Presenters John Tlmpson and Brian Redhead
6.30. 7.30.8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25* 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 2

How much do you know about eyes? Do you know, for example, what NHS services are available, what the latest contact lens developments are? Ophthalmic optician Gill Haig-Brown and Keith Edwards, Secretary of the London Refraction Hospital, are in the studio to answer your questions.
Judith Chalmers is in the Chair.

Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

Post Mortem by MARY MCCORMACK , read by Patricia Galllmore
' He'd collapsed over the office desk in the middle of working out some urgent accounts, his boss said. A massive coronary, the doctor said. Both said they were sorry and how tragic it was that this sort of thing could happen to someone as hard-working and, they implied, clean-living and young as Jim.' producer gwyn Richards BBC Birmingham

NEM. p 62; Behold us,
Lord (BBC HB 349); Psalm 25; Matthew 16: vv 13-24 (rsv); The Lord of heaven (BBC m 478)

Crevasse Jump by CHARLES RYDER

How effective are my . dog's spongy paws at spreading violet seeds? Do cuckoos mimic egg patterns of other birds? Do caterpillars sunbathe? John Andrews.
Peter Moore and Stephen Sutton answer some more of your wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Paul Helney with the latest advice and Information for consumers.

Chairman Robert Robinson 22: North of England second round Peter McBride
(history teacher)
Edward Isaacs
(local government official) James Eccleson
(insurance broker)
Sue Marshall (translator) Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS

Presenter
Susannah Simons

Introduced by Sue MacGregor. Including What's a Nice Guy Like You Doing In a Job Like This? (5): CHERYL ARMITAGI meets midwife
PHILLIP CHALMERS.
The Freedom o/ the Seas: CINDY SELBY talks to some blind sailors.
The Plague Dogs (S)

Holding the Baby by MARTIN STANIFORTH In these days of ' planned parenthood' Kate and Roy take it for granted that they can arrange their child bearing to suit their convenience and they are happily awaiting the birth of their first baby. When things turn out to be less straightforward than they hoped. Roy has a rational plan ready. But Isn't this the time when instinctive, selfless mother-love must take over?
Directed by PENNY GOLD

Claire Frankel looks at the eating habits and manners of the Americans. 1: Have a Nice Meal!
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

An appreciation of the Gloucestershire poet and composer Ivor Gurney by P. J. Kavanagh ' One of the most exciting and excited poets of the first half of this century - perhaps the first polet-musician of genius since the reign of Elizabeth I.' with MICHAEL CADMAN SUSAN DOWDALL ETHEL GURNEY
BRIAN RAYNER COOK (bM) JOHN BISHOP (piano)
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol

Pudd'nbead Wilson (7)

Presenters Robert Williams and Liz Donnelly

With HARRIET CASS
Including Financial Report

Anna Dapter moves her Breakfast Show to lunchtime this week to accommodate the revised menu in the Radio Active canteen. Lunchtime with Anna features live coverage of the Buy
British Exhibition from Olympla and carrots, with Helen Atkinson-Wood Angus Deayton , Geoffrey Perkins , Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens . Written by ANGUS DEAYTON and GEOFFREY PERKINS With additional material by JON CANTER.
MICHAEL FENTON-STEVENS ,
MORAY HUNTER , JOHN DOCHERTY and ROGER PLANER. Music by PHILIP POPE , STEVE BROWN Producer JAMIE RIX
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)

(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)

Geoff Watts reports.
Producer ALISON Richards

Talking About Music Each week ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
This week: The More We Are Together ...
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

Written and compiled by GERALD ROBERTS and narrated by Brian Matthew
In 1847 a new Governor-General came to India - Lord Dalhousie, a fanatically hard-working Scottish aristocrat bent on extending the borders of his sovereign's empire. First on his list of territories to be seized was Oude, ruled by an effete poet-king who spent his time flying kites and watching animals locked in combat, in the company of dissolute women.
With ERIC ALLAN , STEPHEN BATEMHN , MICHAEL BILTON , JAMES BRYCE ,
NIGEL GRAHAM , MONICA GREY , SAEED JAFFREY , ANDREW MACLACHLAN.
DAVID MARKHAM , RENU SETNA , DINO SHAFEEK and BRETT USHER
Directed by JOHN CARDY

Presenter Peter White Producer THENA IIESHEL

includes a review of the British premiere of the full-length version of Michael Cimino's epic western Heaven's Gate, defended and reviled in fairly equal proportions; and previews Vulcan with a Spanner. Theo Barker's programme on the history of the garage to be broadcast tomorrow evening on Radio 4. With Christopher Frayling Producer JOHN BOUNDY

with Alexander MacLeod

In the Cage (2) long wave only

long wave only

ARTUR BALSAM (piano)
Chopin Three Mazurkas. Op 63
Mozart Rondo in A minor
(k 511), Adagio in a minor (K 540)
Chopin Nocturne in B major. Op 32 No 1
(First broadcast on R3) long wave only

long wave only