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'What matters is the night'
SHORTLY BEFORE 8.0 one Thursday evening
in April, some 150 employees put their clocks
forward by three hours and pretended it was 11
June. BBCtv and Radio's full-scale General
Election rehearsal was under way.
Of course, the results being processed by
massed ranks of VDU operators weren't real;
when returning officers read out voting figures,
and
successful
candidates
made
grateful
all
speeches or gave triumphant
interviews,
parts were in fact played by BBC reporters and
presenters using their acting skills to the full in
a Television Centre studio.
But in the next-door studio - and a few miles
House it was as if
away in Broadcasting
election
night had come. David Dimbleby
fronted effortlessly; Peter Snow summoned up
the latest in computer graphics; and Anthony
King speculated on what the (fictional) Cheltenham result would mean if repeated nationwide.
Sir Robin Day was elsewhere, but a stand-in
quizzed party leaders (in fact, three candidates
willing to enter into the spirit of the evening).
Was the rehearsal a success? Bob Doran of
Radio News, whose job it has been to ensure
there's a BBC person at every count for the
nation's 650 constituencies, thinks so: 'Both the
and the BBC's telephone
computer
system
coped. Admittedly, some things went wrong, but
we found out what we needed to know.'
Richard
Tait, BBCtv's election
supremo,
agrees: 'Preparing for a programme as complicated as this is a learning process. Rehearsals do
have hitches: what matters is the night.' Tait is
enthusiastic about the technology at his team's
disposal: 'We're introducing some of the most
advanced equipment available elections are
ideally suited for computer animation.'
The names of every single candidate have
been in the General Election computer since
nominations closed on 27 May, and every result,
once declared, will be instantly available not
only to BBCtv and Radio studios but also to
everyone with a teletext set. 'The moment a
reporter phones in the result from any constituency,' says Graham Clayton of Ceefax, 'it will go
first to the election computer
and then be
transferred automatically to Ceefax for immediate broadcast.'
Meanwhile, the BBC's different election programmes will be making sense of it all: on BBC1
(from 10.0) David Dimbleby and his team which in 1983 led ITV by over a million viewers;
on Radio 4 (from 10.0) Brian Redhead, Susannah
Simons, David Butler and Peter Hill; and on
Radio 2 (from 11.0, with a garnish of music)
Jimmy Young and Brian Curtois.
Not to mention all the BBC's local radio
stations, and Radios Scotland, Ulster, Wales and
John
Cymru. 'Literally a cast of thousands,' said
Williams, BBC Radio's Election Editor, as he
broke off from yet another planning meeting.
On the agenda were arrangements
for feeding
House production
the
staff
Broadcasting
through the night of 11 June. Did BBC Catering
have their own rehearsal?
JOHNDAVIES
IT'S GOING to be an exciting night, Thursday,
when the votes are counted. What's at stake is
whether Mrs Thatcher can set a 20th-century
record by winning a third term for her Conservative party, which has coloured Britain's political
map bluer than it's been since the last war.
The smaller map above shows the House of
Commons as it looked when the Prime Minister
fired the starting gun for the General Election
race last month: 393 Conservative seats - threequarters of them in the Midlands and the south;
206 Labour seats only 60 of them south of
Yorkshire. Outside London, Labour holds only
three seats in the south of England tiny
pinpoints of red on the map at Thurrock in
Essex, Ipswich in Suffolk and Bristol South. The
Alliance's 27 seats (orange for Liberal, white for
SDP) are scattered from Caithness at the very
top of Scotland down to Truro in the toe of
the Liberals
which
England,
successfully
defended three months ago. Labour's task is to
stage a massive comeback in the Midlands and
the south: the most fertile ground for the Alliance
is further north - in the north-east and Scotland.
The other map (above right) shows the 102
seats where the election will be won or lost.
Most of them are blue, Conservative seats that
Mrs Thatcher's party must hold if she is to be
sure of retaining power. These are the 68 seats
we've listed on the left of the map the
Conservative marginals, from Leicester South,
where the Tories' majority of seven was the
narrowest
in the country, down to Cardiff
Central, where the majority of 3,452 put them
just under nine per cent of the total vote ahead
of their nearest rivals, the Alliance.
If the Alliance and Labour between them can
win all 68 of these seats (and lose none themselves) they'll have robbed Mrs Thatcher of her
majority: she needs 326 for an overall majority,
which is 67 less than the 393 her party held at
the dissolution of the last Parliament.
So, as the results are declared, note which
Conservative marginals the Tories hold, and the
Opposition gain, and if the gains are reaching
down as far as, say, Harlow - (number 57) or
Bury South (62), then we may be in for a hung
with Mrs Thatcher
parliament,
losing her
majority. But if you find you're colouring seats
like Warwickshire
North (40) and Keighley (48)
in blue to show that the Conservatives
are
holding them, then the present prime minister
will almost certainly be staying in Number Ten.
A measure of Labour's task in this election is
in
that, in order to replace Mrs Thatcher
Number Ten, Neil Kinnock needs to gain 117
seats to win an overall majority. Labour have to
pick up seats where they're far less well placed
than in these, and where they're challenging
some Tory majorities of over 9,000.
On the right of the map are listed the other
parties' marginal seats. The Conservatives were
only 71 votes behind Labour in Carlisle. Labour
would fall to the smallest shift towards the
Tories there - for example, by Alliance supporters who judged that their best way of denying
Labour victory was to vote tactically for the
party of their second choice, which in this case
would be the Conservatives.
Some of the Alliance MPs in the last Parliament are hard-pressed in this triangular election
in Stockton South is
too: Ian Wrigglesworth
being challenged by the Tories, but in Glasgow
Hillhead former SDP leader Roy Jenkins is
under threat from Labour.
Conservative
marginals:
Richmond and Barnes (3). The Alliance's best
chance to hurt the Tories in London. Alan
is having his
Watson, former broadcaster,
fourth go at breaking the government's
grip
here. He lost by only 74 votes last time.
Banff and Buchan (14). Albert McQuarrie and
two of his Conservative colleagues in Moray (31)
and Angus East (65) are under threat from the
SNP, who hope to return after a slump in 1979.
Renfrew West and Inverclyde (19). A remarkable
example of the three-party fight in just one seat:
Anna McCurley defends a newly-won Tory seat,
in 1983, from the SDP, who were just 1,322 votes
behind her, with third-placed Labour only 208
votes behind that.
Hornsey and Wood Green (61) and Hampstead
and Highgate (63). Two former Tory Ministers,
Hugh Rossi and Geoffrey Finsberg, defend seats
they won from Labour a generation back.
Cardiff Central
seat: if
(68). The impost
Conservative Ian Grist loses hejp and certainly
if he loses badly, Mrs Thatcher's majority will
disappear. But the Alliance, who are the challengers, are strong in Cardiff and may do
well if some Labour supporters
unusually
decide to vote tactically.
Labour
marginals:
seat. He's
Copeland (25). Dr John Cunningham's
Labour's shadow environment minister, and he
has to defend the seat that houses the nuclear
reprocessing plant in Cumbria. His majority last
time was 1,837.
Alliance
marginals:
Stockton South (1). Ian Wrigglesworth,
the
Alliance's trade and industry spokesman, has
only 102 votes in hand in a seat that he held for
Labour from 1974 to 1981, when he deserted to
the SDP and gave the Tories a chance they only
just missed last time.
Leeds West (5). Michael Meadowcroft,
the
surprise Alliance winner in 1983, faces a strong
fight back from Labour..
Well, I declare! It's the fas
The countdown
has begun.
But can any constituency
take poll position
from
Torbay in the race to be
first with an election result?
Denis Herbstein tips the
front-runners
'IF I WERE a betting man, I'd put us in the first
three. Oh yes, I'll get us placed gold, silver or
bronze.' The person speaking is not the trainer
of the British 400m relay squad, or the man
responsible for the Queen Mother's horses, but,
more important,
winner of the first declarer
stakes in the last general election.
Torquay Town Hall at 11.11 on the night of 9
June 1983 and a tubby, balding chap in a white
suit 'so my staff can see me' hovers
After 20 years of moving through
triumphantly.
the field, Rod Tuck, election organiser extraordinaire, has brought the constituency of Torbay
to the attention of the nation. For 14 minutes,
while the finger-flickers
of Guildford
and
Cheltenham
vie for the runner-up
spot, 30
million viewers glare at the giant backdrop
proclaiming 'The English Riviera', topped by a
giant palm tree. 'Wonderful for tourism,' says
Rod, who plans to do it again on Thursday.
are
Only a few of Britain's 650 constituencies
either capable of or interested in being the first to
declare a result. Local pride is the spur, but civic
leaders also hope that the image of enterprise
and efficiency portrayed on television will attract an investor or two. Since 1918, when
general election polling first took place on the
same day, the post-poll race has favoured the
constituencies of a compact geographical nature
(Chelsea is the smallest, Ross, Cromarty and
Skye the largest). But now, new regulations
about the start of counting will level the contest.
This year ballot papers may be mixed before
every box is in the hall, with the aim of having
more results on Thursday
night. It will be
possible to mix the first ballot box with the
postal votes, to start smoothing the papers and
sorting them into candidate choice, to start
counting individual votes as late ballot boxes
are being carried through water-logged lanes.
No longer will the large rural seats be at a disadvantage.
Enter Basildon,
a prosperous
New Town
East End whose identity
beyond London's
problems were partly overcome when local
band Depeche Mode entered the pop charts and
home-town fireman Terry Marsh won the world
light welterweight boxing title. Apart from that
the area's most arresting historical episode was
the shooting down of a German zeppelin in the
First World War. Thursday's declaration will be
in the town's Festival Hall, once a snake park,
next door to a huge new indoor sports complex.
Winning the declaration
stakes, says chief
executive Robin Mitchinson, 'will help our bid
to stage
the European
Indoor
Athletics
Championship in 1989'.
If Mitchinson is looking for inspiration
for
what he hopes will be his town's finest hour, he
need look no further back than 1959 when
Basildon was part of the Billericay constituency, which achieved the fastest British general
election result on record (a mere 57 minutes
after the polling booths closed). In those days,
with its 120,000 electorate, it was almost twice
the size of an average seat today, but how the
legendary Alma Hatt was able to set up his
record in a largely rural area remains an object
lesson for ambitious electoral officers.
In 1959 all the ballot boxes had to be in the hall
before the count could begin, and the furthest
polling station was 12 miles away. Hatt roped in
drivers from motoring clubs to rush the boxes
across Essex, while the presiding officers locked
up their polling stations - voting ended at 9.0
then - and followed behind with the official
papers. The police didn't actually aid and abet,
but there were no speeding fines that night.
'Hatt was for ever thinking of ways of saving
assistant
Joyce
time,' recalls his long-time
Norris. 'He even removed the fences around the
Archer Hall where the count was held so as to
give better access from the car park.' But the
army of 350 counters twiddled their fingers as
the last, the 120th, box went missing. Then one of
the drivers heard a rattle in the boot as he left
the car park - the forgotten box.
Bank clerks were not yet fashionable as vote
counters.
They were drawn from operatic
groups, youth clubs, the WI, anyone with nonarthritic fingers. 'You also needed the co-operation of the candidates,' says Mrs Norris. 'We had
a meeting beforehand
to assure them that
accuracy would not be sacrificed to speed.' At
the adjudication stage, when the votes had been
counted, there were no time-wasting objections.
Mrs Norris recalls 'the great jubilation. We had
to have a special phone in the hall to alert the
Billericay exchange to keep the line open so
Raymond Baxter could tell the BBC.'
This time, in the Festival Hall, which normally holds snooker exhibitions and dances, the
city fathers of hived-off Basildon are so keen to
win that the Billericay count, taking place at the
same venue, will just have to wait. Alma Hatt
will be turning in his grave.
Up north they like to appear more self-effacing. 'We don't go for being the quickest, but it
just happened over the decades that the declaration has seemed relatively quicker than that
of other parliamentary
constituencies,'
says the
;
�
'
astest ballot box in Britain
officer in Pendle,
elections
Ray Hudson.
He has no identity worries since the Lancashire
Pennine seat was renamed from Nelson (16 fish
of a
and chip shops) and Colne (birthplace
conductor on the Titanic). The Pendle witches
are the centrepiece of a concerted drive for
tourists, and it is rumoured that some ballot
boxes will be spirited in on broomsticks.
In three of the last four elections Pendle has
suffered the disaster of a re-count. (Its near
Hyndburn,
formerly
Accrington,
neighbour,
aimed for an early declaration in 1983, but after
many re-counts the Tory win by 21 votes came
at tea-time the next day.) Nothing, however,
matches the sabotage of electric power in the
second 1974 election which plunged five surinto darkness in midrounding constituencies
count. Now Pendle has a generator on standby
for the count in Nelson's Arndale Centre.
In Wrexham, the dynamic chief executive and
director', Sydney F. Tongue, has
'managing
already decided the count will start 15 minutes
after the polls close. That would have been
impossible in the past with the furthest station,
16 miles away towards the
at Bronington,
English border. Eighth last time, despite a
20-minute re-count, Mr Tongue claims to have a
'well-oiled machine, speedy, efficient, accurate,
though we shan't be trying to be first. Mind
you,' he cautions, 'we shan't be last and we'll
certainly be first in Wales.' He adds that, 'in our
very depressed area, the election will show how
smoothly we run things'. His electoral officer,
Dwyfor Jones, 'laughs when I see on TV the
horseshoe of tables and everybody seems to be
it's organised chaos'. All
doing everything ...
Mr Jones wants is for it to 'go right, so I can sit
down afterwards and have a butty and a beer,
and go on holiday. No, not to Torquay.'
Back in the south west Rod Tuck is undislocal
puted master of the count, lecturing
government officers from around the country
on 'electoral administration
procedures'. Only
the rules, though. "There are people who are
after me and I'm not going to reveal all my
secrets.' He has a knack of finding fast counters,
all female, as Mr Tuck believes their fingers are
nimbler. One member of his team, a NatWest
cashier called Annie, has clocked up a hundred
fivers in 23 seconds. If there has to be a check or,
heaven forbid, a re-count, Tuck has devised a
system known as 'bundle-flicking'
by which a
sharp-eyed counter flicks the papers like a cardsharp and is said to be able to spot a vote in the
wrong place. One other Torbay electoral advance which has yet to reach the patent office
are the scales which weigh a bundle of papers
with uncanny accuracy. Last time they were
'only 21 votes out'.
Rod Tuck is convinced victory brings material
rewards. He points to a front page piece in the
Rome newspaper La Repubblica after the last
election - collegio di Torbay, la piccola cittadina
meridionale ...
dell'Inghilterra
Yes, but how
many Italians take their holiday on the English
Riviera? Not many. 40
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Fastest in 1983 (times in brackets)
Torbay (23.11)
Guildford (23.25)
Cheltenham (23.27)
Reigate (23.48)
Rotherham (00.02)
Pendle (00.03)
Salford East (00.04)
Wrexham (00.05)
Surrey East (00.06)
Tunbridge Wells (00.06)
Hanging in
the balance
What if there's no outright
winner to the election? A
'hung parliament
could put
a stranglehold
on effective
government.
weighs
up
the
Anthony
options
King
THE QUEEN'S government must be carried on.
Since 18 May there has been no parliament (and
no one has really been entitled to call himself an
MP); but Mrs Thatcher and her colleagues, as a
government, have continued in office.
If they win the election, the same will be true
when the new parliament assembles on 17 June.
Mrs Thatcher will not then be asked to form a
a government,
her government,
government;
exists already. Mrs Thatcher as Prime Minister
would be going into her third term; but this
would in no sense be her third government.
has been in office
The Thatcher Government
continuously since the 1979 election.
however,
Suppose,
that the Tories lose and
that, more to the point,
one of the other parties,
Labour or the Liberal/
SDP Alliance, wins an
Mrs
overall majority.
Thatcher then has, cona choice.
stitutionally,
She can either see the
Queen at once and tender her resignation,
or
she can wait till parliament meets, at which
point she would face
certain
defeat at the
hands of her opponents.
Since such a defeat
would be humiliating and
in
the
since,
interim, she would be accused of clinging to
power - she would probably resign at once. The
last prime minister to stay on to face parliament
under those circumstances
was in the 1860s.
Once the prime minister had resigned, it
would be up to the Queen to decide what to do
next. If Labour had won, there would be no real
choice: she would summon Mr Kinnock and ask
him to form a government.
If, however, the Alliance won, the problem
would, on the face of it, be more complicated:
whom to summon to the Palace, Dr Owen or Mr
Steel? The Liberals and the SDP have said that
an Alliance prime minister would be supplied
by whichever party had the larger number of
seats in an Alliance-controlled
parliament; and
the Queen then might just send for whichever of
the two parties' leaders fitted that description
(Mr Steel if the Liberals had more seats or
Dr Owen if the SDP were the more numerous
partner).
the Queen might decide to be
Alternatively,
more cautious and invite both Davids to attend
at the Palace - simply to make sure that their
pre-election deal still held. The sight of two
party leaders being driven simultaneously
through the gates of Buckingham Palace would
and be unprearouse intense speculation cedented in modem times.
But the real constitutional
problems would
arise if there were a 'hung' parliament, that is if
no single party (or grouping of parties like the
Alliance) had an overall majority. Under those
circumstances
both
Mrs Thatcher and Her
find
might
Majesty
they have to make difficult decisions.
If the Conservatives
had lost their overall
the
Prime
majority,
Minister would have to
decide whether or not
to resign. If the Conservatives had not only
lost their majority but
had also ceased to be
the largest single party,
she would
probably
choose to resign at once
rather than risk defeat
at the hands of the
combined
opposition
Mr Heath was
parties in the new parliament.
in February
1974 for not
widely criticised
accepting the electorate's verdict and standing
down immediately. Instead he tried to do a deal
with Jeremy Thorpe and the Liberals. Only
when that failed did he finally admit defeat and
go the the Palace.
All the same, even if the Conservatives were
no longer the largest party, Mrs Thatcher would
be constitutionally
within her rights to stay in
office for a time, just as Mr Heath was. She could
wait to meet the new parliament,
using the
intervening days to try to come to some kind of
with whichever party or parties
understanding
held the balance of power. It might be politically
unwise, but it would not be improper.
Suppose, on the other hand, that the Conservatives had indeed lost their overall majority
but still remained
the largest party. Then,
Mrs Thatcher
would probably resign if she
thought the opposition parties were definitely
going to unite against her; but, if she thought
she and her colleagues could do a deal with one
or more of the other parties, she would be able to
continue in office for the time being. If such a
deal were struck, which provided the government (or some new coalition
or minority
with an overall parliamentary
government)
majority, that would be the end of the matter.
The Queen would be informed, but not involved.
The Queen, however, might well become
involved
in a different
actively
scenario.
Imagine that, with the Conservatives the largest
party but without a majority, Mrs Thatcher
decided to soldier on, hoping that the opposition
parties would have their own reasons for not
combining against her (because, say, the tensions between Labour and the Alliance were too
great). Imagine then that after a few months she
found her government
constantly being outvoted or, worse, losing an out-and-out no-confidence motion. Would she then be entitled to ask
the Queen for a dissolution of parliament and a
new election? And would the Queen be bound to
grant such a request?
The short answer is: no one knows. It would
very largely depend on the political circumstances. If the opposition parties were clearly
united only for purposes of defeating Mrs
and could agree on
Thatcher's
government,
nothing else, then the Queen would probably
agree, without much argument, to holding a
new election. But, if the opposition parties could
claim that they had come to a
reasonably
and were now in a
working arrangement
with majorposition to form an administration
ity Commons support, then the Queen would be
in a dilemma. Should she follow the advice of
her chief minister? Or should she be guided by
the wishes of the Commons majority?
No one knows what she would do because
there are no British precedents (though there
are a few from the Commonwealth). In practice
she would probably be guided by the Commons
majority: otherwise she could be accused of
having dissolved parliament against the wishes
of the majority. But this is a choice Her Majesty
would certainly prefer not to have to face..
Government
Anthony
King, who is Professor of
will be taking
in
University
of Essex,
part
election night coverage
at the
BBCl's
The House that's
no longer home
From a former prime
minister
to Westminster's
bookie, a record
unofficial
number of MPs have
left the Commons.
John Sergeant
reports
AS MPS LEFT Westminster,
the widest smiles
belonged to those who were not heading for the
hustings, but were - as one of them put it retiring voluntarily. A record number of more
than 80 are definitely leaving. Many others will
only find out when the votes are counted.
The most eminent departing MP is Sir James
Callaghan, not only a former prime minister but
also the only politician this century - perhaps
ever - to have held the other three main offices
of state as well: foreign secretary, chancellor of
the exchequer and home secretary.
Another
who has a significant
historical claim is Sir
Reginald Prentice, the only recent politician to
serve as a minister in both Labour and Conservative governments.
The government is losing two of its members
retirement Sir
through
Attorney-General
Michael Havers and Welsh Secretary Nicholas
Edwards.
It had been thought
that Lord
Hailsham, who is 80 this year, might step down
as Lord Chancellor. But when the Cabinet met
for their last scheduled meeting before the election he gave a succinct reply to the suggestion
that he might be retiring: 'Ha bloody ha!'
The House of Commons still deserves to be
called the best club in London, and there are
plenty of even more exclusive clubs formed from
among its members. Some of these - including
one called the Milk Street Mafia - are shortlived. It was given this name because, in 1974, a
group of influential MPs met at an office in Milk
Street, in the City of London, and decided that
Edward Heath should cease to be leader of the
Conservatives.
Two of those who took part are now leaving
Carrott'sLib,Lab,Tory,m
SDP,Monster Raving
Loony ...
GENERAL
elections
impose a curious set
of ground rules. It's
perfectly all right for
besuited old men to
kiss unknown babies
in supermarkets,
a
practice which in normal times would provoke an arrest, or for
advertisements
to
make claims
which
would otherwise draw
a deluge of complaints
from
conangry
sumers.
But there's
one thing no one can
do during a general
election:
namely,
broadcast
a political
joke. That is until the polling stops, and Jasper
Carrott opens his own ballot box of jokes about
politicians.
His election-night
promise is simple. 'We
will say everything
that people have been
dying to say since the election started. It's like
a dam, waiting for the waters to break.
'Everybody waffles during an election and
tells you what you want to hear. Everybody
denies what they've been doing since they
came to power. There's a lot of humbug, hype
and cant and that's obviously great grist to the
mill for satirists.'
Carrott
to the H.L. Mencken
belongs
the Commons; Edward du Cann, the former
and the witty and colourful
party chairman,
Norman St John-Stevas. The latter would probably like to be remembered for setting up the
system of select committees which monitor each
but his contemporadepartment,
government
ries are as likely to recall his nicknames for Mrs
'the Leaderene'
and 'the Blessed
Thatcher,
Margaret'.
One of those who not only wanted Mr Heath
replaced but who also played a major part in promoting Mrs Thatcher was Sir Keith Joseph,
who is also retiring. The Prime Minister herself
created an unofficial group when
inadvertently
she complained
bitterly about Conservatives
who refused to support her more radical policies. She called them 'wet': they decided to use it
as a term of praise. Two of the most famous,
James Prior and Francis Pym, are leaving.
Some of the groups and clubs within the
Commons have little, if anything, to do with
politics. Roy Mason will be remembered as a
former Labour defence secretary and secretary
of state for Northern Ireland. But his departure
will also be a blow to MPs who are keen on
fishing - because of his previous office, he was
the only one of their number who could count on
the services of a plainclothes policeman at even
the remotest lake.
Another group will miss the chairman of the
Parliamentary Labour Party, Jack Dormand, one
of the small band of Westminster cyclists. His
sturdy machine will stand no longer beside the
more fashionable bikes of some of his colleagues.
It used to be said that all the Liberal MPs could
arrive in a taxi. Not any more. But two who
remember
those days Stephen Ross and
Richard Wainwright - have decided not to stand
the Scottish
again. In the last Parliament
Nationalists could have turned up on a tandem;
half their number, Donald Stewart, is retiring.
The veteran left-wing Labour MP Ian Mikardo
school
of political
thought, which states
that in a democracy
each party sets out to
prove that its rivals
are unfit to govern.
Each one succeeds in
this and each one
is quite correct. 'We
are literally electing
people to oversee the
inevitable,' he says.
Fatalistic stuff from
the man whose jokes
about acne used to fill
an evening, but then
Jasper Carrott is nowadays an avowed nonvoter who uses comedy to prick the national conscience. After his first election special in
1983 he was delighted that complaints came from
right across the political spectrum. 'I was either a
left-wing bed-wetter or a raging Tory. But it
showed I was getting a balance.'
Can we accuse Jasper himself of having a
political axe to grind? 'I don't think I even hold
strong enough views to be in the Monster
Raving Loony Party. I'm very wishy-washy
really. I see all points of all sides of all
arguments and in the end I haven't the faintest
idea of what I believe in.
'People say, "Go on, let them politicians
have it for a bit," and I say, "OK."'
simon wgus
will be missed as Westminster's
unofficial
to give odds on all the
bookie,
ready
important races - from leadership struggles to
by-elections.
It may seem unfair that women MPs are
sometimes seen as a group at Westminster,
when so often they have only their sex in
common. But at least being female increases an
MP's chance of becoming well known. Two
prominent Labour women are standing down Dame Judith Hart, the party's expert on the
Third World, and Renee Short, who was chair of
the all-party select committee on social services.
The business managers, or party whips, have
to keep an eye on all these groups, official and
unofficial. A good 'collection of whips', if that is
the right term, who remember the nightmare
years when the Labour government did not have
an overall majority, are now retiring, among
them former Labour chief whip Michael Cocks.
For Mr Cocks and many other departing MPs
this will not be the end of their careers, nor
perhaps, in some cases, of their Westminster
ambitions. There are still the bright lights of
'the other place', the televised House of Lords.
Many a noble lord is a noble ex-MP, and that
could be a reason for some of those smiles. 0
John Sergeant is a BBC political correspondent who
coverspolitics for BBC1News
MONDAY
BBC
8.10 pm
Panorama
The Party Leaders
As the Election Campaign
draws to a close. Sir Robin
Day talks to the Prime
Minister, The Rt Hon
Margaret Thatcher, about her
bid for a third term at No 10
and about the pledges made
in the Conservative
manifesto.
What is her vision of
Thatcher's Britain?
Editor DAVIDDICKINSON
9.0 A Party Election
Broadcast
by the Labour Party
(Shown again on BBC2 at 10.15 pm)
9.10
News and Election87
Martyn Lewis and
Andrew Harvey present the
latest news from the
campaign trail.
Peter Snow reports on how
the opinion polls reflect the
ups and downs of the
campaign. Plus the national
and international news of
the day.
Regional News
Weather
of the law - each with a
sneaking admiration for the
other, and each determined to
win.
BBC
BBC2
8.10 pm
Horizon
The Riddle of the Joints
In Wells Cathedral there is a
clue to the origin of
rheumatoid arthritis. It is one
tiny piece in the puzzle that
has vexed doctors for 200
years: what causes this
crippling joint disease?
Is it an infection by bacteria
or viruses? Is it stress or diet?
Intense research this century
has answered some of these
questions, only to reveal
more ... Is it inherited? Will
it suddenly disappear as
O'NEAL
The Driver ...........RYAN
rapidly as it appeared?
DERN
.......BRUCE
The Detective
The ultimate cause, and a
ADJANI
isabelle
The Player
cure, remain to be found, but
recent discoveries offer some
The Connection
RONEE BLAKELY
hope for the million Britons
man
Red plain-clothes
who suffer from rheumatoid
MATT CLARK
arthritis.
man
Gold plain-clothes
Narrator Paul Vaughan
FELICE ORLANDI
WALSH
..............JOSEPH
Glasses
AMOS
Teeth.......................RUDY
MACKO
man....DENNY
Exchange
BRUNO
The Kid...............FRANK
Fingers................WILL WALDER
BROWN WYETH
Split SANDY
FrizZV TARAKING
Produced by LAWRENCEGORDON
Written and directed by WALTERHILL
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Film editor HORACIOQUEIRO
Written and produced
by KATHARINEEVERETT
Horizon editor ROBINBRIGHTWELL
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9.0 Father Matthew's
Daughter
A comedy series
by IANDAVIDSON
and PETERVINCENT
starring Ronnie Corbett
with Barbara Lott
and William Moore
2: Dream Time
Anything can happen in a
dream as Timothy finds out.
But can he turn the dream
into reality before Mother
turns it into a nightmare?
Timothy Lumsden
RONNIECORBETT
LOTT
Mrs Lumsden ...BARBARA
MOORE
Mr Lumsden ...WILLIAM
Muriel .MARGUERITE
HARDIMAN
Jennifer..........WENDY ALLNUTT
10.25 Newsnight
with Adam Raphael
The late-night view of the
Written
by TERENCE BRADY
Election campaign with
and CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
coverage, analysis and
starring James Bolam
reaction to this evening's
with Gabrielle Lloyd
major speeches. And tonight
and Ray Winstone
Vincent Hanna reports on the
Body and Soul
and the personalities of
Fr Matthew
JAMESBOLAM style
the campaign so far.
Sharon..........GABRIELLE
LLOYD
Charlie ..............RAYWINSTONE 11.10 Weatherview
Jane...................SUSANNA
PAGE
HURST
Holly.............SAMANTHA
Ros ANN
COOMBS
Mr Parker
...............TIM
BROWN
TV director
.....TERENCE BRADY
Golf commentator
KEN MORGAN
FELLOWS
Polly .........SUSANNAH
Mrs Parker
........MAGGIE GUESS
BARTLETT
Singers.............PETA
MICHAEL PEARN, CHRISTOPHER
KEYTE, VERNON MIDGLEY
Pianist...............BRUCE
OGSTON
Music adviser JOHN MCCARTHY
Designer TIM GLEESON
Produced and directed
by DAVIDASKEY
10.5 Sorry!
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9.30 Moonlighting
11.15
World Cup Rugby
The Quarter-finals
Pool 2 Winner v
Pool 1 Runner-up
from Brisbane
Introduced by STEVERIDER
with CHRISREA
NIGELSTARMER-SMITH
commentates on the last of
the quarter-finals, which
should see at least one team
from the British Isles
endeavouring to reach next
Sunday's semi-final.
Television presentation ABC
Producer CHARLESBALCHIN
Series producer HUWJONES
'Blue Moon Detective Agency.
The big question is about to
11.50
be answered.'
starring Cybill Shepherd
Cricket: First Test
as Maddie Hayes
The Cornhill Insurance
Bruce Willis
Test Series
as David Addison
England v Pakistan
with Allyce Beasley
from Old Trafford
as Ms Dipesto
RICHIEBENAUDintroduces
I am Curious... Maddie
highlights of the fourth
... and so is everyone. It
day's play.
could be heaven and Sam's
band of gold on her finger or
Addison's antics like a
12.20-12.55 am
millstone around her neck.
Tempers and temperatures
On the Hustings
rise as the rivals declare open
Julia Somerville introduces
warfare and Maddie arrives at
some of tonight's key
decision time: will she sleep on
speeches from the Election
it ... and with whom?
trail.
Sam Crawford ....MARKHARMON
Bert Viola ..CURTISARMSTRONG
Writtenby GLENN
GORDON
CARON
and JEFFRENO
Directedby ALLAN
ARKUSH
.....BOGDAN KOMINOWSKI
Sandy
GREEN
Denzil..................TEDDY
Mike ........MICHAEL GREATOREX
Designer CHRISRUGG
Produced and directed
by DAVIDASKEY
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10.35 The Monday
Film:The Driver
starring Ryan O'Neal
Bruce Dem
Isabelle Adjani
Cold, ruthless and
utterly professional this is 'The Driver', the
best getaway man in
the business. Tough,
determined and equally
professional - this is 'The
Detective', determined to get
his man. In this brilliantly
made thriller, Ryan O'Neal
and Bruce Dern play
characters on opposite sides
Vincent Hanna was both a
practising lawyer and a session guitarist before turning to
His guitar-playing
journalism.
is a regular feature of the late
night sing-songs that round oft
party conferences.
Vincent came to England from
Belfast in 1970, working for
the Sunday Times and then
where
he is a
Newsnight,
political reporter and specialist in by-elections
and polling
'I thoroughly
enoperations.
he says,
'I'm a political
joy elections,'
animal.' He and his wife Joan (the eldest
of Lord (Gerry) Fitt) have two
daughter
daughters.
The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher,
is interviewed by Sir Robin Day
BBCI, 8.10 pm Panorama
10.15 A Party Election
Broadcast
(For details see BBC1 at 9.0pm)
MONDAY
10.0 pm Jazz Today
Presented by Charles Fox
Mark Lockheart Quintet
Mark Lockheart (soprano/alto/
baritone saxophones)
John Parricelli (guitar)
Huw Warren (piano/electric
piano/synthesiser)
Alan Scriven (electric bass)
Mark Doffman (drums)
11.0
The Boy from Tacaretnbo ...
"TheBoy from Tacarembo
la Tumbe del Fuego Santa
Malippas Zacatecas la Junta del
Sol y Cruz'
and other cabaret satires
sung
by LOWRIBLAKE
with SUSAN
TOMES
(piano)
including settings by Sally
Groves Of CHRISTOPHER
LOGUE'S
Queenie and Winter Words
(first UK broadcast)
11.20 Mozart and Martinu
NORA CHASTAIN(violin)
and PAUL
coLETTi
(viola)
Mozart Duo in G(K423)
Martinu Three Madrigals
BBC Bristol (R)
11.57-12.0 News
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5.55 am (LW), 1.55 pm (LW),
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6.0 am News Briefing
6.10 Farming Today
An interview
with a prominent
figure in the agricultural
followed
industry,
by a five-day
weather
forecast
for farmers
and growers
Producer TIM FINNEY
6.25 Prayer for the Day
A meditation
With BISHOPJOSEPH DEVINE
BBC Scotland. Stereo
6.30 Today
Presented
by Sue MacGregor
and Peter Hobday
News Summary
6.30,7.30,8.30
6.45* Business
News
With BOBFINIGAN
News
7.0,8.0 Today's
Read by CHARLOTTEGREEN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for
the Day
8.39 The Week on 4
with Peter
Jefferson
8.47
Party Election Broadcast
by the Labour Party
9.0 News
9.5
Election Call: 01-580 4411
Sir Robin Day introduces
your
to the party
questions
votes.
politicians
seeking
your
Lines open from 8.0am
A simultaneous
broadcast
with
BBC1
40FEATURE:page 3
10.0 Money Box
Presented
by Louise Botting
Bewildered
by banks?
Incensed
by insurance?
by mortgages?
Mystified
with shares?
Struggling
The Money Box team is here
to help.
(Broadcast on Saturday at 12 noon)
10.30 Morning Story
Picturegoer and Mrs Barrett
by KEN HOARE
Read by Geoffrey Collins
Producer SHEILAFOX
10.45 Daily Service
from Punshon Memorial
Methodist Church,
Bournemouth
Led by THE REV ERNESTREA
with the choir of the
SCHOOLFORGIRLS
BOURNEMOUTH
Hymns: Prayer of St Francis;
Gracious
Spirit, Holy Ghost
For the
(sop 507); Anthem:
beauty of the earth
Reading (Good News): John 16,
vv 4-11
BBC Bristol
11.0 LW
Tales from Araby
2: Outposts of Diplomacy
In which June Knox-Mawer
collects the real life stories of
Britain
those who represented
in Aden, Iraq and many other
Whether of
desert stations.
playing cricket in Mukulla,
boating on the Tigris or dancing
Point, the British
at Steamer
political or legal officers and
retain vivid and
wives
their
memories.
often touching
Producer JULIANHALE
(Re.broadcast next Sunday)
11.48-12.0 LW
Poetry Please!
Some of the poetry requested
by Radio 4 listeners
by Fleur Adcock
Presented
Readers BARBARAJEFFORD
COLLINS
GEOFFERY
and
producer MARGARETBRADLEY
BBC Bristol. Stereo
Reauests to: Poetry Please!
BBC, BristolBS82LR
11.0-12.0
VHF/FM
For Schools
11.0 Music Makers
5: The Park Keeper
(full performance)
by TEDGLOVER
and PETER HUTCHINGS.Stereo (e)
11.20 Let's Move!
and Robots
5: Machines
Presented
by SHEELAGHGILBEY
Stereo (R) (e)
11.40 The Music Box
and presented
Written
by SANDRA KERR (5)
Stereo (e)
11.50 See for Yourself
Lucky Numbers
by FREDHARRIS(e)
1.30
Party Election Broadcast
by the SDP/Liberal Alliance
(Broadcast last
Friday)
2.0-3.0 LW
Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sarah Dunant
Take millions of bacteria
reproducing every 20 minutes,
place in a warm atmosphere and
allow to simmer. According to
chiropodist Lyn Cheeter that is
one recipe for ensuring a
particularly pungent pair of
pedestrian parts. Smelly feet do you suffer from them?
Andrea Adams offers advice.
Serial: Duplicate Keys
by JANE SMILEY
abridged in 11episodes
byPATMCLOUGHLIN
Read by Shelley Thompson (9)
Editor SANDRACHALMERS
1.55-3.0 VHF/FM
For Schools
1.55 Listening Comer
This week:
Splish,
Splash,
Splosh
Presented by JOEDUNLOP
Storyteller JANEHARDY
Today's story: Jack in a Boat
by DIETERSCHUBERT
Script by JOE DUNLOP
Producer MARYKALEMKERIAN
Stereo (R)
2.5 Playtime
Wet and Dry
Presented
by SANDRAKERR
and BEN THOMAS
Stereo (e)
(Re-broadcast on Friday at
11.20am VHFIFM)
2.20 Introducing Science Extra
Computers at Work
The Work Game
Parts 1 and 2
by JULIANCOLEMAN(R) (e)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind
(Stories)
The Guarded Fleece
A Greek legend retold
by ALARICCOTTER
(R)(e)
3.0 The Afternoon Play
Death's Head Berlin
byjACKGERSON
Stereo
(Broadcast on Saturday
at 7 0pm)
4.30 Kaleidoscope
Women Who Write
Why are 'women writers'
identified by gender while male
authors never are? Feminist or
romantic - what do women
write and how does being
labelled by their sex alter their
ideas? Margaret Walters reports
as the Feminist Book Fortnight
gets under way.
(Broadcastlast Friday)
Editor KEN VASS
Editor DEREKLEWIS
continuedon VHFIFM5.5D-5.55
12.27 pm
Trivia Test Match
6.0 The Six O'Clock News
1.0 The World at One: News
Editor BLAIRTHOMSON
7.5 The Archers
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
I
5.0 PM
Presented by Gordon Clough
and Valerie Singleton
Presented
by Brian Widlake
with news and topics in and
the
headlines
behind
Editor DEREKLEWIS
10.30 The World Tonight
Presented by Richard Kershaw
1.40 The Archers
12.0 You and Yoars
The only national radio
programme for consumers
Presented by Susan Rae
A trivia game based on the rules
of cricket
Umpire Brian Johnston
Team captains
Tim Rice, Willie Rushton
Michael Aspel
Spinners
and Robin Bailey
Statisticians PETERHICKEY
and MALCOLMWILLIAMSON
Groundsman PAULSPENCER.Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6. 30 pm)
7.0 News
With BRIANPERKINS
including Financial Report
6.30 Just a Minute!
Without hesitation, the least
repetitious and most
undeviating programme
on radio
with Kenneth Williams
Peter Jones, Barry Cryer
and Tim Rice
In the thick, the Chair, and
frequent confusion
Nicholas Parsons
DevisedbyLAN
MESSITER
ProducerPETE
ATKIN
Stereo(R)
7.20 Face the Facts
John Waite returns
with
team of investigators.
(Broadcast last Thursday)
his
7.45 S04
(Broadcast Saturday
at 4.30pm L W)
8.15 The Monday Play
Mothers and Shadows
11.0 Election Platform
Extracts from the major
political speeches of the day
from constituencies round
the country
11.20
The Financial World Tonight
Radio 4's international business
report; market trends
by OLWEN WYMARK
adapted from the novel
by MARTATRABA
with Yvonne Bryceland as Irene
and Harriet Walter as Dolores
Argentina - Uruguay - late
1970s:Dolores and Irene have
nothing in common, except that
they live in the land of the
disappeared ones. Their story
reflects the fear and anger
experienced by the thousands of
mothers who live and watch
their loved ones die in this
incomprehensible world of
terror.
11.30 LW
A Green Window
Four country
diary columnists Tad Ellis, Audrey Insch
Maurice
Burton and Colin
Luckhurst talk about their
work.
Compiled by MICHELPETHERAM
Producer ED THOMASON(R)
LW
12.0-12.15*am
News
Victoria CHRISTINE
KAVANAGH followed by an interlude
Christina ...................ANN MORRISH
Luisa
...........................JULIE
BERRY
Enrique ................... ALAN PARNABY
11.30
VHF/FM
Open University
Dolores' mother ......JOAN
CAMPION11.30 The Conquest of Scurvy
other parts played by
11.50 Rome: The Work of
STEPHENTOMPUN,ANNRYE
Agrippa
12.10 am Music Interlude
JONQUILLE CHANTREY
Eduardo
................ROBERT WHELAN
Director.................JON
STRICKLAND
Directed by SUSANHOGG
BBC Manchester
Stereo
(Re-broadcast nert Saturday)
9.45 Kaleidoscope
Paul Vaughan
presents
tonight's
edition, which
includes
and news
interviews,
and reviews of films, books,
music
plays, broadcasting,
and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Editor ANNEWINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
10.15 A Book at Bedtime
The Memoirs
of Mipsie
by MARYDUNN
Read by Margot Boyd (6)
(R)
12.30-1.10am
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Schools Night-time
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Radio History - A-level
Cromwell and the Crown
Narrated by DRJOHN
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'Duringthelastfewdays
of anyParliament
Westminsterbecomes
moreandmorefeverish,
likea fourthform
commonroomat the end
of term,' observes
PoliticalCorrespondent
RodneyFoster.'Afunny
moodovertakesthe place,althoughtheygo throughthe
motionsofdoingbusiness.Butthis has beena sad time
forthe 87 MPswhoare retiringfor good.Theyhaven't
reallymadea bigthingaboutIt.They'vejust cleared
outtheirlockers,said cheerio,andwalkedoutIntothe
real world.'RodneyFosterhas beenreportingfrom
Westminsterfor 23 years - 17of themforthe BBC andthis Is his seventhelection.'Theybecomeslicker
andglossierand morePresidentialeach time,because
of television,'he comments.'It's a jamboreebutthe
excitementResinwhatthe bananaskinswillbe
and who'llscore an owngoal.'
THURSDAY
BBC 1
BBC
BBCg^
10.0 pm
Jasper Carrott's
ElectionConfidential
10.0 pm-4.0 am
Election87
David Dimbleby presents
BBCtv's live coverage of the
night which decides who will
govern the country. In the
studio Peter Snow surveys
the BBC Battleground - the
key marginals where the
election will be won and lost.
Sir Robin Day talks to the
leading politicians as their
future unfolds through the
night. BBC Political Editor
John Cole, Anthony King and
Ivor Crewe assess the results
and explain why the country
has voted the way it has.
BBC reporters are at party
headquarters, with the
leaders, and at all the most
important counts including:
John Simpson with The Rt
Hon Margaret Thatcher
Vincent Hanna with The Rt
Hon Neil Kinnock
Richard Lindley with The Rt
Hon David Steel
David Davies with The Rt
Hon David Owen
Esther Rantzen is at No 10
Downing Street and
Julia Somerville is at
Westminster
Election Night Timetable
10.0 BBC/Gallup forecast of
the result.
10.15 News with Martyn
Lewis.
10.30 The race for the first
result.
11.0 The first results come in.
12.0 The 'rush hour' begins over 350 results expected,
including the party leaders.
2.0-4.0 Another 150 results one of them could give one
party an overall majority.
Director CHRISFOX
Deputy editor TIM GARDAM
Editor RICHARDTATT
0 FEATURE: page 3 and
WODDISON: page 81
4.0-5.40 RoyalFlash
(For film details see page 67)
2
Live from the
Television Centre
Written by JASPER CARROTT
BARRYCRYER.KIM FULLER
JOHN LANGDON.STEVEPUNT
NICKREVELL,LAURIEROWLEY
NEILSHAND.JOHNNYSPEIGHT
Sound ADRIANBISHOPLAGGETT
Lighting WARWICKFIELDING
Designer ROGERHARRIS
Director GEOFF MILES
Producer BILL WILSON
0 FEATURE:
the results of a specially
JUST after 10.0 pm, the BBC will announce
Election Day poll from Gallup - the most reliable possible
commissioned
of the final result.
And that's just the beginning ...
as PETER
prediction
SNOW writes.
with our forecast
of the result this time as
'I hope we will be as accurate
We'll
we were in 1983: we were just one seat out then in our first prediction.
the first results when they come at around 11.10 pm with more
be watching
care than ever.
seat of TOR BAY won the race to declare first last time
'The Conservative
and may well do so again. If the Alliance win Torbay watch for a substantial
it's their 57th best chance.
Alliance breakthrough:
back hard there last
But if the Labour vote at Torbay, which was squeezed
Richard Holme
time, recovers sharply this year, and if the Liberal challenger
a few minutes
for a two-party
fails to take CH ELTENH AM
later, look mainly
Labour and the Conservatives.
contest between
'All the attention
then will be on BASI LDON in Essex, which lies 14th
in
will be home: but if Labour
Labour's target list. If Labour loses, Mrs Thatcher
that
gains Basildon with a majority of over 5,000 watch for a cliffhanger
could last well into tomorrow.
will be the early result in PEN DLE in
'The next most valuable signpost
the winner of the two-party
here could well be the
Lancashire:
struggle
winner of the 1987 Election.'
page
11
The confidential Jasper
10.30-5.5 am
VideoJukebox
Plus the latest Election 87
results on screen
An Omnibus history of rock
videos presented by John
Peel and John Walters. The
roots of rock video from 30s
animations, 40s jazz soundies,
rock 'n' roll films of the 50s
and the scopitones of the 60s.
Including:
10.55* The Beatles films
11.25* The Rolling Stones
promos
12.0* David Bowie talks of his
videos
12.35* Ultravox, Duran Duran
1.10* Madness
1.40* Annabel Jankel and
Rocky Morton with animated
videos.
2.15* David Byrne's Talking
Heads
2.45* Toni Basil and John
Landis with dance videos
including Michael Jackson's
Thriller
3.0* Kevin Godley and
Lol Creme
3.20* Banned and political
videos
3.50* Videos as commercials,
with Malcolm McLaren and
Paul Morley
4.10* Tim Pope's videos for
The Cure
4.30* Videos and film with
Julien Temple and
Ken Russell
4.50* Parody videos
The most lavish pop show ever (SUN)
Smart perspective... sceptical and
amused
(VILLAGEVOICE)
Studio director KEVINLOADER
Producer JOHN ARCHER(R)
THURSDAY
2
7.0 Wally Whyton
Club
introduces
Country
Connie Smith and
featuring
Leon Everette
in concert at the
1987 Silk Cut Festival
Producer COLINCHANDLER
9.0 Hit it Boys!
VHF/FM Stereo between
10.0 pm and 12 midnight
News on the half hour from
6.30 am until 8.30 pm,
then 10.0 and 12 midnight
5.30 am Simon Mayo
7.0 Mike Smith's
Breakfast Show
9.30 Simon Bates
12.30 pmNewsbeat
with Steve Annett
12.45 Gary Davies
3.0 Steve Wright
5.30 Newsbeat
with Steve Annett
VHF/FM Stereo except between
10.0 pm and 12 midnight
News on the hour
Headlines
5.30am, 6.30, 7.30,8.30
7.0 am, 8.0,
Major Bulletins
1.0 pm, 5.0 and 12 midnight
Sports Desks 6.31 am, 7.31, 8.31,
12.2 pm, 1.5,2.2,3.2,4.2,5.5,6.2,
6.45 (MW), 9.55
8.50* am
Sports Round-up
Cricket Scoreboard
7.30 pm
4.0 am Colin Berry
The Early Show
5.30 Ray Moore
7.30 Derek Jameson
9.30 Ken Bruce
11.00 Jimmy Young
5.45 Bruno Brookes
plus food information
from Tony de Angeli
7.30 Janice Long
1.5pm David Jacobs
9.0 The Island Records Story
2.5 Gloria Hunniford
6: A Pressing Decision
Narrated
by Pete Drummond
Researched, written and produced
by JEFF GRIFFIN
(In association with Island Records)
(Broadcast on Saturday at 2. Opm)
10.0.12.0 Andy Kershaw
3.30 Adrian Love
5.5 John Dunn
including
at 6.45 on MWonly
Sport and Classified Results
This week Ricky Skaggs looks
on
at the European
influence
music
American
country
featuring
Cajun and
Tex-Mex.
Producer NICKBARRACLOUGH
BBC Manchester
9.55 Sports Desk
Radio 1
10.0 VHF/FM joins
10.0 The News Huddlines
Live Election Special
Howerd
Frankie
starring
with Susie Blake
Nick Maloney and Phil Nice
Written by DAVIDBOND.
PAULHAWKSBEE.STUARTSILVER
and JOHN WALKER
Producer RON MCDONNELL
BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
11.0 Jimmy Young's
Election Night Special 87
2.30*-5.30 Patrick Lant
BrianCurtois,ChiefPolitical
of the BBC,
Correspondent
willbe withJimmyYoung
throughoutelectionnight.
'Forpoliticalcorrespondents,
just as for politicians,
electionnightis the climax
ofthree and a halfweeksof
longbutenjoyableslog; he
we get time
says. 'Officially,
offduringthe dayto
recover,but I shallspendit
fillingmyheadwithas many
facts as possible.I'm
lookingforward todoing
Jimmy'sprogrammelive,
becausethe adrenalinreally
flows.It's muchmore
excitingthan havingyour
recordedvoiceincorporated
intothe news.Wehopeto
providea breakdownof
resultsfor peoplewhodon't
wantto listento election
news every
minute of the
evening.'
ALEXANDERALEXEEV:records
9.0 World Service News
9.10 This Week's Composer
Offenbach
Overture: Orpheus in the
Underworld
Ba-ta-clan, chinoiserie musicale
in one act
Libretto by LUDOVIC
HALÉVY
Fe-an-nich-ton
HUGUETTEBOULANGEOT (Soprano)
Ke-ki-ka-ko
RAYMONDAMADE(tenor)
Fe-ni-han, King of Che-i-no-or
REMY
CORAZZA
(tenor)
Ko-ko-ri-ko,Captain of the
Guards ...RENÉ
TERRASSON
(bass)
PHILIPPECAILLARDCHORALE
JEAN.FRANCOISPAILLARDORCHESTRA/
MARCELCOURAUD:records
MEUSSAPHELPS(Cello)
Jimmy Young with Brian
Curtois brings you the election
results, the significant
with
interviews
declarations,
the candidates,
plus music.
Chief researcher MIKERHODES
Producers JOHN GURNETT
and SANDRABLACK
0 FEATURE: page 3 and
WODDIS ON: page 81
12.0 VHF/FM rejoins Radio 2
JimmyYoungwillbe on
Radio2 from11.0pmtonight
and from11.0amtomorrow
withMsusualmixof music
and discussionplus,of
course,all the election
resultsas theycomein. 'I
callit informationservedup
ina digestibleform,'says
Jimmy. It'smyviewthat
the ordinarypersonIs
extremelyinterestedIn
whars goingonaround
thembuttheydon'twant
wadgesof boringspeech.
Theywantdown-to-earth
conversation.I don'ttackle
differentissues butI liketo
thinkI approachthemina
morehumanway.I'veheard
it said that myprogramme
can be verydangerousfrom
a politician'spointof view,
becausethe atmosphere's
so relaxedthai theyfind
themselvessayingthings
they shouldn't!'
8.35*Arensky Suite: Egyptian
nights: USSR
rso/
10.0 Schumann and Martinu
10.30
Frankie Howard's Forum
music with more
results.
STEPHENBISHOPKOVACEVICH
BBC SO/SIRCOLINDAVIS
8.25* Sibelius The origin of fire
SAUU TIILlKAINEN(baritone)
LAULUNYSTAVATMALECHOIR
GOTHENBURGSO/NEEMEJAR VI
VONKARAJAN
PWLHARMONIA/HERBERT
As the count begins Roy Hudd,
and Chris
Alison Steadman
crack open their own
Emmett
ballot box to release all the
election
stories and the scandal.
Music from THE HUDDLINERS
Written by NICKREVELL.
ANDYHAMILTON.PETER HICKEY,
TONYHARE.ALANWHITING,
LAURIEROWLEY.LESPETERSROWLEY.
MALCOLMWILLIAMSON,MARTIN
BOOTH.STUARTSILVERand others
Songs by RICHARDQUICK
and JEREMYBROWNE
Producer MARKROBSON
presents
election
8.5 Stravinsky Concerto for
piano and wind
of the
-
JOHN
YORK
(piano)
Schumann Funf Stiicke im
Volkston, Op 102
Martinu Sonata No 3 (R)
10.40 Six Continents
(Broadcast yesterday at 8.25pm)
11.0 Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 2, in Bflat
MARTHAARGERICH
ITALIANSWISSRADIOSYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
conducted
by MARCANDREAE
(Swiss Radio recording)
11.35 Roth Quartet
Elizabeth Maconchy Quartetto
corto
Haydn Quartet in G,Op 77No 1
BBCWales(R)
12.10 pm Britten and Mahler
BBC WELSHSYMPHONYORCHESTRA
leader BARRYHASKEY
conducted
by JACEKKASPRZYK
PENELOPEWALKER(contralto)
Britten
Four Sea Interludes
(Peter Grimes)
Mahler Kindertotenlieder
BBC Wales
1.0 News
and drama
where
Music programmes
are in stereo except
indicated
News 7.0 am, 8.0, 1.0 pm, 6.55
and 11.57
World Service News 9.0 am
and 5.0 pm
6.35-6.55 am VHF/FM
Open University
Maths Foundation Tutorial
6.55 Weather
7.0 News
7.5 Morning Concert
Gounod Ballet music (Faust)
BAVARIANRSO/SIRCOLINDAVIS
7.22*Debussy Trois ballades
de Francois Villon
SOUZAY
GÉRARD
(baritone)
DALTONBALDWIN(piano)
7.33*Granados El pelele
(Goyescas)
ALICIADE LARROCHA(piano)
7.37*Vaughan Williams
Symphonic impression:
In the Fen Country
LPO/BRYDENTHOMSON
8.0 News
1.5
Manchester Summer Recital
First of eight concerts
direct
from Studio 7, Manchester
John Ogdon (piano)
in F minor,
Chopin Fantasy
Op 49
Alkan Fantasy
in A flat, Op 76
No 1. for the left hand;
alia
barbaresca
Allegretto
in F sharp minor, Op 39 No 10
Waltz No 1
Liszt Mephisto
Series producer PAULHINDMARSH
(Ticket information from BBC
Concerts Promotion, PO Box 27,
Manchester M60 ISJ)
BBC Manchester
2.0 Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra
leader
MALCOLMSTEWART
conducted by Libor Pesek
Silvia Marcovici (violin)
Smetana Overture:
The Bartered Bride
Mozart Violin Concerto No 1,
in Bflat (K207)
2.30*Interval Reading
2.35*Suk
Symphony in c minor (Asrael)
BBCManchester(R)
3.45 Piano Duets by
Manchester Composers
played by JOHNwilson
and KEITH
SWALLOW
Thomas B. Pitfleld Dance suite:
Minors
Alan Rawsthorne Suite:
The creel
Norman Cocker Piano Duets,Op 5
(first broadcast performance)
BBCManchester
4.15 Bach Cantatas
Cantata No 71:
Gott ist mein Konig
Cantata No 74:Wer mich liebet,
der wird mein Wort halten
KWELLA
PATRIZIA
(soprano)
TIMOTHY
wilson (counter-tenor)
WYNFORD
EVANS
(tenor)
RICHARD
JACKSON
(baritone)
JOHN
CONSTABLE
(organ)
LONDONBACHSOCIETYCHOIR
STEINITZBACHPLAYERS
leader SIMON
STANDAGE
conductor PAUL STEINITZ
5.0 World Service News
5.10 Mainly for Pleasure
Presented by Andrew Keener
Producer HUGHWARWICK
6.25 Bandstand
DESFORD COLLIERY DOWTY BAND
conductor
HOWARDSNELL
Wilfred Heaton Partita
BBC Pebble Mill (R)
6.55 News
7.0 A Spark to Fire the Engine
Second of three programmes
re-examining the Marshall Plan
Presented by John Major,
University of Hull
Other contributors include
Werner Abs, Lord Franks,
Milton Katz, Giovanni
Malogodi, Robert Marjolin,
Lord Roll and Dirk Spierenburg
Producer ANTHONYMONCRIEFF(R)
(Last programme next Friday)
7.30 Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra
conducted by Kurt Masur
Oleg Kagan (violin)
Natalia Gutman (cello)
Brahms Concerto in Aminor,
for violin, cello, and orchestra
8.5* Interval Reading
8.10* Bruckner
Symphony No 7. in Emajor
the
(AustrianRadiorecording from
1986SalzburgFestival)
9.20 Book, Music and Lyrics
First Impressions
Robert Cushman presents the
ninth of 12personal views of
musicals, with songs from
original-cast recordings.
Producer JONATHANJAMES MOORE
(Tenth programme next Wednesday)
10.5 Music in Our Time
Three VienneseDancers
Gavin Bryars introduces the
music from his recent album.
Prologue; String Quartet No 1
(Between the National and the
Bristol); First Viennese Dance
(M.H.);Epilogue
PASCALPONGY(hom)
CHARLESFULBROOK(percussion)
THE COMPOSER(percussion)
ARDITTISTRINGQUARTET:records
11.5 Mozart
Divertimento in Eflat (K563)
GIDONKREMER(violin)
KM KASHKASHIAN(viola)
YO yo ma (cello): record
11.57 News
12.0-4.0* am Election 87
As the results of the General
Election begin to arrive, Radio 3
remains on the air with music,
interrupted by election news
every half-hour.
Presented by Peter Barker
0 FEATURE: page 3 and
WODDIS ON: page 81
THURSDAY
9.5-10.45 VHF/FM
For Schools
9.5 Preview
9.8 Together:
for Schools
An Assembly
(3)
The School Journey
by PEGGYHEWITT(e)
are in mono
Programmes
except where indicated
For news, weather
and shipping
forecast
details see Monday
6.0 am News Briefing
6.10 Farming Today
food and countryside
Farming,
news, market
trends, weather
6.25 Prayer for the Day
With BISHOPJOSEPH DEVINE
Stereo
6.30 Today
Presented
by Peter Hobday
and John Humphrys
News Summary
6.30,7.30,8.30
6.45* Business
News
With PETER DAY
News
7.0,8.0 Today's
Read by PAUUNE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for
the Day
9.0 News
9.5 LW
Face the Facts
John Waite and his team tackle
another
case from their postbag
of your complaints
about
and
injustice,
sharp practice
the abuse of power.
Producer GRAHAMELLIS
Editor KEN VASS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
If you have any information about
major abuses, write to: Face the Facts
BBC. London WIA 4 WW
9.30
LW
The Natural
History Programme
It's dawn on the Masai Mara
game reserve. Fergus Keeling
sets off in a Land Rover in
search of Kenya's
rarest
the African
large predator hunting
dog.
Producer MILESBARTON
BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
10.0 L W
A series of six programmes
4:LillieLangtry
she has no
I resent Mrs Langtry,
daring and
right to be intelligent,
as well as lovely. It
independent
is a frightening
combination
of
attributes.
(BERNARDSHAW)
Adored by Oscar Wilde, painted
of
by Millais and the mistress
the Prince of Wales, she was one
of the most famous women of
her generation.
In her attitudes
clothes
to social conventions,
and sex she was a creator and
As
her
setter of fashions.
granddaughter
Mary Malcolm says:
of
'She was a woman in advance
she was no
her time. Although
male-dominated
in
a
suffragette,
society she stood for the right of
women to lead an independent,
life.'
unshackled
Presented
by Hugh Sykes
Researcher MIKEWOOLF
Producer GAYNORSHUTTE(R)
10.30-10.45 LW
Morning Story
Brightday
by FRANKDUNNE
Read by Kevin Flood
Producer CHRIS SPURR
BBC Northern Ireland
English
9.30 Secondary
The Poet Speaks: Mick Gowar
Stereo (e)
9.55 First Steps in Drama
Octawa! A North American
Indian Adventure
by JANET YOUNG
3: Storytelling
ALANPARNABY
Storyteller
Stereo (R) (e)
10.15
to Think About
Something
Bank Holiday Monday
HENDERSON
(e)
by KATHY
Dancing Stage 2
10.25 Country
by JOHN TETHER(16)
Introduced
(R)(e)
10.45 An Act of Worship
from Broadcasting
Introduced
House, London. Stereo
11.0 LW
Analysis
(Broadcast yesterday at 8.15 pm)
11.48-12.0 L W
Tales of the Loch
talks of fishing,
Bruce Sandison
wildlife and history with
Lowell
Christopher
3: The Isle of Skye
crystal lochs
Great mountains,
and ancient monsters
on
BBC
Radio
(First broadcast
Scotland)
11.0-12.0 VHF/FM
For Schools
ll.ONoticeboard
NICKBAKERwith news of School
Radio's secondary
programmes
(e)
11.5 In the News
Presented
by FRANKPARTRIDGE(e)
Letters and tapes should be sent to:
News,
BBC
School Radio,
the
In
London WIA 4WW
machine
01-636
8226
Message
11.30 Wavelength
an open discussion
Free for All between groups of students
in
who've been involved
this year
Wavelength
MURIEL
GRAY
by
Presented
Stereo (e)
2.0-3.0 L W
Woman's Hour
Introduced
by Sue MacGregor
New Zealand was the first
in the world to give
country
women the vote. It was also the
first to have a woman MP. Now
to
it is one of the few countries
have a Ministry
for Women's
Affairs. Jenny Cuffe reports on
the state of the women's
movement
in New Zealand.
Serial: No More than Human
MAURA
LAVERTY,
abridged
by
in 12 episodes by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by Maureen
O'Brien (1)
Delia Scully is 17) when she
arrives in Madrid on a
November
in 1924.
morning
She is travelling
a well-trodden
for
Irish
convent
path
girls
of that time.
(Music: Torroba's Dialogos for guitar
and orchestra)
1.55-3.0 VHF/FM
For Schools
1.55 Listening
Corner
Today's story: P. B. Takes a
Holiday by GERALDROSE. Stereo (R)
2.5 The Song Tree
The Instant Music Grow-bag (6)
Presented
by HILARYJAMES and
SIMONMAYORwith PYEWACKETT
Written by BARRY
GIBSON
Stereo (e)
2.20 Living Language
The Wanderer (5)
A retelling
of the Odyssey by
LEONGARFIELDwith NICKYHENSON
as Odysseus.
Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Make Up Your Mind
This week: Life Before Birth
Are we tampering
too much?
Presented
by MARGARETPERCY
Stereo (e)
To take part in the poll, write for the
broadcast notes, sending sae to: Make
Up Your Mind, BBC School Radio,
London WIA 4WW.
7.20 Any Answers?
9.0 Does He Take Sugar?
Introduced
by John Timpson
Producer CAROLESTONE
BBCBristol
for disabled
A magazine
listeners
and their families.
Presented
by Kati Whitaker
Producer MARLENE PEASE
Phone 01-927 4909. Lines open from
10.0 am to 5. 0 pm, Monday to Friday
7.40 The Arab World
An eight-part
series presented
by the BBC Middle East
Gerald Butt
Correspondent
2: The Power of Islam
While there are Arab Christians
and Arab Jews, the vast
of Arabs are Muslims.
majority
fastestIslam, the world's
growing religion, directs daily
life in the Arab world in ways
far removed
from the images of
terror and
revolution,
holy wars.
What is the real influence
of
Islam on the day-to-day
life of
ordinary
Arabs, how significant
is the fundamentalist
movement
and how does
life in
religion affect political
various Arab countries?
Producer ALANWILDING(e)
8.10 Profile
A personal portrait in
conversation and anecdote
8.30 What Will the Dance Do?
We don't want tu lose yuu
But we think you ought to go...
The 'war
to end war' began
with
patriotic
appeals and jingoistic
songs, and ended with promises
of jobs for all the heroes. In this
evocation
of the Great War there
are songs from JOHN MCCORMACK,
EDNATHORNTON,ARTHURFIELDSand
MORTONHARVEY,and poetry by
WILFREDOWENand SIEGFRIED
SASSOON.With GARARDGREEN
MARILYNLE CONTEand JOHN PRIOR
Producer HERBERTWILLIAMS
BBC Wales. Stereo
9.30 Kaleidoscope
Presented by Nigel Andrews
Producer MIKEGREENWOOD
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
10.0-4.0* am Election 87
Presented
by Brian Redhead
and Susannah
Simons
As the polls close, Radio 4 brings
you the fastest and fullest
results service your result and
what it means. There will be
more overnight
declarations
than ever before and Election 87
will aim to give you most of
them. We'll go live to the most
and interesting
important
declarations
and there'll also be
live interviews
with the four
Leaders
and the other
Party
major political figures.
Expert
discussion
and opinion
will be
led by Dr David Butler of
Nuffield College, Oxford, and
BBC Political
correspondent
Peter Hill; and there'll
be a host
of other guests to help Brian and
Susannah
make it a fast, furious
and, above all, informative
programme.
Studio director susan Bonn kr
Producers JIM GRAY
SESI MCCOMBIE,
AMANDAASHTON
Editor FRANCISHALEWOOD
* FEATURE:paye 3and
WODDIS ON: paye 81
including at
12 midnight
News
(VHFIFM only from 12.33-12.43* am)
3.0 The Afternoon Play
Into Injury Time
by DAVIDREID
with Gareth Armstrong
and Jane Knowles
as Keith and Janet Turner
Professional
football teams buy
star players to enhance
the
quality of their squad; the Head
of the PE Department
at
School
Rokesly Grammar
wonders
if he can do the same.
Mr Pike ...................CARARD GREEN
Mr Daniels .................GORDON REID
Mr Gibbard..........MANNING WILSON
Elaine Burkett........NATASHA PYNE
Les Jefferies
..GEOFFREYMATTHEWS
Mr Meadows
.....FRANK SINGUINEAU
Byron Meadows..........OKON JONES
Akashoda...............DAVID LEARNER
.........FRANCIS MIDDLEDITCH
Billings
1.40 The Archers
If tremendouslyexciting
SusannahSimons,the other
to knowyou're inthe midst
co-presenter,says that for
of what'shappening.In that her,personally,it willbe a
sense journalismis the first baptismof fire.Although
she has beenin and around
attemptat writinghistory,'
Brierly ..................ANDREW BRANCH
radiofor 18 years,she has
says BrianRedhead,who
Cottell ............STEPHEN RASHBROOK
neverbeforehosteda live
co-presentsRadio4's
Craddock
................ JAMIE ROBERTS
Directed by GRAHAMGAULD(R)
resultsprogramme.Hesays electionresultprogramme.
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'Butthen I willhave
4.0 News
listenersbangupto date
absorbeda terrifying
4.5 Bookshelf
withresultsas they come
amountof detailabout
with Susan Hill
Producer MGEL ACHESON
in, as wellas linkup with personalities,constituencies
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
and linktogether -key
and Issues,so I'll be In a
!
4.35 Kaleidoscope
all
over
Britain.
to
add
to
politicians
Information
positon
(Revised broadcast of yesterday's
programme at 9. 45 pm)
There are lots of thingswe as It comesin.If people
can do that televisioncan't, stay upthat late to listen,
5.0 PM
Presented by Robert Williams
I'll neverforgeta remarkable theywantto be informed
and Phil Longman
four-wayconversationwhich aboutwhat's happeningas
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
tookplaceon air last time
interestinglyand
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6.0 The Six O'Ciock News
betweenDavidOwen,Roy
I
entertaininglyas
With CHARLOTTEGREEN
including Financial Report
Jenkins,ShirleyWillamsand possible.Ofcourse,Brian
BillRodgers,all indifferent has done hundredsof
6.30 Brain of Britain 1987
Stereo
electionsbefore,so I will
places,whenthe last two
(Broadcast on Tuesday at 12.27pm)
had just losttheir seats. It
be gladthat
7.0 News
waslikeeavesdroppingon
he'llbe by
privategrief.'
my side.'
7.5 The Archers
(Broadcast yesterday at 7.5 pm)
(Re-broadcast tomoirow at 1.40pm)
12.0 You and Yours
Presented
by John Howard
For details of this week's
programmes, write for
Fact Sheet No 23 to:
You and Yours, BBC,
London W1A4WW
please enclose sae
12.27 pm
Frank Muir Goes Into ...
Hate
I never hated a man enough to
back.
give him his diamonds
(ZSA ZSA GABOR)
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks
the cumic
skip through
of the subject, making
literature
notes in the margin of jokes,
clippings
quotes, newspaper
humour
from
and recorded
WOODYALLEN.LILY l'OMLIN
TOMLEHRER.TERRYJONES
MICHAELFLANDERSand
DONALDSWANN.PETER COOK
and DUDLEYMOOHE
Compiled and wntten
by SIMONBRETT
Producer RICHARDEDIS. Stereo
(Broadcast yesterday at 6.30pm)
1.0 The World at One: News
Presented
by Brian Widlake
with news and topics in and
behind the headlines
FRIDAY
BBC1
6.0 Election87Breakfast Special
Presented by Frank Bough
Sally Magnusson
and Jeremy Paxman
with Peter Snow
and James Cox
As the counting continues,
wake up to the latest on how
the parties' votes piled up
through the night.
Reports from the parties
at
headquarters, live cameras of
the leaders' homes, a panel
leading politicians in the
election studio, and OB units
for
spread around the country
public reaction.
The news from your region at
6.45, 7.45 and 8.50
9.0 News and Weather
9.5 Election87 Dimbleby
4.0 am Royal Flash
starring
Malcolm McDowell
as Harry Flashman
Alan Bates
as Rudi von Stamberg
Florinda Bolkan
as Lola Montez
uuver Reed
as Otto von Bismarck
Britt Ekland as Duchess Irma
Tom Bell as De Gautet
Joss Ackland as Sapten
Lionel Jeffries as Kraftstein
Alastair Sim as Mr Greig
Michael Hordern
as Headmaster
Christopher Cazenove
as Eric Hansen
Escaping from a police raid on
a brothel, Harry Flashman
encounters the adventuress
Lola Montez and finds himself
a pawn in Otto von Bismarck s
plan to unite Germany.
Screenplay by GEORGEMACDONALD
FRASER based on his own novel
Produced by
DAVIDV. PICKER. DENISO'DELL
Directed by RICHARDLESTER
5.40
ThePinkPantherShow
ree cariuuus
Three
cartoons (It)
(R)
Presented by David
with Peter Snow
and Sir Robin Day Parliament
What will the new
mean for all of us? Results
and
continue as politicians
voters give their reaction.
including at
10.0, 11.0 and 12.0
News and Weather
and at 12.40
and Weather
Regional News
1.0 OneO'ClockNews
with Martyn Lewis
FISH
Weather MICHAEL
1.30-4.0 Election87
presented by David Dimbleby
with Peter Snow
and Sir Robin Day
The final shape of the next
parliament becomes clear as
the votes are counted in
Northern Ireland.
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agree
trying to
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reading
in many ways.
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with KERRY SHALE
and MARCIA TUCKER
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rights of those who love, even
need them, and those who
suffer some of the unpleasant
consequences?
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before her birthday tea.
Song: 'Tinga layo'.
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A See-Saw programme
by DAVIDMCKEE
King Rollo chooses the wrong
time to read his comic.
Narration Ray Brooks
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of
attention,
abrupt
Proctor.
resignation
And
the
following
of Harvey
neighbouring
Basildon
will be aiming
high in
the publicity
stakes by being the
in the country
first constituency
Simon
to declare.
News editor
Ellis says, 'I think it goes without saying we shall be in for a
being a day spent at the House
of Commons.
But for those with an ear only
for the more
serious
side of
there will be an endless
things,
stream of vital information.
All but the Saffron
Walden
results
will
be declared
on
and particular
Thursday
night
interest
will be focused
on the
Countingon you
STAFF
Local
should
hearsed
AT THE BBC's
Radio
stations
be
rewell
for the General
Election following their recent
'warm-up' exercise with the local
government elections in May.
Reporters will be present at
the counts, capturing all the
tension and excitement as the
candidates wait to see who will
be taking their seats in the next
Parliament.
BBC Essex will have a big
7.5 am
Breakfast
ESSEX
5.0-7.0 Top 40 as Radio1
WEEKDAYS
in Beds
With JOHN TERRETT
6.5 am Breakfast
9.5 Gavin McCoy
in Beds
SATURDAY
7.0 am Dave Monk
5.0 Three Counties Folk
8.5-9.0 Yaadein
6.0-6.30
Prepared
Tuesday
7.30 Country Seen (R)
for the Worst
6.35 am
Farming Focus (R)
7.0 Melting Pot
9.5 Gillham Gold
11.5 Summer Star Time
1.5 pm Three Counties Week
Wednesday
7.30 Music Score 87 (R)
8.5 Asian Voice
9.0-10.0 Smit' Petite
and the Karachi Kid
Thursday
7.30 Prepared
for the Worst
With MIKEFOWLER
1.35 Music Score 87
Round 11:
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V CASTLECEMENTCO
2.5 Sunday Line
4.0
TABS
arts magazine
8.5 Ezeke!
10.0-3.0 am
Election Special 87
LONDON
SATURDAY
7.32 am Good Fishing
8.4 Jeff Young
3.0 The Way It Was (R)
Tuesday-Friday
2.0 pm Timbo
3.30 The Great Composers
6.0 The Growth Business
10.4 Laycock's 'Alf Hour
1.0 Mike Sparrow
5.30 Revolver
Issues that affect young people
Monday-Friday
5.0 Julia Booth
A round-up of the day's news
6.30 Guideline
8.0-10.0 Adrian Seek
and the BBC Essex Advice Line
Monday
7.0 Jazz First
7.30 Close Encounter (R)
With LIZ MULLEN
8.0 Hold the Front Page
8.5-9.30 Mondo Italiano
SUNDAY
to get back into parliahoping
ment. The Alliance
is also hoping to do well at St Albans where
it's
the
in
ruling
party
Monday
2.0 pm Jules Bellerby
2.0 pm Jules Bellerby
with the BBCEssex gardener.
plus hourly cricket reports
Masters
WEEKDAYS
a
there's
Shirley
Williams,
Labour
and the
strong
council,
Alliance
will no doubt be hoping
to make major inroads
into the
present
majority.
Meanwhile
at Milton Keynes
Williams's
Shirley
Gang of Four
SDP founder,
is
Bill Rodgers,
12.4 pm Big City
4.30 Back Home
with golf: The Dunhill
at Woburn
as Radio 1 (page 34)
a particularly
watchful
keeping
of seats.
Both
eye on a couple
Luton
South
and
Stevenage
have been targeted
by Labour
and the Alliance.
At Stevenage,
once the seat of
12.0 Mark Thomas
looks at life in Essex
ESSEX V KENT
Monday
7.30
Three Counties Week (R)
7.0-12.0
be covering
on the periphunder Conservacurrently
control.
So
what
will
happen on Thursday?
the station
will be
Although
all the results, it will be
covering
ery tive
9.0 Graham Pass
2.5 pm Chris Whitehead
1.35 Farming Focus
2.0 Saturday Line
5.0 Sunday Sport
will
12.0 Nick Atkins
with the Radio Sports
and Leisure Centre
including cricket coverage
1.5 Country Seen
11.5 GMT
With GARYAUGUST
Friday morning.'
The
of
the
Radio
map
Bedfordshire
area looks, on the
a tranquil
with
surface,
blue,
in
each of the 12 constituencies
the area plus four the station
6.0 am Alex Lester
9.5 Gavin McCoy
With DENNISFURNELL
successes
the recent
following
in the
by Alliance
candidates
borough council elections.
will be a focal point
Billericay
rest
but we won't
night,
the final result comes in on
9.0Timbo
12.5 pm
My Kind of Country
With PAULDAVIS
at two other
atmosphere
and
Basildon
marginals,
and
at
Labour-held
Harlow,
Thurrock
where
the defending
candidates
of
have
majorities
less than 2,000.
Trade
and Industry
Minister
Paul
will
also
be
Channon
Alliance
a
facing
powerful
West
in
Southend
challenge
pitch
Tory
4.30 Essex USA
IBEDFORDSHIRE
SATURDAY
workload, covering no fewer
than 16 constituencies. Their
Election Special, which gets
underway at 11.0pm, will have a
special showbiz flavour. Cohosts Stephanie Macnair and
programme organiser Keith
Roberts are planning to create a
lively atmosphere by seeking
the political views of an assembly of stars from the entertainment world. There will even be a
political phone-in competition
for listeners, with the first prize
Chelmsford
marginal
seat,
where the Tory candidate
Simon
Bums will be defending
a knifeof 378 previously
edge majority
held by former
Arts
Minister,
Norman St John Stevas.
There
will also
be a fever-
busy
until
7.0 Eastern Ear
Tuesday
7.0 Folkscene
8.30 Good Fishing (R)
7.0 am
The Sunday Supplement
ALISON
burnett with a reflective
start to the day
With DENNISROOKARD
9.0-10.30 Young Artists'
Platform 1987
9.0 Jules Bellerby
Thursday
7.0 Prefade
12.0 The Essex
Election Debate
Candidates discuss issues before
the voters
With JULES BELLERBY
SUNDAY
1.0 pm
Those Vintage Years
Friday
7.35 Calabash
With DAVEGILLBEE
8.30-10.0 Whole Lotta Soul
7: Religion
4.0 A Power in the Land
and Revolution
Wednesday
7.0 All Kinds of Country
with vie WOODHOUSE
8.0 Julie First
10.0 Russell Grant
11.0 Essex Election Special
Friday
7.30 Friday Focus
Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri
8.0-9.55 Julie First
10.30-12.0
as Radio 1 (page 24)
SUNDAY
8.4am
Charlie's
Rural Rides (R)
8.33 The Growth Business (R)
9.0 Corridors
of Power
9.32 Michael Freedland
10.2
Stuart Colman's Echoes
local governniciu.
Other names to watch out for
who should
are Cecil Parkinson,
his
be confident
of holding
Hertsmere
ton
Luseat, and former
David
FC chairman
for the Conserstanding
Town
Evans,
vatives
in Welwyn Hatfield.
will be
Bedfordshire
with
the elections,
previewing
this week
constituency
profiles
in Breakfast
in Beds and Dave
Radio
roundSmith
will be chairing
table discussions
in the moming's
GMT(11.5
am).
will
of the results
Coverage
start at 10.0 pm and go on to the
are 23
there
finish 'Unless
prerecounts,'
says the night's
Dave Robey. 'I've got to
senter,
in
be up to produce
Breakfast
three of them have prominent
Home
conservative
figures The Rt Hon Douglas
Secretary
The Rt Hon
in Witney,
Hurd
Minformer
Raison,
Timothy
Development
for Overseas
and The Rt Hon
in Aylesbury,
at Henley.
Michael Heseltine,
Henley is the subject of MonProfile, when
day's Constituency
to
Dick Bower will be talking
are
The reports
the candidates.
Oxgoing out on John Briggs's
in the
ford AM (6.0 am), repeated
McCulon Geraldine
afternoon
it's
Tuesday
lagh's programme.
ister
Beds the next day.' One count,
won't
be in
Mid-Bedfordshire,
The result will be
until Friday.
broadcast
as soon as it's known.
is definitely
Radio
Oxford
All its eight conTory country.
blue and
stituencies
are true
11.30 Bob Powel's
London Country
1.3 pm Tony Williams
Tuesday
6.33 Book Now
Wednesday
6.33 The Way It Was (R)
3.0 Hold the Front Page (R)
3.30 Those Swinging Years
Thursday
6.33 Michael Freedland
5.0 Big City (R)
6.0 London Sounds Eastern
Friday
6.33 Charlie's
7.0
Listen, I'm Steve Walsh
9.0 Your Vicar
Wouldn't Like It!
10.0-11.20 Young Artists'
Platform 1987
WEEKDAYS
6.30 am
Brenda Ellison
and David Edwards
with Rush Hour
9.4 Tony Blackburn's
Soulshow
Monday, Tuesday, Friday
12.4 pm
The Robbie Vincent
Telephone Programme
Wednesday, Thursday
12.4 pm The Anne
Nightingale Telephone
Programme
Monday-Friday
2.30 Susie Barnes
4.30
Sparrow Over London
Monday
6.33 London This Week
What's On
Rural Rides
Monday-Friday
7.4 Black Londoners
Monday
8.0-9.30 Young Artists'
Platform 1987
9.30
as Radio 1 (page 42)
10.0-12.0
A Fresh Start to the Week
Tuesday
8.0 Brian Priestley's
All That Jazz
Fevered political brows can be
soothed this week by tuning to
Radio London's Young Artists'
Platform 1987concerts.
'Most London concerts are put
on at the performers' own risk,'
explained Callum Ross, the
scheme's founder. 'They have to
pay for the hire of the hall and
the expensive publicity. There's
also such a lot going on in
London that what tends to happen, especially with young artists, is that none of the
important people agents,
critics, orchestral managers tend to turn up.'
It was this problem that Callum sought to resolve when, as
administrator of the Warwick
Arts Trust, he approached
Adrian Edwards at Radio London to set up the first Platform
for young artists in 1983.
'Radio takes the concerts and
brings them to the people,' said
Callum, who holds degrees in
law and music. 'The Platform
accustoms young people to the
art of singing or playing in front
of the microphone, which I
know from personal experience
is quite different from playing in
front of a live audience.'
The
which
competition,
doesn't rank the winning performers in any order of merit, is
open to all instrumentalists
between the ages of 20 and 25,
OXFORD
1.3 pm
Just the Job
visits Waddesdon Manor
Friday
12.3 pm
Just the Job (R)
2.0 Ronald Tandy's
Arts Review
An invitation to meet authors
and artists from Oxfordshire,
Berkshire and
Buckinghamshire
Monday-Friday
1.0
News, Weather, Sport
3.0 Black Voice
Monday
3.5 The Local Network
SATURDAY
7.0am
The Farming Programme
With JOHN SHUTER
7.15 Oxford AM
JONBRIGGS
presents a blend of
news and music plus sport and a
guest review of the week's news.
9.0 Open Air
12.0 In the Country
1.0 pm News
2.0-5.0
The Fresh Air Show
With JONATHANSTAPLES
Wednesday
8.0 Young Artists'
Platform 1987
SUNDAY
10.0-12.0 GCHQ
8.5 am
Spirit Level
Soca Lift-off
10.0 Dave Pearce
11.0 Soul Night Out
12.0-1.0 am Dave Pearce
10.0-12.0 Powernite
9.0 News and Sport
9.5 In the Garden
This week RONBATEMAN'S
topic
is planting out winter greens.
9.20 Sunday Requests
Friday
8.0 Rockers FM
FM
Meanwhile ...
4.0 Eastern Touch
5.0-5.30
Student News (R)
With MARKKASPROWICZ
1.5 People and Places
visits Kencot,
in west Oxfordshire.
10.0-12.0 Gilles Peterson's
Mad on Jazz
Thursday
8.0
Alex Pascall's
the turn of Oxford West and
Abingdon, and on Wednesday,
the most closely watched seat,
Oxford East.
Steve Norris is defending the
seat he won by a margin of 1,267
last time round, and the Labour
Party, targeting it as a key
constituency, has been busy
sending down its party bigwigs
to rally support. But the Tories'
worry is not just over losing
votes to the Labour Party, the
Alliance candidate Margaret
Godden, and a Green Party
candidate, Oxfam worker Dave
Dalton, could also steal some of
their votes.
Radio Oxford has brought off
something of a coup by rounding up all four Oxford East
candidates who will be in the
studio on Wednesday, the day
before the election for a discussion with Mark Kasprowicz.
On Thursday Radio Oxford
will be pulling out all the stops,
with its election coverage, starting at 10.0 pm and running
through until around 2.0 am though the Buckingham result is
not expecteduntil Friday morning.
'It's the one time when absolutely everyone gets involved,'
said the station's acting programme organiser, John Simpson.
So if you don't want to miss all
the excitement of the General
Election, stay tuned to BBC
Local Radio.
p.b,r.w.
10.30 Sunday Morning
With JONATHANSTAPLES
WEEKDAYS
6.0 am
Oxford AM
News, views and music
with JON BRIGGS
9.0 Open Air
A mixture
of the best stories
and music, including
phone-ins,
the daily talking point and
features
regular
With MARKKASPROWICZ
and singers
between
the ages of
23 and 28.
The Young Artists'
Platform
1987 will be broadcast
over four
this week: Saturday
at
evenings
9.0 pm, Sunday
at 10.0 pm,
at 8.0 pm and
Monday
day at 8.0pm.
WednesR.W.
Pat Beasley
Roger Williams
1.10 David Freeman
and his guests in conversation
Monday-Friday
3.30
Geraldine McCullagh
gets you home. including at 5.20
constituency profiles:
Monday: Henley
Tuesday: Oxford Westand
Abingdon
Wednesday: Oxford East
Monday
6.0
Sounds in Swingtime
7.0-8.0 Ronald Tandy's
Arts Review (R)
Tuesday
6.0-7.0 Music Notes
Monday
12.3 pm
People and Places (R)
Wednesday
6.0-7.0
Where There's Folk
Tuesday
12.3 pm My Choice
This week's guest is
LARRY
O'Brien,owner of the Black
Prince, Woodstock.
Thursday
6.0-7.0
202 Country
Wednesday
12.3 pm In the Country (R)
10.0-2.0 am
Election Special 87
Thursday
12.3 pm
Tunes Remembered
Friday
6.0-6.30
Student News
7.0 As Radio 2 (page 64)