With JEANETTE MINNS. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday in London with John Humphrys at the Conservative 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 LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
12: Bustopher Jones: the Cat about Town
Read by Charles Gray. Stereo
[number removed]Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.00am
Which approaches to health Promotion keep people away from the doctor?
An Eye to the Future
More and more we are bombarded with posters, leaflets and media campaigns advocating healthy lifestyles. Can good health be sold like soap powder?
In the last of seven programmes, Georgina Ferry asks if this is the best way to ensure the nation has a healthy future.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Cat Woman by MIKE DORRELL Read by Laurence Allan Producer JANE DAUNCEY BBC Wales
New Every Morning, page 38; Firmly I believe and truly
(BBC HB 168); Psalm 119 vv 9-16;
Luke 8, vv 4-15; Lord of all hopefulness (BBC HB 309). Stereo
A series of six programmes
1: The One per Cent Advantage Presented by John Gribbin Just how close is the relationship between man and chimp? BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by John Howard
with Humphrey Lyttelton Martin Jarvis
Gemma O'Connor and Dr Stefan Buczacki Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer USSA EVANS. Stereo (R)
Presented by James Naughtie at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton and Brian Widlake in London
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Fish Fingers and Custard by JANE HOLIDAY. Stereo
2.05 History Lost and Found Time Snoop. Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT GCSE pupils grill chief examiners.
2: Sciences. Stereo (e)
From the three little maids from school to Princess Ida, the programme that puts a female perspective on marriage, money and music meets Gilbert and Sullivan's women. Short stories:
Stories of My Uncle by RONALD BLYTHE abridged in four parts by DELIA PATON
Read by Peter Tuddenham 4: The Windfall
(Music Bax's Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet)
Presenter Jenni Murray
by Steve May
The last of six 30-minute plays
with Robert Glenister as Robert and Moir Leslie as Anne
Prissy young Robert informs his wife that house prices are booming and they are sitting on a gold mine. But then who is squatting in their basement?
(Stereo)
with Richard Baker
The flute has one of the most exciting and exposed roles in the orchestra, so success and failure are equally public.
William Bennett and Philippa Davies , two of the country's leading flautists, talk about the nerve-racking perils and pleasures of life at the top.
Producer NIGEL WILKINSON. Stereo
Reporters David Clayton and Neil Walker go in search of the noisiest place in Britain, and the quietest.
Bad Vibrations - a Noise Annoys A night on patrol with Leicester's Sound Pollution
Squad: why aircraft noise may damage the structure of a Yorkshire stately home; and the frustrating search for silence. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
* INFO: page 90
Presented by Robert Williams and Hugh Sykes including reports from the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
5,00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
starring Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese , David Hatch Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie Written by GRAEME GARDEN. ERIC IDLE
DAVID HATCH and BILL ODDIE
Music from the DAVIE LEE GROUP Producer HUMPHREY BARCLAY (First broadcast in 1967)
In Britain's new 'share-owning democracy', millions now have a stake in several formerly. state-owned industries. But as the Tories gather in Brighton and with the sale of water and electricity now planned, David Levy asks whether privatisation has proved the blessing that Mrs Thatcher hoped.
Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
A series of 12 programmes 11: The Richness of Poverty
Brian Redhead continues his journey through the faith of the Middle Ages and falls in step with Francis of Assisi, the poor little madman for God. He also meets a pope, some ascetic heretics who would not eat eggs and a king who bit off the top of his sceptre - and discovers an unexpected side to the Inquisition. Reader ANDREW GREEN
Studio producer AMANDA HANCOX Series producer FRANCES GUMLEY
A windy corner of Devon seems an unlikely place for a scientific experiment. But if you want to observe the human mind and body when it's cold, hungry and tired, it couldn't be better. It all began when Alun Lewis joined a survival course on Dartmoor, armed with nothing more than a pocket knife and the advice of a few scientists.
Producer JACKIE LUNN
0 HEAR THIS! 20
A special birthday edition. recorded at the Radio Show,
Earls Court, London, at which Edwina Currie , mp, Junior
Minister for Health, presented the 1988 David Scott Blackhall Award, given for outstanding services to people with a visual handicap. Also, Peter White presented Nerys Hughes Liz Kershaw and Cliff Michelmore with a series of awkward situations involving blind people:
Would you tell a blind colleague that her dress is stained, or read an abusive letter to a blind man? Find out how the celebrities coped with similar tricky problems, and what blind members of the audience thought of their solutions. Producer THENA HESHEL
Six Hundred Songs
Pianist Graham Johnson has set himself the task of recording the complete Schubert song output. The first record, with Janet Baker , has just been released, with words by Schiller and Goethe. The final record will be ready in time for the composer's bicentenary in 1997. Natalie Wheen talks to
Graham Johnson , Janet Baker and the record company about the project.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
White Boy Running (7)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment with reports by Michael Vestey from the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
The second of four programmes with Harry Soan (R)
History: GCSE Assignments by JOHN COUTS Stereo (R) (e) at 12.30 The Soviet Union in the 1930s and at 12.50 The Soviet Union in the 1950s