Presented by Brian Redhead and Michael Stewart with Peter Hobday at the Liberal Party Assembly in Bournemouth
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 5

Colin Semper airs your comments, complaints and queries about the BBC. Producer JANET THOMAS

Illusions by LISA TAYLOR
Read by Shirley Dixon

From the Chapel of Unity, Methodist College, Belfast NEM, p89; Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277);
Psalm 46 (Plainsong Tone 5); Matthew 5, w 25-34 (Rsv); All my hope on God is founded (Michael) BBC Northern Ireland Stereo

There are around 64 breeds of sheep in Britain today, all descended from one of the first animals to be domesticated - the mouflon.
Joe Henson follows the sheep's journey from the wild. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Presenter Pattie Coldwell

Presenter Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by TIM munro Script by SUE LIMB Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Cat and the Fiddle by JO MANNING WILSON
2.25 Sounds, Words and Movement The Magic Box: Sounds Presenters jill shilling and PAUL BURA
2.40 Listen! Journey Through Badlidrempt (1)

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
On Her Majesty's Reading List: children's author,
Dick King-Smith , talks about his writing. There's a tangle of otters; the odd barn owl or two; and Sweet Substitute, a local all-woman group, provide music from the 30s, broadcast live in front of an audience at the Victoria Rooms in Clifton to mark the BBC's 50th anniversary in Bristol.
Tickets from the Colston Hall Bar Office, Colston Street, Bristol [Postcode removed]
Producer JENNI MILLS
BBC Bristol
The Fall of the Sparrow (13)

by HOWARD SPRING freely adapted for radio by KEN WHITMORE
7: Nothing but the Truth, Almost Period 1914-1919, with a brief scene in 1935 Directed by TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester Stereo

The playwright Henry Livings muses on some of his experiences as an actor. BBC Manchester

The British road network is being pounded to bits. Tom Maddocks finds out why highways constructed only a few years ago are cracking up under the strain of today's increased loads. The programme asks how much does the economy depend on a good road network, and includes contributions from transport experts, industrialists, and road-users, and poses the question: will financial cutbacks mean that, unless drastic steps are taken, we could be on the roads to ruin?
Producer FRANCES MACDONALD (Repeated: Wednesday 11.30 pm)

Before the Wind Changed 5: Mannie and the Novaks
The 'good' Mr Novak of Cape Town provides the author with a job - and the impetus to shake the dust of Africa off his feet.

Presenters Susannah Simons and Richard Bath

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs with TOM BOSWELL , ERIC TOBITT and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS Producer JOHN BELL
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)

with Dilly Barlow
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am) Stereo

A personal portrait

The Rt Hon Sally Oppenheim , MP
The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp David Penhaligon , mp and Max Hastings from Bristol.
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Oklahoma - where prohibition ruled until 1959 - to finally allow liquor to be openly sold. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer KEVIN JACKSON

Stars and Bars (5)

Presented by Richard Kershaw in London and Janet Cohen at the Liberal Party Assembly in Bournemouth
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0

11.0 Harvest of Dust 'When my grandparents settled here, it was covered by a thick forest. Now all you can see is wide open space - it is everywhere.' (Farmer from Upper Volta) Deserts are on the march. West Africa's Sahel region is one of the worst affected. Desertification is a man-made problem caused by too many people pressing too hard on a fragile environment. But is there a man-made solution? HUGH PRYSOR-JONES investigates. Producer GAYNOR shutte
11.40 Victims of Crime When a crime has been committed, the criminal attracts the attention of the police, the courts, the psychiatrists and the social workers. The victim is often overlooked and left to pick up the pieces unaided by the state. But now more help is on the way. STEPHEN BEARD reports on a better deal for the victims of crime. Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE

with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by IAN BROWN. RICHARD QUICK . PAUL B. DAVIES. MARTIN BOOTH .
PETE SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER . DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER
(Repeated: Saturday 5.25 pm)

12.30 Advanced level: English Harold Pinter Part 2