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 LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 4

Gypsy by SAM MCBRATNEY Read by Frances Quinn Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland

reflecting the issues of the day introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo

Anita Robinson reflects on the horrors of holiday home-improvements. (R)

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

1.55 Listening Comer The Two Robins byRUTHAINSWORTH BBC Birmingham
2.5 The Song Tree
3: The North Wind Blows and the Wheels Go Round Stereo
2.20 Living Language Terry on the Fence (2) by BERNARD ASHLEY adapted by ZOE BAILEY
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges What's Wrong with Britain? (1) Presented by fiona GUTHRIE

Introduced by Sue MacGregor who talks to the novelist LenDeighton
Serial: Underfoot in Show Business
3: if They Take You to Lunch They Don "t Want Your Play

by JO GILL with Ann Beach as Martha Vivienne Ritchie as Anne Jonathan Newth as Peter
The chains of matrimony are heavy; it takes two to carry them, so the saying goes. Sometimes three.
Directed by JOHN CARDY Stereo

This week Hunter Davies looks at the Moscow underground. His guide to the marble halls, chandeliers and Bohemians is Alexander Kaletski , an emigrant Russian New Yorker whose autobiographical novel Metro tells how the author exchanged one system for another.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON

Michael Oliver presents today's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
BBC Birmingham

A chance to air your views on Is some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson
> Producer LAURIE MASON t BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

2: Keeping the Peace The United Nations' peacekeeping record stretches from Korea to the Congo, and from Kashmir to the Golan
Heights; a record of successes and failures.
In the second of four programmes to mark the 40th anniversary of the UN,
Alexander MacLeod examines the UN's peacekeeping role. Most attention has been focused on its efforts in the Middle East and most recently in the Lebanon. But one of the most successful operations has been in Cyprus, where
UNFICYP has been quietly keeping the peace between
Greek and Turk on the island. Producer TOM READ
A BBC World Service production

A Guide to America in Primetime
1: Paying the Piper
Every autumn sees a new crop of shows on the three American networks. The chances are they will be clones of last year's successes which are probably the better clones from the year before. If the programmes seem mass-produced it may be because programmers think in terms of 'jolts per minute' and can test their pilots on sample audiences wired to sweat detectors....
In the first of two programmes Russell Davies talks to writers and producers and to audience researchers and ad men in Hollywood and New York, about their multi-billion dollar TV business.
Producer JULIE SIMMONS BBC Manchester
0 FEATURE: page 3

A series of four programmes which discovers some of England's more unusual exhibits and exhibitors.
3: The Robert Opie Collection Robert Opie sends Marjorie Lofthouse packing when she visits Britain's first museum devoted to the history of the consumer society - The Pack Age Revisited at Gloucester Docks.
Producer ANNE hinds BBC Birmingham

Presented by John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC. Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Phone [number removed](10.0am-5.0pm)

Another (almost) true account of the exploits of an English circuit judge in the British South Pacific Territories. Read by Ian Carmichael
Written by RONNIE KNOX-MAWER

Presented by Christopher Bigsby
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30)

Scoop
4: The Hotel Liberty

Presented by David Sells including a special report from the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool

followed by an interlude

12.30 Deutsch fur die Oberstufe 7: Burger, Staat und Gesellschaft in der BRD and at 12.50
8: Die deutsche Sprache heute