with Brian Redhead and Michael Stewart
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
Part 7
Sue MacGregor introduces a subject of current interest. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the Politics and the people. Producer ZAREER MASANI
The Statistic by CYNTHIA THOMAS
Read by Myfanwy Talog Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales
NEM, p 34; The spacious firmament on high (BBC HB 21); Psalm 98; Acts 3, w 12-18; Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 328): Stereo
Sound Explosion by MICHAEL WALL with and She met him on a train. He said he sold juke boxes. She fell for him and because he seemed keen she asked no further questions. If she had would it have made any difference?
Michaels only happen once in a lifetime.
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER Stereo
Derek Jones puts questions on flightless birds, sea snakes and caterpillars that live in tents, and on other wildlife topics to the naturalists. Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 5.0 pm)
Paul Heiney with the latest news and advice for consumers.
22: NORTH ENGLAND-Second Round Chairman Robert Robinson Susan Hall (student) Thomas Wright
(local government officer)
Clare Chapman (housewife) Leslie Duncalf
(building society executive) Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD edis
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm) Stereo
with Michael Charlton
Doomuch and Doolittle (2) by JOYCE DUNBAR Read by PETER TUDDENHAM
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Stress and How to Control it:
Professor of Psychology JEFFREY GRAY and JUDITH HANN of Tomorrow's World discuss new finds on the biochemistry of stress.
The Dancing Bear (5)
Purely from Principle with Joan is a single parent and by her own admission a far from perfect one but she was determined to bring her son up to be honest and to stand on his own two feet. So what went wrong?
Directed by JOHN CARDY. Stereo
As one of the country's largest landowners, the National Trust is responsible for almost half-a-million acres of countryside and parkland, and getting on for 500 miles of coastline. The way in which the Trust manages that land often means that it has to balance conflicting views when it comes to such issues as walking, hunting, and preserving wildlife and the landscape. Malcolm Billings reports from Trust properties in the Lake District, Devon, Cornwall and the Midlands, and from Brownsea Island, a nature reserve off the Dorset coast.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE Stereo
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The Lantern Bearers (7)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHF 5.50-5.55
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.40 pm)
A six-part series
The days when union leaders were regular callers at No 10 are long gone. Today unions complain that they've been frozen out of the political process. Nick Clarke investigates the unions' attempts to reform their traditional links with the Labour Party - they have often been accused of being the tail that wags the dog - and looks at the aims of political groupings within the trade union movement.
David Bean observes some branches of sporting life which don't make international - or even national - headlines, but which absorb the spare time and energies of their devotees. In the first of six programmes he samples a Northumbrian point-to-point.
1: Win or Lose - We'll Have Some Booze
Producer Gillian HUSH BBC Manchester
Ashdown Forest
The Sussex heathland where darter dragonflies defend their territories, bog bush-crickets chirp and green spiders take seven hours to mate-with the males surviving the experience.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
For people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone on [number removed]8.30-10.0 pm
Written and presented by Vincent Kane
A motley crew of Britons are stranded in Rome Airport. To pass the time, each traveller tells a story and gradually a vivid picture emerges of life in contemporary Britain. The Nurse's Tale
Producer EU Williams BBC Wales
with Michael Oliver Producer DANIEL DODD
The Parasites by DAPHNE DU MAURIER abridged in 12 parts by MARGARET ETALL
Read by PENELOPE LEE (12) Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
Lending a Hand A six-part series for those interested in voluntary service in the community. 3: Here You 're Somebody In this week's programme, which features self-help, MAUREEN GALVIN talks to a group of unemployed men in Liverpool who volunteered to spend a few hours refurbishing a training centre for physically handicapped youngsters. They stayed to work seven days a week.
