With THE REV PHILIP RODERICK BBC Wales. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Chris Lowe in London and Peter Hobday at the Social Democratic Party Conference in Portsmouth
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* ThoughtfortheDay

with Gigi Callander

by DAVID COOK abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Patricia Routledge 6: The Prodigal. Stereo (R)

Noel Edmonds' Awayday lands among the stripped pine scatter cushions of Hebden Bridge.
Special guest Geoff Love, Musical Director and regulars Stephen Pile and Steve Brown
Producers IAN STRACHAN and JULIE SIMMONS.
BBC Manchester
(Tickets in advance from the box office of the Cinema, Hebden Bridge)
(Tomorrow the BBC Radio Orchestra plays music by Geoff Love to celebrate his 70th birthday at 7.35pm on Radio 2)

It's almost time for Bernard and P.J. to be collected from their desert island.
Bernard has his usual array of tapes among which is a full dramatisation of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, dramatised by OLWEN WYMARK from The Sword and the Circle by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF
The programme also includes a quiz a competition, a feature by Roger Worsley and an interruption from Jonathan Kydd.
Story-line by chris CURRY
Taking part BERNARD CRIBBINS
EDWARD DE SOUZA. SALLY EDWARDS CUFF HOWELLS. ALED JONES
IAIN JONES. JAMES
LAURENSON JENNY LUCKRAFT. DAVID MICHAELS STEVEN RENDALL
KENNETH ALAN TAYLOR
JAMES TOMUNSON. PETER WHEELER and HELEN WORTH
Producer CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester. Stereo

from St Ann 's Church, Manchester led by CANON NOEL VINCENT with the CHURCH CHOIR
Dear Lord and Father of mankind (BBC HB 351); Lord of all hopefulness (BBC HB 309);
Come, my way, my truth, my life (Harker)
Reading: I Kings 19, w 9-13 Organist GRAHAM ECCLES
Musical Director RONALD FROST BBC Manchester

Stereo

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Readers ELIZABETH BELL and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristoL Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR

The only daily consumer programme on network radio Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS
If you are concerned about health, education, housing or financial matters or, if you are the victim of incompetent or unhelpful traders or authorities, write to: You and Yours, BBC London W1A 4WW

Stereo
(Details on Wednesday at 6.30pm)

Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines

LIZA GODDARD reads Abigail's Bouncing Boots by MOIRA MILLER Stereo (R)

Introduced by Sarah Dunant Good Morning Everyone....
The phrase that used to echo through every school at the start of assembly. Now that the government is considering dropping the statutory requirement, Anna Grayson looks at how that act of worship is being interpreted in today's multi-cultural society. Story:
The Blush and Other Stories by ELIZABETH TAYLOR abridged by JACK SINGLETON Read by Sara Squires 2: The True Primitives

Prize Winners Mischief
Winner of the 1987 Sony Radio Award for Best Drama Production from a novel by BEN TRAVERS adapted by PETER KING
When a middle-aged, rather stodgy businessman marries a bright young thing half his age, the last thing he should do is neglect her.... if he does he risks mischief in his marriage.
Music composed and played by ED WELCH (piano) with RON ASPERY Directed by PETER KING. Stereo (R)

J. G. Ballard , in conversation with Colin McCabe , talks about his bleak visions of the future, the influence of the past and his forthcoming book.

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Bill Frost continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

with BRIAN PERKINS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world
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It Was 20 Years Ago Last Tuesday
Join a cosmic journey back to the halcyon days of the late 60s - a time of peace, love and rampant drug abuse - to celebrate the release of a record which was a milestone in musical history, thus making it rather difficult to play.
With being-in love-children Anna Daptor
(HELEN ATKINSON WOOD)
Mike Channel (ANGUS DEAYTON ) Martin Brown
(MICHAEL FENTON STEVENS )
Mike Flex (GEOFFREY PERKINS ) Nigel Pry (philip POPE)
Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON
Music and certain substances scored by STEVE BROWN and PHILIP POPE
OrganicaUy produced by DAVID TYLER
Stereo

(Re broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Six lives, and six perspectives of North America emerge in conversation with Anne Brown 4: Oliver Stone

The Glass Extension by JENNIFER PHILLIPS
Astrid longs for more space around her so she can escape from the presence of her teenage son, but when the bank refuse her the money to build an extension there seems only one option.... steal it.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Saturday)

One of this country's leading chamber ensembles, Fine Arts Brass, take the opportunity to remove their tail-coats, loosen their bow-ties and show off their metal, by displaying the lighter side of their repertoire. Featuring
Bryan Allen (trumpet)
Andy Culshaw (trumpet) Stephen Roberts (horn) Simon Hogg (trombone) Owen Slade (tuba)
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Another programme next Saturday)

Jeremy Isaacs , who has been in charge of Channel Four since it started, leaves next year to take over at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Television and opera both have money problems, creative tensions and endeavour to satisfy critical audiences. In conversation with Robert Hewison , Jeremy Isaacs talks about his policies, the relationship between broadcasters and the public and the future for television with new technologies and ways of funding.
Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

The Moon and the Bonfire byCESAREPAVESE translated by LOUISE SINCLAIR abridged in ten parts by DOREEN MAHON
Read by Sean Barrett (1)
After many years in America, Anguilla returns to his native
Italian village and slowly pieces together his early life. Looking at the lives and often violent fates of the villagers, he sets their poverty against the beauty of the landscape.
Producer JEREMY MORTIMER

Presented by Stuart Simon including special coverage by Sally Hardcastle from the Social Democratic Party Conference in Portsmouth

A Splendid Time Was Guaranteed for All
Anne Nightingale concludes a two-part celebration of the Beatles' LP, described as the greatest pop album ever made. Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 1)

11.30 French 18th-century Art
11.50 Hazlitt as Literary Critic

followed by an interlude