with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday and Gerald Williams at the Olympics in Los Angeles
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
7.25*. 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 dosen't require money, athleticism or genius.
5: First find your Ghost ...Do you believe in....? but isn't it worth having a look ...?
Producer KATE FENTON :

The Inheritance by GUY DE MAUPASSANT
(translated by HARRY BELL ) Read by Robert Rietty

NEM, p 13; A gladsome hymn of praise we sing (BP 1); Psalm 91; Acts 2; w 12-21; Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB 323). Stereo

Squirrels use them as nags, monkeys grasp with them, rat kangaroos carry their lunch in them. What are they? Mike Stoddart with tales of tails. Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Presenter John Howard

Stereo

Presenter Brian Widlake

Grandma and the Bouncing Bopper (5) by JANET SORENSEN Read by IRENE HANDL

Introduced from Manchester by Lesley Judd
Scarborough Fare
Max Jaffa , king of the Palm Court evergreens, celebrates his 25th summer season at the 'Queen of Watering Places'.
Last year Durham was the first cathedral to appoint an artist-in-residence. Now the work of VIRGINIA BODMAN is On show for the annual 500,000 visitors.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
The Greengage Summer (10)

by DAPHNE DU MAURIER dramatised for radio in four parts by BRIAN GEAR
4: 'And suppose he is there, he ain't likely to give you a very fond welcome, is he? - No, I ain't lettin' you go into that there house alone and that's that. We'll spy the land and make our plans accordin. And quietly now. This might be dangerous ... '
NarratorGEORGE RAISTRICK
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol Stereo

David Bellamy talks about his first job to KEITH ALLAN.
BBC Manchester

A series of three programmes in which Jenni Mills investigates how to make the best use of the National Health Service. 2: Ante-Natal Care
'On my last appointment at the maternity clinic I got a parking ticket. By the time I knew my money was running out, I was sitting nude in a cubicle waiting to see the obstetrician, and would have lost my place in the queue. To keep us waiting for two hours I think is a bit much.':
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Under Plum Lake by LIONEL DAVIDSON abridged in seven episodes by ZOE BAILEY Read by WAYNE JACKMAN (7) Producer DAVID JOHNSTON

Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continued on VHF 5.50-5.55

with CLIVE ROSUN including Financial Report

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

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)

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

A personal portrait

Jeffrey Archer presents his personal choice of poetry and prose.
With Judi Dench and Alec McCowen
'I'm privileged enough to live in the house where Rupert Brooke lived as an undergraduate, and so it was inevitable to put into this selection The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.'
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.10 pm)
(Stereo)

When being poor at sports can help a man who's fishing for votes. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sunday 9.15 am)

The Best of Bazaar I
The first of two programmes drawn from Radio Ulster's popular miscellany of writing and music.
Producer PAUL MULDOON

The Parasites (5)

Presenter ALEXANDER MACLEOD

Unless you've spent the last two years in Siberia, you will remember the notorious Shifton scandal.
Everyone remembers the headlines
17 March: Airport Gets a Shift On
20 July; Minister Denies Absurd Sex Charges
21 July: Minister Confesses 14 August: Gotcha!
Few people, however, know the whole story.
David Lander now presents a four-part investigation into the scandal and uncovers some extraordinary new evidence. Production assistants
STEPHEN FRY. TONY ROBINSON and JACK KLAFF
Dramatic reconstructions by BRENDA BLETHYN , MARK ARDEN
STEVE FROST. PETER WEAR
JAMES GRIFFITHS , HILDA SCHRODER
MONICA GREY. JON STRICKLAND and SCOTT CHERRY
Research by TONY SARCHET Editor PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Saturday 5.25 pm) (Brenda Blethyn is in 'Benefactors' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
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