Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Brian Johnston presents his personal choice of poetry and prose with Ian Carmichael and Julia Foster
'I expect most of you by now have gathered that I am rather keen on cricket, so I just had to start my programme with something about Lord's.' Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
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Newstead Abbey
Newstead Abbey and Gardens are now owned and run by Nottingham City Council, and today Professor Alan Gemmell explains why he found his recent visit to these gardens, which surround the Abbey where Lord Byron once lived, so rewarding.

Reports from BBC correspondents around the world.

The Man who Shot Snapping Turtles by EDMUND WILSON
Read by Errol MacKinnon A strange story of two neighbours - one a drunken copy-writer, and the other a wealthy eccentric. Together they hatch a plan - profitable, but deadly.
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 38; God is working his purpose out (BBC HB 177);
Canticle 1, vv 9-15; Acts 9, vv 10-19a; Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty (BBC HB 169) Stereo

Radio Festival Special
Chairman Dick Taverne , qc Should the Government now deregulate radio? In other words, should anyone be allowed to broadcast what they and their listeners want, provided they keep within the law and stick to the frequency allocated?
In this special edition of You the Jury recorded in Bristol last week, Bill MacDonald , Managing Director of Radio Hallam, proposes that: 'The Government should free the radio airwaves as much as technically possible'.
He is opposed by the former Managing Director of BBC Radio, Aubrey Singer. Producer MAGGIE REDFERN Stereo

A selection of personal experiences with wild creatures. Malcolm Coe chooses vultures. BBC Bristol

Presented by John Howard

in Australia
The jocks go down under for a taste of the old amber nectar, a squint at the roos and a bulabong with their jumbucks. At the Bar-B-Q are
Songs by PHILIP POPE. STEVE BROWN and RICHARD CURTIS and performed by THE HEE BEE GEE BEES
Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON
With additional material by JON CANTER
Producer JAMIE RIX
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Presented by Brian Widlake

Big and Little (5)

Introduced from Northern Ireland by Wendy Austin
Linen and ship-building provided Northern Ireland with its industrial foundation - but in 1985 the Province's single biggest employer is Short
Brothers Ltd aircraft factory. The Chairman,
SIR PHILIP FOREMAN , explains how his company has flourished when so many others have failed.
Also in the programme, PADDY O'FLAHERTY goes dancing Latin American style; and SEAN RAFFERTY takes a trip round Northern Ireland's National Trust properties.
Producer CONOR BRADFORD BBC Northern Ireland
Serial: Joanna Godden by SHEILA KAYE-SMITH abridged in 15 episodes by ANN REES JONES
Read by JENNIE GOOSSENS (15) (Music: Stirling's Variations on a Tyrolean theme)

The classic novels of adventure and romance by R. L. Stevenson dramatised in ten parts by Catherine L. Czerkawska with David Rintoul as David Balfour, Paul Young as Alan Breck, and Iain Cuthbertson as Stewart the Writer
David has returned to Edinburgh and claimed his inheritance. But he still has to find a safe passage to France for Alan Breck , and is determined to give his evidence to the Lord Advocate to prove the innocence of James of the Glens.
BBC Scotland
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A series of five fairly likely stories written and read by Leonard Barras
4: An Elderly Frame BBC Manchester

Come and test the water with Cliff Michelmore in the fourth of seven programmes about activities in, on or under water. There's news of the crews attempting to sail round the world, and Dilly Barlow looks at some events around the country for water-lovers.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

The Age of Illusion
2: The Salutary Taleofjix

Presented by Gordon Clough and Robert Williams
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

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Presented by Margaret Howard Producer FRAN ACHESON
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Judges, magistrates, barristers and others contribute to the last of the present series of this topical weekly magazine.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke , mp, Minister for Health
Mary Goldring , broadcaster Professor Laurie Taylor , Professor of Sociology, York University
The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins , mp tackle the issues raised by the audience in Hay-on-Wye Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Zulu chief Buthelezi wades US row over South Africa business boycott. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

5: On the Road, to the Isles Taking the Arts on tour is always expensive and fraught with hazard, especially away from the larger cities.
Neville Garden examines the problems, and pleasures, of touring throughout Scotland. Producer JOHN ARNOTT

by John Bowen
abridged in ten parts by Neville Teller
Read by Hugh Dickson

(Starting on Monday: Lady Addle Remembers by Mary Dunn)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

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 JENNIE CAMPBELL
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followed by an interlude