6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Brian Redhead with the TUC in Brighton
Wendy Jones In London
6.45* Prayer or the Day
Wtth THE REV JOHN CONGDOM
6.5S, 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
Aged 131 Part 4
8.57 Weather; travel
The BBC
What changes can be expected in radio and television with the appointment of a new
Director-General? Why not ask him? Alasdalr Milne joins Sue MacGregor to answer your questions about all aspects of the BBC, from the way the news Is reported to whether there is too much sport, too much sex, too much Violence. With a limited budget, what are the main priorities? Are minority interests covered adequately? Why do we buy so many American TV series when British actors are underemployed? Is breakfast television worth the expense? What Will the effect of satellite television be? And how long will it be before the licence fee will have to be increased again? 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.
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFB
nem, p 122; The Lord will come <BBC hb 479); Psalm 40; Luke 3. vv 1-11 (NEB); Walk In the light (Bp 92) long wave only
Strange, Meeting ... by JENNY OLDFIELD
Read by Heather Bell
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
followed by travel
Old Times, Good Times by DAVID WILLIAMS
A special edition with subjectssuggestedby you, the listener. Are there really plagues of wild mink roaming
British river banks In search of prey? Do you want to take part In a survey of cirl buntings? We read your letters, play your favourite sounds and give you another chance to win the mystery sound competition.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)
Presenter Jennl Mills Health Screening
Women probably have the most comprehensive screening service on offer In the NHS - yet the Incidence of breast and cervical cancer shows no sign of decreasing. So where does the system fail?
The programme about quotations including
Eavesdroppinas. Graffiti, and the occasional outbreak of Foot in Mouth. Chairman Nigel Rees Guests Cella Haddon Rula Lenska
Arthur Marshall and Paul Theroux Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Sounds Excruciating:
DINA ross listens to some of the world's worst singers and enjoys the agony.
Punk, Pink or Plaint
What makes us buy the clothes we do and what do our clothes say about US? DR JOHN NICHOLSON investigates the psychology of fashion. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (6)
8: Hearing Secret Harmonies (2)
Four programmes with Lys de Bray
1: Sweet Smells
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
' Most working people don't know what a UB40 is - it's not an insurance policy, it's not a Jet fighter - It's your dole card.'
Andrew, David, Jackie, Jim, Nicky, Sean and Shola, aged between 16 and 20, left school for the dole queue - a prospect facing one in every two school leavers. Together with UB40, the band that learned to play music in the dole queue, they talk about how they are making their own futures. Poetry from Lipstick and Lager written by young people out of work.
Compiled by MIKE SHEILS Producer CHRIS LONGLEY
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The Boy on Platform One by VICTOR CANNING abridged in nine parts by NFVILLE TELLER. Read by Stephen Murray (1)
A young boy who has a unique memory and total recall is drawn into the world of the Secret Seivice which exploits his gift for their own ends. Producer Michael BARTLETT
Presenters Robert Williams and Paul Burden on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
From the original 64 contestants who set out on the road to the title Brain of Britain 1982 back in February, the four survivors are now just one step away from their goal.
Chairman Robert Robinson
29: The Final
Richard West (civil servant)
Dr John Pusey (civil service scientist)
Fr David Drake Brockman (priest)
David McKee (physicist)
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. Producer JULIAN BROWN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
(Details: Wed 4.10 pm)
(Details: Friday 11.3 am)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Peter White , who has been attending an international conference of librarians for the blind in Montreal, reports on the way in which tape libraries for the blind are developing in different parts of the world.
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, [address removed]
includes reviews of Un
Ballo In Maschcra a new production of Verdi's opera by Welsh National Opera in Cardiff; and a major exhibition of the Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely at the Tate Gallery, London.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer ROBIN WHITE
with voices and opinions from around the world
Do you prefer funk to folk? Jump for Jaiz? 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 (Paul Jones is in ' The Beggar's Opera' at the National Theatre, London)
Madame Bovary (12) long wave only
long wave only
Ion Trewln presents 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.
4: A. E. W. Mason
Readers ALAN Dudley and MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Producer JOHN KNIGHT long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
