Presented by Peter Hobday in London and Brian Redhead at the Trades Union Congress in Brighton
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
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 4

For the first of four regional editions, Marjorie Lofthouse and Donny MacLeod invite you to join them at the Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham - from now until noon - for a wide variety of stimulating and entertaining items including....
9.5 A live debate before an invited audience in which the people who should know, discuss the qualities needed for national leadership
... Floreat Laureate, with Roger Woddis offering some new thoughts on the Poet Laureate stakes and suggesting names that Those in High Places might not have on their lists
... Out on a Spree, a preview of the National Convention of the Ladies Association of Barbershop Singers. Regular items:
The news on the hour from HARRIET CASS at the BBC News Desk
10.30 Morning Story Daisy Lane Halt Written and read by Charlie Chester
10.45 An Act of Worship
In the Lion's Den: a latterday Daniel confronts a hostile audience.
Network UK: a round-up of stories - big and not so big -from BBC radio stations around the country.
Produced by the Pebble Mill Rollercoaster unit
0 Woddis On.... page 66

An excursion into the unpredictable reaches of how to get there -and back. In the pilot's seat
Christopher Matthew
Feet firmly on the ground
Sandra Boler , Simon Hoggart and David Taylor
Departures from the script announced by EUGENE FRASER Travel details
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
Tour organiser DANNY GREENSTONE Stereo

Presenter Sir Robin Day

SAM KELLY reads Potto Finds a Job by ROGER HARGREAVES

Introduced by Jill Burridge Here to 'Speaka do English': every year we play host to thousands of overseas students who want to learn English. Language schools are good business - but how friendly are the natives? KATE MOON discovers the pleasures and the problems for those trying to 'fit in' with us and each other.
The Fall of the Sparrow (2)

The Docks by TUNDE IKOLI with and Eddie, a one-time docker has become a recluse in order to write. When Tony, a young black Londoner , breaks into his flat his only real fear is that he will destroy his manuscripts. A potentially explosive situation develops.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER Stereo

with Neil Landor Producer LUCY LUNT

Act of Mercy (4)

with Robert Williams and Carole West continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With DAVID HITCHINSON including Financial Report

Stereo

Written by GRAHAM HARVEY (Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

The author and broadcaster David Bean reflects on his unexpected experiences as a writer-in-residence in a public library.
BBC Manchester

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Friday 10.0 am)

There are more ways of making the world a desert than the nuclear holocaust.
(WILLIAM CLARK , former Vice-President of the World Bank)
We are bringing upon ourselves a situation which could be more disastrous for mankind than an East-West conflict.
(GENERAL SIR JOHN HACKETT )
/ don think there's any
Western bank that believes it will ever get its principal repaid.
(THE RT HON DENIS HEALEY. MP)
William Clark 's recent novel Cataclysm: the North-South
Conflict of 1987 depicts a major Third World debt default leading to the collapse of the international social and economic order. How realistic is this scenario, and how accurately has the author gauged its repercussions? William Clark is joined by Sir John Hackett and Denis Healey.
Chairman Geoffrey Stern Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
0 HELPLINES: page 65

In the end one usually runs, whether one takes the money or not.
Roy Fisher reflects on the perils and rewards of public performance in his twin roles of poet and jazz pianist. Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them. Presenter John Mills Producer ANN KAYE
Correspondence address: BBC Broadcasting House London [Postcode removed] Tel: [number removed]
(Mon-Fri 10.0 am-5.0 pm)

A series 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.
3: Modesty
With MARK STRAKER , MICHAEL JENNER and RICHARD HUW
Producer HELEN FRY

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer DANIEL DODD

Wide Sargasso Sea (4)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod in London and Peter Paterson at the Trades Union Congress in Brighton
11.0 Headlines on VHFIFM until 11.0

Prefaces to Shakespeare Six programmes in which actors and actresses talk about Shakespeare's plays
3: Tony Church on 'King Lear' 'I think King Lear is the most extraordinary and perhaps the greatest play in the English language, possibly even in world drama.'