6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only

Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45- Prayer for the Day With TONY JASPER
8.55, 7.55 Weather forecast T.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN T.J5\8.25*Sport
T 30 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day

Aged 131
Written in seven parts by SUE TOWNSEND with Nicholas Barnes
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN (Revised repeat)
8.57 Weather; travel

Tortoise Talk
Although tortoises can be seen in British gardens, the rightful home of Herman's tortoise Is around the Mediterranean. Ian Swlngland introduces Derek Jones to the real tortoise.
Producer JOHN HARRISON

Gerry Monte talks to six people who, though not Welsh, have chosen to make Wales their home.
Sally Seymour lives in an isolated cottage in Dyfed. She sometimes goes for a week without seeing another person. She makes her living with her pottery and painting and supplements it by growing her own vegetables.
Producer EIFION EVANS BBC Wales

NEM, p 106; Dear Lord and Father of mankind <BBC HB 351); Psalm 95; Luke 1, v 57 to 66, v 80
(av); Jesus call us! O'er the tumult (BBC HB 354) long wave only

Forgery by FRED NICHOLLS Read by John Darran
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

followed by travel

Joan Bakewell invites a group of Cambridge graduates back to the Backs for a punting party and picnic, and an opportunity to reflect on their experience of university life. With her in her punt are
Tim Brooke-Taylor , Professor Glyn Daniel ,
Margaret Drabble , Tom Sharpe , Lord Soper and Ian Wallace.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

with Nell Landor
Producer KATE FENTON

including JILL TODD with the BBC Shopping Basket and The Advice Agencies 4: Radio and television Presenter John Howard

12.55 Weather: travel; programme news

Presenter Gordon Clough

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Introduced by Sue MacGregor , Including TheLtrinoGoddess.today Kathmandu, the King of Nepal, pays homage to a 10-year-old girl. ANNE CATCHPOLE investigates the legend of ' The Kumari '.
Skin Deep (2): KITTY
LITTLE'S guide to herbal beauty.
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (3)

Goodbye My Love by ROBERT BIRMINGHAM with Elizabeth Adare Olu Jacobs and Cleo Sylvestre
Elaine was one of many young West Indians who came to England in the early 60s looking for a job and a better life, but fr und that the climate, the housing situation and intolerable pressures at work were a poor exchange for an Island in the sun. Elaine had determination and a plan for the future - but why were there no letters from home? with SIMON HEWITT and jim REID Directed by MARGARET ITALL

with John Fisher behind the scenes at a famous festival.
BBC Bristol

Treasure Island by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON abridged In 13 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by ANDREW SACHS (13) Producer PAMELA HOWE
BBC Bristol

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

With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

Terry Wogan , mindful of his mother's warnings on the uncertainties of howbusiness, searches for a secure day Job - preferably one with prospects and a late-morning start.
Having learned the tricks of the trade from a certain television series, Terry fearlessly tries his hand as a hotel manager. Research LIBBY SPURRIER Producer HELEN FRY

Written by ALAN BOWER Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Fritz Splegl looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Haydn Symphony No 92, in G major (Oxford)

Liszt Piano Concerto No 1, in E flat major

Liszt, after Paganini La Campanella

In the second of three programmes presented by poets, Patricia Beer introducesachoiceof her favourite poems, and explains some of their attraction for her.
Readers HUGH DICKSON FRANCES HOROVITZ and Christian RODSHA Producer FRASER STEEL DDC Manchester

Part 2 Sibelius
Symphony No 1, in E minor as Radio 3

includes reviews of two new books: Fay Weldon 's The President's Child, the story of a London journalist who is plunged nto a nightmare situation when she reveals that her son is the ' love child ' of a possible future president of the United States; and My Mad World of Opera, the autobiography of the editor of Opera magazine, Harold Rosenthal.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JANE STENNING

with Alexander MacLeod

Madame Bovary (9) long wave only

long wave only

John Ogden talks to
Margaret Howard about his musical life and plays records of some of the musicians who have Influenced him.
' I showed a lot of interest In music when I was about 6 ... and started one or two relatively advanced pieces I think.'
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(First broadcast on World Service) long wave only

Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude