With DONALD MACDONALD. Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson in London with Peter Hobday at the Social Democratic Party Conference in Harrogate
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With JEREMY BOWEN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day

5: Pumping Irony

'He is only our would-be uncle, an uncle who might have been. Alan Bennett goes in search of his mother's brother, who died in Flanders in 1917. BBC Manchester

This week the team travels to Devon, where members of the Meavy Flower Society put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki. Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

by Jill Norris.
Read by Shirley Dixon

An important occasion for Miz Taylor - the city lady who gave up the urban rat-race for life (and a husband) in the country. But how to celebrate the great day?

nem. p 62; All my hope on God is founded (bp 3); Teach me, 0 Lord (Attwood); Psalm 71, w 1-15; The King of love my shepherd is (BBC HB 475). Stereo

Presented by Neil Landor
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Enquire Within,
BBC, London WIA 4WW Producer NIGEL ACHESON

Presented by John Howard

Stereo

Presented by Nick Worrall

1.55 Listening Corner An Extraspecial Meal for the King (R)
2.0 Black British The Actor: Ira Aldridge Written by PAUL FOZZARD. Stereo
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Macbeth (3). Stereo

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: actor Simon Callow Serial: Cold Heavenby BRIAN MOORE abridged in 13 episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY Read by Jane How (1)
Marie Davenport 's husband is killed in an accident in France, just as she is about to tell him she is leaving him for another man. But this violent solution is soon overtaken by inexplicable occurrences - inexplicable, that is, unless they are connected with something disturbing that happened to Marie a year earlier in Carmel, California.
(Music: Roger Marsh 's 'Not a soul but ourselves')

The Plucking Post by DENISE ROBERTSON with and Sara is a mother who prides herself on her liberal attitudes. She and Geoff are bringing up their daughter Angela with what Sara considers to be a healthy approach to life.
Over the family home hovers a kestrel - a bird of prey; it watches and waits, bent on destruction.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester. Stereo

'Recognising the need for firm leadership, I quickly proposed and seconded myself as captain. mainly on the grounds that I had the right sort of cap. Before an order could cross my lips, Arabella, our radical lawyer, had mutinied.'
Part 2 of BARRY PILTON'S chronicle of barge life up a Burgundy canal
Read by David Roper
Producer SAM COLLYNS

Eric Robson presents a portrait of young British Jewry - a community in crisis Compiled by JUDI ROSE
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester (R)

Wait 'Til You Hear Her
Barbara Cook , cabaret singer and creator of Broadway musical roles in the 50s, was largely unknown in Britain until she appeared in London in June.
She talks to Paul Vaughan about her new show. Producer HANS PIETSCH

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report

Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.
Irene Thomas and Eric Kom challenge Patrick Fitzpatrick and Maurice Hayes.
Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Presented by Larry Harris
3: Bonnie Langford (born 22 July 1964 at Hampton Court, London)
Donald Campbell had just broken the land speed record and Sir Winston Churchill was preparing for his last appearance m the House of Commons.
BBC Birmingham
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am)

Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT. Stereo
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Red with white frills - the bringer of gifts, shepherd of reindeer, doctor of flight. An evocation of Father Christmas? Or the influence of the fly agaric toadstool? Son of Thunder,
Source of Light, King of Visions, Master of Miracles: Jesus? Or an ancient narcotic plant? Drugs of the lethal and antisocial kind have shaped human history and culture. They stand at the centre of traditions, the very core of favourite folklore.
Rogan Taylor , of Lancaster University, Professor John Hawthorn , of Glasgow
University, Professor William Emboden , of the University of California, Los Angeles, and others unroll the secrets of the toadskin spell and show that the dreamflower slumbers on. Narrated by Tom Baker Written and produced by GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow atll.OamLW)

Curtain Call by jeremy TIPTAFT
Stereo

Third 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. Stereo

Presented by Natalie Wheen
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod including a report from the Social Democratic Party Conference in Harrogate

followed by an interlude