With COLMAN MCGRATH. Stereo
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
Written and abridged in ten episodes by DON HAWORTH Read by Stephen Thome
10: A Girl from a Different World Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
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
BBC Correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3. 30pm)
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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NEM, p 106; God, whose farm is all creation (BBC HB 440); Psalm 67; Deuteronomy 26, w 1-11; To thee 0 Lord, our hearts we raise (BBC HB 443). Stereo
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
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
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
Presented by Gordon Clough
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)
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 )
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
recalled by Johnny Morris This week: South America 'The falls at Iguacu form a boundary between Brazil,
Argentina and Paraguay....' Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol (R) revised
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport. Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Margaret Howard Producer NIGEL ACHESON
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
The last of the series
Richard Ingrams casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
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)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
US interference in UK politics
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Labour policy on nuclear weapons could change US-UK alliance, says Weinberger. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Christopher Cook presents tonight's edition.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN (Re-broadcast next Monday)
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 )
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment, including a report from the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
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)
followed by an interlude
Radio Geography Home or Away
12.30 Calcutta (RV) Written and presented by MICHAEL PICKSTOCK (R) (E)
12.50 Mannheim (RV) Written and presented by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (R) (E)