With THE REV NOEL BATTYE

Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead 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 CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Your Letters

by THE DUKE OF PIRAJNO abridged in ten instalments by JANE MAYS
Read by Julian Glover (10) Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Christopher Dunkley of the Financial Times airs your comments about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Send uour comments to: Feedback, BBC, London A 4WW
0 RADIO TIMES LETTERS: page 96

Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

Dr Heidegger's Experiment from Twice Told Tales by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p79; Come, ye thankful people, come (BBC HB 439); Psalm 65; John 6, vv 27-35;
God, whose farm is all creation (BBC HB 440). Stereo

Ermine Street Guard A group of men in Gloucestershire spend their weekends recreating the battle dress and drills of the Romans. Their fascination with the Second Augustan Legion has led them to become so expert in the field that they are frequently consulted by museum curators and historians. In the second of two programmes, the Ermine Street Guard talk to Peter Stead. Producer ELAINE WILLIAMS BBC Wales

with John Howard
For Factsheet No 39, send sae to: [address removed]

Poor Relations
'No, they're lovely. They'd never make me feel awkward.
They'll keep inviting me, even if I never ask them back. That's not the problem. It's my pride. I want to be equal with them. I don't want to traipse around in their wake like something out of Anita Brookner. '
Written by SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner PAM AYRES reads Piggo and the Secret Tunnel
2.05 Let's Join In with SOUNDBOX The Cabbage Princess by ERROL LE CAIN. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree Huff and Puff(2) Presented by Hilary JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (e)
2.40 Country Dancing Stage 3 Presenter JOHN TETHER (2) (R) (e)

Introduced from Manchester by Jenny Cuffe
'You can't do it!' we were told.
'You can't take a black child into a white home and bring her up as your own. 'But we had and we did.
Twenty years on Molly, her adopted daughter Shanti, and natural mother Patsy, tell their story.... a story that Molly has now put into print 'in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents and their children, and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world'.
Producer JENNIFER HOLDEN BBC Manchester
Serial: The Owl Papers (3)

by Alexandre Dumas
Dramatised in seven parts by Barry Campbell
The relentless vengeance of Edmond Dantès, the Count of Monte Cristo, is slowly destroying his enemies. The house of de Villefort has been plagued by mysterious deaths. Baron Danglars faces financial ruin. His only hope is that his daughter will marry the bogus Prince Andrea Cavalcanti. Stereo
(Broadcast on Sunday at 7pm)

Andrew is 14 years old, but a year ago he was officially adopted, so now he is celebrating his first birthday with his new parents Mr and Mrs [text removed].
Jenny Cuffe tells the story of Andrew from the time he was abandoned by his mother at the age of two-and-a-half, through his experience of fostering, to the advertising process which led to his adoption. Producer SUSAN DENNY

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Bill Frost continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report

This week the stars of the Going Places team, Clive Jacobs and Tom Boswell , have climbed the hills of San Francisco to report not just on 'those little cable cars' but on the varied forms of transport in and around
California as San Francisco hosts the International Public Transit Expo 87. Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Andy Kershaw presents his selection from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE. Stereo

The Rt Hon Kenneth Baker , mp, Secretary of State for Education and Science
David Blunkett , mp
Louis Blom-Cooper , Qc
Chairman, Liberal Party Home Affairs Panel, and Barbara Hosking , media and political consultant tackle the issues raised by the audience at Eastbourne.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Three months after admitting his role in the Iran-Contra affair, Alistair Cooke reflects on Colonel Oliver North's brief moment as a popular hero to a minority in the US.

with Glyn Worsnip
Producer EMILY HUCHANAN

by Alistair Cooke

Self-Exposure
Over the centuries artists have painted self-portraits - why? How do they treat themselves as sitters? And what do they uncover in the process - is it painful or enjoyable?
A new touring exhibition of self-portraits shows the work. John Spurting talks to the artists.
Producer ANNE WINDER

Three Country Stories by H. E. BATES
3: The Maker of Coffins Stereo

Presented by David Sells including special coverage by Stuart Simon of the Labour
Party Conference in Brighton

A satirical view of the week's news with Bill Wallis ,
David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover.
Written by RICHARD QUICK STEVE PUNT . MIKE COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW , PETE SINCLAIR KEVIN MANDRY. GED PARSONS BILL MATTHEWS. MAX HANDLEY MARK BURTON , JOHN O'FARRELL ROBERT UNFORD
LES PETERS ROWLEY
PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo

followed by an interlude

A-Level English Sergeant Musgrave's 's Dance Stereo (e)