John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead In Blackpool at the Conservative Party Conference
1.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45' Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.15* 8.25* Sport
T.45* Thouflht for the Day
8.35* Your Letters
Part 5
A series of four programmes
Phil Smith takes to the summer playgrounds to inspect his fellow pleasure seekers.
2: A Race Apart BBC Manchester
BBC correspondents from around the world cast a collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Sat 4.0 pm)
Decisions by LISA TAYLOR Read by Mary Wimbush
NEM, p 67; 0 worship the Lord In the beauty of holiness (BBC HB 267); Psalm 147, vv 1-11: 1
Corinthians 9, vv 1-12; Stand up, and bless the Lord (BBC HB 268) long wave only
On 14 August 1941, after two weeks of naked degradation, Maksymilian Kolbe was injected with poison, the last of ten men to die in the starvation bunker of Auschwitz.
Yet this 20th-century saint is accused of being anti-Semitic and through his publications, inciting anti-Semitism in Poland. Peter Firth explores the life and death of Maksymilian Kolbe.
Geoffrey Paul, Editor of the Jewish Chronicle explains the charge of anti-Semitism and The Most Rev Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury considers the nature of saints.
BBC Bristol
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The Flamboyant Tree
Standing in a garden In Sierra Leone Is a beautiful tree, covered with brilliant clusters of scarlet flowers and visited by oleander hawkmoths, yellow swallowtails and common bulbuls.
Presenter Denis Owen Producer
ANNE BLAIR GOULD
BBC Bristol long wave only
John Howard with the latest news for consumers. Today: It's a Bargain
Norman Tozer advises on huying cots.
Presenter Brian Widlake
Introduced from Northern Ireland by Wendy Austin Today's guest is Inez McCormack. Regional
Organiser of the National Union of Public
Employees, who was the first woman in the United Kingdom to be appointed to such a position in the Trade Union movement.
Rainbows and Evergreen: poet and playwright
PATRICK GALVIN With the first in a series of short stories about his quirky, eccentric family and close circle of friends who influenced his early life. Producer COLIN LEWIS BBC Northern Ireland The Woodlanders (7) long wave only
by ELIZABETH GASKELL dramatised in nine parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with and 8: Scandal and its Victims 1 " You don't know him," said Cynthia, shaking her head. " If
Mr Preston ever guessed that Roger and I were engaged, he would manage to be revenged on both him and me, by giving us as much pain as he could with those unlucky letters. They are like a mine under my feet, which may blow up any day; and down will come father and mother and all." ' with JAMES BRYCE
MONICA GREY, MADI REDD and EILEEN TULLY
Music composed by RACHEL PORTMAN
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Anne Louise Lambert is a National Theatre player)
Foreign correspondents resident in Britain, report on us - to us.
In the final talk, Ashls Ray , Chief of Bureau of the Ananda Bazaar Group of India, reflects on the afterglow of Empire.
Six programmes presented by Monty Haltrecht 2: Voice Over
' The great voice coming over beautifully, easily, subduing an 80- or 100-piece orchestra ' - that, according to Lord
Harewood, is the special thrill of opera. And the thrill for the singer?
' Like hitting a golf ball - the sheer bewilderment that the ball can go so far ' says operatic bass Robert Lloyd.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
December Flower (5)
Presenters
Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Chris Serle brings you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, with help from
Eric Tobitt and Tom Boswell. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC programmes Producer ANGELA HIND
A personal portrait of a public figure or the story of a private Individual.
The Rt Hon Shirley Williams
Arthur Searglll
Jonathan Porritt and Clive Thornton from Mansfield, Notts
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
includes reviews of Flashback, a Channel 4 series of programmes exploring the way in which film and television have reflected some of the dominant themes of 20th-century history; and A Passion in Six Days, a new play with music by Howard Barker set at a Labour Party Conference, at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
Presented by Michael Billington
Producer PHILIP JORDAN
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallls
David Tate , Jack Klaff and Sally Grace
Written by IAN BROWN ROY APPS , RICHARD QUICK
JOHN LANGDON , JOHN COLLEE ROGER PLANER , PAUL DAVIES , PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
The Heat of the Day (10) long wave only
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The last of seven programmes
More often than not it is the spectacular virtues, shamelessly displayed, which can pose more of a threat to civilised everyday life than good. old-fashioned sin.
Terence Blacker advises the sinner on how to recognise those virtues and deal with them. Fidelity
Producer HELEN FRY long wave only
Edward Cole remembers some classic film musicals This week:
Hall a Sixpence long wave only
