with John Timpson and Peter Hobday
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6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25V .8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Dau
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament

Cancer
Perhaps the most dreaded sentence one can ever hear is ' I am afraid it is cancer '. But it is not necessarily a death sentence So how often is cancer cured?
When it cannot be cured. can it be arrested? Can any forms be prevented? Does diet matter?
Call Judith Chalmers with your own questions and experiences of this often unnecessarily frightening disease. With her are Ian Burn.
President of the British Association of Cancer Surgeons: and Albert Singer , consultant in gynaecology at the Royal North and Whittington Hospitals in London. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lints open from SO am

BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in.

It's Sad About Impo by w. W.J. KIRBY
Read by Dilluyn Owen
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

NEM, p 38: The Lord is king! (BBC HB 26):
Psalm 46; Matthew 4, vv 1-11: 0 thou who earnest from above BBC HB 362) long wave only

Mother and Daughter by GRAHAM SWANNELL with Avril Elgar as Joan. the mother and Joanna David as Harriet, her daughter She lives in a large house with memories of her ex-colonial past. Late in life her husband has left her, but she will not accept the fact. Nor can she cope with the demands which her lonely state make upon her. Her daughter comes to visit to see if she ran be of any help ...
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (Atril Elgar is a National Theatre player; Joanna Davidis in The Cherry
Orchard' at the Haymarket Theatre, London) long wave only

Mike Madelin ,
Peter Ferns and Mike Stoddart answer more of your natural history questions. Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 5.0 pm) long leave only

with Paul Helney
David Tench solves some of your legal problems.

Round Six NEW YORK
Anthony Qulnton (Chairman) with Brendan Gill , author and theatre critic of the New Yorker and Shana Alexander , journalist and author LONDON
Louis Allen 'Chairman) with Irene Thomas
John Julius Norwich Question researcher BERNICE COUPE
Producer TREVOR HILL in New York with ALASTAIR WILSON in London BBC Manchester
( Repeated; Thurs 6.30 pm)

Presenter Sir Robin Day

Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Who Knows Bestf: in the first of her second series on childcare, PAT ROWE. herself a mother of a 2 year old, has again been looking at how parents react to expert auvice in baby books starting with the problem of sibling rivalry: how to stop little Johnnybeatingthenew baby over the head. I Start Counting (12) long wave only

by Andrew Lind
Going to an old people's home, however high class it may be, seems to the Squadron Leader to be a signal of defeat. He longs to make one more gesture of defiance and not just to give up and grow old gracefully and he finds some surprising allies.

My Kind of Folk (1)
Jim Lloyd begins a week of varied views on the traditional music of the British Isles.

Sixty years ago, long before the microchip revolution, radio and electronics were mostly pursued by dedicated and often eccentric amateurs. Today, in spite of the mass market for computers and hi-fi, there's still, it seems, room for the lone
' electromaniac '. John Wilson delves into the far from-extinct subculture of micro-freaks, amateur spacecraft builders and do-it-yourself television broadcasters. Producer DAN ZERDIN A BBC World Service production

How Green Was My Valley (2)

with Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn

(Postponed from 1 Nov)
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)

( Repeated : Wed 1.40 pm)

Geoff Watts reports
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Repeated: Sal 3.0 pm)

Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
(Repeuted: Wed 4.10 pm)

Six lurches through
England by Ray Gosling , not quite in the wake Of J. B. PRIESTLEY
5: Forever Ambridge1Y' JB saw the Cotswolds as the least spoiled region of England: ' a fairytale of grey old stones and misty valleys '. But for all its charm, he found ye olde tea shoppes and 1930s commercialism encroaching on traditional ways. In this journey. RG discovers a village in the middle of England as real and as enduring as Ambridge ... Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

News. views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA IIESIIEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm

Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition which includes reviews of Jean Seberg , the new musical by Marvin Hamlisch. directed bv Peter Hall , based on the life of the American film actress who shot to instant fame in the title role of Otto Preminger 's St Joan ; and ' Reg Butler 1913-1991 '. a major exhibition of over a hundred sculptures and drawings at the Tate Gallery, London. Producer
RICHARD DANNERMAN

with Alexander MacLeod

The first of six entertainments to help you beat the weather with David Barlow.
Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis and their special guests The Little Big Band
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE ( Repeat)

Sour Sweet (2) long wave only

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