Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
with Gerald Priestland
6.55 Weather; programme news
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.55 Weather; programme news
with Tony Lewis
Rugby Union: a look at the Australians, who make their first tour appearance against
Leicester this afternoon. Racing: the t75,000 Champion Stakes at
Newmarket highlights today's programme. All the news and prospects. Plus the off-beat and the humorous.
A Radio Sport and OB production
Bernard Falk , with help from IAN lyon and SUSAN MARLING , takes a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Producers JENNY MARSHALL and GEOFF DOBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Ann Leslie , of the Daily Mail, takes a look at the weekly magazines.
Producer SUE SNAILUM
A look back at the Conservative Party
Conference in Blackpool. It was a chance for ministers, mps, councillors and local party workers to get together and discuss the Government's performance so far. The BBC's Political
Correspondent, Rodney Foster , followed two constituency representatives to see what they made of it all. Producer ELLIE UPDALE
New Every Morning, page 67; 0 praise ye the Lord! (BBC HB 279); Psalm 93; Jonah 4, vv 1-11 (NEB); Now join we, to praise the Creator (BP 66)
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
Presenter Louise Botting This week: The Unit
Trust Investor of the Year Recent upheavals in stock markets round the world have kept the competition wide open right to the last minute. The winners will have needed good judgment as well as a measure of luck, and this year's portfolios have once again been of a very high standard, with gains ranging up to 50 per cent in the last 12 months. Hear the winning selections and then get your entry in for the 1981-82 competition. Details from Money Box,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)
Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Willie Rushton and Tim Brooke-Taylor are just a few of the four people competing against Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton
Pianist COLIN SELL
(Rptd: Monday 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
The Rt Hon
Barbara Castle, MEP
The Bishop of Liverpool The Rt Hon
Edward du Cann, MP
Air Vice-Marshal Menaul from
Blackburn, Lancashire
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Your wildlife questions answered.
A Small Desperation by PETER LOWE with Michael Hordern and Michael Maloney
A headmaster about to retire. A head boy about to go to university. The end of one career, the beginning of another. A confrontation between age and experience.
This play was one of the prize-winners in a 1980 BBC Radio Medway play competition.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Walter Goldsmith of the Institute of Directors long wave only
Let Neil Landor, together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
(Rptd: Thurs 11.50 am)
(long wave only)
by HARRY PRICE
Harry Price accompanied King George V and Queen Mary (when they were the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York) on a Royal Tour - but as he was an able seaman he saw a very different tour from them. He was an accomplished artist and kept a diary of the tour, which he illustrated with excellent watercolour sketches.
The diary excerpts have been abridged by DONALD BANCROFT and are read by Sion Probert. Producer
CHRISTOPHER VENNING long wave only
A magazine of interest to disabled listeners.
Presenter Marilyn Alan Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only
Last of six programmes about running your own business.
Gwyn Richards puts the questions to Derek Jones and Bill Perry.
Getting to the Market What? Who? When? Where? Why? These essential marketing questions can help you decide what your business is about, whom you are serving, and how to reach them.
Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS (First broadcast on R3)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Amiably competitive conversation.
Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS Producer JENNY DE YONG
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)
Zack by HAROLD BRIGHOUSE Zack Munning was the despair of his mother and brother and a bit of a joke to his neighbours. It took an outsider to see, or think she saw, more in him than everyone else.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
Street Beat
Last year more than 300 women were jailed because they were prostitutes - yet to be a prostitute is not an offence. Louise Webb , campaigner for prostitutes' rights, argues that the law should not discriminate against what it terms the ' common prostitute ', and that they should not be made the victims of society's hypocrisy. In
Birmingham, the City
Council has determined to face the ' problem - on its streets. Before an invited audience of prostitutes and their neighbours, sympathisers and opponents, councillors and police - she has just ten minutes to make her case.
Desmond Wilcox referees the ensuing debate from the Council Chamber, Birmingham.
Research VIRGINIA HENRY Producer SHARON BANOFF
An evening meditation led by David Craig BBC Manchester
by JOHN and JULIA KEAY The fourth of five programmes on Scottish explorers.
A Terrible Rough Trip The story of JOHN MACDOUALL STUART
In 1860 John MacDouall Stuart set out on a daunting challenge: to cross the whole continent of Australia from south to north - a distance of over 2.000 miles.
Narrator PATRICK MALAHIDE with PAUL YOUNG as Stuart Other parts played by ARTHUR BOLAND ,
SANDY NIELSON and BENNY YOUNG Producer PATRICK RAYNER (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; inshore forecast
