A meditation for the beginning of the new day with Robert McLeish

Presented by Brian Redhead in London and John Timpson at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 2

Asthma
Over two million people in the United Kingdom suffer from asthma. Many of them are children. What new treatments are being developed?
T. J. H. Clark , Professor in Thoracic Medicine at Guy's Hospital, and Dr Robert Davies , consultant chest physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, answer your questions.
Judith Chalmers is in the Chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am

Producer ZAREER MASANl

The Sea Horse by DYMPNA CUNMNGHAM
Read by Catherine Gibson Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland

NEM, p 54; Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372); Psalm 142; 1 Samuel 16, vv 14-23; Jesu, lover of my soul (BBC HB 145) Stereo

Plenty, perhaps, for Emma Johnson , this year's Young Musician of the Year.
Obviously talented, she was also well supported at school. But, with the present cut-backs, do enough schools provide support for music? Shelley Bovey investigates Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

by ANTONY JAY and JONATHAN LYNN
The Compassionate Society In which the Minister, as usual, doesn't know his ACAS from his NALGO.
Other parts
NARISSA KNIGHTS, BERNARD BROWN and ARNOLD DIAMOND
Adapted for radio by the producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm) Stereo

Presenter Susannah Simons

1.55 Listening Corner Presented by kim CLIFFORD Storyteller CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP Today's story Albert The Running Bear by BARBARA ISENBERG and SUSAN WOLF
2.5 History: Long Ago Chaucer's London
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (4)
2.20 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): The Green Book (1) Settlement on Shine by JILL PATON WALSH adapted by EDWARD KELSEY

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Care and Repair:
JOHN FITZMAURICE MILLS in the first of a series in which he will help you to preserve your heirlooms and treasures. The Tiger and the Rose written and read by VERNON SCANNELL abridged in nine parts by JACK SINGLETON (1)
'Between the ages of 14 and 17, I was being painfully torn apart by what seemed the irreconcilable passions for boxing and literature.'
(Music: Langford's Rhapsody for Comet and Brass Band)

Life Story by ADRIAN REID
Only two more sales stand between super-confident salesman Don and the winning of the Firm's Salesman of the Year Award. Then Caspar enters his life ...
Directed by GERRY JONES Stereo

Ski-ing across country is centuries old, but the idea of ski-ing downhill is very much a British invention. Michael Smee traces the uphill struggles faced by the early downhill skiers and chronicles the evolution of a prosaic and strenuous means of crossing snow-covered mountains into a worldwide leisure pursuit and an Olympic sport. Producer FRANK WARWICK
(Going Ski-ing!, a newcomer's guide to ski-ing at home and abroad: next Sunday 4.30 pm VHF)
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Stepping Westward (12)

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

with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

(Repeated: Wednesday 1.40 pm) Written by JOANNA TOYE Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Reporter Michael Robinson Producer ROGER FINNIGAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wednesday 4.0 pm)

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care -from the research laboratory to the GP's surgery.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Repeated: Thursday 10.0 am)

Pink Pigeons and Golden Lions The only island in the world where you will find gorillas and St Lucia parrots living alongside golden lion tamarins and white-eared pheasants.
Jeremy Mallinson invites Pat Morris and Derek Jones to meet the stars and successes of Jersey Zoo during its 25th Anniversary year.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL

Castle Kennedy
Professor Alan Gemmell continues his meanderings through Britain when he visits Castle Kennedy Gardens, near Stranraer in south-west
Scotland, where the grand scale of the gardens owes much to the influence of Versailles.
Producer MURDOCH M. MCPHERSON BBC Scotland
(Castle Kennedy Gardens are to be found on the A 75, four miles east of Stranraer)

Presented by Michael Oliver Producer RICHARD DUNN

I Heard the Owl Call My Name (2)

Presented by Janet Cohen on VHF/FM until 11.0

11.0 The Chip Shop

In the last of ten programmes Ann Kirch evokes a vivid moment from Britain's history.
10: Dr Johnson and Mr Boswell (First broadcast on World Service)

followed by an interlude

Voix de France: French V
12.30 3: Programme varié by YVES AUBERT
12.50 4: Je ne peux pas supporter.... by TONY STAPLES