With COLMAN MCGRATH Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Chris Dunkley in London with Brian Redhead at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

7: Fun and Games

John Wilson , the Editor of News and Current Affairs for BBC
Radio, and Ron Neil. the Editor ofBBCtv News, answer your questions on the subject of BBC News.
Sue MacGregor is in the Chair Produced by the Woman Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am

by HARRY BARTON
Read by David Mahlowe
'Tom wanted it very badly, he said, but had always refrained from buying. An indoor plant was as difficult to desert as a cat and he knew that he and Zoe would finally cease to visit Africa once he had a greenhouse.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

NEM, p 79; Come, ye thankful people, come (BBC HB 439);
Benedicite omnia opera Domini Domino; Deuteronomy 8, w 1-10; 0 God of Bethel by whose word (BBC HB 495). Stereo

Phil Drabble. Bob Stebbings and Chris Mead tackle questions put by members of the Rutland Natural History Society.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

by GUY JENKIN and JON CANTER and the voices of JOSS ACKLAND , MIRIAM MARGOLYES
JAMES GRIFFITHS. JOHN SHRAPNEL
IMELDA STAUNTON and DAVID TATE Producer PETE ATKIN (R)

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Maybe it's a Tiger by KATHLEEN HERSOM. Stereo
2.5 History Long Ago Ancient Egypt: The Priest's Son Written by JOHN TAYLOR. Stereo (E)
2.25 Contact: Joseph Written and presented by CHRISTOPHER LILLJCRAP (E)
2.40 Radiovision History of Britain: Steam (rv) (E)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Three Faces of South Africa
In the first of three interviews with women who are helping to shape their country's future, progressive MP Helen Suzman talks about her 40-year fight for human and civil rights in South Africa.
Serial: Cold Heaven (10)

Burning the Ballroom Down by COLIN MACDONALD
It's not everyone who gets a chance
To ever have a sweet romance. So baby please let's dance. Let's have one more dance
Before burning the ballroom down.
Musicians MADELAINE TAYLOR GEORDIE JACK and GORDON DAVIDSON
Studio presentation by IAN COWIE
RICHARD KENT and GRAEME TAYLOR Directed by STEWART CONN (First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland)

There is tremendous discussion about what direction architecture should take just because there is a crisis. (RICHARD ROGERS) Colin Amery reflects on the state of modern architecture and in what way architects, planners, developers, the government and the public are responding to it. Contributors include Richard Rogers , James Stirling and Ted Cullinan. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
(Revised re-broadcast on 9 October) (New Architecture: Foster, Rogers,
Stirling opens at the Royal Academy on30ctober)

Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
continuedon VHF]FM5.50-5.55pm

With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events Reporter Michael Robinson Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)

The education magazine
Presented by Margaret Percy Including reports on the education debates taking place at the party conferences. Producer SIMON MAJOR
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

It's Beautiful But....
Researched and compiled by AMANDA WILLETT
Every year thousands of back-packing travellers from Australia, South America, South Africa, the USA and Canada pass through Europe. For many, although they've never been before, the trip is a kind of return to the mother culture. How does the reality match up to their expectations? Producer ED THOMASON
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For people with a visual handicap
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Vincent Kane retells the stories of five of the best-known play s. 3: Romeo and Juliet
Producer RICHARD THOMAS BBC Wales

Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer CARROLL MOORE

Handley Cross
12: The Private Deal

Presented by Alexander MacLeod including a report from the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool

followed by an interlude

Radio Geography Home or Away
12.30 Farming in Greece by YOLANDA TERENZIO and ARTEMIS PETERS (R) (E)
12.50 Farming in Kenya Written and presented by PETER GOODWIN (R) (E)