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Introduced by Brian Redhead and LIBBY purves with Michael Vestey at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton Including at
'.45. Prayer for the Day With RABBI HETLBRON
7.6 and 8.6 Today's News Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.3* and 8.31 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

by COLETTE (2)

medium only from 9.40 Youth Employment
Out of School - Out of Work?
' No school leaver who left school at Easter or July who remains unemployed should go without the offer of some kind of employment or training - that is the objective.' ALBERT BOOTH, Secretary of State for Employment.
If you or your son or daughter is one of the 200,000 unemployed school leavers why not ring and put your questions to Geoffrey Holland from the Manpower Services Commission and Margaret Korving , careers writer and broadcaster. In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The lines are open from 8.0 am

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Presented by Moira Stuart Producer William borslet

NEM, p 122; For those we love (BBC HB 243): Canticle 10; Luke 22, vv 24-38 (neb); 0 what their joy (BBC HB 252)

medium only Thin Ice by NORMAN LEVINE (abridged) Read by Jon Glover

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medium only in Happy Returns by IRENE handl and CASS ALLEN with Cass Allen as Joan There 's no place like home, there's no one loves you like your Mum - as long as you keep the Atlantic between you. ' My word. Joannie, you ain't 'arf got a twang. What's happened to your voice? Haven't you grown? You're 35 now. ain't you? You don't look it. More like 53. Go on in, dear. You know the way. You won't find nothing's altered since you left.'
Directed by LIANE AUKIN

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From earliest times, talking about oneself has been seen as helpful in solving problems, or at least making one feel better about them. During the last 50 years, doctors, psychologists and others, have attempted to harness the beneficial effects of talking, in the practice of psychotherapy. n a series of six programmes,
Dr Anthony Clare gives his personal assessment of the present state of psychotherapy in its many forms.
2: Will it Make Me Behave Differently?
Producer SALLY thompsoh

Presented by Sue Cook and George Luce

Presented by Brian Widlake

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor The Hitchcock Enigma : the famous film-maker described by his biographer JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR, in conversation with GORDON GOW.
2.0-2.2 News
Hand Made for Christmas: Barbara mykrs gets practical advice from LAYE ANDREW on money-saving gifts. 2: Mobiles. Pulling Ourselves Together: UAUREEN GALVIN sits in on a self help group for the mentally ill.
Living In The Dordogne: ANNETTE massie restores an old wine cellar.
Ruined City (9)

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Story: David Plaus Pretend Games by JOHN FARRINGTON

A novel without a hero by William Makepeace Thackeray
with Sarah Badel as Becky Sharp, Petra Markham as Amelia Sedley, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Miss Crawley, Stephen Murray as Mr Osborne, Henry Knowles as George Osborne, Nigel Stock as Sir Pitt Crawley, John Pullen as Rawdon Crawley and Alec McCowen as Thackeray
With David King as The Rev Bute Crawley, Petra Davies as Mrs Bute Crawler, Joan Matheson as Miss Briggs and Peter Wickham as the young Pitt Crawley

(Nigel Stock is in 'Look After Lulu' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
(Broadcast on Sunday at 9.03)

Period Piece (7)

Presented by Robert Williams
andSuzannah Simons
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Weather and programme news

The antidote to panel games In which the ad libs of Barry Cryer
Graeme Garden
Tim Brooke-Taylor and William Rushton are not worth the paper they are written on. Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden are in ' The Unvarnished Truth' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)

(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)

Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by STEVE bradshaw and DAVID HENSHAW Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester

If all the people in the world sat down to write letters, about 200 million of them would pick up their pens with their left hands, the rest with their right. What causes this strange asymmetry - asymmetry that extends even to the shape of the brain, and the position of some of the major organs? John Maddox discusses the biological basis of left- and right-handedness with Professor Michael Morgan of the University of Durham. and Professor Lewis Welpert of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Editor GEOFF deehan

Presenter Jim Hiley
Producer ELIZABETH kerr

Douglas Stuart reporting with John Tusa at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton

By education most have been misled
David Jason with the help of Stephen Moore , Royce Mills and Sheila Steafel and the music of John Owen Edwards continues to mislead
Script by COLIN bostock-smitb
ANDY HAMILTON and BARRY PILTOH Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Stephen Moore is a National Theatre player)

medium only. The House with the Green Shutters (2)

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Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude