Presented from Northern
Ireland by John Johnston BBC Northern Ireland

Presenters Brian Redhead and Michael Stewart with 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 CUVE ROSUN
7.25*, 8.25 Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor Julian HOLLAND

with Harriet Cass

by Sue Townsend abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Proud with Nicholas Barnes as Mole

The sequel to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 which takes him from his 15th birthday

Producer PIPPA BURSTON Stereo

Winners and Losers Three stories about a Gloucestershire comprehensive school by MICHAEL A. PEARSON Read by Timothy Kightley
1: The Bubble-Gum Champion Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

NEM, p 17; 0 Master it is good to be (EH 235); Psalm 89; Luke 9, vv 28-36; All my hope on God is founded (BP 3) Stereo

Brian Johnston is in Wensleydale. He follows the valley of the River Ure from
Hawes to Laybum. Local cheese, hang-gliding and an unusual method of putting wicks into candles are just some of the stories he hears about. Producer JOHN D. WILSON BBC Bristol

Presented by Norman MacCaig Readers FINLAY WELSH and JUNE BARRIE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol

with Paul Heiney Editor KEN VASS

Minorities Programme
The Station does its best for community relations.
Give 'em enough rope....
(SIR NORMAN TONSIL,
Chairman Radio Active)
Mixing it are:
Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON plus JON CANTER , JOHN DOCHERTY and MORAY HUNTER
Music by PHILIP POPE and STEVE BROWN. Producer JAMIE RIX
(Repeated: Tues 6.30 pm) Stereo

Presenter Michael Charlton Producer DEREK LEWIS

Tony Aitken reads The Trimble Town Band by BERYL DESMOND Producer SUSAN DENNY

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Agent, Schlepper and Confidante. PAT ROWE meets Norma Fames , the woman who according to
Spike Milligan 'has power of attorney over everything in my life except the Execution Squad'.
The Greengage Summer (11) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Musk and Amber by JON MANCHIP WHITE
Stereo

Brantwood, a rambling house on the shore of Coniston Water, was for 28 years the home of one of Victorian England's most eminent writers, John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic, social thinker, moralist.
Michael Oliver visits Brantwood and enquires into the significance of Ruskin's work today. Producer KEVIN JACKSON
(First broadcast in Kaleidoscope)

The Lantern Bearers by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF abridged in ten parts by MONICA GREY
Read by David Davis (1)
The last part of the Roman army is leaving Britain. Those Roman settlers who chose to remain behind cannot believe that their way of life may face collapse at any moment. They strive to retain the civilisation created over long generations. Producer GRAHAM GAULD

with Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF 5.50-5.55

with PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

Stereo

(Repeated: Tuesday 1.40 pm)

Over nine-tenths of the earth's fresh water is locked up in the vast ice sheet which blankets the most remote continent -
Antarctica. Perched precariously on the edge of the frozen expanse are the huts and laboratories where scientists of the British Antarctic survey live and work for months at a stretch.
Peter Evans discovers what research in these extreme conditions has revealed about the ice, the rocks beneath it and the wildlife around the South Pole.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN

with Stanley Ellis
5: Tyneside and Beyond
'In the North-East, there are at least 12 different accents that vary from Ashington where it's very Northumbrian down to Durham where it gets a bit softer, but with that accent everybody knows you come from the North-East.'
(BOBBY HOOPER )
Field research by ROLAND BIBBY

Show of Hands by ALAN HOWE 'You've been moving machinery out of there for going on three months. Strange wagons turning up at weekends, like bummers' men on overtime.... And when the Monday morning shift goes in, there's just an oilstain on the floor where a lathe had been standing.'
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester
Stereo

National Winner
A traditional view of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales. Tonight Dafydd Elis Thomas , socialist and Plaid Cymru mp, takes a critical look at the Festival - its rhyme and reason. Producer RICHARD THOMAS
(First broadcast on Radio Wales)

The Parasites by DAPHNE DU MAURIER abridged in 12 parts by MARGARET ETALL
Read by PENELOPE LEE (6)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF until 11.0

Training Revolution First of three programmes Margaret Korving re-visits some of the people running the new TVEI School Syllabus, and evaluates progress at the end of its first full year. Series producer GORDON HUTCHINGS