6.40 Prayer for the Day JEAN RICHARDSON

Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News, Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.4S*
English Regions: see column 5

Echoes of Extinction

What will everyday life be like in, say, ten years' time?
5: Pantry in the Mill Pool
Trout and chips could replace chicken and chips on the menu of the future. The trout grows quickly and is relatively cheap and easy to rear in large numbers. Is it possible for this success to be repeated with the intensive farming of salmon and white fish like turbot and sole?
Living in the 80s investigates. Reporter and presenter George Luce
Producer MARLENE PEASE

BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Narrator PIERS BURTON-PAGE Producer STEPHEN KANOCZ

NEM, p 25; Virgin-born, we bow before thee (BBC HB 240); Psalm 27; Luke 2, vv 22-35 and 39 (Rsv); Jesus, good above all other (BBC HB 72)

The Loners by DOUGLAS RAILTON Read by Robert Rietty
She introduced herself - ' Signora Scarlatti. Widow,' she added, giving to the word. Luigi thought, an unnecessary weight ... ' It gets lonely up here,' she confessed.

Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise. with your letters

... to Dynamic Living
Radio's 'You-Know-What' Course
Fill in your thingummy here (if you know what I mean) to receive Lesson 14
Do-You-Know-What the Burkiss Way with a nudge and a wink from Jo Kendall , Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris
Some written hints by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK (who don't want to spell it out) and a discreet production from SIMON BRETT (who thinks people will understand anyway)
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)

12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather

Introduced by Brian Widlake

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Tony Hart , television artist.:
2.0-2.2 News
Any Other Business: a look at some of the more domestic points from Parliament.
Jonathan Hewat - Around the World in a Minibus - 1: crossing the Sahara.
It's a Knock-Down - 4: DAVID BATTIE discusses the specialist auction.
Night Without Stars (3)

Story: The Arrogant Flea by ANNE WELLINGTON

Caring Incorporated by JOHN KIRKMORRIS
For two people whose jobs are caring for other people, Harry and Judith are remarkably inept at caring for themselves: his marriage has failed and she's an expert on picking the wrong man. You'd think that they could be good companions in adversity but it doesn't look as if they can do anything for each other.,
Location sound by LEO FEORD , CEDRIC JOHNSON , JOHN WHITE and DAVID GREENWOOD. Produced and directed by JANE MORGAN

Charles Aznavour hasn't a single drop of French blood in his veins, yet he epitomises France.
In this profile, Nigel Rees talks to the celebrated singer, song-writer and actor about his life, his voice and his effect on women. Producer JOHN LLOYD

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (3)

Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather

A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman: Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Sheila Hancock Peter Jones and Alfred Marks endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that. Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)

(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)

In the studio Kathryn Davies

with Roger Cook and Tom Vernon
Dead or Alive? - Rural Wales, the Way Ahead
The new Development Board for Rural Wales begins work this year: among its most important projects, the continued expansion of Wales's new town, Newtown.
Time for Action examines the prospects and alternatives through the eyes of the inhabitants and their rural neighbours.
Production assistance by SALLY DIPLOCK
Producer RITCHIE COGAN
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)

Kenneth Brecher Is a social anthropologist who spent two years living as a member of an isolated Indian tribe in the Xingu region of Central Brazil. In five programmes he imagines how his friend Kwamuti, who has never left the Amazon before, would question with amazement the British way of life.
5: The Lost Tribe with Renu Setna as Kwamuti Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Four classic episodes
2: The Fish in the Stew-Pan Written by MICHAEL FOSS
'The Buddhist I Ho Ch'nan. the mighty Fists of Righteousness and Harmony, support the Ch'ing dynasty and aim to wipe out foreigners. Our pleasure is to see the Son of Heaven unharmed. Hasten, then, to spread this doctrine far and Wide.' (BOXER MANIFESTO) Peking, 1900. For 55 days the British, French and German Legations were under constant attack by the fanatical Boxers - the Chinese anti-foreign secret society. Sixty-six people were killed in all. Looting on a big scale took place when the victorious foreign troops entered the capital, and the Dowager Empress had to flee her vandalised palace.
With the voices of: PHIL BROWN
PETER CRAZE, WILLIAM EEDLE
LESLIE HERITAGE, BURT KWOUK
NICOLETTE MCKENZIE , JOHN ROWE IRENE SUTCLIFFE and JAMES THOMASON
Chinese adviser c. T. v. SHUI Produced and directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Revised repeat: Fri 11.5 am)

Presenter Paul Vaughan

Douglas Stuart reporting

Of Mice and Men (6)

preceded by Weather