Presented by Jon Silverman and Michael Stewart with Peter Hobday from the Republican Party Convention in Dallas
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 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

Part 5

A series of three quite probable stories written and read by Leonard Barras
2: Nothing Like Flute Practice 'For all his truculence he was suggestible. He felt persecuted. He vacillated. He was a fair representative of the human race.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon

NEM, p 62; Saints of God! (EH
239); Psalm 104, vv 1-10; Acts 5, vv 1-11; 0 Lord our God, arise! (BBC HB 25) Stereo

They had not been to prep school and their accents proved it. Their fathers were miners, lorry drivers or clerks. Their homes were rural cottages or urban semis and they were pupils at some of Britain's most renowned and expensive public schools.
Forty years after the Fleming
Report initiated the educational and social experiment which placed them there,
Sonia Beesley talks to some of the participants in 'the good-natured scheme' which changed their lives.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON

Sea squirts, eels and urchins make room for Tony Soper and Paul Cragg as they jostle on the most crowded beach of all - the mudflat.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Urine as a garden fertiliser, sewage as gas for heating, weeds that keep the pests away from your vegetables - they're all examples of ways in which natural resources can make our lives cheaper and easier. So why aren't they used in everyday life?
John Howard visits the National Centre for
Alternative Technology at
Macynlleth in mid-Wales in a special live edition.
Producers JOHN WATKINS and RICHARD WACHMAN

Stereo

Presenter Gordon Clough

Lola Young reads The Blue Bird by FIONA FRENCH

Introduced from Cardiff by Noreen Bray who takes a look at what's going on in different parts of the principality, and JANE DAUNCEY finds out how an artist is using her talent to specially conserve Wales.
Producer SESI MCCOMBIE BBC Wales
The Tranquility Stone (2)

by HOWARD SPRING freely adapted for radio in eight parts by KEN WHITMORE Ian McKellen as Hamer Shawcross
3: The Fight for St Swithin's
Directed by TREVOR HILL
BBC Manchester

Ernie Biddle talks to
Gyn Freeman about his first job, developing holiday snaps. BBC Manchester

This week Mike Harding follows the Leeds and Liverpool Canal from Leeds city centre to the village of Rodley, with industrial archaeologist Kenneth Hudson.
Producer JUDE HOWELLS

Smith (5)

Presenters Robert Williams and Richard Bath continued on VHF 5.50-5.55

with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

with Clive Jacobs and ALANAH MARTIN , TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

with Margaret Howard Producer SIMON ELMES
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am) Stereo

A personal portrait

Frank Delaney presents his personal choice of prose and poetry with Barbara Jefford and T. P. McKenna
'... ever since I came to live in England six years ago, I have had to respond to both Celtic excess and Anglo-Saxon restraint. Imagine then, my problems with an anthology called With Great Pleasure' Recorded before an invited audience at the Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo

Walter Mondale's wobbly leadership a talking point as the Republicans' glitzy convention takes over Dallas. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Paul Allen explores the dark corners of Edinburgh unearthing the surprises, delights and disasters which make up this year's Festival Fringe.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

The Haunted Major by ROBERT MARSHALL abridged in eight parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by NIGEL ANTHONY (8) Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Presented by Janet Cohen in London and Richard Kershaw at the Republican Party Convention in Dallas
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0

11.0 Staying in Business: 4: Managing Money
Anyone can start a business - but what does it take to keep it going? Peter Hobday finds out.

11.30 Euromagazine: Edicion espanola: 3
Three programmes of news and interviews from Spain.
Miguel Penaranda e Isabel Soto hablan con el humorista y dibujante 'Forges'.
Realization de Mick Webb
(Repeat)

In 1982, four men mounted an illegal operation to build London's third airport at Shifton, 20 miles north-east of Birmingham.
David Lander now concludes his four-part investigation into the notorious Shifton Scandal with a look at the arrests, the trial and the disturbing aftermath.
Production assistants
STEPHEN FRY , JACK KLAFF , BRENDA BLETHYN , TONY ROBINSON and ROBERT BATHURST
Dramatic reconstructions by MARK ARDEN , STEVE FROST , PETER WEAR, PHIL NICE, ARTHUR SMITH , CAROLE BOYD and JOHN BOTT Research by TONY SARCHET Editor PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Saturday 5.25 pm)
(Stephen Fry is in '40 Years On' at the Queen's Theatre, London and Brenda Blethyn is in 'Benefactors' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)