with JOHN STACY MARKS. BBC Wales

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with BOB 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
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Black-cloaked riders of the night; brides of Satan - some of the images that spring to mind when thinking of witches.
Were the witches of old really clinging to the vestiges of a long-forgotten pagan religion, or persecuted because the world was afraid of powerful women? Roald Dahl ,
Lady Antonia Fraser and Keith Thomas are among those who tell Jenny Cuffe why the figure of the witch still has such a hold on the imagination of both children and adults.
Producer SALLY FELDMAN

The Arithmetic of Success Written and read by Sam McAughtry
Frank McAuley had been born and reared against a background of numeracy. His mother taught maths in a select girls' school, and his father was a city-based stockbroker. Mona, Frank's sister, was an agricultural economist whose idea of light conversation was to compare the gross margins to be obtained from winter wheat with those accruing from oil seed rape.
Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland

Reading: John 3. w 1-8
Hymns: When all thy mercies
(BBC HB 22); Blessed are the pure in heart (BBC HB 318); Take my life. BBC Wales. Stereo

Vincent Kane follows Hercules' adventures in Britain in the summer of 1985.
BBC Wales

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

Stereo

Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: King Jolly and the Hallowe 'en Party
2.5 The Song Tree
5: The North Wind Blows and Skeletons Talk Presenters ROSIE CROSS and BILL MARTIN from PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo
2.20 Living Language The Tree House Written and told by GEORGE LAYTON
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series Presented by LIBBY FAWBERT

Introduced by Mary Marquis
Cancer is the word which most people fear, very often because their information is limited or out of date. Today BACUP is launched -an organisation to help cancer patients and their families with information, advice and positive thinking. Serial: The Bonsai Tree (6)

A Fine and Private Place by SHAUN PRENDERGAST with Anne Jameson as Parker and Shelagh Stephenson as Kim Old ladies can be a bit demanding, as Kim discovers at the Parker Rest Home. But when they hear that the home is to be opened to men, the ladies beg Kim to take a stand. What has she let herself in for?
Harriet Waites ....KATHLEEN HELME Sadie Hanlan. ..........JEAN HEYWOOD Norah West. ............LIZZIE MCKENZIE Saxophone played by KATHY STOBART Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER. Stereo

Ginger Beer and Giant Peaches Kate Fenton visits the wonderland of children's books, past and present; talks to best-selling author Roald Dahl and joins the Children's Book Train as it journeys to woo the young readers of Milton Keynes. Producer FRAN ACHESON

(Rev broadcast of yesterday programme at 9.45 pm)

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

with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm) Written by GRAHAM HARVEY Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Send your letters to:
Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS82LR

'My dad blamed me for it. I felt I was doing wrong. He said, "You enjoy it, you encouraged me when you were little." He piled on all that guilt to make sure I wouldn't tell.'
(Khadija, aged 16, abused by her father since she was 7)
'What I didn't know was that when I was 14, he moved on to my younger brother and then to my youngest brother and then to my nephews. Very few of the males in my family escaped.' (Martin, abused by his stepfather)
Some evidence would suggest
:R that as many as one adult in ten :R was sexually abused as a child - G the vast majority by a relative or someone they knew. t Jenni Mills presents the :K recorded testimony of victims G and offenders and chairs a d phone-in discussion with Drs Arnon Bentovim and Richard Johnson (Incest Crisis Line) Call [number removed] Lines open at 7.0 pm ;y Producer CHRIS LONGLEY
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A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with country-wide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC. Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW Phone [number removed](10.0am-5.0pm)

continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusions.
Producer ANGELA HIND

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer KEVIN JACKSON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (9)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

followed by an interlude