Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and BRYAN PLATT
with Harriet Cass
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Brighton at the Labour Party Conference
with Harriet Cass
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Brighton and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
7: Venus to Polidori
medium only from 9.40 Hair Care
Is your hair your ' crowning glory ' or a handful of rats' tails? Would you like your hair dyed bright orange - and would it harm it? Is there really a cure for baldness? Does what we eat affect the condition of our hair? Hair loss, the pros and cons of cutting your own hair, colouring and back combing are among the subjects that may crop up. The answers and comments are supplied by John Atkins , a member of The Institute of Trichologists and Keith Wainwright , hairdresser.
In the Chair Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
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The last of four record programmes in which Derek Parker takes an affectionate look back at English musical comedy between 1916 and 1939.
NEM, p 9; All things bright and beautiful (BBC HB 3); Canticle 6, part 1; Mark 9, vv 14-29 (RSV); Sing praise to God who reigns above (BBC HB 18)
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Mrs Ambrose and the Flower Show by SHIRLEY BAGRIT
Read by Shirley Dixon
' A car and a boy don't just disappear. Obviously it's my mistake but it's another square.'
' Lady,' said the man, ' there isn't one. I'd gladly help you but no car, no dice.'
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A serial in six episodes by Robert Barr
Galbraith is given a photograph of a party on a lawn, and circles have been drawn round the heads of three people. The reason why begins another Galbraith adventure.
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Presented by Mari Prichard with your letters
Volunteer Week - The Right Person*
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Louis Fremaux. Show more
(Shortened version oj Satur- day's broadcast)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF (exc London and SE)
Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
medium only from 2.0
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer I Believe in ... Judaism: PAUL BARNES with some of the foUowers of this major world faith.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
One Angle of the Eternal Triangle: the ' Other Woman ' tells her story.
An (Almost) Free Day - 3: ROGER MAYNARD with some offbeat places for family outings in the Norwich area. Pastoral (2)
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Story: Blue Marble and Red Marble get Very Wet by MARGARET JOY
by Honore de Balzac, dramatised by Joan O'Connell
with Alethea Charlton
'You see how my plans take shape? By the force of our own wills, all our wishes are granted.' Bette has successfully employed Valerie Marneffe as an agent in her plan for the destruction of the Hulot family.
visits Scotland, where members of the West Kilbride Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
The Hanoverian Georges
2: George I by w. M. THACKERAY Read by Clive Swift
Presented by Brian Widlake
Waxing Lyrical
Peter Clayton investigates some of the lyric writers' favourite themes in popular song.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Including Financial Report
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Norman to Alan Corea Richard Ingrams and special guests
Newsreader JOHN MARSH
Compiled and produced by JOHN LLOYD and DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
Compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON
Introduced by Henry Knowles Readers NICOLETTE MCKENZIE and GAVIN CAMPBELL Featuring
Coleridge's Kubla Khan
Director CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Ever since walls were invented, people have used them to express their innermost thoughts. Dick Richards examines the motives for this anonymous habit and illustrates the value of humour in the various political, personal and psychological examples he has collected. Readers SHIRLEY DIXON
PAUL MEIER , JAMES THOMASON
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
by R. c. SCRIVEN
A broadcast of a new play by the blind and deaf radio dramatist and poet to mark his 70th birthday earlier this year.
Narrated by Stephen Murray
Directed by CHARLES LEFEAUX BBC Birmingham
Twenty years ago today Sputnik I was blasted into space and sent back the first hesitant bleeps which opened an era.
In two decades, man has girdled the earth, conquered the moon, and penetrated deeper and deeper into space. The triumphs and tragedies of this spectacular era are recalled by the BBC's Science Correspondent, James Wilkin son, who also looks into the future - at the new worlds yet to be conquered.
A Radio News production
Presenter Michael Schmidt
9.50 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, including reports from the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.
Seven chapters of bookish pleasure, introduced by Amanda Theunissen
1: In the Brave Days of Old
Noble Horatius meets Little Orphan Annie when
Charles Causley. Patricia Beer and Sir Bernard Miles cele brate and recite some fondly-remembered verse.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Laughter in the Dark (2)
The second in a series of Jubilee programmes in which people living in different communities around the country talk about how life has changed for them over the past 25 years.
2: Hepple - A Northumberland Village
Reporter Keith Allan
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
