with JEANETTE MINNS. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Chris Lowe in London
John Humphrys reports from 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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.25* Sport With JULIAN TUTT
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
15: Cat Morgan Introduces Himself
Read by Bernard Cribbins
Producer GLYN DEARMAN. Stereo
In a series of six programmes
Jenni Mills talks to people who were famous for 15 minutes.
'People remember Valerie Singleton - they don't remember me!'
Leila Williams, Miss Great Britain 1957, was the first female presenter on Blue Peter.
BBC Pebble Mill
Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON
The Loss by DAPHNE GLAZER Read by Susan Mansell Producer LUCY LUNT BBC Pebble Mill
NEM, p 97: Come down, 0 Love divine (BBC HB 149); Psalm 119 w 41-48; 1 Corinthians 2, vv 6-13; Father of mercies (BBC HB 189) Stereo
The children's book programme introduced by Penelope Lively Avast, me hearties, and splice the mainbrace! Jenny Cuffe sails the seven seas to plunder literary pirates in the company of John Ryan , creator of Captain Pugwash,
Colin MacNaughton , author of Jolly Roger , and Margaret Mahy , writer of buccaneer tales galore. Producer SALLY FELDMAN
Presented by John Waite
The Story of Radio Comedy In the last programme of the series Russell Davies brings the story up to 1988, and peers into the mists of radio's uncharted comedy territory.
Written by RUSSELL DAVIES Producer NEIL CARGILL
Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake in London and James Naughtie at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
1.55 Listening Corner Auntie Aggie Makes a Clootie Dumpling by DORRITH M. SIM. Stereo
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox Farmer George and the Boggart A Lancashire folktale retold by JEAN MCKENZIE (R) (e)
2.25 The Song Tree A Gaggle of Music Games (4) by BARRY GIBSON Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR with PYEWACKETT Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 The Friday Serial The Treehom Stories Read by ALAN BENNETT 2: Treehorn's Treasure by FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE. Stereo (e)
from Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills Serial:
A Marriage Survival Guide (3)
A 12-part series by Don Taylor
2: The Soldiers' Voice
1647: Cromwell seems to be about to betray his old comrades in the New Model
Army to the strict Presbyterian leaders in Parliament. When Captain Francis White decides to take the soldiers' side and present their petition, his masters promptly accuse him of inciting mutiny.
Director Shaun Macloughlin BBC Bristol. Stereo
The property boom in one of Birmingham's richest suburbs is at its peak. The Sutton
Coldfield News has turned its front office into an estate agency. Meanwhile, the local estate agents have put their money into a rival free paper, the Sutton Coldfield Observer. But what's news?
Miss Sutton Coldfield News tells the secrets of Sutton's most pampered women. 4: Sutton Coldfield
Rival papers desperate for news. Written and presented by Tony Wilkinson
Producer JULIAN HALE
Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale including reports from the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton.
Introducing PM World Watch, a weekly series about the world, its ecology and the politics of the environment. Every Friday, a special report from a BBC correspondent at home or abroad.
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs is in the driving seat, with Tom Boswell firing on all cylinders, and Alanah Martin signals extra directions as they consider transport on land, sea and air.
Producer MOLLY PRICE-OWEN
with Margaret Howard Producer ANDREW PARFITT
Stereo. (Revised repeat next Sunday)
Fortieth Anniversary Edition from the Grand Committee Room in the Palace of Westminster, before an invited audience of past panel members. On the panel:
The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke , mp, Secretary of State for Health Bryan Gould , mp
Baroness Seear. Bernard Levin Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol
0 FEATURE: page 17 and WODDIS ON: page 97
Marcel Berlins takes a weekly look at events in the courts and what the lawyers are up to.
He talks to judges, barristers, solicitors and members of the public who come into contact with the legal system - both civil and criminal.
Producer GARETH BUTLER
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Testing public opinion
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Quavering Quale affects voters' views on choice for president. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
The Singing Man: Charles Causley
The song unended he had brought from field
Andfolkofchildhood.... Lines from a poem in his forthcoming collection which could describe Charles Causley himself. Now 71 and one of Britain's finest poets, he has published 30 books, yet there is no sign of his song ending.
The landscape and history of Cornwall figure strongly in his work and it is peopled with characters remembered from his early days.
He talks to Damien Grant about his life and work. Producer JULIAN MAY
White Boy Running (10)
Presented by Richard Kershaw with special reports by Michael Vestey from the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
live from New York, Heather Payton looks at Wall Street a year after the stock market crash.
Producer TIM BOWLER
with Sally Grace , David Tate Bill Wallis and Royce Mills Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON and JOHN O'FARRELL BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT LINFORD MAX HANDLEY , GED
PARSONS DAVID BADDIEL and ROB NEWMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. SIMON BULLIVANT and MARK BRISENDEN. BARRY ATKINS MICHAEL DINES. PETER HICKEY , etc Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
History: GCSE Assignments 20th-century World History by MIKE WALKER Stereo (e) at 12.30 The American Depression Stereo (e) and at 12.50 South Africa