THE RT REV AUGUSTINE HARRIS BBC Manchester Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FlNIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Augustus Carp Esq by Himself was published anonymously in 1924; now it is re-issued in paperback.
'The funniest unknown book in the world', says Robert Robinson.
'One of those little masterpieces which seem to pop up from nowhere', says Frank Muir.
Pamela Howe invites them to share their delight in the book, and talks to two daughters of. the mysterious author. BBCBristol (R)

Tea at Five O'clock by JOHN STABLES
Read by Tony Bowers
Tea at five o'clock. Every day, whether he's hungry or not. One day, George rebels: he doesn't come in for tea.
Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG BBC Scotland

reflecting the issues of the day introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

Stereo

Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The King, the Mice and the Cheese by NANCY AND ERIC GURNEY(R)
2.5 The Song Tree
5: The North Wind Blows, and Skeletons Talk Presenters ROSIE CROSS and BILL MARTIN from PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo
2.20 Living Language The Tree House Written and told by GEORGE LAYTON
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges Presented by LIBBY FAWBERT

Introduced by Sue MacGregor

'You get to feel like a professional foreigner.'
It's all part of the job for BBC foreign correspondents to travel the world reporting on the coups and the crises which make the day's headlines. But what is it like for their wives coping with the sudden upheavals and the constant separations? How do they set about making a life for themselves and their children in Moscow or Peking, in Nairobi or Jerusalem? Their husbands' voices are all familiar to us, but today Sonia Beesley hears the female perspective.

Serial: The Bonsai Tree by Meira Chand abridged in 12 parts by Jack Singleton
Read by Heather Bell (1)
'She'd met Jun at a party. Peter had introduced them. "Jun is from Japan, studying British textile methods.'"
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The British Abroad - an occasional series of plays Janine for radio Sylvia Symsby VERONICA RICHARDS based on the story by ALBERT CAMUS with Life with Edmund hadn't exactly been exciting and his proposal that she should accompany him on a business trip to the Algerian interior didn't imbue Janine with enthusiasm. But she found excitement and love in a most unexpected place. with BERNARD BROWN
GWEN CHERRELL. CHRISTOPHER SCOTT
DAVID SINCLAIR. STEPHEN TILLER and MELINDA WALKER
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo

(Rev broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45 pm)

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

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Written by JOANNA TOYE Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Introduced by John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

4: Is There Life After 40?
The United Nations today is increasingly the subject of criticism from the West, and particularly the United States. Its failure to tackle some of the world's most pressing problems plus rhetoric, bureaucratic muddle, financial extravagance and inefficiency, all raise questions about the future of the world body. In the last of four programmes to mark the 40th anniversary of the UN,
Alexander MacLeod considers the prospects. Can the UN become more effective and less politicised? Can it reform itself in time to avoid the danger that it may finally fail? Producer TOM READ
A BBC World Service production

Written and narrated by Harold Pinter with Edward de Souza as Anew McMaster and Arthur Wellard
Harold Pinter's personal recollections of two great
'players' of the worlds of theatre and cricket.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON . Stereo

Fred Basnett has his own reasons for being fond of canals: the pubs of course, and the dawdling, and the odd buildings ... And the people: 'You jus' travellin' thru'?
It was Cheshire's answer to Clint Eastwood ...

At the Peto Institute in Budapest, the home of Conductive Education, astonishing achievements are being made by severely handicapped children. Many we would consider condemned to a wheelchair for life in this country learn to walk and go to ordinary schools along with other able-bodied children.
Could Conductive Education be adapted in Britain to obtain the same results? Marlene Pease reports.

(Broadcaston Monday at 8.43 am)

Presented by Christopher Bigsby
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (4)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

followed by an interlude

Horizons de France
12.30 4A: Restons Français - Si l'on Peut Written by MADELEINE LE CUNFF and at 12.50
4B: Les Tsiganes et Leur Musique Written and presented by TONY STAPLES