Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with TOM TICKELL
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

5: Who Stole the Tarts? Stereo

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

Reports from BBC correspondents around the world.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

A Respectful Distance by JUUA STONEHAM
Read by Sandra Clark
Mr Belloc keeps himself to himself - till he goes into hospital. And then Mr Belloc becomes a very worried man. Producer MTTCH RAPER

NEM, p 9; Praise to the Lord, the almighty (BBC HB 17);
Psalm 95; Exodus 2, w 1-10;
Give to our God immortal praise (BBC HB 6) Stereo

The Story of a Railway Heresy A hundred and fifty years ago Parliament agreed to the building of a railway between Bristol and London. This led to one of the strangest episodes in railway history, because the Great Western Railway decided to build its line to a gauge wider than anyone else's before or since. The engineer responsible for the seven-foot metals was Isambard Kingdom Brunei. What came to pass was an experiment on a grand scale which enthralled the nation and fired off the 'gauge war'.
Presented by Roger Worsley Producer ANDREW VIVIAN BBC Bristol
(Broadcaston Saturday at 3.30pm) Stereo
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The Regeneration Game
Wounded starfish, worms and even newts answer a call to arms by regenerating lost limbs. Why can't we?
Presented by Barry Paine Producer MEUNDA BARKER BBCBristol

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

In the second 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 discusses writing, women as writers and her difficult relationship with John Cleese.
Skits illuminate their conversation, played by RONNIE BARKER, RONNIE CORBETT, ERIC IDLE, TERRY JONES, MICHAEL PALIN, TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR, JO KENDALL, BILL ODDIE, ROWAN ATKINSON and JOHN CLEESE
Written by GRAHAM CHAPMAN, BILL ODDIE, MARTY FELDMAN, TIM BROOKE TAYLOR and MURIEL VOLESTRANGLER
Script by CLARE TAYLOR
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
(Stereo)

Presented by Brian Widiake

NANETTE NEWMAN reads The Story of the Elves and the Shoemaker Adapted by MOIRA MILLER

Introduced from Cardiff by Noreen Bray
VERA diamant, who spent most of the Second World War at a school for Czech refugees in the heart of Wales, looks forward to a reunion of the ex-pupils.
JANE DAUNCEY finds out about the success of music therapy. Producer SESI MCCOMBIE BBC Wales
I Also Am of Ireland (3)

by IVY COMPTON-BURNETT adapted in six parts by JOHN SPURUNG with Patricia Lawrence
Ann Mitchell. John Rowe Robert Lang and Vivian Pickles
4: The Third Governess
John Ponsonby is short of money and suddenly receives a cheque from an anonymous well-wisher.
Directed by UANE AUKIN
Stereo

This week the team takes off for Paris, not the usual Left Bank and wine, but the left bank towards Le Bourget airport just to the north of the city and the whine of the engines as they swoop in for a bird's-eye view of the 36th Paris Air Show which opens today.
So ensure that your seat belt is fastened, as shortly after take-off the experienced crew of tom BOSWELL and ALANAH MARTIN with pilot Clive Jacobs commence service of this biennial review of the world's aerospace industry.
Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Dead Man Leading by V. S. PRITCHETT abridged in ten parts by BRIAN GEAR
Read by MICHAEL COCHRANE (10) Producer TIM SUTER
(Starting next Monday: Women of Crime, a collection of five short stories)

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Variety from London's fringe Stereo

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer FRAN ACHESON
Stereo

Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

The Rt Hon Michael Heseltine , mp. Secretary of State for Defence
John Garnett , Director, The Industrial Society
Ken Livingstone , Leader, GLC and Margaret Clay , Political
Secretary of the Association of Liberal Councillors from Fleet, Hampshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

President Reagan's plan to make the tax structure simpler hits the right note across the US. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Presented by Nigel Andrews Producer CARROLL MOORE

Weights and Measures (5)

Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines onVHFIFMuntilll.O

11.0 Principles of Counselling H: Eight programmes for people seeking to develop and deepen their counselling skills, presented by HAZEL JOHNS 3: Talking About Feelings One of the things a counsellor may have to do in Stage 2 is help a client untangle painful and deep-seated emotions. This needs careful handling if the client isn't to become over-dependent on the counsellor. Script by FRANCESCA INSKIPP and HAZEL JOHNS
11.30 Novels Up to Now
3: Ordeals and Fake Ordeals 'Art is to do with the classification of illusion and the movement towards reality: my characters are very often engaged in a pilgrimage from appearance to reality, which will involve an ordeal of some sort along the way.' ANTHONY CURTIS talks to IRIS MURDOCH about her novels and her views of the function of the novelist in society, and considers the work of Muriel Spark and Margaret Drabble. Extracts read by ELIZABETH PROUD

With Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN. RICHARD QUICK, PAUL B. DAVIES ,
JAMES HENDRIE , MARTIN BOOTH . PETER SINCLAIR , STUART SILVER . PETER hickey and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER

followed by an interlude