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Live coverage from the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, with Libby Purves in London
6.45' Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by HENRY DAVID THOREAU abridged in nine parts by ALASTAIR WILSON
Read by IAN HOLM (9)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Now you can unload your query onto Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Producer NICK HUGHES
Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London [Postcode removed] long wave only
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BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer ANTHONY SARGENT long wave only
nem, p 17; To us in Bethlem city (BBC HB 315); Psalm 111; Wisdom of Solomon 13, vv 1-9 and 15, vv 1-3 (RSV); How brightly beams the morning star (BBC HB 141)
Read by JUNE BARRIE (10) long wave only
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners. Presented by Gwyn Richards
Readers JOHN GRAHAM and JUNE BARRIE
BBC Bristol. (Requests to Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LK) long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Lofthouse
A Seat in the Stalls, the city of Durham is 800 years old this year and during the celebrations the cathedral choir will be busier than ever.
GEORGE BAYLEY finds Out what it's like to be a Durham Chorister.
Any Old Clothes!:
DIANA STENSON goes to a charity fashion show with a difference - the clothes modelled date from 1816 to 1894.
Adopt a Granny:
BRIAN MORRIS reports on the success of a scheme in Leeds where substitute families are paid to look after elderly people in order to give relatives a break.
BBC Manchester
Look Back with Mixed Feelings (2) long wave only
Story: Zerzy Gleen by MARY SOUTHWICK
Presenters AURIOL SMITH and SEAN BARRETT
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer mary HAYDON
Anna Calder-Marshall in A Thimble Kiss for a Cornish Hug by GWEN CHERRELL with Michael Spice and Malcolm Gerard
Pen's marriage to a successful young MP has broken up - they live apart, but for the sake of his career still appear together publicly. She is hoping to start a new life in America with her lover, a university don, but then she suddenly faces a shoplifting charge.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Europe Does Tomorrow?
Since the war, Sweden's wealth and strength has been envied by many but equalled by few. Now though, there are signs that the traditional Swedish emphasis on hard work and material values is changing. After the recent General Election, Doreen Taylor went to Stockholm and Gothenburg and found that the new emphasis Is on democracy in industry, greatly increased leisure time. and true equality of the sexes.
Producer PETER ESTALL
4.41 Announcements
His Father's Son by ROSALIND MILES
Read by Saeed Jalfrey
' on the top of the homeward bus, Sharma found his head swimming with the noxious fumes of nicotine, his anxiety and thoughts of his father. But here, in a land given over to selfishness, its young unguided and irreligious, what hope was there? '
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
with Robert Williams and Joan Bakewell
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Simon Nrave brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
with Margaret Howard
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
William Horsley presents a portrait of Masayoshi Ohira , Japan's Prime Minister since the end of last year, who has staked his own future leadership on the outcome of the General Election held in Japan last Sunday.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN
Lord Scanlon Patrick Moore Alan Hart
Claire Rayner from Diss in Norfolk
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Universal Studios
First opened in 1915 by the pioneer movie tycoon. Carl Laemmle , Universal City was created on the site of a chicken farm in Hollywood, where visitors could watch the first Westerns being filmed and buy eggs into the bargain. Sheridan Morley toured the studios and talked to some of the people working there-Edith Head , the costume designer who has won eight Oscars; Walter Matthau , starring In a remake of a Shirley Temple film; and Dennis Weaver , who is embarking on a new television series. He also experienced some of the attractions put on for modern tourists, Including an attack by the electronic shark from Jaws, and he played the part of an extra in an Airport disaster movie.
Producer ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Peter Paterson reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK. ROGER WODDIS , JEREMY BROWNE , ANDY WILSON Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
The Drowned World byJ.C.BALLARD abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by ALAN DOBIE (15) Producer ALEC REID
(Starting on Monday: 'An Integrated Man' by Julius Strachey ) long wave only
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at the Archive Auction, chooses the recordings he would most like to own.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Freddie Jones and Alex Marshall in A Trouble Shared by IVOR WILSON
Why does the Professor borrow the same library books each day? Because he's taken a fancy to Miss Edwards!
Directed by PETER KING
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
