Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and KEN POLLOCK
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India's General Election result - its people's political choice for the dangerous 1980s - should by now be clear. Brian Redhead , with the BBC's Delhi correspondent Mark Tully , and reporter Mike Wooldridge , reports from the Indian capital, and assess what the election outcome will mean for the country's vast population, for their neighbours, and for the world at large. In London LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With CANON WILLIAM PURCELL
7.6, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.39, 8.31 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

by PAUL THEROUX (2)

Holidays
Self-catering, a luxury hotel, a package tour, or a cruise? Holidays for two, for the family, or alone? The bulging, glossy 1980 holiday brochures are in the travel agents now. But before you book, consult two experts: John Carter and Jill Crawshaw , Travel Editor of the Daily Mail. Between them, they have experience of a wide variety of value-for-money holidays, both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Your courier is Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

Producer ELIZABETH SHEEHY

NEM, p 30; Hail, thou source (BBC HB 66); Canticle 5; John 2, v 23 to 3, v 12 (AV); Brightest and best (BBC HB 63)

by THORNTON WILDER abridged for radio in eight parts by NEVILLE TELLER Read by Gary Watson (1) On 20 July 1714 the finest bridge in Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below. Brother Juniper , a Franciscan, explores the lives of the victims to discover, if he can. God's purpose. Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Shift Work by SUE GLOVER For the divers out on the oil rigs the hours are long, the money is good and the work is dangerous. For the wives waiting at home the days are long and the nights are lonely.
Directed by TOM KINNINMONT
(First broadcast on BBC Scotland)

Khrushchev once said that if the Russians had shot six prominent writers there would have been no Hungarian revolt. These six programmes, introduced by John Har riott, show how writers have responded to harsh treatment and imprisonment by governments who fear the power of the pen. 5: Edward Kuznetsov - the Russian author of Prison Diaries who was released recently after spending nearly half his 40 years in prison. I love ripping open the womb of truth.'
Reader Gregory de Poinay Producer SHIRLEY DU BOULAY

Michael Marland
' Teachers must find ways of consulting parents and of really listening to their views.'
BBC Manchester

Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon

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Presented by Robin Day

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Reading Your Letters.
Letters From Ummie (6): BRENDA KIDMAN reads from five years' correspondence with an old Indian friend.
Away from Four Walls: TONY BARNFIELD spent a day at the Acton Work Centre for the physically handicapped.
The Grass Harp by TRUMAN CAPOTE abridged in nine parts by DOREEN ESTALL Read by William Roberts (1)
'After my mother died. my father, a travelling man, sent me to live with his cousins. Verena and Dolly Talbo , two unmarried ladies who were sisters. Imagine what it must have been when first I came to the house. a loud and prying boy of 11.' (Music: Horldinotts Concerto Grosso No 2)

Story: The Uncle Who Shrunk! by C. E. ELLIS

A Slip of the Disc
A farcical comedy by JOHN GRAHAM with Nerys Hughes as Sally Hills George Baker as Peter Raven and Denys Hawthorn * as Leonard Hills
It all started quite Innocently - well, no, not innocently, but it was perfectly simple. Until Peter got stuck in Sally's bath and Sally's husband returned home and Peter's wife turned up, not to mention the piano tuner, the television director the doctor ... One little lie so easily leads to another and life gets awfully complicated.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (First broadcast in 1978)

'Broadcast Sun 7.0 pm)
4.40 Announcements

The Flower by MIRIUM RUGEL
Read by Sally Mates

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5.55 Weather; programme news

including Financial Report

A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Clement Freud Peter Jones and Derek Nimmo endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Kenneth Williams is in ' The Undertaking ' at the Fortune Theatre, London)

(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)

' At our best, we live by the legend '
(JOHN STEINBECK )
The fact and the many legends and fictions of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have seized the popular imagination for more than 800 years.
Paul Vaughan delves into the mysterious and rich storehouse of treasures which have been inspired by this extraordinary figure. Those taking part include: ELAINE STEINBECK , ROBERT WOLLSTEN , RICHARD BARBER. ANDREW DAVIES , JOHN BOORMAN , GEOFFREY ASHE , JOHN MATTHEWS and PETER VANSITTART
Reader David March Producer JOHN POWELL
A Kaleidoscope production

Presented by Jane Finnis This week's edition includes a round-up of information on holidays for blind people of all ages, both at home and abroad. Producer THENA NESHEL

Trains
Verse, songs, stories and nostalgia on Trains.
Presented by Judi Dench with additional readings by Joss Ackland Music from
Cambridge City Jassband Vocal refrains
Dave Skitani and the Rhythm Boys
Written and compiled by PETE ATKIN and RUSSELL DAVIES. Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
(Judi Dench is a member of the RSC)

Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE

Presenter Edwin Mulhns Producer ANNE WINDER
8.59 Weather

Douglas Stuart reporting

A comedy by CHRISTOPHER WOOD AND JANE WOOD starring Gwen Watford and Anton Rodgers as Janet and Richard Baxter who keep a discreet eye on things when their children have a party. With NIGEL LAMBERT SUEILA STEAFEL RICHARD GIBSON
SYLVESTRA LE TOUZEL and DAVID PARFITT Producer
GEOFFREY PERKINS (Gwen Watford is in ' Bodies ' at the Ambassadors Theatre; Anton Rodgers in 'Songbook' at the Globe Theatre, London)

Lord of the Flies (6) long wave only

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A late-night selection of music by Eric Coates , Walton, Satie and others gramophone records

Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude