A meditation for the beginning of the new day. Stereo
Presented by Michael Stewart in London and Brian Redhead at the Labour Party
Conference in Blackpool
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 5
Read by Timothy Bateson Edited by BRIAN BETHELL Producer TONY CUFF BBC Manchester
Frances Donnelly airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
Producer JANET THOMAS
(Repeated: Sunday 6.45 pm)
by Jill Norris
Read by Betty Baskcomb
from St George's Church Brandon Hill, Bristol with BRUTON GIRLS' SCHOOL CHOIR Sabat Mater Dolorosa
(Pergolesi); My song is love unknown (BBC HB 84) I John 1, vv 1-7 (GNB) Musical director
JONATHAN PALMER
Organist PAUL INWOOD BBC Bristol. Stereo
Milk....
... is the characteristic of all mammals, feeding and conferring immunity against diseases on their young. To get the milk, it's helpful to be able to suck. Sucking is made easier with lips. Lips make speech possible....
Presented by Pat Morris Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
11.0-12.0 VHF/FM
For Schools
11.0 Music Workshop
Queen Beryl and the Romans (3) With IAN HUMPHRIS
11.30 Exploration Earth (Introducing Geography) Parts of a Town (RV)
11.50 See For Yourself Down on the Farm by FRED HARRIS
Presenter Pattie Coldwell
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by SHEELAGH gilbey Script by lee pressman Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Let's Join In with SOUNDBOX The Emperor's New Clothes by HANS ANDERSEN Adapted by GEORGE ORWELL
2.25 Sounds, Words and Movement The Magic Box: Movement Presenters JILL SHILLING and PAUL BURA
2.40 Listen! Journey through Badlidrempt (3)
The burns unit at Birmingham Accident Hospital is world famous. Doctors are on the brink of using a new skin graft technique that will help seriously injured patients. MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE talks to plastic surgeon Paul Levick about the treatment and prevention of burns and scalds. Loose Connections (8) Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Stereo
Olive Shapley went overland to India. BBC Manchester
Hugh Sykes examines the lives of five 20th-century people who rebelled against society's conventions and considers the price they had to pay for their acts of rebellion. Guy Burgess betrayed the British establishment and ended his days in lonely isolation in Moscow. However, to the end, he remained a lover of England. He said: 'I didn't spy for Russia. I was just working for peace.' The programme includes interviews with Guy's brother, Nigel Burgess , university friends and BBC colleagues.
Feature: page 4
Stepping Westward (10)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Richard Hudson-Evans , with CLIVE JACOBS , TOM BOSWELL and ALANAH MARTIN , reports from Paris.
Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer JULIAN HALE
(Repeated: Sat 10.30 am) Stereo
Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , mp John Selwyn Gummer , mp Brenda Dean , Andrew Neil in Preston, Lanes
Chairman John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol (Repeated: Saturday 1.10 pm)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Gangsters in Chicago
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Alistair Cooke looks at mafia involvement in alcohol during prohibition, cattle during World War II and in the heroin trade, as an international ring of gangsters is arrested.
by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sunday 9.15 am)
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
The Judge and His Hangman by FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT abridged in five parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by BERNARD HEPTON (5) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Alexander MacLeod in London and Richard Kershaw at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
11.0 Herbs, Useful Plants 1: Ancient Science, Modern Magic Witchcraft, alchemy and modern medicine have all exploited plants. In the first of six programmes Robert Eagle explores ancient lore and philosophy about plants, and hears from modem scientists who think useful plants should be taken a bit more seriously. Producer JUDE HOWELLS
11-30 Por Aqul Second-stage Spanish Following iDigame.', a 20-part series based on interviews recorded in Santiago de Compostela
1: ;.De donde? with Isabel Soto and Miguel Penaranda Script by BOB WINTERFLOOD Series producer MICK WEBB
David Jason, Bill Wallis, David Tate 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
(Repeated: Saturday 5.25 pm)
Microtechnology
12.30 Making Logic Work
12.50 Digital Electronics (RV)