With SARAH MONTAGU. Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor in London with Brian Redhead at the Conservative Party
Conference in Blackpool
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 CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 4

Presented by Fergus Keeling
The pressure group BANG wants to ban things that go bump in the night. Not the spooky kind, but gas cannon bird-scarers which in some agricultural areas are so common they can become a servere noise nuisance. This week's programme explores the problem and looks at other more silent scarers. Producer TIM HAINES. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is your money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre, to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery. Producer DEBORAH COHEN

Mrs McLuckie Has a Visitor by DAVID CROOKS
Read by Paul Young
Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG BBC Scotland

Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo

The headmaster makes his first report to the governors of Bilton School.
A 'stalkory' (fact and fiction intertwined) written and read by Alex Ferguson.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Presented by John Howard

starring with and Paul Sirr as Rod in Guilty Secrets
'She does have her sensitivities. And this.... for a woman ... any woman ... even my mother - I'd have thought it would strike at the whole image she has of her entire marriage.'
Written by SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Presented by Nick Worrall

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Andrew McAndrew and the Tap Tops Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Fruits and Seeds TIMMY MALLETT becomes a seed and learns how to leave home. Stereo (e)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! The Firefighters Storyteller JOE DUNLOP Written by JOHN GRIFFIN. Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) / Wish My Granny Was a Witch (R) (e)
2.40 Listen! Return to Badlidrempt (3) by DEREK FARMER. Stereo (e)

Introduced by Jenni Murray The Shape of Things to Come
Are skirts going up, or coming down? Has feminine and floral finally given way to slick and snappy? And what is happening to waists? Find out in a preview of London Fashion Week. Serial:
The Fashion in Shrouds (4)

Downstarts by ELAINE MORGAN with and son, George Bernard Shaw
The abrupt departure of Bessie Shaw from her family home in Dublin had a devastating effect on both husband and children, but it liberated young George and offered him a route to conquer the world.
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo

'Listen Rupert cries in glee. 'They're plugging my biography!'
Radio 4's good books programme begins a new season, with Nigel Forde introducing writers and books of all kinds and for all ages.
Maeve Binchy sets the scene of her new novel, Firefly Summer. Plus: Rupert: A Bear's Life
George Perry talks about his 'biography' of Britain's favourite bear.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

(Revised broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45pm)

Presented by Bill Frost and Frances Coverdale continuedon VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Introduced by Derek Jones Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Shanghai 1934: the evening tide already bobs with the corpses of the newly dead: babies, beggars, the starved. Flooding down from Nanking Road, a cavalcade of international glitter throngs the waterfront hotels, the banks and the teeming shops. But in the back lanes, a new-born child cries: his mother is not home; she's a prostitute on the game. His father is not home; he's a US seaman on duty aboard ship. And yet, in spite of his beginnings, Johnny Wei rose to become a Chinese hero, only to lose all at the hands of the Red Guards; all, except the dim memory of the father from across the water who held the keys to his triumph, his tragedy and his true identity. Producer SIMON ELMES Stereo
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Crippled by a spinal infection, the poet William Soutar
(1898-1943) spent the final 13 years of his life confined to bed at his parents' home in Perth. There he read, wrote, received friends and - until the day before he died - kept a series of extraordinary diaries in which he explored his physical and spiritual conditions with insight and an unselfpitying humour. lain Agnew reads from Soutar's diaries, with personal recollections from
George Bruce and William and Norah Montgomerie. Presented by David Jackson Young
Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG BBC Scotland

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC, London W1A 4WW
Phone [number removed]. Lines open from
10.00am to 4.00pm, Monday to Friday

Darts commentator, Sid Waddell, 'the Geordie lip', makes his bid for gems from the archives from his local pub in Pudsey.

Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer RACHEL YORKE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Plain Tales from the Hills 4: Pig

Presented by David Sells including special coverage by Stuart Simon of the Conservative Party
Conference in Blackpool

Four Indonesian woodcarvers arrived in Britain earlier this year having travelled 16,000 miles for a first-ever glimpse of western civilisation. Escorting them was anthropologist Nigel Barley - friend, interpreter and their guide through the pitfalls and pleasures of our so-called 'civilisation'.
Producer CATHERINE MAHONEY (R)

followed by an interlude

History: GCSE Assignments China Since 1949 The 'Communist triumph' and the 'great leap forward' Stereo (R) (e)