Presented by John Timpson and Peter Hobday in London and Brian Redhead in New York for the American Presidential Election.
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
by ENTO BAGNOLD abridged in four parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by WENDY hiller (4)
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
What constitutes a healthy diet? Are vitamin-supplements necessary? Can you exercise fat away and do you have to go for the burn? Does make-up enhance beauty? Get in trim for the festive season by putting your questions on health and beauty to Dr Miriam Stoppard and Deborah Hutton, author of Vogue Complete Beauty. Sue MacGregor is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
Producer ZAREER MASANI
Stranger at the Wedding by BRENDA LANGMEAD
Read by Leon Tanner
'Two happy families. I couldn't stir an old murky pool with all the consequences, could I? What would be the point? For a moment I felt blazing mad at Margaret for doing this awful thing to me.'
Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 122; Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176); Psalm 19; n Corinthians 2, vv 1-11; Holy Father, in thy mercy (BBC HB 386). Stereo
John Hosken introduces the traditional ceremony in which HM The Queen, Lords and Commons come together for the Government's formal announcement of its plans for the next session of Parliament. Brian Curtois assesses the political implications of HM The Queen's Speech from the Throne.
Presenter Pattie Coldwell
by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
Adapted for radio by the producer Pete Atkin
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Auntie Aggie Makes Jam
2.5 History: Long Ago Hogarth's London
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (7)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): Friend Fire and the Dark Wings
Introduced by Sue MacGregor MARY LEAKEY talks about her work in Kenya and Tanzania where, for almost 50 years, she has studied the prehistoric archaeology of the site where modem man may well have first evolved.
Bad Company by LIZA CODY abridged in 11 parts by JANET HICKSON
Read by David McAlister (1) (Music: Vainberg's Trumpet Concerto)
Curfew by LEE GALLAHER
Frank is doing well for himself: a worldly Dublin architect who also has a promising political career.
However, when he is offered a coveted Ministerial post, he starts to question the moral compromises that he has so far taken for granted.
Directed by PENNY GOLD
(Harry Towb is in 'Little Shop of Horrors'attheComedyTheatre, London). Stereo
A two-part celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the publication of Laurie Lee 's modern classic Cider with Rosie 1: Poet's Prose
While struggling to establish himself as a poet, Laurie Lee sometimes had to settle for payment in kind. Yet, when he turned his hand to prose, it won him a literary award worth a thousand pounds and put him into the best-seller lists. Marjorie Lofthouse traces the book's origins, talks to the author's sister Marjorie and recalls the critics' first reactions. The story is illustrated with excerpts from a stage-version presented by the cotswold PLAYERS of Stroud. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Let the People Sing 2: Two Hunted Men
with Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.40 pm)
The Home Office warns of prison overcrowding; the courts hand down even more jail sentences.
Walter Merricks reports on the threat to justice posed by the clash of responsibility between
Government and Judiciary.
Producer JOHN DURY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Reporter Geoff Watts Producer JULIAN BROWN
The Ducks Go Back
Flight BA700 carried 60 precious eggs to Budapest so that the rare white-headed duck, presently extinct in Hungary, might be bred and returned to the wild. Mike Ounsted , Curator of the Wildfowl Trust at Slimbridge, accompanied them.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Professor Alan Gemmell visits the Dower House at Bqughton House,
Northamptonshire, where Valerie Finnis , now Lady
Scott, and her husband, Sir David, tend one of Britain's most outstanding gardens. Producer MURDOCH MCPHERSON BBC Scotland
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN POWELL
Some Do Not (2)
Presented by Larry Harris in London with Alexander MacLeod in Washington for the American Presidential Election on VHFIFM until 11.0
11.0 The Chip Shop Stereo
Brian Redhead reports direct from New York on the American Presidential Election What's Happening?
The first indications of who's winning the race for the White House, state-by-state results as they come in, and details of the other important elections for Congress being held today, including those of several key members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. Why Does it Matter?
If the polls are right and President Reagan is to be the second President to win a second term since President
Nixon, what long-term changes in American society will result? In New York, 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 look at the impact of the results on future policies.
In London, leading British politicians join Hugo Young to explain how it will affect us. How is the World Reacting to the Result?
As the night progresses, politicians and correspondents join the programme live from Moscow, Peking, the Middle East, Central America and Europe. Within the United States, Clive Small reports from the White House and James Cox from the camp of the Democratic candidate, Walter Mondale.
Executive producer ANNE SLOMAN LW only from 12.30 to 1.10 am W FEATURE: page 3
Radio History: The Romans in Britain
12.30 3: Life in a Roman Town
12.50 4: Life in a Roman Home by DAVE ARTHUR
