Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT

A note from Religious Affairs correspondent
Rosemary Hartill

7.10 Today's Papers

Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Birmingham

Mike Gilliam talks to Alan Titchmarsh

8.10 Today's Papers

Presented by Tony Adamson Fifty thousand supporters are expected at Old Trafford to watch Manchester United play Liverpool.
Plus some of the more offbeat stories to catch the eye in the world of sport.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from SUSAN MARLING , PATRICK STODDART and FRANK BARRETT.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD including at 9.0 News

with Desmond Wilcox Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

One man's view of his own Party Assembly. This week
David Alton , mp presents his personal report from Bournemouth.
Producer ZAREER MASANI

with Dilly Barlow

BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people. Producer ZAREER MASANI

The last in the present series Jeanine McMullen celebrates the harvest of her summer journeys with a round-up of the skills, stock and stories which together give the richness to life on A Small Country Living.
Producer MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol For a full set of information send a large sae to A Small Country Living PO Box 229, Bristol [Postcode removed]

Slogans, catchphrases and sayings of every kind examined by The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , MP Jessica Mann , Sally Miles and Brian Sibley
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees Producer JOANIE BLAIKIE

The Rt Hon Sally Oppenheim , mp The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp David Penhaligon , mp Max Hastings

Watching the Plays Together by RHYS ADRIAN
Every evening Rosemary and Gerald sit down in front of their television set and watch plays together. Occasionally they recognise similarities between the screen fiction and people they know. There comes a point when fact and fiction become confused.
The actors in the plays within the play are played by Frances Jeater and Ronald Herdman.
(A Giles Cooper Award Winner 1983) A cruel glance at the way we live now. (THE OBSERVER) Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Stereo

Actor Sir Michael Hordern considers the view from his cottage beside a trout stream in Berkshire.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject.... with the voices of TOM LEHRER , TONY HANCOCK LILY TOMLIN, JOHN CLEESE
TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR , MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS Stereo

You've finally got one....
An American boxer talking about Britain's heavyweight prospect, Frank Bruno. After 21 wins in a row he lost his fight to 'Bonecrusher' Smith from the United States on a knockout. On Tuesday 25
September Bruno begins the long fight back. Ian Hawkins talks to him and others involved in his career over the last few years and draws a vivid portrait of what makes a professional boxer tick.
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol

Barry Norman live on stage from The Chip Shop's stand at the Personal Computer World Show at London's Olympia.
A full report on all that's new from Britain's leading micro exhibition.
Producer
TREVOR TAYLOR Chipline London [number removed]
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Birmingham [number removed]

by Anthony Smith

with PETER DONALDSON including Sports Round-up

Music by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

with Richard Baker
Producer JILL ANDERSON. Stereo

Three Time Plays by J. B. PRIESTLEY
3: I Have Been Here Before
A group of people thrown together by chance when they decide to stay at a remote
Yorkshire inn, discover that they are so inter-dependent that a decision taken by any one of them is likely to have a profound effect on the lives of the others. Have they lived through the experience before? Is there a chance to make different decisions this time?
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester. Stereo

ns a sight to make surrounding nations stare
A Kingdom committed to a schoolboy's care.
Almost 200 years ago, a new
Prime Minister was appointed who was just 24 years old. Yet William Pitt the Younger became one of the most popular and long-serving Prime Ministers in British history and his economic and administrative reforms marked the birth of the Tory Party. Richard Mullen traces the career of this legendary Prime Minister.
Cast includes CAROLE BOYD
NIGEL GRAHAM , JOHN RYE
HILDA SCHRODER , DAVID TIMSON and PETER TUDDENHAM
Producer CATHY WEARING. Stereo

from the Chapel of Unity, Methodist College, Belfast
Good Shepherd of thy people, hear (St Columba); Be still my soul (Finlandia); Luke 10, vv 38-42 (NEB); The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

In Britain's Heritage Year,
Nick Page considers the lives and achievements of 12 men and women who have shaped our Christian heritage.
3: Bede - Father of English History
Researcher RACHEL VINEY Producer DAVID COOMES

by JOAN BAKEWELL
As the vicar sits earnestly editing the Parish Magazine, he little realises the events he chronicles are very far from being the simple rural doings that they seem. In fact, the arrival of the new curate is bringing about not only the subtle disintegration of the peaceful parochial scene, but of his own domestic bliss!
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo