Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30. 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25 Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Till Light Didn't Stop Play Do birds enjoy themselves?
Are their activities for survival or partly for fun? Do they yawn or have food fads and struggle with the problem of being overweight? And why do missel-thrushes sing in stormy weather?
Derek Jones accompanied Jim Flegg in a nature trail along the Medway Estuary.
Producer CAROL JEFFERSON-DAVIES
BBC Bristol
Loopy Lou and the Law by w. J. KIRBY
Read by Frank Hennessy
'Three months inside, this is what her gentle soul craved. Three months of guaranteed bed and board....'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
from St Andrew 's and St George's Parish Church, Edinburgh
Led by CAROLYN MCADAM BBC Scotland Stereo
In the third of five programmes about some of Britain's more unlikely houses, Marjorie Lofthouse talks to Arthur Quarmby about his house, built almost entirely underground in Yorkshire.
Producer ELAINE BEDELL BBC Birmingham
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: The Little Train by GRAHAM GREENE
2.5 The Music Box
2.20 Living Language Harry Pay the Pirate (2)
2.40 Newscast
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Tracing Your Tree Back to Adam LAN BRADLEY reports on a visit to the largest genealogical library in the world, in Salt Lake City, USA. The Summer of the Barshinskeys (3)
I Chose Freedom by ROBERT CARVER
What do you do when the authorities think it would be better for you to leave the country? Even though you have two choices, are you sure that your decision is the right one?
With OWEN SCOTT , AARON SWARTZ COLETTE HILLER , MIA
SOTERIOU TREVOR NICHOLS , MELINDA WALKER
GRAHAM BLOCKEY , ALAN THOMPSON and ROBIN SUMMERS
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING Stereo
(John Moffatt is in The Way of The World at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference
Library, sort out the answers. Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Within
BBC Broadcasting House London WlA 1AA
Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEY
Introduced by Hunter Davies
Old Glory (4)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
Stereo
Written by GRAHAM HARVEY Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson Compiled by LAURIE MASON Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Reports from BBC correspondents around the world.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
In 1984 Robin Cousins starred in a new kind of ice show including world-class skaters and a live rock band. In this programme he talks to Martin Jenkins about the show. about his life as a top ice skater and about his plans for the future. Also taking part are
BILL KENWRIGHT. WENDY BURGE and BRIAN KLAVANO
Compiled and produced by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo
A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote; an assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Phone [number removed](10.0 am-5.0 pm)
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer KEVIN JACKSON
The Doves of Venus (9)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
A-level Driving In 1956 a small group of people interested in raising driving standards in Britain founded the Institute of Advanced Motorists. Today the IAM has
75.000 members, all of whom have passed its advanced driving test. DEREK PARKER looks at the work of the Institute, and hears from its President, HRH THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, about his own experience of taking the test. Producer DENNIS SIMMONS
followed by an interlude VHF/FM joins at 12.10
Deutsch fur die Oberstufe
12.30 17: Die moderne Musikindustrie in Deutschland
and at 12.50 18: Stirbt der deutsche Wald? Umweltverschmutzung