With ANDREW GORHAM
BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 2

Arthritis
Twice as many women as men contract arthritis. But what exactly is it, and what are the available treatments? Put your questions to
Paul Dieppe , consultant in rheumatology at Bristol Royal Infirmary, and Dr Douglas Woolf , rheumatologist and Chairman of Arthritis Care. In the Chair Barbara Myers
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am

Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's foreign correspondents
(Special anniversary programme tomorrow at 8. 15pm)

Off Duty by DIANA GRUFFYDD WILLIAMS Read by John Darran
'How could you smell the warmth of a welcome? That's what he smelt at Meg's home.' Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

NEM, p 21; 0 Jesus, I have promised (BBC HB 360); Psalm
139; Colossians 1, vv 9-20; At the name of Jesus (BBC HB 120) Stereo

'Is there an advantage in having bright orange feet and legs when you are a fish-eating puffin or goosander - or is this just a red herring?'
Presented by Derek Jones
BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Presented by Paul Clark

Irene Thomas and Eric Korn meet a team from the Midlands represented by John Julius Norwich and Peter Oppenheimer
Chaired by Gordon Clough and Louis Allen
Researcher KAREN OSTLE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcaston Thursday at 6.30pm)

Presented by Susannah Simons

1.55 Listening Corner: What Size is Andy? by MOIRA MILLER
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago Early this Century (RV) by DAVID STARSMEARE Producer NICHOLAS WHINES (R)
2.25 Contact: Beginnings by ROSALYN KENDRICK Presented by PAUL MCDOWELL * SUPPLEMENT: page 25
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): The Bicycle Shop by GEOFFREY CURTIS Producer PADDY BECHELY

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Voting with the Shopping Bag? For 25 years the Anti- Apartheid Movement has been calling on people to boycott South African goods. As the internal struggle within South Africa becomes increasingly turbulent, is the individual decision of conscience to shun the Outspan orange, or the bottle of Cape wine, now a redundant gesture? Serial: Persuasion (11)

by STEPHEN FAGAN
Two differing memories of World War n seemed a good idea at the time. But the toolmaker and the test-pilot discover differences which go beyond history.
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM
Stereo (Nigel Anthony is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

A binaural extravaganza celebrating the Severn Tunnel's 100th anniversary written and presented by Roger Worsley
'Only one man can build this tunnel now,' said Sir Daniel Gooch as he stood in the flooded workings, 'and that's the man we should have asked in the first place!'
It was the most expensive and dangerous undertaking of its time and, for six years, Thomas Walker had to do battle with the mightiest river in England and Wales. This programme tells the story of Walker's miners and divers, and re-creates some of the sounds they would have heard a hundred years ago under the Bristol Channel.

Directed on location by Adrian Mourby
BBC Wales
(Stereo/Binaural)
The full binaural effect can be heard through stereo headphones

Just Williams (7)

Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Reporter Roger Finnigan Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 0pm)

3: Three's a Family Presented by Dr Christopher Dare , Family Therapist and Consultant
Psychiatrist at the Bethlem
Royal and Maudsley Hospitals. Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Re-broadcaston Thursday at 10.0am)

Most people, confronted with the news that they are terminally ill, face the prospect of spending their last days in hospital or a hospice institution. Sixteen months ago
St Richard's Hospice at Home was set up in the Worcester area to allow patients the dignity of dying in the comfort of their own homes.
The small team of dedicated staff has worked hard to establish the new service in the face of opposition from some local gps and district nurses. Presenter Gwyn Richards Producer BRIAN KING BBC Birmingham

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments on [number removed]Lines open 8.30-10.0pm

Presented by Michael Oliver Producer RICHARD DUNN

For Whom the Bell Tolls (7)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

A-level English Shakespeare's Language (2)