Presented from
Scotland by Allan Wright BBC Scotland
9.25 Shipping forecast long wave only

Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
8.45. Prayer for the Day With TONY JASPER
8.55, 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* Thought for the Day ,

by Sylvia Townsend Warner
8.57 Weather; travel: continental travel

Space Exploration
The United States now has an operational space shuttle - what will it be used for? What is the role of satellites in monitoring our environment? What new information can we expect to receive from space observations above the Earth's atmosphere and how will they help our exploration of the solar system? What does the future hold in the way of space platforms or space stations? Dr Garry Hunt , Head of Atmospheric Physics at University College.
London, will be answering your questions on the subject of space exploration.
Teresa McGonagle is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am BACKPAGES: p 74

NEM, p 97; God who spoke in the beginning (Bp 24); Psalm 50. vv 1-5, 15, 16;
Lukel.vv 26-38 (av); Jesu. lover of my soul (BBC iib 145): long wave only

The Potato Gatherers by BRIAN FRIEL
Read by Allan McClelland Producer PAUL muldoon BBC Northern Ireland

followed by travel

The Lancaster Gate End by ALUN OWEN
Peggy Aitchison and John Le Mesurier
An exchange of views between two regular visitors to one of Her Majesty's royal parks.
Park keeper ALAN DUDLEY Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS BBC Wales

What causes the buzzing noise made by many flying insects? Some fly silently so why haven't all evolved silent flight? Just one of the questions discussed by the naturalists.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Presenter John Howard The Advice Agencies
2: Local advice centres and the problems of rural communities

Quotations ranging from the sublime to the gorblimey identified and providedbyJohnLahr
Derek Parker , Ned Sherrin Rosemary Anne Sisson
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news

with Susannah Simons

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

with Sue MacGregor 245T: HANDEL JONES
Investigates the possible side-effects of this pesticide.
From Ugly Sister to
Cinderella: if you've got big feet, shopping for shoes can be a nightmare. TOM wisdom meets some women who've solved the problem.
The Book of Ebenezer
Le Page by G. B EDWARDS Part Two abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by Roy Dotrlce (1) G B. Edwards died in 1976. This, his one and only novel, about an old
Guernseyman whose life span stretches from before the Boer War to the 1960s, was published posthumously to considerable acclaim In 1981.

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 with and Seven or eight years have passed since
Pamela's death In a sordid St Pancras hotel.
Since then Widmerpool is a changed man. The
Jenkins are now living in the country.
7: Hearing Secret Harmonies (1)
Title music composed by ANTONY MIALL
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD

Frank Robinson asks you to listen.
Producer ERIC WETHERELL BBC Bristol

' It's nice to go Into a place and you don't have to think black, black, black or white, white, white. You know black Is black and white is white but you can work together.'
To lay new foundations and offer black and white young people a chance to developtheirtalents through music and drama is the aim of the Arts Opportunity Theatre
Company. Based in the St Paul's area of Bristol, it was set up In the wake of the Bristol riots of 1980. Cheryl Armitage has followed the company from its beginnings to the present day and tells the story of the project In Freedom City.
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol

Treasure Island (11)

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

with PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Chairman Robert Robinson 28: Semi-final (4)
SCOTLAND. WALES and NORTHERN IRELAND
Norman Clark (teacher) Jim Robertson (teacher)
Judith Moore
(former computer operations manager)
David McKee (physicist) including Beat the Brains
Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD edis

(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)

Doctors and psychologists are increasingly working together In the effort not only to understand and treat many medical conditions, but also to ameliorate the consequences for victims and their families.
Geoff Watts reports from the American
Psychological Association Convention held last week In Washington DC. Producer ALISON RICHARDS

Four programmes 3: Back o' th' Moss
A council estate built in the 1930s on a slag heap is socially Isolated from neighbouring Heywood by its relative poverty. The inhabitants have evolved ways of scratching a living, curiously at odds with the Ideals of the Welfare State.
Margaret Percy reports. Producer ALASTAIR WILSON A File on 4 special series

(Details: Friday 11.3 am)

Ian MacRae reports on the annual conference of the National Federation of the Blind.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA heshel Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on[number removed].8.30-10.0pm Handbook of aids and services, £2.95 from [address removed]

includes a visit to the newly-refurbished Wallace Collection at Hertford House, London; and a review of Ditia, an award-winning French film. The thriller revolves around a young opera fan who finds himself in the possession of two ' hot. properties - an illegal recording of a unique performance by an opera » singer and the taped exposé of a vice gang by a murdered girl. Presenter
Jeffrey Richards
Producer ANNE WINDER

with Alexander MacLeod

Do you prefer funk to folk? Jump for 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 (7) 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.
3: Rider Haggard
Readers MICHAEL MCCLAIN and GARARD GREEN
' Producer JOHN KNIGHT long wave only

Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude