with UNDA HURCOMBE. Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Jon Silverman with Brian Redhead in Brighton at the Trades Union Congress
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVTLE
7.45* Thought for the Day

3: North Cornwall -the difficult bit

From an old newsagent's shop in Kirkby Lonsdale in north-west England, Harry Willan has spent 40 years travelling as far as 300 miles in a night to perform tricks of magic in clubs and theatres. He tells
Nigel Holmes about his double life as newsagent and magician. Producer NIGEL HOLMES
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Cumbria)

5: Feasting with 10,000 In July, fringed by the business of Wembley, 10,000 Hindu worshippers joined their priest Pujya Shastriji Shri Rameshbi Oza for a ten-day celebration of the word of Krishna. On the opening day, Susan Marling observed the festivities and shared in the feasting.
Producer MARY PRICE . BBC Bristol

Sisters Under the Skin by TOM DALE
Read by Crawford Logan
' "The butler did it!" When I think of it now, as I smooth the polish over the dulling metal, I shudder....'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Hebrews 9, vv l-4a, 11-16; My God how wonderful thou art
(BHB 64); Hail thou once despised Jesus (BHB 173); 0 thou who earnest (BHB 519) Stereo

A biography of one of the most remarkable men of 19th-century America with Olivier Pierre as Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. Stereo
(Broadcaston Saturday at 4. pmLW)

In the last of six programmes Roy Hudd reveals to
Ron Alldridge the three secrets of life he would feel compelled to pass on to his nearest and dearest, if he knew he had but ten minutes left on earth.

Presented by John Howard

is The Man With No Part in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

by the Social Democratic Party

Written and presented by CHRISTOPHER LILUCRAP

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
The Countess of Longford
Serial: On the Other Side (3)

Happy Ever After... ? by WALLY K. DALY with , his wife and When Phillip returns home ready to celebrate his 21st wedding anniversary he is in for a series of totally unexpected surprises.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo

Last in the series of personal reports on rural life by David Bean
BBC Manchester

Suzanne Burden reads from the journals and letters of the 19th-century actress, Fanny Kemble. 5: Bound for America
Compiled by MONICA GOUGH Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)

Two years ago Radio 4 profiled Mount Ayr, Iowa:
The Town that Broke the Bank. It is a county town (population 1,600) right in the centre of the USA with a small bank that was pulled down by the gathering storm of the American farm crisis. The future looked bleak. Two years later - with the Midwest even deeper in trouble -life is still hard, but Mount Ayr is hanging on. John Roberts went back to find out how the town is fighting back. Producer PETER DAY

I Never Stopped Playing The distinguished pianist
Moura Lympany celebrates her 70th birthday with a taxing
London recital later this month. She talks to Paul Vaughan about her career.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

Presented by Susannah Simons and Carole West continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report

Last of the series
A trivia game based on the rules of cricket
Umpire Brian Johnston Team captains Willie Rushton and Tim Rice
Spinners Robin Bailey and Alfred Marks Statisticians PETER HICKEY and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON Groundsman PAUL SPENCER

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

A series of five programmes in which Larry Harris talks to well-known people about what was going on in the world at the time of their birth. 1: Harry Patterson
(born 27 July 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne)
Perhaps better known as thriller writer Jack Higgins ,
Harry Patterson was bom in the Depression, when the miners' conference was discussing how to help alleviate the poverty of members and how to combat Communist infiltration. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

Jenni Mills traces critical periods in family life and talks to families about how they weathered the crisis.
3: He Thinks We're Trying to Poison Him
Jim was 21 when his family discovered he was a schizophrenic.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS (R)

Fifty years ago, the 1983 Nobel Prize-winner
Barbara McClintock advised a young female scientist to find a husband to support her research since, as a woman, she'd have problems obtaining funds from elsewhere. Now, although the sexes are equal in the competition for money and jobs in science and there are as many female as male graduates in some disciplines, it's still hard for women to make a career in scientific research.
Georgina Ferry discovers why and investigates schemes that have been set up recently to keep more women in the lab. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0am)

Basil Developments v Richards by STEPHEN LAVELL Stereo

A series of five programmes of poetry and prose on aspects of one of the great passions of English life
Compiled and read by Jill Balcon and John Rowe with John Westbrook Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
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Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Revre-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35 pm)

Academic Year (8)

Presented by Anthony Howard including a report from the Trades Union Congress in Brighton

followed by an interlude