Remandedfor Report
Steve Walker spends his time trying to keep people out of jail. This programme eavesdrops on the work of an inner-city probation officer as he juggles a caseload of three-dozen assorted offenders. Reporter Sue Talbot Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
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Laurie Taylor presents news and reviews about radio. Researcher JANICE SMITH
Producer KEITH JONES
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with country-wide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
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Verdi's comic opera Falstaff receives a new production by the English National Opera with Benjamin Luxon in the title role; and the Moscow-Jewish Shalom Theatre Company visits from the Soviet Union.
Presenter Anne Theroux Producer JOHN BOUNDY Stereo
Opposite the Cross Keys (4)
Presented by David Sells.
FM joins at 12.10
Urdu Boliye! Spoken Urdu A course of scenes and conversation for beginners. Episodes 16-20 Stereo (R) (e)