Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
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
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Pigeon Fancying
Pigeons have been admired for hundreds of years, both for their beauty and for their homing instinct. How do you establish a loft? What do judges look for in show-birds? Do fancy breeds require more care than racing pigeons? How do you train birds to return to a new loft?
Albert Tarleton , racing pigeon keeper for over 30 years, and Rod Wright , Secretary of the National Pigeon Association, home in on your questions.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am

by IAN J. RANKIN
Read by Tony Roper Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland

NEM, p 102; A gladsome hymn of praise we sing (BP 1); Psalm 34, w 1-10; I Corinthians 9, v 24-10, v 5, 11-13; Lord of all hopefulness (BBC HB 309) Stereo

'I was amazed and horrified when one of the pelicans in St James's Park suddenly swallowed a nearby pigeon, feathers, claws and all. Is this usual?'
Clive Catchpole ,
Michael Clegg and Denis Owen digest some more of your Wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Presented by Paul Heiney

A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
(Stereo)

Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today's songs: Favourite Things
2.5 History: Long Ago The Canal Builders by ARTHUR SCHOLEY
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (15)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): A Walk in Wolf Wood 3: The Broken Chain

Introduced by Sue MacGregor The New Women of Eritrea: JIM FISH reports on a recent visit to this famine-stricken land in the Horn of Africa, where women are playing a leading role in the struggle for independence.
Appointment with Venus (4)

The Corsaint
A Tale of Miracles by ADRIAN MOURBY
It is 995. and Aldhun, exiled Bishop of Lindisfame, has been warned in a dream to flee Cunacaestir before it is destroyed by the Danes. He is to take with him the body of St Cuthbert, carried on a corsaint - a handcart stacked with treasure. But, for
Cuthbert to desert his own land is considered to be a bad omen....
Other parts played by BILLY FELLOWS , STEPHEN HANCOCK , ANNE JAMESON and ALAN MASON Music composed by STEPHEN HANCOCK
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham Stereo

Seventy years ago this month the first St Dunstan's Home was opened to look after men who had been blinded at the front. The home was the idea of the publisher Sir Arthur Pearson, founder of the Daily
Express, and a blind man himself. He wanted to train men to overcome their blindness and return to as normal lives as were possible in his words: 'to learn to be blind'.
St Dunstan's has continued to train men and women blinded during service to their country, in the First World War, Second World War, Northern Ireland, and the Falklands Campaign, as well as in peacetime.
Presented by John Hosken Producer HELEN GILL

From Russia with Love
5: The Mouth of Marilyn Monroe

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Stereo

Reporter Stuart Simon Producer PAUL CAMPBELL Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester

Reporter Geoff Watts Producer JULIAN BROWN

Frederick Forsyth used to be a reporter for the BBC. Like many reporters, he was always about to write 'the book'. But his book turned out to be The Day of the Jackal, and it set him on the path to becoming a millionaire. Just how rich is he? William Davis finds out. Producer HELEN ROBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
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In the last of the series,
The Rt Hon Michael Foot , mp, former Leader of the Labour
Party, explains his fascination with the letters and journals of the poet Lord Byron.
Presenter Frances Donnelly Producer MIRIAM NEWMAN
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)

Presented by Paul Allen Producer DANIEL DODD

The Doves of Venus (2)

Presented by Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0

Staying in Business The last of six programmes presented by PETER HOBDAY Money for Growth Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS

followed by an interlude VHF/FM joins at 12.10

Deutsch fur die Oberstufe
12.30 13: Schreib doch mal! Ruf doch mal an! Die Deutsche Bundespost
and at 12.50 14: Das Vermochtnis by Heinrich Boll adapted by Milo Sperber