Presented by Handel Jones BBC Wales

Presented by Peter Hobday andSueMacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

A look ahead with Kate Moon

by SUE TOWNSEND
With NICHOLAS BARNES as Mole (6) (R)

with Nigel Rees
Teddy bears are a successful species. They see the bright side of anything, take the blame when things go wrong and make scary things manageable. But where did they come from and where do they go when they are old and bedraggled and in need of care, attention and stuffing? Direct from the International
Teddy Bear Reunion at
Longleat House, Nigel Rees joins a huddle of arctophiles
(lovers of bears) and a clutch of celebrity teddies who, between them, uncover the bear facts. Research CAROLYN HARTMAN Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol
0 HEAR THIS! page 16

with Jeanine McMullen

Carmella by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
As soon as he sees the woman on the train, the man is fascinated by her beauty - and puzzled by the troubled look in her eyes.

New Every Morning, page 1; Souls of men, why will ye scatter (BBC HB 20); Psalm 100; Exodus 3, w 11-17; Praise the Lord! ye heavens adore him (BBC HB 16) Stereo

Brian Johnston visits Fishguard in Pembrokeshire. It's an important ferry port for travellers to the Republic of Ireland, but it also has an unusual claim to fame, being the last place in Britain to be invaded by a foreign power.
BBC Bristol

Presented by P. J. Kavanagh Readers DIANA bishop and PATRICK ROMER
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC BristoL Stereo

Presented by Paul Clark Editor KEN VASS

A series of three features on the work of George S. Kaufman , the American director who also wrote 45 plays and musicals, 20 of them hits. Written and presented by Dick Vosburgh with reminiscences from George Abbott
Denise Coffey , Alan Keith Howard Teichmann and Leueen MacGrath and including extracts from Dinner at Eight, Of Thee I Sing and songs from The Band Wagon.
Bob Sessions as the voice of George S. Kaufman. 2: His Collaborators
Producer JONATHAN JAMES MOORE (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)

Presented by Susannah Simons Editor DEREK LEWIS

MrS. Bend the Pipe by JANET SORENSEN Presenter Brett Usher , Producer PETER HOARE (R)

Introduced by Dilly Barlow Put Another Nickel in ... the Napton Nickelodeon
JUDITH GILMORE visits a museum of mechanical musical instruments in the Warwickshire countryside. Story: The Picnic by GERALD DURRELL abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Alexander John
' "I've thought of a wonderful way of welcoming Larry back," Mother said. Larry who had been absent for ten years was paying a flying visit. "I think we ought to take Larry out to see the English countryside at its best."'
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Rookery Nook by BEN TRAVERS
Stereo

John Barrett looks out from his seaside home in a far comer of Pembrokeshire. BBC Bristol (R)

The History of England from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st by a partial, prejudiced & ignorant Historian.
N.B. There will be very few Dates in this History. written by JANE AUSTEN , at the age of 15, in the reign of George III
Read by Abigail Cruttenden Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol

Presented by Bill Frost and Valerie Singleton

With DAVID SYMONDS

Shouts and cries, quotes and quips from Nigel Rees and guests William Franklyn Anne Diamond
Humphrey Lyttelton and Brian Johnston Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON
(Broadcaston Saturday at 12.27) Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 40 pm)

Five poets of the past seen through the eyes of poets of the present
5: Unconquerable Mind
Jenny Joseph looks at the poetry of William Wordsworth Reader JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

by William Shakespeare
[Starring] Ian Holm as Richard III
with Tom Wilkinson as The Duke of Buckingham, Barbara Jefford as Queen Margaret, Sarah Badel as Queen Elizabeth, Melinda Walker as Lady Anne, Philip Voss as George, Duke of Clarence, and Brett Usher as Richmond

"And this word 'love' which greybeards call divine,
Be resident in men like one another,
And not in me: I am myself alone."
The production commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth, fought on 22 August 1485.
(Stereo)
FEATURE: page 77

by H.G. Wells. Abridged and read by Paul Daneman in 12 episodes

George Edgar Lewisham is young, thrusting and something of an intellectual; his future looks assured. But then one afternoon he meets Ethel out walking on the common...

Presented by Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines

The confessions of a Victorian man of letters who presented a confident face to the world, but who was inwardly in turmoil, as his memoirs, published in 1984, reveal. Brian Gear presents his portrait.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol (R)
(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player)
LW only from 11.30

11.30 Mill the Reformer
11.50 Hume and Smith on Religion

followed by an interlude