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John Timpson In London and Brian Redhead In Blackpool at the Conservative Party Conference
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6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN 7.W,8.13*Sport
7.43* Thought for the Day

Part 3

Invites you to join him and Libby Purves for conversation with the people who are in and out of the news this week.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON

Ken Ford invites Geoffrey Smith Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczackl to answer questions which listeners have sent In by post.
Questions on postcards to: BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX BBC Manchester

The Green Sweater by ROBERT B. MAWKINNEY Read by Anna Sharkey

nem, p 58; Firmly I believe and truly (BBC HB 168); Psalm 143;
I Corinthians 6, w 1-8; Thou art the way (BBC HB 338) long wave only

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Ostriches and Emus
Taking a sink-plunger to an egg-bound emu and a mine-detectortoabluenecked ostrich, are all In a day's work for international zoo vet David Taylor , who remembers adventures with these brainless, bad-tempered birds. Producer
ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only

Paul Helney with the latest news, information andadviceforconsumers. Call in on [number removed]from 11.0 am with your comments.

by Anthony Olcott
dramatised for radio in five parts by Matthew Walters
5: Since finding the body of an American tourist, fate has led hotel security guard Duvakin deeper and deeper into the sinister and seedy side of Moscow life. Now, finally, he sees the end of his complex mission in sight but fate has one more twist in store.

Presenter
Michael Charlton with voices and topics in and behind the headlines

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including:
Guest of the week: the new Director General of Britain's Meteorological Office Professor John Houghton
The Woodlanders (5) long wave only

The second of two plays by Rachel Wyatt
with Angela Pleasence as Josie

You know about Josie. Went to France with this foreign fellow. He left her high and dry... Benjy and I stood here, right about this spot, two years ago and laughed and joked. Nothing seems funny now.'

The Anglo-Welsh poet
Gillian Clarke Introduces poetry of her choice
3: Words
Reader DENYS HAWTHORNE Producer ENYD WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Foreign correspondents resident in Britain report on us - to us.
Today It's the turn of Michael Bogdanov, the Russian correspondent of the daily Socialist Industry.

December Flower (3)

with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams

With PETER DONALDSON
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report

A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain.
Top Valley School, Nottingham v The Pingle School, Swadlincote, Burton-on-Trent.

Questionmasters TIM GUDGIN and PADDY FEENY
Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY, NIGEL RICHARDSON and PADDY FEENY
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
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4: Hit and Run
'The car flung me across the road. The driver didn't stop.'
This pedestrian was victim of an Incident where the motorist was driving without insurance. There are an estimated one-and-a-half million uninsured cars on Britain's roads today. Brenda Kidman looks into the difficulties of claiming compensation from those law breakers who drive with a callous disregard for the safety of others.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

by MIKE WALKER
Omai was a young
Tahitian who came to England in 1775 with Captain Cook and lived here for two years. He was the first of Ms people to see Europe - and the first to return with the ' advantages ' of Its civilisation.
Readers GEOFFREY COLLINS , ALEC JENNINGS ,
ANGELA PHILLIPS , CHRISTIAN RODSKA, PETER TUDDENHAM and JACK WATSON. Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol

Peter Hobday with the magazine which goes to the shopfloor and - boardrooms across the country.
Producers ROSALIND BEW and ROGER PARRY
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With television entering into the world of opera we may soon have to face the facts; to be an opera singer you need looks - and, if you've got a little voice too, OK. In the second of six programmes the Swedish soprano
Elisabeth Soderstrom chooses music to accompany her reflections on operaUc appearances
Producer GILLIAN hUSH BBC Manchester
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includes reviews of Albert: His Life and Work, a major exhibition at the Royal College of Art depicting the Prince Consort's influence on British heritage and the arts; and Little Shop of Horrors, based on the film by Roger Corman , which recently won the New York Drama Critics' Best Musical Award in America and opens tonight at the Comedy Theatre, London.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN POWELL

with John Morgan Editor KEN GOUDIE

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Glasgow Is a city trapped by its past. Despite the advent of space age
Industries and new social policies, the cllched image remains of violence, football, dole queues and little else . much to the dismay of native Glaswegians who view their city with a mixture of fierce pride and sardonic humour. This year Glasgow has been focusing attention on itself by celebrating a number of bicentenaries - notably those of the Glasgow Herald and the city's Chamber of Commerce.
As an outsider- and there's no greater outsider In Glasgow than a man born in Edinburgh - Jack Began takes a personal view of a town that was once the second city of the empire and that is struggling to outlive
Its tag of ' no mean city ' Producer BLAIR THOMSON