Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and BRYAN PLATT

with John Hedges
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather

Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Blackpool for the Conservative Party Conference

with John Hedges
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather

Brian Redhead in Blackpool and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weatherj papers and sport

Read by JOYCE GRENFELL (2)

[number removed]medium only from 9.40 Autumn Gardening
Now is the time to gather in the crops to store for the winter; time to clear up in the garden and to split and transplant some herbaceous plants and shrubs; to protect tender things from the coming frosts; to think of planting fruit trees; and time too, to prepare the ground for next spring, and to plant spring bulbs. Phone [number removed]if you want advice from Arthur Billitt and Bill Sowerbutts.
In the Chair Jill Burridge Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

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Bernard Falk , connoisseur of the unusual, reports on a countrywide search for people who find fulfilment in unlikely, not to say eccentric, occupations and interests.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON

NEM, p 89; 0 greatly blessed the people (BBC HB 469); Psalm 67; Mark 11, w 11-20 (RSV); 0 happy band (BBC HB 335)

medium only Pink Lady by GRAHAM SEAL
Read by Cdcile Chevreau

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A serial in six episodes by ROBERT BARR , starring
2: Who Goes Next in which an East End criminal lawyer is threatened and a young man disappears. Producer JOHN BROWELL

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Presenter Mari Prichard

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Molly Weir. Show more

(Shortened version of Saturday'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 Aspects of Loyalty: speeches from the Jubilee Women of the Year Luncheon.
2.0-2.2 News
' Where No White Woman Has Been ': MERIEL LARKEN , lone explorer in Brazil.
Reading Your Letters.
Arthritis: ANNE MACNAMARA on total joint replacement. Pastoral (7)

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Story: Bertha has a Holiday by LIANE SMITH

by PHYLLIS BENTLEY adapted for radio in five parts by RICHARD IMISON
1: Where Fortune Leads with Martin Jarvis , Sian Phillips Colin Baker and Clifford Rose
Sulla is dictator of Rome, and those who oppose him are subject to ruthless reprisal. His troops are searching for one young man in particular - Gaius Julius Caesar.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Producer MARTIN JENKINS

Dear Enemy (2)

Presented by Brian Widlake

Peter Clayton has more words about words in popular song, especially those of some famous song-writing partnerships. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Including Financial Report

(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)

Compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON Introduced by Henry Knowles Readers NICOLETTE MCKENZIE and GAVIN CAMPBELL Featuring Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Part 1: as Radio 3

Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude

Presenter Michael Oliver

Douglas Stuart reporting, including reports from the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool

Introduced by Amanda Theunissen 2: Foreign Parts
Rene Cutforth, Eric Newby and Paul Theroux hack their way through the jungle of travel books, and bring back some trophies.
BBC Bristol

Laughter in the Dark (7)*

2: Chris Underwood talks to Bryan Culliford of the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory about the application of the science of blood grouping in crime-fighting - the identification of suspects from minute traces of their blood and other body fluids.

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude