News, weather, papers, sport
Presented from the South East by BRYAN PLATT
Brian Redhead at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool with LIBBY PURVES in London
6.45 Prayer for the Day
With THE'REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Newsreader COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought /or the Day
by ROBERT GRAVES (6)
Studio guests join Mavis Nicholson. Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument, humour and some music. Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
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The magazine edition with hints on the care of garden ponds; how the hippopotamus fits into nature's plan; frightening birds away from fast vehicles; and the mystery sound competition.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
nem, p 93; Might and glory (BBC HB 265); Psalm 34, vv 1-10; Luke 20, vv 9-18 (NEB); 0 God of earth (BBC HB 394)
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That Really Upset Me by BRIAN OLANVILLE
Read by Charlie Chester
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Honestly, are you always absolutely truthful? Is it possible to be so? And does honesty mean the same thing, for example, to a sociologist and a barrister, an accountant and a philosopher? Are there, in fact. shades of honesty? What would you guess to be our biggest ' national dishonesty
Leslie Smith looks at some of the more subtle factors which may affect our standards of honesty.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER (Repeated: Tuesday 8.0 pm)
11.50 medium only Announcements
Getting the Best from Your Radio. With new spots on the dial for some of your favourite programmes, the You and Yours team investigate the way to get best value for money when you buy a new radio, with advice on getting the best reception.
Including The World of Work With MARGARET KORVING Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breekon
A general knowledge contest
Strathallen School, Perth v. Carnoustie High School
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and John Anthony
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 (medium only) Weather and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two: a discussion on a matter of current concern.
2.0-2.2 News
Good Health Begins in the Kitchen: EVELYN ROSE talks about planning the week's meals.
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON gow reporting.
Air Letter from Hong Kong: FRENA BLOOMFIELD tells Of the mysterious Fung Shui men.
Ruined City by nevil SHUTE, abridged in 12 parts by MADGS HART
Read by DAVID BUCK (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES
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Stories: Lucy's Washing Dag by E. G. MOSES and The Boy who Could Understand Babies by DAVIDA RENSHAW
The Incendiarist
Period Piece by GWEN RAVERAT abridged in ten parts by JESSICA MANN Read by Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1)
The much-loved and delightful reminiscences of her Cambridge childhood in the late 19th century by one of the granddaughters of Charles Darwin.
Producer MARGARET ETALL
The news magazine Presented by Gordon Clough and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report
New stories about the characters created by A. J CRONIN with This week:
Lot'e's Sweet Old Song by DONALD BULL
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Angela Pleasence in A Life by JOAN O'CONNOR based on the novel Une Vie by GUY DE MAUPASSANT with David Buck , Harold Kasket Valerie Lilley , David March and Elizabeth Spriggs
'When I first saw you. some voice seemed to say to me that you were the husband I'd half seen a hundred times in my dreams.... We'll be happy for ever like the princes and princesses in the fairy tales.'
Music composed and conducted by MIKE STEER
Directed by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI
With ANTHONY SMITH
Producer DAVID PATERSON
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with John Tusa at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNS
by JOHN LE CARRE adapted for radio in five parts by RENE BASILICO ,
starring with
Part 1: Smiley is asked to carry out a security check on a newly-promoted member of the Foreign Office. Apparently, a routine assignment - but one that leads to unfortunate and unforeseeable consequences.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
BBC World Service production
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Rogue Male (6)
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Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
