With FR JOHN MCCULLOUGH. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday in London and John Humphrys in New York with the latest news from the USA on the day the Americans go to the polls
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News
Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer NICK UTECHIN
Lines open from & 00am
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
What Shall I Do with the Child? by PAT BURCHARD
Read by June Barrie
Producer PAMELA HOWE . BBC Bristol
New Every Morning, page 102; When morning gilds the skies (BP 101); Psalm 95;
I Thessalonians 4, vv 13-18;
Let saints on earth in concert sing (BBC HB 249) Stereo
A series of six programmes 5: War Games
Presented by John Gribbin. Is the nuclear arms race the result of the workings of an evolutionary strategy that has been distorted by the unusual circumstances confronting humankind today? BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by John Howard
In a series of eight programmes, Alexander Walker recalls screen careers.
2: Julie Andrews
She was sweet, but she didn't cloy; she was pure, but she wasn't priggish; and at the end of 1965 The Sound of Music made her the fourth biggest star at the US box office. But Julie Andrews paid the penalty for her enormous success in musicals, and audiences used to spoonfuls of sugar were slow to respond to her efforts to extend her range and be accepted as a serious actress.
Producer WENDY CLAY
Presented by Brian Widlake in London and James Naughtie in New York on Polling Day in the USA
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Morgan the Milkman's Musical Morning Stereo
2.05 History Lost and Found The 1930s. Stereo (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT . 4: English Stereo (e)
Politics, places and people, finance, fashion and food -
Jenni Murray and guests puzzle out the meaning of life, love and anything women worry about and laugh about together. Serial: Lovers of Africa by VICKERY TURNER abridged in 11 episodes by MEG CLARKE
Read by Anna Massey (11)
by JOHN LOADER with Russell Dixon as Ray Ray dreams that he is naked. Ray dreams that he is always late. Ray's dreams are never-ending, when waking up is just a dream.
Producer CLIVE BRILL
BBC Manchester. Stereo
with Richard Baker
'Singing is a wonderful gift, but it's not to be put on a pedestal and gilded. You've got to get on with the washing and ironing as well.'
Ann Murray and Philip Langridge somehow successfully combine their busy international careers with family life at their home in Surrey.
Producer JUDITH ROLES . Stereo
The last of the series.
For sale - outstanding and versatile property with many unique features. An excellent opportunity for a buyer with a sense of humour. For viewing apply Neil Walker and David Clayton.
Breaking the House Rules
What makes an ideal home? A railway carriage? A farmhouse built between the fast lanes of the M62? Or a subterranean house in Gloucestershire?
Producer GLYN JONES
BBC North East
Presented by Robert Williams and Bill Frost
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
A comedy in eight episodes by JAN ETHERINGTON and GAVIN PETRIE
2: Match of the Day
Producer PETE ATKIN
Stereo
Bradford's town hall revolution draws a battle line between two ideologies of government. Reporter Helen Boaden
Producer VICKY WHITFIELD
Editor GERRY NORTHAM
BBC Manchester
BBC Radio is the largest single producer of plays in the country, putting on hundreds each year, taken from the stage and screen as well as those specially written for the medium.
What is it that makes the experience of drama on radio so special? Leonard Pearcey attempts to find out with the help of Shirley Gee , Anthony Minghella , John Moffat , John Mortimer and Gillian Reynolds. Producer RICHARD IMISON. Stereo
0 INFO: page 102
The Rediscovery of Politics
Six talks on authority, culture and community in the USSR given by Geoffrey Hosking , Professor of Russian History at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
1: A Great Power in Crisis
'While his Tunbridge Wells counterpart works himself up over trivia, outraged
Sverdlovsk is witnessing a real crisis. He may blame
Mr Gorbachev for it, but actually it's rooted in the very nature of the Soviet system, and Gorbachev has done no more than bring it to the surface in order to tackle it.'
The Reith lectures are printed weekly in the 'Listener'
Feature: page 113
For visually handicapped people Presented by Peter White
Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8.30pm and 10. 15pm. Fact sheet No 45 and quarterly bulletins summarising broadcast information are available on request. Send large sae, to: [address removed]
Artists, writers and composers who lost their lives in the First World War are remembered in the Armistice Festival, and today the Whitbread Prize produces its short-list for the 'book of the year'.
Presented by Michael Berkeley
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Five Short Stories by L. P. HARTLEY
2: The Waits
An American Election-night edition presented from
Washington by Alexander MacLeod and from London by Michael Vestey
Will it be
George Bush or Michael Dukakis ? First results of the American Election come in at
12 midnight, and by 3.00 or 4.00 at the latest it will be known who is to move into the White House when President Reagan leaves.
Brian Redhead reports direct from New York using the most modern technology to bring the results and predictions.
With him is a team of experts to explain the complexities of the election of the new president, and the vital Congressional elections which take place at the same time.
Guests from all over the United States and around the world discuss the issues raised. Editor JOLYON MONSON
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