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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday 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 EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Eugene Fraser

A chance meeting with Siri, a young teacher, drew
Dr Ray Barron into village life in Sri Lanka. In the second of two talks he observes the headmaster's wider role in his home village.
'Dusk finds Siri alone on the porch, where the villagers expect him to be when they need the help of an educated man.' BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Ray Barron

A Common Error by EVELYN HERVEY
Read by Sheila Mitchell
The year is 1876. Miss Unwin takes her duties as a governess very seriously. Errors of grammar have to be corrected ... Such attention to detail proves invaluable when a thief is at large in the household. producer BARBARA CROWTHER
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Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Hervey
Read By:
Sheila Mitchell
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

The Shelduck of Spurn
Each summer 100,000 British and Baltic shelducks head for the Heligoland Bight simply to shed wing feathers and grow new ones. But why do they go on this moult migration?
Presented by Michael Clegg BBCBristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Clegg

Last of four programmes
Blindness in the Community Ian Macrae introduces ideas from around the country on how volunteers can best help blind people and also gives some pointers on what not to do. Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Introduces:
Ian MacRae
Producer:
Thena Heshel

Win a million pounds by re-arranging these names to form a cast list: NickHamiltu Andy Revellen
Harry Montagon and Felicity Field
Send your answers together with two RADIO TIMES covers in an sae
(the stamps must be Penny Blacks) to: [address removed](Competition closes 20 Sept 1986)
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nickhamiltu Andy Revellen
Unknown:
Harry Montagon
Producer:
Paul Mayhew Archer

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by SHIREEN SHAH and BILL TORRANCE. Stereo
2.5 Let's Join In with SOUNDBOX Farmer George and the Boggart A Lancashire folk tale retold by JEAN MCKENZIE (E)
2.25 Talkwaves Baxter Wall and the Vanishing Boy 2: The Windmill by JOHN TAYLOR (E)
2.40 Listen! The Strange Case of Mr Jupiter An adventure serial by SUE LIMB
2: There's a lot of villains around the comer Stereo (E)

Contributors

Presented By:
Shireen Shah
Unknown:
Bill Torrance.
Unknown:
Jean McKenzie
Unknown:
John Taylor
Unknown:
Sue Limb

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Train Stopper: in the Alpha Plan experiment, volunteers learning to harness brain power, can stop a toy train simply by thinking about it ...
Train Spotter: why a West
Country vicar goes 'plum loco' over the real McCoy.
Producer JILL MARSHALL. BBCBristol Serial: Cold Heaven by BRIAN MOORE abridged in 13 episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by Jane How (13)
(Music: Roger Marsh 's 'Not a soul but ourselves')
(Starting on Monday: 'Under the Red Robe' by Stanley J. Weyman )

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Producer:
Jill Marshall.
Unknown:
Brian Moore
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bradbury
Read By:
Jane How
Music:
Roger Marsh
Unknown:
Stanley J. Weyman

by JOSEPH CONRAD , dramatised in six parts by JACEK LASKOWSKI with and 5: The Island of the Great Isabel When Sotillo's ship collided with the lighter it seemed that Nostromo and Decoud must have been drowned and the silver lost. But Sotillo is convinced that the silver has been hidden.
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Conrad
Unknown:
Jacek Laskowski
Directed By:
Jeremy Mortimer.
Charles Gould:
John Bennett
Emily:
Susan Engel
Martin Decoud:
Nicholas Farrell
Dr Monygham:
John Rowe
Col Sotillo:
Gordon Reid
Nostromo:
Kenneth Cranham
Father:
Garard Green
Capt Mitchell:
Edward de Souza
Antonia ,:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Fr Corbelan:
Richard Durden
Giorgio Viola:
Maurice Denham
Teresa:
Pauline Letts
Hirsch:
Shaun Prendergast
Fuentes:
Eric Stovell
Major:
David Learner
Hernandez:
John Church
Soldier:
Robin Summers

Dr Rhodes Boyson , mp,
Minister of State, Environment Gillian Reynolds , radio critic and broadcaster Joe Ashton , mp and Simon Hughes , mp from Blackpool
Chairman John Timpson Producer ROBIN HICKS BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Rhodes Boyson
Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
Joe Ashton
Unknown:
Simon Hughes
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Robin Hicks

Handley Cross by R.S. SURTEES abridged in 15 parts by ARCHIE CAMPBELL Read by John Franklyn-Robbins 15: Who-oop!
ProducerPETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
(Starting on Monday: 'Hangover Square' by Patrick Hamilton )

Contributors

Unknown:
R.S. Surtees
Unknown:
Archie Campbell
Read By:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Producer:
Peter Windows
Unknown:
Patrick Hamilton

Shaking the sand lightly from its size-12 monkey boots and trading in the suntan lotion for correction fluid, Week Ending returns for more satirical sketches on the week's news. With Bill Wallis
David Tate , Jon Glover and Susie Blake
Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DAVIES , STUART SILVER RICHARD QUICK , STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN , ALISON RENSHAW JOHN MORRISH. PETER HICKEY PETE SINCLAIR and others
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25 pm L W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Unknown:
Susie Blake
Written By:
Martin Booth
Written By:
Paul B. Davies
Written By:
Stuart Silver
Unknown:
Richard Quick
Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Mike Coleman
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw
Unknown:
John Morrish.
Unknown:
Peter Hickey
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Producer:
David Tyler.

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