with Peter Hobday 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Fostering and Adoption In National Foster Care Week two experts join
Barbara Myers to answer your questions about taking a child into your home - and into your family. Almost 40,000 children in Britain are fostered each year. How are foster parents recruited and how much help do they get once they've opened their door to a child in need? What are your legal rights - and those of the child, in fostering and adoption? In the studio are
Christine Reeves , director of the National Foster Care Association, and Tony Hall , director of the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am * HELPLINES: page 75
Featuring the finalists in a 210,000 competition. 7: Link-Up Express
Marjorie Lofthouse meets 26-year-old
John Pepin who runs a special delivery service in Staines, Middlesex.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Calling Back by NEAL MASON
Read by David Dooley
Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales
NEM, p 62; Fairest Lord
Jesus (BBC HB 138); Psalm 24; Exodus 1, vv 8-22;
My God, my Father make me strong (BBC HB 357) long wave only
Unicorn Calling by JUDY ALLEN
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... my blood runs cold to meet
In pyjamas and bare feet With a great big hairy spider in the bath.
(FLANDERS AND SWANN)
Large spiders can climb vertical walls with ease. so why do they seem incapable of climbing out of the bath? The naturalists answer more of your wildlife questions. Presenter Peter Jones Producer
CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON BBC Bristol
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with John Howard
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ChairmanRobertRobinson James Bolton
(vice principal of sixth-form college) Arthur Thomas
(retired office manager) Keith Mills (health service administrator) dive Evans (cost clerk) including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions by IAN GILUES Producer RICHARD EDIS
Presenter Sir Robin Day
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Teenage glue-sniffers: Why do they do it? What can be done? ANDREA ADAMS talks to parents and teachers at an adult education course in Salisbury.
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A Tulip, a Sword, a Stone by CARLOS CERDA and OMAR SAAVEDRA SANTIS translated by MARGARET ETALL
Exequiel Soto , a retired Chilean music teacher, is about to leave for a week's inclusive holiday, but at the airport he witnesses the arrest of a former student. His holiday turns out to be full of surprises when he decides to stay in Santiago in an attempt to help.
Other parts played by ROSAUND ADLER and GWYNN BEECH
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
What a heart-breaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection. When you take the field for authors you will be safer without a breastplate than a backplate. They will not combine against the crook publisher and the sweating editor, but they will combine against you with the fervour of crusaders.
(G. B. SHAW )
Derek Parker tells the story of the Society of Authors which, this year, celebrates the centenary of its foundation.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol
Woddis On... page 81
Hunt the Slipper (2)
with Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including
Financial Report
The last of three programmes on literary life in Hungary
Written and presented by Norman di Giovanni Censorship and the Future Not even the underground writers and editors want to see the total abolition of censorship, but there are many aspects of the state-run publishing houses which many
Hungarian writers would like to see changed. But caution is essential if the progress of the last 15 years is not to be jeopardised. with GYORGY SOMLYO
MIKLOS VAJDA.
MIKLOS JOVANOVICH , OTTO ORBAN
FERENC JUHASZ. IMRE SZASZ and LASZLO RAJK
Reader HENRY STAMPER Series adviser
GEORGE CUSHING Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM
Compiled and presented by John Carroll The last of three programmes of poetry and prose evoking famous people and famous events.
The Legend of King Arthur Readers CHRISTOPHER SCOTT andCLIVE panto
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
What's new in medical science? How well are the , doctors looking after us?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP'S surgery.
Producer Julian BROWN
The Lonely Earthworm Australian earthworms may be 12 feet long and Indian worms may climb trees, but the British earthworm has become an award-winning labourer in the recycling industry. Whatever next? Peter
France burrows into the tale of the earthworm.
Producer MEUNDA BARKER BBC Bristol
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]8.30-10.0 pm Book, 92.95, from [address removed]
by Anthony Smith
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Against the Stream (7)
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