A meditation for the beginning of the new day with Stuart Jackman

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by clive roslin
7.45*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Hurt by VERNON SCANNELL Read by Sonia Elliman Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

reflecting on the issues of the day introduced by David Craig Stereo

Is my team ploughing,
That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
When I was man alive?
Memories of rural life in Shropshire early this century inspired by the poetry of A. E. Housman
Reader ANTHONY HYDE ROBERT SALTER (violin)
Reminiscences collected by KEITH SLADE
Producer PETER HOARE

A weekly guide to your rights at work.
4: Trade Union Membership
Do you have a right to join a trade union? Are you guaranteed the right to attend union meetings and elect officials? Can you be sacked for working to rule? If your firm has a closed-shop agreement, can you be sacked if you leave your trade union? In the next week new laws become effective which crucially affect your rights as trade union and non-trade union members.
Paul Heiney explores the controversial area of trade union law as it affects ordinary workers.
Research JOHN BUCKLEY
Producer RICHARD WACHMAN Editor LESLIE ROBINSON

starring Christopher Barrie
Steven Frost and Nick Wilton This week 50 years of RADIO TIMES-at tribute to the professionalism all make this magazine dedication and attention to detail which is so popular.
Written by ROB GRANT and DOUG NAYLOR
Music by PETER BREWIS Producer ALAN NIXON
Stereo

Presenter Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story Plop, The Owl (1)
2.5 Music Box Written and presented by MICHAEL BURNETT and SANDRA KERR
2.20 Living Language The Wanderer (3)
2.40 Newscast Presenter LIBBY FAWBERT

introduced by Sue MacGregor 16-Plus: by 1988, the 16-Plus will replace CSE and O-level examinations. In today's
Talking Point PETER DINES Of the Secondary Examinations Council and JUNE FISHER, head teacher of Catford County
School in London, discuss the implications for pupils, their parents and teaching staff. Cluny Brown (2)

by ALAN ENGLAND with Brian Cox as Phil and Paul Copley as Arnold
Arnold agrees to go with his friend Phil on a hike to a cave, where they intend to sleep rough. Phil is still mourning the loss of his wife and this journey is of great importance to him. Directed by PETER KING Stereo

with Neil Landor
Producer NIGEL ACHESON

Behaving Badly (4)

Presenters Robert Willliams andSusannah Simons

with PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Stereo

(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm)
BBC Birmingham

Introduced by John Timpson Compiled by LAURIE MASON Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Friday 10.0 am)

A follow-up to today's earlier programme which explained your rights as a trade union member and also your right not to join a union.
Paul Heiney puts your queries and comments on this controversial and topical area of law to Rod Thomas, the CBI's Deputy Director of Social Affairs, Tess Gill, Assistant Secretary of the Society of Civil and Public Servants, and barrister Jeremy McMullen. Lines open from 7.0 pm

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 4 WW Phone
[number removed](10.0 am -5.0 pm)

Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD DUNN

Quick Service (4)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0

11.0 Caribbean Links A series of six programmes in which Caribbeans in Britain talk about their continuing links with places from which they have settled here. 4: The Windward and Leeward Islands Reporter KATHY WILLIAMS

followed by an interlude

Deutsch fur die Oberstufe
12.30 7: Deutschland unter den Nazis 1939-45
and at 12.50 8: Siemens - die Geschichte einer Familie und die Geschichte eines deutschen Industriekonzems