Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday with John Timpson reporting from Jordan on HM The Queen's visit.
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

It Speaks Volumes
The way we speak tells others who we are and where we came from. It may even reveal what we do for a living. Why do we speak the way we do? Why does southern
English differ from the northern variety? Are the mass media ironing out our regional differences? Stanley Ellis , expert on dialect and language, joins Sue MacGregor to answer your questions on the English language and its history.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

A Fine Night's Fishing by DAVID J WOOD Read by William MacBain
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
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Evening Class by MATTHEW SOLON
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'When I go into my greenhouse in the evenings the tomato seedlings look as if they have their hands above their heads! Are they making the most of the moonlight?'
The team shed some light on your wildlife questions. Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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with Pattie Coldwell
David Tench tackles your legal problems. This week: Car repairs and servicing

Chairman
Robert Robinson 2: LONDON
Ean Wood (film editor) Alfred Halberstam (solicitor)
Paul Boeuf
(local government officer) Mark Radford (despatch clerk)
The programme includes Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILUES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)

Presenter Sir Robin Day

Introduced by Gillian Reynolds
Training in Care: JUDITH GILMORE reports on Coventry's training scheme for volunteer helpers - especially those who help victims of crime. The Birds Fall Down (9) long wave only

Fragments by OWEN HOLDER with Geoffrey Collins Maggie McCarthy and Rula Lenska
En route to hospital,
Richard thinks back over the events that have led up to his attempted suicide. It all started during his honeymoon in Germany when he met Felix, who was running guns, and Gerda who was looking for someone else to run with. and SCOTT CHERRY ,
NIGEL GRAHAM , ALEX JENNINGS , HILDA SCHRODER and EILEEN TULLY Directed by IAN COTTERELL

Operatic Encounters Edward Downes raises the curtain on some unexpected aspects of his work in the opera house. 1: Beginnings
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

by W. N. P. BARBELLION adapted for radio by DEBORAH SING MASTER with Barbellion - his real name was Bruce Cummings - was a talented naturalist who died in 1919, at the age of 30, from multiple sclerosis. In his Journal, he records his childhood ambition to be a great scientist, his fascination with the world around him, his love of life and his inevitable decline. Other parts played by HEATHER BARRETT ,
TIMOTHY BATESON. BRETT USHER
MARCO FERRARO. PETER ACRE HENRY STAMPER and COLIN STARKEY
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham

Woman and Puppet (4)

with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton

with BRYAN MARTIN including
Financial Report

(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)

Geoff Watts reports
Producer DEBORAH COHEN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)

Reporter Stuart Simon Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)

This evening the Home-ing In team are at the Daily Mail Ideal Home
Exhibition at Earls
Court, London to bring the latest news and products from the world of DIY. Jack Widgery and David Holloway report on some of these new ideas, and Tony Wilkins , Colin Sheffield and Claudia Bloom respond to questions from enthusiasts at the exhibition.
In the Chair
Pamela Donald
Producer ROS COPLAND Editor JIM BLACK

For people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Peter White 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 publications, [address removed]

Six programmes of recollections of working-class childhood 60 years and more ago, selected from oral history collections through
Britain by Stephen Humphries , with music arranged and performed by SANDRA KERR. 5: Courting
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

with Paul Allen
Producer JOHN BOUNDY

The Cone-gatherers (7)

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