  Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars have been studied for over thirty years.
Yet it is still unclear why and when we observe broad absorption lines in
quasars. Is this phenomenon caused by geometry or is it connected with the
evolution process? Variability of the BAL quasars, if present, can give us
information about their orientation, namely it can indicate whether they are
oriented more pole-on. Using the Torun 32-metre dish equipped with the One
Centimetre Receiver Array (OCRA) we have started a monitoring campaign of a
sample of compact radio-loud BAL quasars. This 30 GHz variability monitoring
program supplements the high-resolution interferometric observations of these
objects we have carried out with the EVN and VLBA.
