with Marjorie Lofthouse.
Producer David Bellinger. Stereo
with Jack Hywel-Davies . Including Bells On
Sunday, from All Saints' Church, Hoole, Chester. Stereo
What is the future of crofting in the Highlands? Robert Forster investigates.
with Christopher Morgan and Andrew Green. Editor David Coomes
Including at
speaks for the Week's Good Cause about the Voluntary Service Overseas -[address removed]
Credit Cards: [number removed]
by Alistair Cooke.
From St Ninian's Parish
Church, Galashiels. Led by Rev David Kellar.
How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place (Harington); In a Byre Near Bethlehem (Wild
Mountain Thyme): There's a Spirit in the Air (Orientis Partibus); Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Lobe den
Herren); 0 For a Thousand Tongues (Lyngham).
Genesis 3, w 8-13; Matthew 6, vv 1-6. Organist
Dorothy A Howden.
Omnibus edition.
Director Joanna Toye. Stereo
A personal view of the week's papers.
Producer Dinah Lammiman
with Chris Serle.
with Nick Clarke.
Chairman Clay Jones calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips to solve listeners' gardening problems.
Producer Diana Stenson. Stereo • Questions on postcards only to Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, PO Box 27. Manchester M60 1SJ
Vampirella
This gothic tale of Count Dracula's daughter was the first play written for radio by Angela Carter , who died earlier this year, and is one of three plays being broadcast this week in tribute to her. Countess Vampirella and Elizabeth
Director Glyn Dearman. Stereo (First broadcast in 1976)
Star quality or cringe factor? Laurie Taylor looks at how well celebrities cope when they are asked to fill in for regular presenters. Producer Mary Sharp
Mittel Europa Unlimited Chris Cviic asks if the liberalising economies of Central Europe would do better to find their own road to capitalism, instead of copying western models.
with Michael Rosen and guest Rumer Godden , who for over 40 years has enchanted children with her stories.
Producer Jill Burridge
Ludovic Kennedy explores his Scots heritage.
2: The Preacher, the Preferendum and the Procurator Fiscal.
Simon Rae talks to the winners of this year's BP Speak-a-Poem
Competition,
Pauline Hutton and Gareth Owen.
Producer Julian Wilkinson. Stereo 0 Requests to Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
with Chris Dunkley.
Introduced by Edward De Souza , the Man in Black. 2: The Speciality of the House by Stanley Ellin.
When Costain is taken to
Sbirro's Restaurant he quickly becomes addicted to a special dish on offer. But the craving for it can bring about a terrible fate.
Dramatised by Colin Haydn Evans Director Gerry Jones. Stereo
As there's a blether of new books about powerful people, Nigel Forde considers the art of political biography. Also, the art and politics of Pablo Casals , in a new biography by Robert Baldock.
Stereo
Susan Marling hosts the programme that gives listeners the chance to investigate issues which have affected their lives and could affect yours.
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A new series begins with El Alamein by Peter Luke. On the moonlit night of 23 October 1942, at 10.00pm precisely, the British launched their infantry attack at el-Alamein. One of the young officers, the playwright Peter Luke , remembers the battle as he muddled through it. Producer John Theocharis.
Stereo
Presented by Jessica Holm.
In the first of two programmes from Indo-China, Far-East correspondent Philip Short reports from Cambodia on the biggest ever UN operation to try to restore a semblance of democracy to a country riven by decades of civil war.
Introduced by the author, Derek Walcott , winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature, and performed by Burt Caesar.
Shabine ships as a seaman on the schooner Flight and his voyage across the Caribbean becomes a journey of discovery of his own identity and his vocation as a poet.
Music composed by Keith Waithe Producer Julian May. Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 3)
with Carolyn Quinn. The programme that follows the activities of MPs in committee as they cross-examine witnesses on issues of public concern. Producer Charles Sigler
In the last of three meditations, writer Sylvia Sands considers the theme
"Costly Conversion". Reader Trudy Kelly.
Producer Bert Tosh. Stereo
