with The Rev Kerr Speirs.
(Stereo)
Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6 30 7.30, 8.30 News Summary 645 Business News: 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
8.50 Letters
with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
Members of the Poynton Home Gardeners' Club, Cheshire, question Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Contestant No 39 by YVONNE QUINN Read by Marcella Riordan Producer ANNE MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill
NEM p 46; Bright the vision
(BBC HB 269); Psalm 84; Mark 12, w 18-27; The head that once was crowned with thorns (BBC HB 132) Stereo
The last of four programmes. Robert Booth re-examines
Alan Coren 's school reports. Producer NIGEL ACHESON (R)
Presented by John Waite
Q: Why is Simon Bates , along with six ladies and gentlemen of the press, in the upstairs bar of a Fleet Street pub?
A: He is hosting the first of a seven-part knockout contest between eight national newspapers.
Today's teams, from the Daily Mirror and The Daily Telegraph, exercise natural rivalries as they face questions from the past. Q: Which year?
A: It was the year when a British Dansette transistor radio would have cost £6 19s 6d, and an official body did away with 400 million seconds!
Producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Corner Jam by MARGARET MAHY. Stereo (R)
2.05 WPFM Presented by jo whiley . Stereo (e) 9 PHONE: [number removed] (free), lines open from 2. 15-3. 15pm
by DON HAWORTH.
1943: young men in their 20s are flying on bombing raids over Germany, some questioning more than others the morality of bombing certain populations. Through it all shines their courage, their humour and their youth.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester. Stereo
The last of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks with Sir Stephen Spender. Reader JOHN MOFFATT
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
Reporter Helen Boaden
Producer KATHLEEN CARRAGHER Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
A Testament to Hilda
The murder of 78-year-old Hilda Murrell occurred five years ago and has never been solved. A well-known rose grower, Hilda Murrell was also an anti-nuclear campaigner, and the mystery of her death has inspired two plays, numerous poems and a novel. Paul Allen finds out why writers have chosen to keep alive the issue of her death.
Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE. Stereo
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PMLetters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
including Financial Report
The Man in Black,
Edward de Souza , introduces
13 plays of horror and suspense. 8: Hand in Glove by ELIZABETH BOWEN , dramatised by ELIZABETH TROOP With . and The one thing Ethel Trevor needed to get her man was a pair of white gloves which are the mark of a lady, but there was a price to be paid for them.
PETER BOND (guitar)
Directed by PETER FOZZARD . Stereo
Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am LW)
A radio portrait, in conversation and anecdote. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The life of writer and publisher William Plomer is chronicled in a new biography; and the Cheek by Jowl Theatre
Company rediscovers a classic 17th-century Spanish play. Presenter Nigel Andrews
Producer CAROLINE YOUNG . Stereo (Revised repeat tomorrow at 4.35pm)
Spring Day at Slater's End by MALACHI WHITAKER.
The first of three short stories read by Stephanie Turner. An old man and his grand-daughter retrace a momentous walk from his youth. Producer TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
FM joins at 12.10
