With DONALD HILTON
BBC Birmingham Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by DAVID HITCHINSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 4

Six views on different aspects of being a woman emerge in conversation with Anne Brown 6: Barbara Cartland Queen of Romance
Prolific novelist, public campaigner and vitamin crusader, Barbara Cartland is an industry in herself. As a 20s debutante, she discovered the addictiveness of romance and, for more than 60 years, she has been providing the hottest-selling fixes in the world. Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Birmingham (R)

The Big Blob
'We were hauling up from 800 fathoms when we saw on the sonar something very large enveloping the crab-trap. There was a series of hard jerks, the line broke and the trap was lost.' What was the giant creature locked in a tug-of-war with a Bermudian fisherman? Could it have been a giant octopus, 150 feet across from arm tip to arm tip the largest invertebrate on earth? Peter France investigates a mystery from the deep. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol

A series of six programmes about the ways in which families influence their members and help to turn them into the people they eventually become. 1: What is a Family? Presented by Dr Christopher Dare , family therapist and consultant psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
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Hotels by PETER WHITEBROOK Read by Colin Gourlay
'I work in hotels and know the goodness of an early smoke in the sunshine before the heat from the cookers starts. Then fat'd melt on your hands, let alone car bonnets.'
Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG BBC Scotland

Stereo

The Stymphalean Birds
Vincent Kane follows Hercules' adventures in Britain in 1985. Producer ELI WILLIAMS. BBC Wales

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

With KENNETH SHANLEY (R)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Women Worldwide
For a book to mark the end of the UN Decade for Women, ten eminent women writers from around the world each visited a different country to assess the lives and positions of women there. The book's editor, Debbie Taylor , talks to contributors including Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta.
Serial: Persuasion (3)

Mr Roche , Death and the Cheltenham Gold Cup by JAMES PETTIFER with Bryan Murray as Martin Martin Roche is looking for 'the start', but there are no jobs to be had. A young man fresh off the Irish Mail can soon make friends in the Shamrock Ballroom; and he can soon get drunk - drunk enough, maybe, to throw a punch that kills.
Directed by MiCHAEL HEFFERNAN Stereo

with Neil Landor
Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Within, BBC Broadcasting House. London WIA 1AA
Producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo

Brian Gear invites
Celia Haddon and Jeremy Lewis to pick some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBCBristol

Life and Other Punctures (4)

Presented by Bill Frost and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm) Written by MARGARET PHELAN
BBC Birmingham

byiVANBENBROOK
On 15 September 1885 an elephant was hit by a train in Western Ontario. So ended the life of Jumbo, the world's most famous pachyderm, whose name became synonymous with awesome size....
Narrated by Bob Docherty Readers BRIAN GEAR.
JOHN LINSTRUM and RICHARD MORGAN
Producer BRIAN MILLER. BBCBristol

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 10.0am)

10: 200 Miles North
'When people hear the word jazz, they immediately think of Kenny Ball , or people in funny hats with red noses, falling about, not using any music.... but things moved on.' 'It's funny people's attitudes, because it's romantic, sweet, energetic, dirty, sexy, anything you want.'
'I think that just as discotheques became the order of the day, live music will rise again; I think people will demand it.'
A visit to the hot-bed of jazz in the north - Manchester's
Band On The Wall - to meet
Ken, Pete, Ray, Steve and Andy, as they put the shine on their highly polished jazz-funk band New Shoes, and seek a future for their music.
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS BBC Manchester

The lingo de mid-Channel A soap opera en franglais
Episode Quatre - French Cricket est Dangereux starring Miles Kington , Alison Steadman , Enn Reitel and Jon Glover.
Written par MILES KINGTON
Produit par JENNIE CAMPBELL Stereo

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with country-wide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC. Broadcasting House, London WIA4WW Phone [number removed](10.0am-5.0pm)

continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
Producer ANGELA HIND

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

The Woman Who Rode Away (2)

Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background analysis and comment
11.0 Headlines

followed by an interlude