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with Peter Hobday and Jon Silverman in London and John Humphrys in New York bringing news of the final days in the race for the White House.
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Jon Silverman
Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Simon Gompertz
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

with music from Chetham's School of Music, Manchester ledbycLAiRjAQuiss
Where love and loving-kindness dwell (HFT 195); Genesis 45, w 4b-15; Kyrie from Mass for
Five Voices (Lennox Berkeley); Forth in thy name, 0 Lord, I go (BBC HB 406)
Conductor MICHAEL BREWER BBC Manchester

Contributors

Conductor:
Michael Brewer

A musical knowledge quiz Chairman Ned Sherrin First Round: Heat 6
Martin Norris (secretary) Bob Newman (trading standards officer) David Haworth
(patent examiner)
Programme devised by EDWARD COLE Questions set by IAN GILLIES and EDWARD COLE
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Martin Norris
Unknown:
Bob Newman
Unknown:
David Haworth
Unknown:
Edward Cole
Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Unknown:
Edward Cole
Producer:
Richard Edis.

1.55 Listening Corner This week: Rat-a-tat-tat! Who's that? Presented by SHIREEN SHAH and FRED HARRIS Today's story: Morgan the Milkman's 's Monday Morning by PHYLLIS PEARCE Script by Angela garner Producer MARY HAYDON. Stereo
2.05 Playtime: Autumn Colours Presented by TONY AITKEN and JULIE FIRST. Stereo (e)
2.20 Science Scope Floating and Sinking With FRED HARRIS , JULIE RICHMOND and CLIFFORD NORGATE. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Whirligig Stories with music: Three Fables With WILLIE RUSHTON , SU POLLARD BRIAN BLESSED and DEREK GRIFFITHS and the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by MARTIN LOVEDAY conducted by BARRY WORDSWORTH Words by MICHAEL COLE Music by PAUL READE. Stereo (e)

Contributors

Presented By:
Shireen Shah
Unknown:
Fred Harris
Script By:
Angela Garner
Producer:
Mary Haydon.
Presented By:
Tony Aitken
Unknown:
Fred Harris
Unknown:
Clifford Norgate.
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Su Pollard
Unknown:
Derek Griffiths
Unknown:
Martin Loveday
Conducted By:
Barry Wordsworth
Unknown:
Michael Cole
Music By:
Paul Reade.

Teach your child maths!
Educational pre-school playpack! Your toddler's first alphabet!
Do you fall for labels like that - or do they make you feel guilty? Karen Deco examines the growth industry in products that promise parent power. Serial: Lovers of Africa (10) Presenter Jenni Murray Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Karen Deco
Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Editor:
Clare Selerie-Grey

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55

Contributors

Presented By:
Valerie Singleton
Presented By:
Gordon Clough

by Judy Leather

Ex-whalers Bill and Jake are blood-brothers. They run adjoining cattle stations in south Australia. But Bill has nightmares about his last kill - of a birthing cow - and his state of mind is not helped by the arrival from England of Eve, his fat and beautiful half-sister.

Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

(BBC Bristol) (Stereo)
(Repeated next Saturday)

Contributors

Writer:
Judy Leather
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Bill:
Nigel Graham
Eve:
Deborah Makepeace
Mary:
Anna Nygh
Jake:
Roger Leach
French pilot/Australian parrot:
John Baddeley
Sam:
Steve Hodson
Weatherman/Arnie:
Anthony Jackson
Jake's son:
Richard Pearce

David Threlfall and Frances Barber take the leading roles in a new production of Macbeth at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, and at London's Barbican Centre an exhibition reconstructs the Panorama.
Meanwhile, in New York, three American comedy stars wait for Godot. Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer NOAH RICHLER
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Threlfall
Unknown:
Frances Barber
Presenter:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
Richard Bannerman

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