With FRANCES YOUNG
BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 3

Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo

visits Stockton-on-Tees Cleveland

Nell written and read by John Halstead
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

NEM, p 54: Come down. 0 love divine (BBC HB 149); Te Deum: Acts 2, vv 1-11; Spirit of mercy, truth and grace (BBC HB 163) Stereo

Patricia Carroll introduces and plays music from her Victorian collection of pieces composed by famous pianists of the day. This week: Teresa Carreno Producer ANDREW MUSSETT

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

by PALMA HARCOl'RT dramatised in six parts by NEVILLE TELLER
3: Black King to White Castle
An escape. A death. An arrival.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER YENNING (Moray Watson is in Two Into One at the Shaflesbury Theatre. London.)
Stereo

Presented by John Sergeant

1.55 Listening Corner Fishfingers and Custard by JANE HOLIDAY
2.5 Looking at Nature Seasonal Changes The first of a new series of programmes recorded on location suggesting easy to follow activities for young Natural Investigators. Teachers will find the illustrated notes helpful in planning their practical work. Producer MIKE HOWARTH. Stereo
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2.20 Quest A Jewish Family Producer GEOFF MARSHALL-TAYLOR
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Make Believe by GARETH OWEN Producer paddy BECHELY
2.50 Something to Think About The Two Lost Rabbits by ZOE BAILEY Producer PADDY BECHELY

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: singer and entertainer. Cilia Black, who rose to fame as part of the 'Mersey Sound' in the 60s.
Serial: Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN abridged in 12 episodes by MEG CLARKE
Read by Janet Suzman (12) (Music: Benjamin's Cotillon)

A Private Grief devised by JAMES RUNCIE and the cast
By 1802 Beethoven was fully aware of the problems his deafness might cause: the resulting isolation, and his intense desire to withdraw from society, made his life increasingly turbulent, difficult and lonely. Yet from that position of solitude came some of the finest music ever written.
Musical advice and piano JOANNA MACGREGOR
Directed by JAMES RUNCIE. Stereo * HEAR THIS! page 27

Poems selected by the poet and novelist John Wain Readers DIANA BISHOP
GEOFFREY COLLINS and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID (R)

Just Williams (8)

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Programme devised by TONYSHRYANEandEDWARDJ. MASON Producer PETE ATKIN (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm) Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrowat 1.40pm)

When you buy a leasehold property, you are suddenly back in the land of tenants and landlords. What rights and responsibilities have you - or the freeholder - got? When you come to the problem of insurance where do his responsibilities end? Have you got a front door to call your own? With Bill Breckon and financial expert Tom Tickell. Producer HELEN ROBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.35 am)

Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER. Stereo

Celebrating the 30th birthday of the foreign affairs programme that's now an institution, the BBC's former Diplomatic Correspondent,
Angus McDermid , browses through the archives to see how the world and perceptions of it have changed since the 1950s.
Joined by some of the BBC's present team of foreign correspondents, he explores the stories that have remained in the forefront, like East-West conflict, and remembering those that have become history, like the Vietnam War.
Producer ZAREER MASANI

Tom Salmon on the final stages of his journey. It takes him from St Anthony Head to Ream Head. He travels by way of Mevagissey, a china clay quarry near St Austell, to Fowey and then to Looe and the headquarters of the Shark Fishing Club of Great Britain and a sanctuary for rare monkeys.

BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0)
(Stereo)

Presented byNatalie Wheen. Producer Richard BANNERMAN

For Whom the Bell Tolls (8)

Presented by Tim Llewellyn

followed by an interlude

A-level English A Passage to India A commentary compiled by RICHARD TAMES (1)