selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford
BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Producers ALLAN WRIGHT and LIZ RIGBEY

7.10 Today's Papers

A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent
Rosemary Hartill

Mike Gilliam talks to Alan Titchmarsh

8.10 Today's Papers

Presented by Tony Lewis Rugby Union: do you remember Erica Roe ? She starred at Twickenham the last time England beat the Australians - perhaps this time if the team-talk at the interval is similarly disrupted, the out-of-form England side can repeat that performance. Tennis: will the new-look
Wightman Cup team led by Jo Durie , salvage some pride for British tennis against the powerful Americans at the Royal Albert Hall in London? And to make sure you keep your ears close to the radio, there's also some of the more off-beat stories.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from SUSAN MARLING , PATRICK STODDART and ROBIN DEWHURST taking a practical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD including 9.0 News

with Ian Hislop
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

As the United States prepares to vote for the most powerful leader in the western world, Brian Redhead in New York chairs a discussion on the forthcoming American
Presidential and Congressional Elections with Professor Austin Ranney , Resident Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute,
Karl Meyer of the New York Times and Humphrey Taylor of the Louis Harris Poll.
Producer JULIAN COLES

with Margaret Howard Stereo

BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people. Producer ZAREER MASAN1

Presented by Louise Botting The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Address: Money Box
Room 4058, Broadcasting House London WlA 4WW

The news of the last seven days examined by the people who write it, with searching questions put in a curious way by David Taylor to
Alan Coren , John Wells , Oliver Pritchett and Joan Bakewell
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL

Frances Morrell , Bel Mooney The Rt Hon Edward du Cann , mp and Robert Worcester

by Sandra Clayton
'After all the emotional capital I have expended upon my family, not to mention physical toil - my husband has become a grunt in front of the telly, my son has transmogrified into a mound of washing and my daughter leaves me in no doubt that when the revolution comes, I shall not be marching with the sisterhood!'

BBC Birmingham Stereo

This week Leonard Pearcey looks at the concerts inspired by Gerard Hoffnung , and talks to some of those who wrote, arranged and performed the music, including NORMAN DELMAR , LAWRENCE LEONARD
ELIZABETH POSTON , DONALD SWANN Producer RICHARD willcox Stereo

or Three Men in a Mess It all started as a bet.
When Tommy Purdham ,
Ian Husband and Eric Robson decided to walk the length of the Border between England and Scotland, they didn't know that it was 110 miles of some of the most inaccessible territory in Britain.
Compiled and presented by ERIC ROBSON
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester

Presented by Barry Norman Producer TREVOR TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tues 11.0 pm VHFIFM) Chipline:
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Liverpool [number removed]Bristol [number removed]
Birmingham [number removed]Stereo

3: Songs of Initiation
Kevin Crossley-Holland examines some of the ways in which music is used in the diverse rites of passage which mark the transition from one stage to another, with examples from many countries and cultures.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE

with Roger McGough Susan Jameson and Richard Darrington

Stereo

With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Sports Round-up

Music by STEPHEN OLIVER
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

with Richard Baker
Producer JILL ANDERSON. Stereo

The Hand of the Hunter by GAYLORD MEECH ; with A man is found dead after an accident in a ski-ing resort in America. A friend is brought in to identify the body, only to find he's never seen the man before in his life. Who is the dead man and why has he been living under the false identity of a renowned scientist?
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(Harry Towb is in 'Little Shop of Horrors' at the Comedy Theatre,
London. John Turner is in 'Cats' at the New London Theatre)

The American playwright, novelist and essayist, James Baldwin , at 60, written and presented by Caryl Phillips , with readings from Baldwin's work by ERICK RAY EVANS The impact of James Baldwin 's first novels, Go Tell it on the mountain, (1952) and Giovanni's room (1956), shook America and white liberal assumptions throughout the world. In mellower mood, the black writer, in conversation with Caryl Phillips , looks back on his work and assesses his attitudes to literature and politics today. 'You know I love some people and I know they love me and I have my work to do and not a thousand years in which to do it - and I've no complaints at all - OK?' Producer MARGARET WINDHAM Director PIERS PLOWRIGHT

from St Paul 's Church,
Birmingham sung by the BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
CHAMBER CHOIR
Abide with me (BBC HB 298); Ephesians 4, w 11-16 (JB); Come, my way (bp 13) BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Nick Page considers the lives and achievements of 12 men and women who have shaped our Christian heritage.
9: John Wesley , the Bible Mofii Research RACHEL VINEY Producer DAVID COOMES

featuring 'The Further Reasonably Exciting
Adventures of Captain
Invisible and the See-Thru Kid' 2: Coat Hangers from Outer
Space, with Christopher Barrie Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton Written by ROB GRANT and DOUG NAYLOR Producer ALAN NIXON

followed by an interlude