with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30. 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE roslin
7.25* 8.25* Sport
7.15* Thought for the Day

Part 8

invites you to join him and Libby Purves for conversation.
Producer pippa bukston

Ken Ford Invites Geoffrey Smith
Daphne Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczackl to answer questions sent in by post.
Questions on postcards only to: BBC Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9PX BBC Manchester

The Funny Man's Day by STACY AUIIONIER
Read by Charlie Chester

neu, p 102; 0 Lord of heaven and earth and sea (BBC kb 14); Psalm 119, vv 9-16; Matthew 9. vv 9-13; God the Father's only Son (BBC hb 303) long wave only

Richard Baker resents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY abbott long wave only

Going Up
Pattie Coldwell with advice for those about to start courses at universities or colleges. What problems are you likely to encounter with studying, with making ends meet, with finding accommodation and with enjoying yourselves? Ring [number removed]after
11.0 am to put your questions to the experts.

by Anthony Olcott
dramatised for radio in five parts by Matthew Walters
with Anton Rodgers as Duvakin

From the moment that night security guard Duvakin reported the murder of an American tourist at the Hotel Red October, he has found his life unpleasantly complex. Now the KGB are about to take him into very deep water indeed.

with voices and topics In and behind the headlines

with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Professor of Psychiatry, the television and radio personality prober
AnthonyClare.
The House of Women (3) long wave only

The Return of Uncle Arthur by VICTOR CANNING , With Chrys Salt as Nancy Gareth Armstrong as John and Richard Warner as Uncle
Arthur After he dies, Nancy and John think they have heard the last of Uncle Arthur. However, his executors spring quite a surprise.
Miss Appleton EDWINA WRAY Xom CYRIL CONWAY Directed by craham GAULD

In the last of seven programmes the poet
George MacBeth presents a selection of verse about the sea.
Shipwrecks
Readers CAROL URINXWATER JAMES BRYCE producer ALEC REID

Summer Reflections
MARJORIE LororousE hears about other people's holidays.
2: Action Packed

The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (8)

Presenters Robert Williams and Richard Bath

With CHARLES COLVILE including Financial Report

A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain First Round
3: Home Counties
Maiden Erlegh School, Earley, Reading v Emmbrook School, Wokingham

Questionmasters Tim Gudgin, Paddy Feeny

(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

(Repeated: Thuri 1.40 pm)

Four programmes
1: Innocents Abroad
Fred Parr of Liverpool took his family touring in France, but the holiday turned to tragedy when they became victims of a hotel fire which left mother and daughter scarred for life. Brenda Kidman traces their seven-year struggle for compensation through the French law courts.
Producer dun A stenson BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)

So the town of Gorom Gorom In Upper Volta, West Africa, was described by one of the tribes which settled there. But since the Sahel drought in the early 1970s, life has grown much less comfortable. Liz Mardall reports on the work of a children's clinic there.
Studio producer
PAT TAYLOR

(Detoill: Thurs 10.0 am)

with Anne Louise Lambert as Lady Byron, Patience Tomlinson as Ada and Imelda Staunton as Medora

Lord Byron always feared that his children would inherit his club foot but doesn't seem to have been anxious about more spiritual flaws. In fact, his most malign legacies were his reputation and the bitter humiliation of his wife. Norma Rowen traces the corrosive effects of his influence on the lives of Lady Byron, her daughter Ada, and Medora Leigh, rumoured to be Byron's daughter by his half-sister Augusta.
(Repeated: Thurs 11.0 am)
(Anne Louise Lambert and Imelda Staunton are National Theatre players)

Includes a review of The Dance of Death, Strlndberg'splay directed by Kenneth MacMillan at the Royal Exchange Theatre,
Manchester, starring Edward Fox and Jill Bennett : and a discussion with two of the judges about this year's shortlist of novels entered for the Booker McConnell Prize for fiction.
Presenter Richard Mayne Producer PHILIP JORDAN

with Alexander MacLeod

The Best of The World Tonight: News
A look back at some of the highlights of the previous half-hour, followed at 10.45 by a look forward to A Book at Bedtime for those of you who aren't allowed to stay up and listen to It. starring
Christopher Barrie Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton
Written by ROB GRANT and doug NAYLOR
Music by PETER brewis Producer alan NIXON

Stranger In the House (3) long wave only

long wave only

A century ago Worktngton was transformed Into a thriving Iron and steel town under the guidance ofJamesDufflela,a one-time pit lad. Today the town Is In decline.
David Bean traces Its rise and fall and revives the memory of an extraordinary man.
Producer Gillian bush
BBC Manchester long wave only

long wave only