6.40 Prayer for the Day MARJORIE NEWMAN
with John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead reporting from the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Pop and Football Crazy
Young people often have crazes - boys worship the local football team and its players, girls have a passing love affair with the pop group of the moment. And much of their time, energy and money is spent on these obsessions.
How important is it for young people to have current idols? And how do the idols feel about their teenage followers? Molly Price-Owen and Astley Jones have been following the fans. Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
Introduced by LAURIE MACMILLAN Producer GRAHAM MYTTON
NEM, p 67; Around the throne of God a band (BBC HB 237); Psalm 93; Revelation 12. vv 7-12 (AV); Ye holy angels bright (BBC HB 286) ,
Wilk's Progress by GARETH ARMSTRONG
Read by David Lloyd Meredith The dramatic society in the Welsh village claims more and more attention of the librarian's time. But will it cost him his job? Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
The Count's Courtship
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do I?
Brian Widlake
medium nave only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Stella Rich-man. television executive.
2.0-2.2 News
By Special Request (2): a listener's choice from 30 years of Woman's Hour.
Learn at Home: PAUL BARNES in at the start of radio and TV'S autumn term.
A Squirrel Forever by DOUGLAS FAIRBAIRN , abridged in five parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Nigel Graham (1)
' In July 1965, I saved an infant female grey squirrel from a neighbour's cat ... '
(Music: Janacek's Youth Suite)
Story: Pokey, a Little Pink Pig by RUTH PAINE
Only a Game by BARRIE KEEFFE with Will Knightley as Murray ' Fifteen hours and life begins again. The gates'll be closed half an hour before kick off. I'll be the last one in the dressing room and the last one out ... I'll drink in the linament and stamp my boots on the concrete floor ... and the crowd will swell and sing and the brass band will play and I, Murray Fearn , King of United and England, with his patched up patellas and synthetic tendons will run onto the pitch to an ovation that will rattle the stars ... won't I? '
Reporter/TV voice STEVE HODSON Produced and directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
So Dartington Hall School was described in its first prospectus 50 years ago. Gwyn Rich ards presents a profile of the school's development. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Felix Holt by GEORGE ELIOT Abridged and read by GABRIEL WOOLF (8)
The news magazine: presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio David Sells
Last in a 12-part drama series Alfred Burke and Clive Swift in The Fall by STACY AUMONIER
Adapted for radio by MICHAEL ROBSON
Petty criminals are one thing. But petty criminals who become murderers are another. Inspector Tolozan is on to one such villain - Jules - a man who is terrified of heights. What a weakness to use in order to extract a confession!
Inspector Tolozan CLIVE SWIFT Jules Destourney. ..ALFRED BURKE Dr Lancret ..GEOFFREY BEEVERS Edgar Thomas W)LDAM ASHLEY Gabriel Foret .... NIGEL LAMBERT Francois Mossel ....ALAN HAINES Devised and directed by DEREK HODDINOTT
BBC World Service production
3: The Detectives
In this final programme of the current series, Tony Van den Bergh looks at the controversial role of medicine's detectives - the doctors and scientists working on new screening techniques which can give early warning of disease or disorder even before the patient knows he is ill.
While recent advances offer obvious possibilities in more effective treatments, the costs involved - they can be very high - also raise important questions about general availability and priorities, and it is in this area that there is still a great deal of disagreement. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
What famous people said and what Graeme Garden. Roberta Leigh. Ned Sherrin , John Wells think they ought to have said instead. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer JOHN LLOYD
Presenter Tony Palmer
Douglas Stuart reporting and John Tusa at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
High Stakes by DICK FRANCIS
followed by an interlude
preceded by Weather
