A meditation for the beginning of a new day.
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
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
Dressmaking
Natural fabrics are back in fashion for the spring and summer. Does working with cotton and linen require special care? Can ready-pleated fabric be used for sleeves as well as concertina skirts?
What kind of sewing-machine should you buy if you're a beginner?
Betty Foster , fashion and sewing consultant, joins
Sue MacGregor to answer your questions.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
The Summer Child by SHIRLEY MITCHELL
Read by Emrys James
'I've brought my boy!' she said. 'He must stay while I sort things out.'
Producer GWYN Richards BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 114; Immortal love for ever full (EH 408); Wash me throughly (Wesley); Mark 1, vv 40-45; Thine arm, 0 Lord, in days of old (BBC HB 382) Stereo
'If I add peanuts to the food on my bird-table, the greenfinches know instantly - but how?' The team answers your Wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Paul Heiney with the latest news and advice for consumers.
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 Questions compiled by PETER MOORE Producer PETE ATKIN
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: How the Rooster Saved the Day by Arnold LOBEL
2.5 History: Long Ago The Wars Against Napoleon (RV) by IAN SORLEY
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (16) by DEREK FARMER
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): The Wizard's Boy by IRIS MACFARLANE adapted by PADDY BECHELY
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Living with Cancer: DAME MARY Donaldson , London's first woman Lord Mayor, talks about the personal concerns which had to be overcome in order to fulfil her public role. The Summer of the Barshinskeys (6)
The Great Feast by MANNU BHANDARI dramatised by WILLIAM ASH
A young man is found dead in his Indian village. While it is obvious to all that there has been an official cover-up, it is equally obvious that everyone of political substance wants to use the incident for his own ends.
Saxena, a local police officer. might have to take a stand in pursuit of the truth.
Directed by PENNY GOLD Stereo
To the average citizen of Leamington Spa, the name Bo probably does not mean very much. Yet Bo is the African town with which Leamington Spa is twinned.
This is not an official twinning: Third World twinning is organised by well-meaning individuals hoping to do some good for their less fortunate counterparts. There are now perhaps a dozen of these links between British towns and places in the Third World.
But how much do they know of the people and the places they are trying to help? Are all their efforts worthwhile? Anne Brown went to Sierra
Leone in West Africa to try to find out the reactions of the people of Bo.
Producer ROY RONNIE BBC Birmingham t HELPLINES: page 69
Old Glory (7)
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Roger Finnigan Producer JOHN DRURY Editor BRIAN WALKER
(Repealed tomorrow at 4.0 pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery. Producer JULIAN BROWN
As far as the musical is concerned, Broadway has moved to London - thanks largely to the talents of Andrew Lloyd Webber , creator of Evita, Cats and Starlight Express. William Davis discovers what gives him A Touch of Midas.
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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A series of eight programmes 2: Barbados: Colonial Ghosts
Novelist Joseph Hone tells the story of his journey through the Caribbean islands - discovering, among the great houses of Barbados, uneasy spirits of both slave and planter.
Presented by Paul Allen
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
The Doves of Venus by OLIVIA MANNING abridged in 12 episodes by VIVIEN CREEGOR
Read by SHEILA GRANT (12) Producer DAVID SPENSER
(Starting tomorrow: three stories by Malachi Whitaker )
Presented by Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Crisis in Education In the second of four programmes PROFESSOR TED WRAGG turns his attention to the curriculum and the examinations system, and looks to the Scottish experience of new 16-plus exams for a hint of what the future holds.
followed by an interlude
12.30 Technology: Study Skills
3: Structures
and at 12.45 4: Energy
1.0 New Developments in Technology Education: 2: Department of Trade and Industry - British Schools Technology
BST Director Geoffrey Shilto talks to Graham Tayar
