Plus a five-day weather forecast. Producers TIM FINNEY , DYLAN WINTER
With FR JOHN MCCULLOUGH BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
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
A look ahead with Jenny Lane
considers some of the mysteries of providence in the Sound Archives. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
with Robert Kee
Researcher JANE NUNNELEY
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN Stereo
at Money 88
A further selection of questions on personal finance put by visitors at last week's show.
A Bit of Wild Life by SARAH STRANGEWAYS Read by Brenda Bruce Producer SHEILA FOX
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
Presented by Simon Rae Readers LIN SAGOVSKY and STEPHEN THORNE
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS. BBC Bristol
Presented by John Howard Editor KEN VASS
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
Presented by Brian Widlake
Editor MARTIN cox
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)
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
A play by HERBERT JARMANY
Stereo
What Makes a Goodie Good?
One of the questions addressed to a young audience by the Theatre in Education Company, Coventry. Presenter Paul Allen
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
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Stereo
with Derek Cooper
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)
display the lighter side of their repertoire in the last of six programmes.
Producer RICHARD F.DIS. Stereo
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
Five Short Stories by L.P. HARTLEY Read by Robert Lang 1: Night Fears
Producer PETER KAVANAGH
0 HEAR THIS! page 16
Presented by Richard Kershaw with reports on the US Presidential Election from Alexander MacLeod and Sally Hardcastle
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Deutsch fur die Oberstufe compiled and presented by MICHAEL SEYFERT Producer RICHARD SMITH (e) at 12.30 1: Der schwarze Block and at 12.50 2: Seitenwechsel