Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks BBC Bristol
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Brian Redhead reports from Blackpool on the opening of this year's
Labour Party Conference. In London John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV BARRIE 1LLCOTT
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Kate Moon
by PETER TINNISWOOD 1: Witney Scrotum with Robin Bailey as The Brigadier
Producer TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
8.57 Weather; travel
and a lively assortment of guests to entertain you with 55 minutes of live conversation.
Producer PETER ESTALL
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Babysitters' Sponsored Walk by FRED URQUHART
Read by Fraser Kerr Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
NEM, p 67: Come, my way, my truth, my life (bp 13); Psalm 93; Luke 7. vv 1-10 (NEB); Lord of mercy and of might (BBC HB 295)
Prayerbook, New Every Morning, £2.00 from booksellers
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Royal Worcester
Porcelain, Worcestershire Sauce, the composer
Elgar, a famous battle and a beautiful cathedral are the topics of conversation in Brian Johnston 's visit to the City of Worcester.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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David Crystal looks at your letters on the subject of English language today and discusses usages that seem to cause most concern.
This week's guest: Dr John Rae. Headmaster of Westminster School Producer ALAN WILDING long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor JOHN CETGOOD
The Five Red Herrings by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in eight episodes by CHRIS MILLER starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter and Peter Jones as Bunter 1:The Body in the Burn
Producer SIMON BRETT
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Toni Arthur
Including during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today Billu Bunter Lives: but tie's changed. KAY
KING talks to JENNY CUFFE about the Fat Owl of the Remove.
Sergeant Nice by ROBERT WESTALL , abridged In five Instalments by DELIA PATON Read by John Hollis (1) (Music: Glazounov's
Concerto for saxophone and string orchestra) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
A Magician Amongst the Spirits by BERT COULES
Aberdeen solicitor
Michael Park follows a trail of prosperity in the granite city that began long before the coming of North Sea oil. BBC Scotland
Two on a Tower by THOMAS HARDY abridged in 12 parts by MICHAEL BOWEN
Read by Charles Kay (6) Producer PAMELA HOWE
BBC Bristol
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
With BRYAN MARTIN
Halfan-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
(Repeated; Tues 1.40 pm)
The last play in the Dramatic Revival series.
A serjeant and three soldiers arrive in a strike-ridden northern town during the winter time, 100 years ago.
Ostensibly they are there to find recruits, but, in fact, they are deserters, and the serjeant is obsessed with a passionate belief that he must wake his countrymen to the futility and brutality of war.
includes reviews of Smiley's People, a six-part dramatisation of John le Carre's novel on BBC2 This new serial is set several years after the search for the 'mole' in the headquarters of British Intelligence depicted in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and Alec Guinness returns once again as George Smiley with Sian Phillips as his wife Ann.
Also Opera North's new production of Prince Igor by Borodin, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones at the Grand Theatre, Leeds.
Presenter Michael Oliver
9.59 Weather
with Stephen Milligan Editor KEN GOVDIE
Presented by Peter Evans Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by MURIEL SPARK Read in ten parts by Moira Shearer (1) The Vicar said to
Humphrey, ' Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife? '
'No,' Humphrey said, ' to be quite frank, I won't.' BBC Scotland long wave only
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First of two programmes by the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERICH LEINSDORP
RUDOLP SERKIN (piano) Mozart Piano Concerto No 19, In r (K 459) (Boston Symphony Transcription Trust recording)
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Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
