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This week Clay Jones digs into the bulging postbag, and calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki, Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward to solve listeners' gardening problems.
BBC Manchester
Write to: Gardeners' Question Time, [address removed]
(Ceefax: page 645)

Contributors

Presenter:
Clay Jones
Panellist:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Panellist:
Fred Downham
Panellist:
Daphne Ledward
Producer:
Diana Stenson

Nick Baker looks behind the pages of four trade newspapers and magazines.

What are the What Toy? Awards? Why does the 10-year-old boy in the television toy commercial have a 16-year-old voice? And who is that strange lady making a clandestine inspection of a toyshop somewhere in Britain?
(Stereo) (R)

Contributors

Presenter:
Nick Baker
Producer:
Nigel Acheson

Television still cannot reach some of the remote mountainous areas around Fort William, but that does not deter television presenter Muriel Gray, who loves walking in this wilderness and meeting some of its hardy inhabitants...

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presenter:
Muriel Gray
Producer:
Kate Whitehead

Presenter Andy Crane.

Marlene Marlowe investigates... The Beast of Puddlethorpe Hall: 2
by Roy Apps.
With Anne Rosenfeld, Charles Simpson and Marlene Sidaway.

Fast Forward Fiction Awards 1990: your chance to win a trip to Disney World.

Andy asks popular authors for their tips on story-writing.

Call of the Wild
by Jack London, abridged by Mick Greenaway. 2: The Fight for Leadership
Read by Bob Peck.

BBC Manchester
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Andy Crane
Auhtor (The Beast of Puddlethorpe Hall):
Roy Apps
[Actor]:
Anne Rosenfeld
[Actor]:
Charles Simpson
[Actor]:
Marlene Sidaway
Author (Call of the Wild):
Jack London
Abridger (Call of the Wild):
Mick Greenaway
Reader (Call of the Wild):
Bob Peck
Researcher:
Lis Roberts
Producer:
Mary Kalemkerian

Nigel Forde talks to biographer Michael Holroyd about his resolutions for the New Year, and Pamela Donald reviews this month's paperbacks.

(Broadcast last Thursday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Forde
Guest:
Michael Holroyd
Reviewer:
Pamela Donald

Fr George Saintsbury is a retired Catholic priest who celebrates a weekly Latin Mass in his small West London flat. In his long life he has been actor, schoolmaster, boxer, organist, choirmaster, policeman and stoker.
Compiled from conversations with Fr George and some of his congregation.
(Stereo) (R)

Contributors

Speaker:
Fr. George Saintsbury
Producer:
Piers Plowright

A Victorian Courtship Letters exchanged between Agnes Bower and Arthur Thorndike in 1881 provide a charming insight into the lifestyle of the day. Read by Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Boxer.
Narrator Richard Baker.

BBC Manchester
(R)

Contributors

Author:
Agnes Bower
Author:
Arthur Thorndike
Reader:
Miriam Margolyes
Reader:
Stephen Boxer
Narrator:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Ian Strachan

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