Presented from Scotland by Allan Wright BBC Scotland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News with CHRISTOPHER SLADR
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought Jor the Day
by JACK LONDON (2)
Exploring Outer Space
This year, the Voyager Mission will take its first close look at Titan.
How much have scientists already learned from the photographs of Jupiter Voyager I and II have sent back so far? There are now an estimated 5,000 satellites orbiting the earth. How do these work and what developments can be expected in the next ten years?
Dr Garry Hunt , head of the Laboratory for Planetary Atmospheres, University College, London, joins Teresa McGonagle to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and operating theatre, to the dentist's chair and GP'S surgery.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
NEM, p 102; Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137); Psalm 147, vv 12-20; Mark 6, vv 14-29 (RSV); Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC RB 519)
Missee Lee (8)
Rise and Shine by SEAN MCCARTHY
Fiona Walker as Judy and Stephen Rea as Tim Waking up is a problem. Waking up broke and unemployed is a bigger problem (plans for the day being limited by economic considerations). Of course there is one enjoyable and cheap activity available, but, as with all the best things in life. there are a number of rules governing its
-use.
.Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
In Yugoslavia I once saw a large bucketful of fat, juicy marine worms out
I was informed there scere out two worms in the mass. Was 1 deceivedt JIM: FLEGG, DAVID NICHOLS and MICHAEL TWEDDIE , wriggle out of another batch of listeners' questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm)
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LK
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor DAVID HARDING
on the island of Skye
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue
MacGregor Garri and Beans in Bishop's Stortford: BOB PRIZE-MAN spends the day with a group of British school-children learning about the traditional African way of life.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas
He Exhausts Me: A mother and a doctor discuss hyperactivity in children Skin Deep. 6: Gentle Joy
Story: Giant George and the Balloon Man by VAL ANNAN
by HENRY JAMES dramatised for radio in six parts by WILLIAM ASH(1)
Prince Amerigo Is te marry Maggie Verver. the daughter of an American multi-millionaire. The marriage should be in every way perfect. But a few days before It takes place, there arrives from America a great friend of Maggie's, Charlotte Stant. The Prince and Charlotte had once been very close. Charlotte has one last request to make of him: an hour alone together to help her find Maggie a special present.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER (Zoi Wanamaker it a member of the RSO
Many people claim that they can read the thoughts of others, and some say they can bend spoons like Uri Geller. But what scientific evidence Is there?
The BBC's Science Correspondent, James Wilk inson, has been talking to scientists and taking part In experiments in telepathy to try to find out. Producer JOHN WILLIAMS
4.40 Announcements
Cricket on the Beach by ROGER BURFORD MASON Read by Kenneth Fortescue
Producer MITCH RAPER
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A lighthearted account of the chequered history of the crossword puzzle - from the three-letter birds and two-letter Sun God to the mind-bending, esoteric and even interchangeable clues.
Anagrammatically compiled by Basil Birney
Presented by John Wells
PATRICK BARR. LEONARD FENTON, MARTIN FRIEND, BRIAN HAINES , MICHAEL MCSTAY , PEGGY PAIGE and ELIZABETH RIDER.
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
(Details: Fri 11.5 am)
Ten talks by Ray Gosling 9: A Banana for Buddha
' Bangkok feels a bit like the 20th-century parts of Hammersmith, or downtown Newcastle. And they drive on the same side of the road as us, in the same Japanese cars - and suck the same Hacks cough drops and Menthol-Eucalyptus sweets. Because pollution is as bad as industrial Lancashire.'
St Kilda
Since the evacuation of St Kilda on 29 August 1930, the island has taken on a mythical quality. Previously it formed part of the Gaelic civilisation of the West Highlands; now it is a military base, reserve and a museum. Reader tom watson
Jew's Harp DICK GLASGOW Research NORMAN CHALMERS Producer BILLY KAY
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
Six programmes
'Why shouldn't we recreate the business, if business hasn't got the guts or the gumption to realise the potential of areas like this.'
4: From Welfare to Work Reports on CRAIGMILLAR FESTIVAL ENTERPRISES (a community-owned jobbing builders company) and HOUSE OF LAMBETH (a wood-craft workshop).
Presenter Colin Ball
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer CLARE SELERIE
Douglas Stuart reporting
Six programmes 1: The Mormons
About half-a-million people in Britain belong to religious movements outside the mainstream religions. What attracts them to these sects? What does membership involve? And do they see themselves as the possessors of knowledge and insights denied to the rest of us? Jill Cochrane gives members of the Mormons-the ' Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints'-the chance to speak for themselves \ Researcher
RICHARD PEARSON
Producer DAVID WINTER Preview: page 23
The Goshawk (2)
(piano)
Beethoven Sonata No 23. in F minor (Appassionata) gramophone record long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
