Presented from Wales by Handel Jones BBC Wales

with John Timpson 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 PAUUNE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

by WILKIE COLLINS
Read in three parts by David Markham (1)
'What was the fair woman with the knife? The creature of a dream or that other creature from the unknown world, called among men by the name of ghost?'
Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Finding a Place
The A-level exam results are out and some youngsters haven't done as well as they'd expected. What's the next move if you don't have good enough passes for the college or university course you'd hoped to enter?
Put your questions to Joy Sadler , Careers Information Officer of the ILEA Careers Service.
Barbara Myers is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Producer ZAREER MASANI

Voyage Not Completed by NORRIE HEARN
Read by Denys Hawthorne Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland

NEM, p 71; Thou art the way; by thee alone (BBC HB 338); Psalm 104, w 25-38; Acts 5, w 21b-32; Thy kingdom come! (BBC HB 28) Stereo

Poor Wilfred by BARBARA LUCAS with Poor Wilfrid is feeling low. What he needs is a death.
Sounds odd but then he's an odd sort of fellow. But is he going to be in luck?
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON

Jenny Owen , Michael Clegg and Bob Stebbings tackle questions put by an audience at Elmesthorpe, Leicestershire. Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

with Paul Heiney

24: WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND - Second Round
Chairman Robert Robinson Christopher Wright
(British Steel despatch clerk) Ian MacDonald
(public transport official) Lucy Alcorn (teacher)
Joe McReynolds (map curator) including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN P WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm) Stereo

Presenter John Harrison

BEN BAZELL reads Helpers by SHIRLEY HUGHES

Introduced by Jill Burridge
What Colour is Your Toothbrush? The condition of teeth has improved dramatically over the past ten years but progress is patchy throughout the country and, even now, fewer than half of the population go to the dentist. HILARY OSBORN sets out to discover what more is needed from the professionals for that national, natural happy smile. Holiday Farm by EVELYN cox abridged in six parts by ANGELA JESSON
Read by Ann Morrish (1)
'It all began one warm March day. I was weeding the vegetable garden, churning over in my mind the apparently insoluble problem of how to make a living from our 40-acre livestock farm.'

The Man Who Stood in the Sea by MICHAEL CAMPBELL with and
PETER TANFIELD (violin)
When Edward, a violinist, deserts his wife Margaret and children Tamsin and Tish for a cellist in the same orchestra,
Margaret takes the children off to the family cottage in Cornwall. There Tamsin, who is 17, sees a stranger standing in the sea playing a violin.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol Stereo

A portrait of Sir Thomas Bouch, who built more bridges than most, but is remembered for only one - the ill-fated bridge over the Tay which killed 75 people when it fell. Written and presented by Malcolm Jones with RUSSELL DIXON.
RANDAL HERLEY. ANDY RASHLEIGH and PAUL WEBSTER
BBC Manchester

Smith (6)

with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF 5.50-5.55

with PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Stereo

(Repeated: Wednesday 1.40 pm)

A six-part series
4: A World of Difference
In the rest of the industrialised world, organised labour shares many of the problems now challenging the trade union movement in Britain. But although unions face common problems and share common objectives, their approach varies from country to country. Peter Paterson looks at the shifting roles and functions of trade unions in France,
Germany, Japan and the United States. Music performed by SAM RICHARDS and TISH STUBBS Producer CATHY PARKER Series editor
CAROLINE MILUNGTON

Six programmes in which
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. This week in County Durham he finds youngsters boxing. 3: Box On!
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Flatholm is an island in the Bristol Channel, for years farmed and twice a fortress but now a reserve where shelduck and gulls breed, the slow-worms are bigger and the peony and wild leek thrive.
Introduced by Peter France Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone on [number removed]8.30-10.0 pm
Book, 92.95, from PO Box 234, London SE1 3IH
New series

In the manner of Lewis Carroll's Alice, Richard Stanley disappears down a series of holes in the ground to investigate the subterranean world of tunnels, caverns and conduits that thread their way across the country unseen beneath our feet.

In the first of four programmes, he takes a midnight stroll under the Thames and a bizarre bicycle ride through an Oxford sewer with Anthony Burton.

(Stereo/Binaural)

with Michael Oliver
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Five stories by EDNA O'BRIEN 2: The Creature

Presenter Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0

Lending a Hand A series of six programmes 5: Getting the Message Across MAUREEN GALVIN talks to members of an amateur theatre group and of two women's support agencies.