Farming, food and countryside news. market trends and weather. Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave onlu

Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45' Prayer tor the Dau With SIR ROBERT RIETTY
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thouoht /or the Day

Part 2
8.57 Weather, travel

Computers and Computing
With the current growth of the personal computer industry estimated at 40 to 50 per cent per annum, computers are no longer remote monolithic machines. School children write their own programs. But If you're over school age, where do you start? What's the best type of machine to buy? How much are computers continuing to change? How does British computer technology compare with the rest of the world's? And what effects will computers have on our lives?
David Tebbutt, writer and director of a British software publishing company, and Martin Banks, journalist specialising in the personal computer industry join Sue MacGregor to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE

NEM, p46: Lord of all hopefulness (BBC HB 309); Psalm 85, w 1-3 and 8-14; Acts 25, vv 13-22
(NEB): Jesus, good above all other (BBC HB 72) long wave only

With JONATHAN ADAMS
Jonathan sharpens his teeth on the subject of ... vampires.
Assisted by GEORGE LAYTON and DEREK FARMER

followed by travel

The Great Times
Crossword Conspiracy by KEN WHITMORE

Is it true that files hate the colour blue?
Michael Chinery ,
Jim Flegg and Keith Corbett ponder over more of your questions on birds, frogs, insects and salamanders,
Presenter Derek Jones
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)

Presenter Bill Breckon

First of 12 programmes
Nigel Bees invites Robert Lacey , Naomi Lewis ,
Christopher Matthew and Sir Huw Wheldon to share their favourite quotations and identify some others. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
11.55 Weather: travel: programme news ;

Presenter Peter Hobday

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave onlu

with Sue MacGregor
Two into One Will Go - or Will It? LIBBY FAWBERT looks into a recent example of job sharing. I Had to Dust the Coal:
NANNY DERWEN recalls her days as nursery maid andnannyinthe1930s.
An Episode of Sparrows (6)

A dramatisation in eight parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM of Books Do Furnish a Room. Temporary Kings and Hearing Secret Harmonies, the final trilogy Of ANTHONY POWELL 'S 12 novels.
Jenkins is attending a cultural conference in Venice. Among the people he has met there are the Widmerpools, Louis Glober and Ada.
These last two were with Jenkins in the studio of Daniel Tokenhouse when there was an unexpected visitor.
5: Temporary Kings (2)
Title music composed by ANTONY MIALL
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD

Richard Graves takes the lid oft some historical mistakes.
Producer ERIC WETHERELL BBC Bristol

Compiled by Patrick Polland from The Traveller's Conversational Handbook by Madame de Genlis, first published in four languages in 1804
with Anthony Newlands as the Husband, Wendy Murray as the Wife and Hugh Dickson as the Narrator

Madame de Genlis wrote it for those rich and reckless enough to go on the Grand Tour of Europe. But her Handbook is not simply an ancestor of the modern tourist's phrase-book. She wrote dialogue to cover any eventuality in early 19th-century travel. It is amusing and absurd - but then so is the predicament of any traveller who cannot speak the language.

Treasure Island (2)

Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news

with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Chairman
Robert Robinson
26: Semi-Final (2) SOUTH AND WEST OF ENGLAND
Dr John Pusey
(civil service scientist) Neil Davies
(schoolteacher) Dr Paul Bromley
(community physician)
Christopher Monro (clerk) including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)

(Repeated; Wed 1.40 pm)

What's new In medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent tobesteffect?GeoffWatts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP'S surgery.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)

(Details: Wed 4.10 pm)

(Details: Thurs 11.3 am)

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. On the Isle of Wight, a 14-year-old blind girl has an adult helper at her side throughout her school day. In Wolverhampton, a number of blind children mix freely with sighted pupils in the classroom and playground. Peter White describes two different approaches to the problem of integrating blind children into ordinary schools, and discusses them with John and Dee Cockburn, parents of a blind child about to start her school career. Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relatina to the programme on[number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbook of aids and services, £2.95 from BBC Publications[address removed]

- includes reviews of Rocket to the Moon by Clifford Odets. Set In New York during a hot, steamy summer in 1938, the play Is being produced in Londonforthefirsttime with John Woodvtne and Annabel Leventon at the Hampstead Theatre. Also Quotations from Other
Lives, a new collection of short stories with settings in England and America by Penelope Gilllatt. Presenter
Jeffrey Richards
Producer JANE STENNING

with Alexander MacLeod

A new series of six programmes
Do you prefer funk to folk? Jump to jazz? Or hum to Handel? Tastes differ. But whatever the sound there's a story to it. Broaden your range - or sharpen your prejudices - when
Paul Jones meets the music makers.
Producer JOHN SKRINE

Good Behaviour by MOLLY KEANE abridged in 12 parts by DOREEN MAHON
Read by KATE BINCHY (12) Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland long wave only

long wave onlu

Ion Trewin presents a series of five portraits of writers who, at the turn of the century, thrilled the nation with tales of derring-do and whose novels are still widely read today.
1: Erskine Childers
Readers GEOFFREY PALMER and MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Producer JOHN KNIGHT long wave only

Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude