with KATE COMPSTON. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys in London with Peter Hobday in Blackpool for the SLD Conference
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by JOHN HEDGES
7.20*. 8.20* Olympic Sports Desk with GARRY RICHARDSON in Seoul and IAN BROWN in London
7.45* Thought for the Day
4: Truckstop
4: The Rum Tum Tugger
Read by Richard Briers. Stereo
1: A Time to Be Young Producer DAVID POWELL
Can the mystery of the disappearing hermit crab be solved? Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm investigate.
Producer HELEN ODAMS. BBC Bristol
Introduced from Broadcasting House, London Stereo
A series of six conversations in which John Timpson proves that there really is life after elevation to the peerage.
4: Lord Carter (life Baron): educated East Sussex College of Agriculture; senior research fellowship in agricultural marketing, Oxford; founder and director of AKC Ltd; now Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
A series of talks from first-time broadcasters - new names, new voices - each with a story to tell. 1: Playwright Wally K. Daly , who finds the attempt to sum up an extraordinary theatrical career 'a bit like asking Niagara to trickle....'
Presented by John Howard Write for Factsheet No 39 to: You and Yours. BBC London WIA 1AA
The first of five programmes Alexander Walker recalls the cinema's brightest stars.
This week: Marilyn Monroe whose rare talent for turning sex appeal into comic art resulted In a universally-loved and indelible screen image. Producer WENDY CLAY (R)
Presented by James Naughtie at the SLD Conference in Blackpool with Brian Widlake in London
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Moonrocket Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Hedgehogs TIMMY MALLETT finds a sanctuary for hedgehogs and ROBIN ROBBINS brings along her science projects. Stereo (e)
2.20 Slambash Wangs of a Compo Gormer by ROBERT LEESON With REECE DINSDALE as Arnold and Domal (2) Stereo (e)
2.40 Science for All Clothes, Fibres and Fabrics (2) Written by JOHN TURTON Dyeing naturally and artificially, woollen mills old and new, and how polyester is made. Stereo (e)
If women have equality, why do they still need their own programme? Find out with Jenni Murray and guests. Serial: Letters from a Faint-Hearted Feminist (4)
by Keith Waterhouse
Back in the pioneering days of radio, there was a rival station to the British Broadcasting Company called 3LO, deriving its slender income from advertisers' announcements, or commercials as we now call them. This dramatised account of how 3LO reached listeners by the miracles of the airwaves might have come from the long defunct station's programme record library.
BBC Manchester (R)
In the last of the present series Brian Gear invites John Carey and Amanda Theunissen to pick some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
(Revised repeat of yesterday 's programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Olympic Report
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report
Stereo
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by Caroline Parsons
Producer LAURIE MASON BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
It's not who you are, it's what you wear because who cares who you are?
T-shirt slogan, 1987
Nigel Fountain flips through the glossy style magazines of the 80s, from the Face to Arena by way of i-D, Smash Hits, Sky and Q.
He discusses style culture and post-modernism with those who claim to know what they are, and pauses to ponder the significance of Jimmy the Hoover, Bladerunner, Michael Foot 's duffle-coat, hip-hop, hair gel and upside-down headlines. Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester. Stereo
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Scientists, slaughtermen, farmers and hunters are often grouped together for their apparent insensitivity to animals. But many hunters detest intensive farming and pet keeping because they are 'unnatural' - unlike their own activities.
James Serpell examines the paradoxes in our views of animals which enable us to treat them the way we do.
Producer MILES BARTON. BBC Bristol
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A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London WIA 1AA Phone in on [number removed]Lines open from 10.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday
The tea-dance is making a spirited comeback as a new generation discovers a bygone age among the potted palms.
Nigel Forde sets out to discover what these 'bright young things' are seeking: romance or ' just an echo of gentler age? Producer VIV BLACK
Paul Vaughan presents the arts magazine, which includes
Melvyn Bragg 's biography of Richard Burton and an exhibition in Sheffield about weddings.
Producer JULIAN MAY
The Iron Staircase (9)
Presented by David Sells
FM joins at 12.10
Books, Plays, Poems Futures (4) Computers. Stereo (e)
