Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 4

Richard Baker invites you to join him through the morning. Including
... David Davies taking listeners' comments and questions about one of the important issues of the week in the Thursday Exchange on [number removed]. ... news about what's happening On the Fringes
... Modern Manners explained by Vie Lewis-Smith and Laurie Taylor , in a way that may be inoffensive, helpful and unequivocal, but probably won't be.
Regular items:
The News on the hour from BRIAN PERKINS
10.30 Morning Story
Read by Peter Adamson
19: Never Say Die by JO GILL
10.45 An Act of Worship
... Susan Marling finding out for herself what goes on away from the public's gaze at another event in Marling's Spike.
... the latest episode from the mean streets inhabited by Basil Bond.
... a live link up with commentators in BBC studios nationwide in which stories large and small get aired on Network UK.
Produced by the Rollercoaster unit

Esther Rantzen and Desmond Wilcox cheerfully dig up the half-dozen pieces of music they never want to hear again - and explain why. The music is surprisingly good. Their reasons are just surprising! Devised and presented by Derek Robinson Producer DAVID rayvern ALLEN (First broadcast on R2) Stereo

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
This week James Mason , the wicked man we love to hate. Producer WENDY CLAY

Presenter Gordon Clough

TONY AITKEN reads The Trimble Town Band and the Leaking Roof by BERYL DESMOND

Introduced by Sue MacGregor He Put His Hands on My Head and the Pain Just Floated Away: BARBARA MYERS investigates healing through the laying on of hands. The Dancing Bear (2)

Modes of Discourse by TERENCE LEWIS with and Families often have difficulties in speaking to each other and when Mum has a stroke the problems of communication become acute - it is a struggle for her to make herself understood, but she is not going to give up easily. with HELEN ATKINSON WOOD. MAGGIE MCCARTHY and NARISSA KNIGHTS Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo

Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference
Library, sort out the answers. Producer LUCY LUNT

Teresa McGonagle invites
Simon Brett and Tim Heald to pick some paperbacks. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

The Lantern Bearers (4)

Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF 5.50-5.55

with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

Stereo

(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm)
Written by MARGARET PHELAN Cast for the week:
Mark Hebden. RICHARD DERRINGTON BBC Birmingham

A new definitive history of music written especially for music lovers who suffer from headaches, ranging all the way from a throb in an ancient
Greek's temple to the agony of a modern post-Schoenbergian three-day migraine.
Written by MARTIN BAKER Read by Robin Bailey Producer CATHY WEARING

(Repeated: Friday 10.0 am)

A personal choice of prose and poetry presented by Ian McKellen.
This programme does not include a reading from the telephone directory but does include the Beaufort Scale, poems by D. H. Lawrence, G.M. Hopkins, Wordsworth, Philip Larkin, Brian Patten, a letter from Dr Johnson and an extract from Shaw's Man of Destiny.
(First broadcast on R3) Stereo

Six episodes in the history of diplomacy written and introduced by Derek Wilson 3: The Diplomat as Negotiator Stratford Canning spent 50 years on and off as British Ambassador to the Ottoman
Empire, from Napoleonic times to the Crimson conflict. Not only did he come to be regarded as the greatest negotiator and mediator of the 19th century; he was instrumental in the creation on much-needed reforms at the semi-barbaric
Sublime Porte, Constantinople. with Sean Arnold as Stratford Canning and the voices of MICHAEL DREW
PAUL NICHOLSON , DAVID SINCLAIR Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Of special interest to disabled listeners
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address:
BBC Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW Tel: [number removed]
(Mon-Fri 10.0 am -5.0 pm)

Banana fines, judicial parrots and a goat nibbling the Union Jack ... The first of two
(almost) true accounts of the exploits of Overton, an English Circuit Judge in the British South Pacific Territories.
Based on his own experiences and written by RONNIE KNOX-MAWER
Read by Ian Carmichael Producer KATE FENTON

Portrait of Richard Demarco RICHARD DEMARCO , Scotland's best-known art entrepreneur, speaks to Barbara Bryan about the changes and phases of his Edinburgh gallery since it was first launched 18 years ago. Producer BARBARA BRYAN
(First broadcast on R Scotland)

The Parasites (9)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0

Plato to Nato An introduction to political thought - seven programmes presented by BRIAN REDHEAD
6: Mill and Marx
A BBC Ariel paperback 'Political Thought from Plato to Nato' is available from bookshops price f3.95