Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PARRY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8 35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Russell Harty and Sir Harold Acton exchange musical favourites.
Stereo

Susan Marling airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about BBC programmes and policies. Send them to: Feedback. BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Producer JANET THOMAS

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

by JOHN G. MILLER
Read by Sean Barrett
Andrew is a tough, lonely shepherd, living in a farmhouse miles from anywhere. How will his new housekeeper fit in with his life.... and will she? Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 50; 0 thou who earnest from above (BBC HB 362);
Psalm 65; John 14, w 15-27;
Forth in thy name, 0 Lord, I go (BBC HB 406) Stereo

The Holy Tree
Muhammad thought its fruit fit for paradise, its branches sheltered Buddha and its leaves covered the modesty of Adam and Eve. Barry Paine looks at one of nature's marvels. Producer TIM GROUT SMITH BBC Bristol

Consumer Question Time
Visitors to Lifestyle 85 at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, put their consumer problems to a panel of experts.
Presented by Pattie Coldwell

In the first of two programmes Sue MacGregor talks to Wing-Commander Muriel
Volestrangler, FRHS and bar, on the occasion of the recent publication of her
Book of Golden Skits.
The Wing-Commander recalls her experiences as a bomber pilot, wasp farmer and cocktail waitress in a crematorium. No mention is made of her difficult relationship with John Cleese.
Skits played by DAVID HATCH, CHRIS STUART CLARK, MARTY FELDMAN, GRAHAM CHAPMAN, TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR, JO KENDALL, RONNIE BARKER, RONNIE CORBETT, SHEILA STEAFEL and JOHN CLEESE
Written by GRAHAM CHAPMAN, BILL ODDIE and MURIEL VOLESTRANGLER Script by CLARE TAYLOR
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
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Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by KIM CLIFFORD Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Let's Join In Hatupatu and the Bird- Witch (Maori) and The Old Woman's 's Animals (Indian)
2.25 Mother Tongue: Song and Story
4: Bengali as Spoken in Sylhet The Old Woman and the Red Pumpkin Storytellers BEULAH CANDAPPA and AFTABUNNESSA AHMED
2.40 Listen! The Decide-It- Yourself Cliffhanger serial. Schools are invited to participate in creating a serial drama Introduced by BEVERLEY WYNTER Part 4 by VICKY IRELAND

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Children 's Homes versus
Fostering: the trend towards fostering is questioned in a new book by david BERRIDGE from Dartington Social Research Unit. JENNI mills compares experiences of both and asks the author why he is bucking the popular philosophy.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN BBC Bristol
No Comebacks and Other Stories
5: Privilege

by IVY COMPTON BURNETT adapted in six parts by JOHN SPURLING with Patricia Lawrence
Ann Mitchell , John Rowe
Robert Lang and Vivian Pickles 3: The Second Governess
France's secret has come out. The arrival of Edith Hallam offers some hope to the children.
Directed by LIANE AUKIN
Stereo

with Clive Jacobs and ALANAH MARTIN and TOM BOSWELL Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Dead Man Leading (5)

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Presented by Ronnie Golden Stereo

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANGELA HIND
Stereo

with Nigel Rees
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Frederic Raphael , author
Gavin Laird , General Secretary
AUEW Margaret Daly , MEP and Mgr Bruce Kent , General Secretary CND from Telford, Shropshire Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

New legislation to clarify definition of death to avoid indecision over when life support should be ended. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Presented by Michael Billington

My Uncle Silas by H. E. BATES abridged in eight parts and read by david NEAL
8: The Death of Uncle Silas
(Starting next Monday: Weights and Measures by Joseph Roth )

Presented by Richard Kershaw

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN
RICHARD QUICK. PAUL B. DA VIES JAMES HENDRIE. MARTIN BOOTH PETER SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MA YHEW ARCHER

followed by an interlude

Voix de France: French VI
12.30 28: Qu 'est-ce qui fait rire les Français? Compiled by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE and at 12.50
29: Les Loisirs des Français Compiled by PAMELA TAYLOR