6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only

Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV DERRYCK EVANS
6.55,7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25", 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 2
8.57 Weather; travel

Starting School
Upwards of 600,000 children will be starting school for the first time this autumn. What will they be learning? How will they be taught to read and calculate? Is there enough discipline? In the studio to answer your questions are educationalist Julia Knight and Elizabeth Cowne, headmistress of a London infants' school. Barbara Myers is In the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

NEM, p 71; To the name of our salvation (BBC KB 284); Psalm 97, vv 1-7 and 11-12; Mark 3, vv 7-19
(NEB); For all thy saints, O Lord (BBC HB 228) long wave only

with TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR The second stage of this historic wander through miles of magnetic tape, music, machines and men.

followed by travel

I'll Never be Seven by GILBERT LEAUTIER

Does moonlight have any effect on the growth of plants?
The team of naturalists sheds some light on a selection of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)

Presenter Jennl Mills including
Credit Where Credit's Due 2: Larger items - fridge/ freezers to cars

Nigel Rees invites
Edward Bllshen , Brian Glover , Edna Hcaley Fiona Richmond to identify quotations, famous and obscure, and to share their favourites. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Presenter Peter Hobday

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

with Sue MacGregor
The Call of the Sea: ship stewardesses visit far-flung ports, but it's a hard life too, as DOREEN TAYLOR discovers.
The 20th-century Disease* KATHY EDWARDS investigates total allergy syndrome. An Episode of Sparrows (11)

6: Temporary Kings (3)

Four programmes
Robert Overton recalls some bizarre experiences as a circuit judge in long-gone outposts of Empire. 1: A Sympathetic Hearing

Journeys in the Lives of Long-Distance Commuters Molly Price-Owen meets a number of people who travel vast distances to and from work, travelling by train, boat and even by plane!
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

Treasure Island
Narrative continued by the ' Doctor '
Read by Douglas Leach (7)

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

with PAULINE BUSHNELL
Including Financial Report

Chairman Robert Robinson 27: Semi-final (3) MIDLANDS and NORTH OF ENGLAND Richard Nelson
(transport manager)
Andrew Walker (solicitor) Fr David Drake-Brockman (priest)
Adrian Perry (educational administrator)
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)

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from research laboratory and operating theatre to dentist's chair and GP'S surgery.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)

Four programmes about life on - and below - the breadline.
2: Doing Time on the Valley
Hailed as ' a triumph of contemporary planning ' when built in the 1950s. the system-built blocks of ROchdale's Ashfield
Valley arc seen by some families as a prison for ttve poor. Roger Finnigan reports on the isolation felt by three single parents on the estate described as ' a disaster for the residents and a bloody nuisance for Rochdale '.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON A File on 4 special series BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)

Gurkhas in the British Army
For over a century and a half, men from the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal have enlisted in the Gurkha regiments of the British and Indian armies. In modern times, their fighting skills have been used in the First World War trenches, in the Jungles of Burma, along the borders of Hong Kong, and across the moorland of the Falklands.
Andrew Joynes looks at the close connection between the British officer and his Gurkha soldiers, and asks how long Nepal will continue to send her men to foreign wars.
Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY (Repeated: Fri 11.3 am)

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Liz Hargest , a blind mother of tw.0 young children, describes how she has adapted a push-chair and pram to take them about safely; and Pat Wilson , still writing plays at 74 although she lost her sight six years ago, talks about her work. Presenter Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm. Handbook of aids and services, £2.95 from BBC Publications, PO Box 234, London SEI 3TH

SoHo
The downtown district of New York known as SoHo, once an area of factories and warehouses, is now a centre of avant garde for the city. Here Blondie, John Cage and Steve Reich first played, video art was created and so-called performance art flourished.
In her report from SoHo . Natalie Wheen talks to video artists, a sound sculptress, musicians and performance artists, as well as the manager of the Kitchen Centre where much of this activity takes place.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY

with Alexander MacLeod

The second 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

Madame Bovary (2) long wave only

long wave only

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.
2: Anthony Hope
Readers CYRIL LUCKHAM and MICHAEL MCCI. AIN
Producer JOHN KNIGHT long wave only

Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude