With THE REV NOEL BATTYE
Presented by Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe in London with John Humphrys at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 8
The pith of the week
Producer LIZ BARNO. Stereo
This week the team visits
Derbyshire where members of the Darley Dale Horticultural Society put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Daphne Ledward and Fred Downham
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Plant lists and topical tips from •Gardeners' Question Time'are displayedon Ceefax page 287
Moya by OLIVER BAYLDON Read by Peter Howell Producer SHEILA FOX
in remembrance of Clare Lawson Dick
(Controller Radio 4,1975-76) and on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Radio 4.
Conducted by THE VERY REV MICHAEL MAYNE
Dean of Westminster Abbey and formerly Head of Religious Programmes, Radio.
Be thou my vision (AMNs 343); Psalm 139, vv 1-18;
Philippians 4, vv 1 and 4-9; God is love (AMNS 365) Stereo
From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure, Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions, with advice from experts and help from the BBC Reference Library. This week: Who Was Lilith?
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A4WW
tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family.
Presented by John Buckley
Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
This week Joan Crawford , the Charleston dancer who turned herself into a star - and played the role for 50 years.
Producer WENDY CLAY (R)
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Corner PAM AYRES reads Piggo and the Yoghurt Pot
2.05 Wavelength Plus 16-195 The magazine on post-16 education and training. Plus social issues and politics; plus personal problems; plus participation; plus presenters LAURA PENN. TERRY CHRISTIAN. MURIEL GRAY; plus news; plus Open College (For free telephone referral service ring [number removed] during the programme or between 7.00and 8. OOpm for information on courses, chances and opportunities)
Introduced by Jenni Murray Guest of the Week: Marilyn
French - feminist writer and author of The Women 's Room Serial: The Owl Papers by JONATHAN EVAN MASLOW abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Michael J. Shannon reads the first of three extracts.
The Fiend by GERRY JONES
Inwardly Mary is deeply disturbed, convinced someone is following her wherever she goes. Matters come to a head when her ex-boyfriend suddenly reappears.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo
Dannie Abse presents the last of seven programmes of poetry about music.
The Music of the Spheres Readers JUNE BARRIE and KIM WALL
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Policing 2000
Gerry Northam reports on future police school tactics and training from the Metropolitan Police School at Hendon and talks to the Force's new
Commissioner, Peter Imbert. Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
The Illusion of Immortality
Have you felt the Vampires lips upon your throat? Oh my God, what have we done to have this on us!
Bram Stoker 's Dracula is one of the best-known and most popular horror stories ever written. New evidence has now come to light, suggesting exactly how this former civil servant researched and developed his extraordinary character, and why it touched such a strong cord in Victorian society. Mark Steyn reports. Producer WILL CANTOPHER
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 9. 05am L W)
He was a man with a light of interest in his eyes, white haired with a healthy complexion despite his stroke.
From his old cloth satchel, which went with him everywhere, he took a book, leather bound, and placed it gently into my hands. That was how
Valerie-Ann Lester described the moment when she first saw
Jack Walmsley 's journal, shortly before his death in 1982. Now, 50 years after the youthful escapades it describes,
Norman Painting turns the pages of'Jack's book'. Reader Tony Turner
Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Pebble Mill
0 HEAR THIS! page 25
(Details tomorrow 11.00am LW)
Pick Up by DAVE SIMPSON Stereo
Michael Hordern reads the last of three extracts from JOHN INGLIS HALL'S classic,
Fishing a Highland Stream - A Love Affair with a River.
Michael Berkeley presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
Three Country Stories by H. E. BATES abridged and read by David Neal
A selection of short stories, featuring some splendid local characters, set in the heart of the Bedfordshire countryside which Bates knew and loved so well. 1: Time
Producer CHERRY COOKSON Stereo
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment including special coverage by Stuart Simon of the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
A-Level English Shakespeare's Problem Plays 2: A Winter's Tale by MARGARET HOTINE Stereo (e)
