Presented from Scotland by Charlie Allan
BBC Scotland

with John Timpson and Peter Hobday
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News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

with Simon Vance

continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)

Witty, provocative, outrageous, unpredictable table talk from RICHARD BAKER 'S live guests.
Producer IAN STRACHAN

Dinjo by LAWRENCE ADAMS
Read by Sean Barrett Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 62; A safe stronghold (BBC HB 297); Canticle 8; I Corinthians 15,vv 35-46; God who spoke in the beginning (BP 24): long wave only

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Presented by Dannie Abse Readers MARTIN JARVIS and DIANA BISHOP Complied by MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
(Martin Jarvis is a National Theatre player) long wave only

with John Howard Editor KEN VASS

Eccentricity
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject. with recorded humour from WOODY ALLEN. MICHAEL FLANDERS , DONALD SWANN ROY DOTRICE and the MONTY PYTHON TEAM
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)

Presenter Brian Wldlake Editor DEREK LEWIS

with Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today: In the first of four demonstrations recorded on the Women's Institute exhibition bus. MARY BERRY talks about presents for children to make.
I Start Counting by AUDREY ERSKINE LINDOP abridged in 13 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Carole Hayman (1)
' When schoolgirl Wynne Kinch is frightened she always starts counting. And with a strangler loose in the Midlands town of Dalstead who might be a member of her own family, she's counting quite a lot!' Editor SANDRA CHALMERS long wave only

What Every Woman
Knows by J. M. BARRIE

We are, of course, all democrats but what do we mean by democracy? Patrick Hannan reflects on activists, the soft centre, and the thoughts of Chairman Mao.
Producer HERDERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

A Passage to India by E. M. FORSTER abridged In 15 parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY Read by SAM DASTOR (6) Producer BRIAN DEAN

with Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS

with Clive Roslin
Including Financial Report

(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)

' And he's bound to appear ', they say. An anthology for
Hallowe'en on the life and times of HRH the Prince of Darkness, conjured for radio by Brian Sibley and read by ROBERT EDDISON. JUDY PARPITT and BRIAN CARROLL. Producer GRAHAM GAULD

A portrait by ANDREA ADAMS of Violet Stradling. who as Auntie Stradlers , brought love and hope to the many children under her care.
Producer PAT TAYLOR

Thursday's Child by MARGARET SIMPSON with Samantha McNulty was battered as a baby and Is put in a children's home until suitable adoptive parents can be found. This is no easy task for social worker Eric Framley , but the situation is complicated when the natural mother's circumstances change and Rose wants her daughter back.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

Children of the Night Always popular, yet never quite respectable, horror fiction from Poe's elegant tales of terror to the video nasties is the subject of this Hallowe'en edition.
Why in a world full of real horror do we need to invent vampires, werewolves, witches. devils and hobgoblins? Why in the last 30 years have we abandoned the spine-tingling in favour of the stomach-turning? Peter Nicholls engages the help of such masters of the malevolent as STEPHEN KING.
PETER CUSHING , JAMES HERBERT RAMSEY CAMPBELL. JACK CLAYTON , GENE WOLFE
DAVID CRONENBERG and VINCENT PRICE to shine a little light Into the darkness.
Reader VALENTINE DYALL (The man In black)
Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor ROSEMARY HART

with Alexander MacLeod Editor KEN GOUDIE

Presented by Peter Evans Producer JULIAN BROWN

Basil by WILKIE COLLINS abridged in 15 parts and read by EDWARD DE SOUZA (6)
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