Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather

With KATE TRISTRAM
BBC Manchester. Stereo

Presented by John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Blackpool at the Conservative Party Conference
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROBERT FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 2

The Secret Service
What was the origin of MI5 and MI6? How effective are they? Should MI5 - the Security Service - be under parliamentary control? Should individuals have access to intelligence files kept on them as they have in the USA?
Are there any more moles?
Given that spy-satellites can now read a number plate in Moscow - or in London, is James Bond redundant?
Put your questions on the gathering and use of intelligence to Dr Christopher Andrew of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Richard Norton-Taylor of The Guardian. Sue MacGregor is in the Chair
Produced by the Woman's 's Hour unit Lines open from 8. 0 am

Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's worldwide team of foreign correspondents.

Father's Day by TREVOR WRIGHT
Read by Alan RothweU
I had questions to ask. Would he miss us? Was he frightened? What did he expect? But it seemed he wasn't interested in my problems. Dying had made him self-centred, which he'd never been before.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

NEM, p 93; Before the Almighty Father's throne (BBC HB 452);
Psalm 57; Jonah 1, v 13 to 2, v 10; To mercy, pity, peace and love (BP 91). Stereo

Has the grey and slimy appearance of the sky this summer been due to a preponderance of flying slugs? Derek Jones and the Wildlife team answer your queries and explain your stories, however high-flown they may seem! Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

John Howard with the latest news and advice for consumers

Another programme in the series Descartes never missed.... in which Irene Thomas and Eric Korn indulge in cerebral callisthenics with a team from the West of England represented by Dr Bill Russell of Reading University and crime writer Jessica Mann. Chaired by Gordon Clough and Louis Allen
Researcher KAREN OSTLE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
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Presented by Gordon Clough

1.55 Listening Comer A Little Bit of Music by NICK WARBURTON BBC Birmingham
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago Captain Scott by CATHERINE BARR
2.25 Contact At Home with a Jewish Family With JENNY NEMKO and PAUL MCDOWELL
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): Mice in the Corn A Welsh folk tale retold by RICHARD ADAMS

Introduced by Sue MacGregor From Kestrels to Golden Eagles: What is the fascination of hunting with a bird of prey?
BERNARD JACKSON joins a week's course in falconry and learns about jesses, bodies and jingling bells.
Serial: Underfoot in Show Business
Written and read by Helene Hanff abridged in nine parts by MEG CLARKE
In the years before the fame of 84, Charing Cross Road,
Helene Hanff was an aspiring young writer in American show business.
1: Flanagan's Law
(Music: Kaiser-Lindemann's Bossa-Nova Philharmonica )

by DAVE SIMPSON
Linda's Blackpool fortnight is her first holiday without her parents. She has a wonderful time, but her mother and father won't forget it for the rest of their lives.
Directed by TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester. Stereo (R)

Fifty years ago a half-breed
North American Indian called Grey Owl was preaching the gospel of conservation. Twice he came to Britain on lecture tours, drawing tens of thousands who came to hear his message and to see this colourful and charismatic figure. But Grey Owl was not what he said he was.
Margaret Horsfield tells his story.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS (R) Revised

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With CUVE ROSLIN including Financial Report

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Stuart Simon Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)

Six programmes about the ways in which families influence their members and help to turn them into the people they eventually become
5: Friends and Relations
The series is presented by Dr Christopher Dare , Family Therapist and Consultant
Psychiatrist at the Bethlem
Royal and Maudsley hospitals. Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am)

Facing Change
The Royal Academy of Arts in the 20th Century
Sanda Miller looks at the way a long-established institution faces life in the 20th century. The word 'Academy' has an old-fashioned ring, but the same foundation whose members have included
Sir Joshua Reynolds , Constable and Turner is about to stage an exhibition of German 20th-century art. What problems does such a venerable organisation face in coming to terms with life in 1985? Written by SANDA MtLLER
Producer PETER FOZZARD. Stereo
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6: 43 Gerrard Street
One of London's first and raciest nightclubs, 'The 43' was the resort of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s.
In the last programme of the series Roger Wilkes visits the site of 'The 43' and recalls the extraordinary owner, Kate 'Ma' Meyrick.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Presented by Paul Allen Producer THOMAS sutcuffe

Scoop
2: The Beast

Presented by Anthony Howard including a special report from the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool

From Bohemia's Woods and Fields Music by Dvorak and Smetana in praise of their native land records

followed by an interlude

Deutsch fur die Oberstufe
12.30
3: Georg Friedrich Handel by PROFESSOR KENNETH WHTTTON and at 12.50
4: Bei einer deutschen Zeitung