With THE REV HAZEL ADDY Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday in London with John Timpson at the Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

In the first of four programmes Leonard Barras reads two of his fairly likely stories.

BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

A Matter of Life and Death by MICHAEL SANDERS
Read by Hugh Dickson
Doctor Wade is old - but not too old to give a medical check-up for insurance purposes. But for his 'patient' there is a most unusual sequel.
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, 30; Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258); Psalm 9; Mark 12, vv 1-11; Jesu, guide our way (BBC HB 144)
(Stereo)

Bird Island
Battered by Antarctic seas and buffeted by south Atlantic gales, this tiny speck of land plays host to hundreds of thousands of breeding seabirds and colonies of fur seals. Julian Hector tells of his first steps on this unique and noisy island.
Producer NIGEL TUCKER BBC Bristol

Derek Cooper returns with a new series in which he tackles the food and drink industry in farmyard and factory and seeks out wholesome food at the right price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON

A special European edition of The Million Pound Radio Show with Andy Hamilton ,
Nick Revell , Morwenna Banks and Harry Enfield
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again! Presented by SHIREEN SHAH (R)
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Sword and the Trumpet A Turkish folk tale retold by DAVID RINGLEY (E)
2.25 Talkwaves Runaway Noises in the Dark by JOHN TAYLOR (E)
2.40 Listen! The Strange Case of Mr Jupiter An adventure serial by SUE LIMB 3: Don't Panic Stereo (E)

Introduced from Manchester by Judy Merry
What is the right age to teach children about the dangers of drug and alchol abuse? Wendy Lloyd reports from primary schools on the Wirral where under-lls are the target of a new anti-drug campaign. Producer HELEN BOADEN BBC Manchester
Serial: Under the Red Robe (5)

by JOSEPH CONRAD dramatised in six parts by JACEK LASKOWSKI
6: The Lighthouse
When the war for Sulaco's independence is over, the unsolved story of the lost silver is forgotten - by all but Nostromo. The story, one of passion and greed, now works towards its tragic conclusion.
ERIC HILL . (guitar)
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER
Stereo

The last programme in the series in which Johnny Morris recalls some of the places he has visited and the people he has met in a quarter of a century of jaunting.
This week: Corsica
"The Corsicans have a lot to put up with and it's little wonder that they took to brigandry and to feuding and fighting, for they owed allegiance to no one.' Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol (R) revised

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

With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer. Producer IRENE malus

BBC Birmingham
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANDREW PARFITT Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Makers of law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to the first edition of a new series of this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

The Rt Hon Douglas Hurd , mp, Home Secretary
John Prescott , mp, Shadow Employment Spokesman Dick Taveme , qc, member National Committee SDP
Dr Elizabeth Cottrell , writer public affairs consultant from Femdown, Dorset
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Remembering three great men who resigned high office on points of principle. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(He-broadcast next Sunday)

Robert Hewison presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN POWELL
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Hangover Square (5)

Presented by Richard Kershaw including a report from the Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

Satire is a sort of glass, whereby beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
(JONATHAN SWIFT, 1667-1745)
Taking you through the looking glass this week are Bill Wallis , David Tate , Jon Glover and Susie Blake with more satirical sketches on the week's news.
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 5.25pm LW)

followed by an interlude

Deutsch fur die Oberstufe
12.30 9: Nachrichten und Neuigkeiten Compiled and produced by TONY STAPLES (E)
12.50 10: Leute hinter den Schlagzeilen Compiled and produced by AL WOLFF (E)