Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Chips and Children: the world of micro-electronics, and silicon chip technology in particular, might he unfamiliar and worrying to the adult population as yet, but for our children it will be a reality.
On the eve of the World Snuff Championships to be held at Wellington in Somerset, SHEILA HARNETT takes a look at the history of the snuff-taking habit.
Women Rule, OK: this spring, district council elections will take place all over the country. Three West Country women, involved in local politics, discuss the role more women could play in ' grass roots ' government.
Inventors Take Heart: a new magazine just for you has been launched in Bristol.
BBC Bristol
William Makepeace
Thackeray - Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman by MARGARET FORSTER
Read by RICHARD LEECH (9) (Richard Leech is in ' Whose Life is it Anyway? ' at the Savoy Theatre, London) long wave only