Presenters 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 DAVID HITCHINSON
7.25* 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Bob Symes, steam enthusiast and amateur cook. deserts his kitchen and sallies forth in search of leisure occupations suitable for a gentleman of increasing age and girth.
Anything goes - as long as it doesn't require money, athleticism or genius.
4: The Call of the Wild ...
Mountains are easier to scale if a trek pony does the leg work. Producer KATE FENTON

Father Unknown by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by HARRY BELL Read by David March

NEM. p 21; Praise my soul, the King of heaven (BBC HB 15);
Psalm 65; Hebrews 12, vv 11-29; Dear Master, in whose life I see (BBC HB 319): Stereo

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas goes on a fishing expedition and finds out about this year's salmon shortage.
Also, there's a visit to the Ulster Folk Museum where the life of a farming community is portrayed as it would have been at the turn of the century. And Mollie Harris continues her walk along the Cotswold Way to the picturesque village of Painswick in Gloucestershire. There she meets a family who fashion not just furniture, but wrought iron too, all at the bottom of their garden.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

Were it not for man the horse would probably be extinct.
Joe Henson and an Exmoor pony called Crusader look at the long partnership between man and horse.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Presenter Pattie Coldwell

Stereo

Presenter Brian Widlake

DAVE ARTHUR and TONI ARTHUR with some games to play

Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Women in the Law: now half the entry to the legal profession in Scotland are women, do they get equal opportunity to reach the top? DAVID CALDER reports.
JIMMY MACK talks to JEAN-PIERRE GLAYROUSE , a confectioner from Bordeaux practising his art in the unlikely surroundings of a West Highland village. Producer COUN CALEY BBC Scotland
The Greengage Summer (5)

by DAPHNE DU MAURIER dramatised for radio in four parts by BRIAN GEAR
3: Mary became lost in the darkness after trying to follow her Uncle Joss over the moors. She was found by Francis Davey , the Vicar of Altarnun, to whom she confided her suspicions about what was happening at Jamaica Inn ... Narrator GEORGE RAISTRICK
Other parts were played by HUBERT TUCKER , DAVID HYDE and JACK HARDING
Directed by BRIAN MILLER
BBC Bristol Stereo

Ray Barron reflects on encounters with four people, who tried to leap from the Third World to the West. 4: Siri the Sri Lankan
BBC Manchester

A series of three programmes in which Jenni Mills investigates how to make the best use of the National Health Service. 1:GP Care
The average length of consultation with your GP is seven minutes. What is the best way to use this time, and to use his service generally?
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS :

Under Plum Lake (2)

Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons

with CUVE ROSLIN including Financial Report

with Clive Jacobs
ALANAH MARTIN , TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON EVANS Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)

with Margaret Howard Producer UBBY SPURRIER
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am) Stereo

A personal portrait.

Lord Marsh John Mortimer , QC Clare Francis and Ken Livingstone at the Haslemere Festival in Surrey.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.10 pm)

Democrat convention ends with Mondale-Ferraro as running mates for the forthcoming presidential elections. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sunday 9.15 am)

The Rector of Haworth
An impression of The Rev
Patrick Bronte , written and performed by Denys Hawthorne. a performance for which he was nominated Best Actor in the 1984 Sony Radio Awards
Born Patrick Brunty at Emdale, Co Down on 17 March 1777, he studied at St John's College,
Cambridge, entered Holy Orders and became, in time, the Rector of Haworth in Yorkshire.
' ... I do not deny that I am somewhat eccentric. Had I been numbered among the calm, sedate, concentric men of the world, I should not have been as I now am, and I should in all probability never have had such children as mine have been.' Producer PAUL MULDOON
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster)

Among the Russians by COLIN THUBRON abridged in ten parts by THE AUTHOR Read by JOHN ROWE 10: Kiev to the West
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Presenter Richard Kershaw

Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Paul B. Davies
Written by IAN BROWN , RICHARD QUICK, JOHN LANGDON , PAUL B. DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH,
PETE SINCLAIR , STUART SILVER,
DAVID COHEN , PETER HICKEY and others Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER (Repeated: Saturday 5.25 pm)
11.0 12.0
Study on 4 11.0 Back on Course
Last of six programmes.
This week MARGARET KORVING visits Manchester and Nottingham where people are retraining in engineering and other technologies. Series producer
GORDON HUTCHINGS
11.30 Euromagazine
Three programmes of interviews from Italy. Edizione italiana (2) Gli italiani, le superstizioni e la religione
Presentatori DENISE DE RÓME e
ENRICO VERDECCHIA
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