Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM TICKELL
7.0.8.0 Today's News
Read by DAVID HITCHINSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

The Weather
How accurately can the Weather be forecast? Is it
Possible to foresee three days, a week, of perhaps even the summer ahead? Do animals, birds and flowers show signs of climatic conditions to come? Is the pattern of the weather changing?
Martin Morris , Assistant Director, Head of Public
Services at the Meteorological Office, and Bill Foggitt , whose family records of nature and the Weather go back to 1831, are in the Tuesday Call studio to answer your questions.
In the Chair Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman 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.

A Disgrace to School. Religion and Country
Written and read by Jude Collins
'We had a tradition, you see that every St Patrick's Day the Bishop came to our school to mutter his way through a slow Latin Mass and deliver a sermon that lasted about five weeks. Then, about noon, we were set loose beyond the school gates.
Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland

NEM, p 21; Lord, teach us how to pray aright (BBC HB 344); Lord s Prayer; Mark 9, w 14-29;
Christian, dost thou see them (BBC HB 339) Stereo

'Our lost tortoise was eventually found alive - at the bottom of the garden pond! How long can a tortoise survive under water?'
The team gives deep thought to your Wildlife questions. Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Presented by Paul Heiney

Tom Hutchinson looks at the love-hate relationship between a man and a city, a writer and an industry. With personal and professional reminiscences from film critic Dilys Powell , readings by Blain Fairman from Chandler's Hollywood-based novel The Little Sister, and illustrations from some of his films, including portrayals of his most famous character,
Philip Marlowe , by Dick Powell in Farewell, My Lovely and Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep.
Producer WENDY CLAY
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Presented by Hugo Young

1.55 Listening Comer direct from the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition at Earls Court, London Friends and Neighbours Presented by Sandra Kerr and Tony Aitken Storyteller Pat Phoenix
2.5 History: Long Ago The Wars Against Napoleon: The Battle of Trafalgar by IAN SORLEY
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (18)
2 40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): A Horse for Maggie by DOROTHY HORGAN

Introduced by Dilly Barlow Black on White: How far do television and radio take into account the tastes of ethnic minority viewers?
Do programmes accurately reflect the existence of the many different communities in Britain today?
GABRIELLE MACPHEDRAN uncovers some examples of current ethnic minority programming. Her report is followed by a live studio discussion, with representatives of the BBC and Channel 4.
Shadows On Our Skin (6)

Summer Visitors by STEPHEN FAGAN with When Neshat takes his family for a holiday in Devon, he's keen to share with them his affection for the English and their landscape. But his idyll is disrupted by-the clannish hostility of the villagers.
Second holidaymaker .JOHN WEBB Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM Stereo

A chronicle of Clara Butt's impact on King Edward's Antipodean Dominions.
... well, I can't tell you what I feel about it, only, if you have the faintest possible chance of hearing and don % you deserve extermination!
NZ GRAPHIC AND LADIES JOURNAL
Researched and presented by Andrew Green
Producer JANET THOMAS. Stereo

Miss Mole (7)

Presented by Robert Williams and Carole West continued on VHF/FM 5. 50-5. 55

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Stereo

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer PAUL CAMPBELL Editor BRIAN WALKER

AIDS was first recognised in 1981. It's fatal, it's catching and its incidence is increasing. But does it represent a major threat to the public at large?
Geoff Watts distinguishes medical facts from media fantasy, and reports on what can be done for those at risk. Producer ALISON RICHARDS

Five documentary reports by Bernard Jackson
2: Treasures and Treasury
The Vatican owns a vast and priceless artistic heritage, yet consistently pleads poverty. Why does the Vatican need money, where does it get it from, and how did it become enmeshed in financial scandal? Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
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4: Dominica: Paradise Regained Moving up through the Caribbean, novelist
Joseph Hone arrives on the unspoilt island of Dominica, discovering a world before the fall.

Presented by Paul Allen Producer CARROLL MOORE

The Green Man (7)

11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0

Crisis in Education In the last of four programmes, PROFESSOR TED WRAGG examines the state of the teaching profession and discusses proposed changes with some of the people involved. Series producer CHRISTOPHER STONE

followed by an interlude

Help Yourself to Mathematics Unit 2 Ratio and Scale Factors Ratio and Similarity Ratio: Areas and Volumes