with Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead and John Timpson in San
Francisco for the Democratic Party Convention
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
Sue MacGregor introduces a subject of current interest. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
Three programmes in which
William Woollard explores the mind-boggling ideas of the 'the future', from prophecy to rocketry and beyond.
1: Cogwheels in a Crystal Ball Can we see into the future?
Many otherwise down-to-earth people believe that we can, in pre-cognitive dreams. But how? Come to that, what do we mean by 'the future'? Somehow, the strange and the obvious swap places....
Producer JULIAN HITCHCOCK BBC Birmingham
0 HELPLINES: page 75
A Question of Breeding by FIONA WATERS
Read by Mary Riggans
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
NEM, p 122; High in the heavens (BBC HB 9); Psalm 86; Exodus 15, w 1-18; 0 Lord how happy (BBC HB 311) Stereo
Up and Down by HELEN KEITH SMITH
Before she retired, Miss Pettifer never noticed the elderly man who travelled up and down with her in the lift. Now he keeps offering her cups of tea. Can she really be as helpless as that?
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
Tony Soper , David Streeter and Ernest Neal tackle questions put by an audience from the Somerset Trust for Nature Conservation. Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
with Paul Heiney
18: HOME COUNTIEs-Second Round Chairman Robert Robinson Geoffrey Reynolds (retired engineer)
Martyn Berry (teacher) Michael Lyle
(technical college lecturer)
Geoffrey Selwyn (accountant) Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD edis
Presenter Hugo Young
KENNETH SHANLEY thinks about food. Written by LEE PRESSMAN
with Sue MacGregor
Co-operative Housekeeping:
'Entirely too much is expected of women!' That's what women were saying in the early 19th century and the Co-operative Housekeeping Movement was one outcome. HELEN LLOYD has been unearthing its history. The Public Image (5)
by Elaine Feinstein
It could well be a mistake for Jenny Michaelson to go back to Cambridge. After all, it's ten years since she was last there, a young hopeful American scholar. Jenny has changed, the University has changed. But Dr Maurice Williams has not changed at all.
This year is the tenth anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Since then, the island has been totally partitioned, with the Turkish Cypriot minority living in the north, and the Greek Cypriots in the south.
There are marked similarities between Cyprus and Ireland. Both are partitioned and the minority in the north is supported by a major power.
Britain has been responsible for much of the past history of both Cyprus and Ireland.
Mike McKimm, who reported on the recent troubles in Northern Ireland for the BBC, has visited Cyprus ten years after the Turkish invasion to see if, as many claim, Cyprus is John Bull 's other Ireland.
(First broadcast on R Ulster)
The Reverberator (2)
with Robert Williams and Gordon Clough continued on VHF 5.50-5.55
with PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.40 pm)
Reporter Michael Robinson
(BBC Manchester)
(Repeated: Wednesday 4.0 pm)
Tom Vernon takes you inside someone else's working life. Pet Foods
Producer JENNY DE YONG Stereo
A magazine edition
Introduced by Peter France 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
Written and presented by Vincent Kane
A motley crew of Britons is stranded in Rome Airport. To pass the time, each traveller tells a story about themselves. The Air Hostess's Story Producer Eu WILLIAMS BBC Wales
with Richard Mayne Producer JOHN POWELL
Among the Russians 2: Moscow
with Alexander MacLeod in London and Peter Paterson at the Democratic Party
Convention in San Francisco 11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
Nursing Extra A series of seven programmes designed to supplement a nurse's original training with PETER WHITE
6: Ethical Questions
