with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
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
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

In the first of a four-part series, Harry Soan reflects on his 18 years of retirement. A one-time Baptist minister, turned farmer, he has learned to come to terms with the o life he leads.
Producer JANE MARSHALL
BBC Birmingham

Presented by Peter Evans Producer CLIFF SPENCER

Dreams by USA TAYLOR
Read by Elizabeth Proud

God or Mammon?
NEM, p 25; Forth in thy name (BBC HB 406); Jesu, lead my footsteps ever
(Christmas Oratorio); Mark 12, vv 1-17; Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258)

The season of gambolling lambs, daffodils and mad March hares - or so the romantics would have us believe.
Caroline Parsons celebrates the arrival of spring, asks some seasonal questions and shatters a few vernal cliches.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

The Riddle of the Sphinx Less than a thousand miles to the south of Giza, site of the most famous Egyptian sphinx, live monkeys with 'breasts like women, child-like voices, and chests bare up to the neck' - the Sphinxes or Gelada baboons of Ethiopia.
Presenter Robin Dunbar Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

Consumer news, information and advice with Pattie Coldwell
Full details of this week's programmes on Fact Sheet 15 send a sae to You and Yours, Room
4099, Broadcasting House London [Postcode removed]

Presenter Brian Widtake

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
And I Don't Want to Live This Life:
Nancy Spungen was notorious in her life - and violent death - as the girlfriend of the punk rock star Sid Vicious.
Her mother
DEBORAH SPUNGEN. talks about the effect her difficult and sometimes demented daughter had on her family.
Producer JENNI MILLS BBC Bristol
A Loving Mistress (2)

by CHARLES DICKENS (3)

Seven variations on the theme of love, written and presented by P. J. Kavanagh 2: Love Praising
Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE and BONNIE HURREN Producer
MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol

Three programmes in which Molly Price-Owen , aided and abetted by literary examples, discovers how forensic science can bring a criminal to book.
2: Hanging buy a Thread A single lmm length of fibre can connect a suspect with a crime; a miniscule thread-like mark on a bullet can irrefutably point to the gun.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

Futility by WILLIAM GERHARDIE abridged in ten parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by ROGER REES (10) Producer IAN COTTERELL

with Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons

with LAURIE MACMILLAN including
Financial Report

with Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport with help from ALANAH MARTIN
TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)

with Margaret Howard Producer KATE FENTON

A personal portrait

Clive Jenkins , General Secretary of ASTMS
Michael Winner , film producer
Jacqui Lait , parliamentary advisor, Chemical Industries Association
Bel Mooney, writer and broadcaster at Petersfield, Hampshire Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

President Reagan snubs claims that the CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports has damaged shipping from around the world. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am)

with Natalie Wheen
Producer KEVIN JACKSON

I'm Not Complaining by RUTH ADAM abridged in 12 parts by VIVIAN CREEGOR
Read by GWEN TAYLOR (10)

long wave only

long wave only

with Bill Wallis David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by IAN BROWN. JAMES HENDRIE ,
RICHARD QUICK ,
JOHN LANGDON. PAUL B. DAVIES .
MARTIN BOOTH , ALAN WHITING.
STEVE PUNT . PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm) long wave only