Presented by Brian Redhead and Michael Stewart
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

by DESMOND LOWDEN abridged in ten parts by DAVID H. GODFREY
Read by NORMAN JONES (10) Producer PETER KING

Colin Semper airs your comments on the BBC Producer JANET THOMAS

Autumn Cricket by LORD DUNSANY
Read by Hugh Dickson

NEM. p 89; My God, my Father, make me strong (BBC HB 357); Psalm 119, w 57-64; Acts 10, w 19-33; 0 thou who earnest from above (BBC HB 362) Stereo

Dormice as astronauts? Does this small mammal hold the secret of suspended animation? Mike Stoddart wonders about a Roman delicacy and deep sleeper - the dormouse. Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

Presenter Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by SUSANNA DAWSON Script by Sue Limb Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Let's Join In with SOUNDBOX The Magic Rose Bough by JOYCE AND JAMES DUNBAR
2.25 Sounds, Words and Movement The Magic Box (Words) Presenters JILL shilling and PAUL BURA Producer SHEILA FRASER
2.40 Listen! Journey Through Badlidrempt (2)

Introduced from Manchester by Lesley Judd , whose guests are a Cheshire husband and wife team who recently made the first British ascent of Mount Bielukha, the highest peak in Siberia.
Write on, Sisters! LYN WEBSTER reports from this year's
Women's Writing conference. BBC Manchester
Loose Connections (3)

by HOWARD SPRING freely adapted for radio in eight episodes by KEN WHITMORE
8: Perish By The Sword 1923-38
Theme music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON
Directed by TREVOR hill BBC Manchester

Olive Shapley travelled alone round the world.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester

On 25 August 1984, husband and wife Nick and Chris Calder , set sail for a voyage to the other side of the world in their boat-Stroma of Mey. "The end of two years' hard work and my second thoughts come with less than 24 hours to go.' A plan to reach the Great Barrier Reef, but time is of no importance.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

Stepping Westward (5)

Presenters Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs with ALANAH MARTIN. TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS . Producer JOHN BELL
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)

with Glyn Worsnip Producer KATE FENTON

A personal portrait

The Rt Hon Dame Judith Hart , mp
The Rt Hon David Owen , mp Auberon Waugh and Richard Cottrell , MEP in Street, Somerset
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE

Washington observers interpret meeting between Reagan and Gromyko as sign that Soviets foresee a second term for the president. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Including in interview with playwright David Hare.
Presenter Michael Billington Producer BRIAN BARFIELD

Stars and Bars by WILLIAM BOYD abridged in ten episodes by JOHN SCOTNEY
Read by KERRY SHALE (10) Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Presenter Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHFIFM until 11.0

11.0 Autumn Preview Previewing the new season of adult education radio, CHRIS SERLE discovers a wide range of programmes on modern language learning, new computer technology, ski-ing opportunities, and different contemporary lifestyles. Producer NICOLE CHURCH
11.15 Murder at Sarajevo PROFESSOR JAMES JOLL looks at the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo and its complex background, with contributions from ROY BRIDGE, GORDON BROOK-SHEPHERD , RICHARD CRAMPTON , CHRIS CVHC , VLADIMIR DEDIJER , DRAGAN KALEMBER, JOHN LESLIE , HUGH SETON-WATSON and A. J. P. TAYLOR. With VLADO ALBAHARI and VLADO kajevic as the conspirators and HILDA SCHRODER as the Countess Sophie Nostitz Producer ALAN WILDING

Bill Wallis , David Tate
David Jason and Sally Grace Written by IAN BROWN , RICHARD QUICK, PAUL B. DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH, PETE SINCLAIR , STUART
SILVER, DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER

Radio Geography: Home or Away
12.30 Air Freight Written and presented by DR BILL CHARLTON
12.50 Pipeline Written and presented by ASTLEY JONES