Presented by Gaina Morgan BBC Wales
With CANON FRANK WRIGHT BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
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 Editor JUUAN HOLLAND
with Clive Roslin
meanders down some meaningful cul-de-sacs in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of this coming week.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
This week: The 1985-6 Unit Trust Managers ' Portfolio Leading fund managers back their judgment on where the best investment prospects lie in the coming year.
There is a good deal of uncertainty about stock markets world-wide, and with the recovery in the value of the pound overseas investment has proved rather less profitable than in recent years.
Is the UK still the place to be? Does the falling dollar rule out the USA? Will Japan come back into favour? What price gold and commodities?
Hear what the experts choose and then try your hand at becoming the Money Box Unit Trust Investor of the Year. Details from:
Money Box, BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW
Buffalo Bill Was a Great Man byM.M.MARBERRY
Read by Errol MacKinnon
Oh, yes - Buffalo Bill was a very great man.... and a hero to the boy who met him. But idols have feet of clay - and hands that hold glasses of a strange yellow liquid that smells like whiskey. Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, p 118;
Our blest Redeemer (BBC HB 160); Psalm 145; n Timothy 1, w 1-10; To us in Bethlem city (BBC HB 315) Stereo
Presented by Fleur Adcock Readers PENELOPE LEE and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Presented by John Howard Editor KEN VASS
The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools First Round
6: Home Counties: Grey Court School, Richmond v Upton Grammar School, Slough Questionmasters
Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Questions set by NIGEL RICHARDSON and DAVID SELF Producer GRAHAM FROST
(Re.broadcast tomorrow at 6. 30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner
This week: Water, Water Everywhere
Presented by Fred Harris
Storyteller Una Stubbs
Today's story: Master Salt the Sailor's Son by ALLAN AHLBERG
Script by LEE PRESSMAN
2.5 Playtime Clothes
Presenters Iain Lauchlan and Shireen Shah
(R) (Re-broadcast on Thurs at 10. 10am)
2.20 Introducing Science: Unit 1, Programme 3: The Faraday Story
2.40 Radio Shop
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2.45 Radio Club
Tommy Boyd and the Radio Club team scour the country for interesting items. Producer MARYA BURGESS
(Re-broadcast on Wed at 11. 45 am)
Introduced by Sue Cook , television presenter
As Simple as ABC? How do children learn to read? What is the role of parents and schools? KAREN deco reports and looks at two new reading schemes for the very young. 0 INFO: page 77
Serial: Underfoot in Show
Business Written and read by Helene Hanff
5: No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance
The Boilerhunters by ARTHUR MCKENZIE
Stereo
Presenter Michael Billington
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID HITCHINSON including Financial Report
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Julie Tullis is the first woman to join a British Everest expedition. She has broken into a sternly masculine preserve, which on one climb nearly cost her her life. Julie talks to Marian Foster about her passion for adventure. Producer ANN TENNANT BBCBirmingham
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories Producer MILES BARTON
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
The Judge's Wife by DOROTHY GHARBAOUI with John Rowe , Kate Flynn and Maggie Shevlin
Tom Martin is no ordinary judge; he presides over a Diplock court in Northern
Ireland. A judge without a jury is at once terrifyingly powerful and frighteningly vulnerable. How can he choose between public and private justice?
COLIN STARK (Oboe) EDDIE FRIEL (piano)
Directed by SUSAN HOGG BBC Northern Ireland
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Stereo
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
SCOOP by EVELYN WAUGH abridged in ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Read by John Rye
6: The Pension Dressier
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBCBristol
Presented by David Sells Editor BLAIR THOMSON
ivo POGORELICH (piano)
Chopin Two Etudes, Op 10: No 8, in F; No 10, in A flat; Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44 Stereo records
followed by an interlude
12.30 Microtechnology Teachers Programme and at 12.50 You Have to Start Somewhere (RV)