visits Michael Jones in Wales

With BISHOP TREVOR HUDDLESTON

Presented by John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day

Part 4

Fergus Keeling and Lionel Kelleway meet wildlife people and examine wildlife issues, and Jeremy Cherfas takes the lid off a Pandora's box of biological delights.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast on Sunday)

Lynn ten Kate looks at the life of the author of some of our best-known tales for children.

Mickey Boyle 's Secret written by SHEILA HARRIS
Read by Liam O'Callaghan
'It seemed to me that I was the only person in Blaney's Bar that evening to be at all interested in the pathetic scene of a grown man sobbing noisily into the remains of a pint glass. But then I was merely a passing stranger in the small town, and evidently the handful of seemingly indifferent regulars knew something I didn't.' Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland

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

Five areas of life to which most people never give much thought. But if you don't fall within the norm in these areas, life can be fraught with difficulties.
4: Margaret Horsfield shares the thoughts of the accident-prone. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

The national radio programme for consumers.
Presented by John Howard

The Brains Trust Formation
Display team, in the persons of Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich, challenge a United States team of writer
Shana Alexander and theatre critic Brendan Gill.

Presented by Gordon Clough

BRIAN CANT reads Beppi the Clown Prepares for the Show by KATE WILKINSON

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Who's the Boss?: an occasional series in which KAREN DECO talks to couples who work together. Today: PAUL COOK AND JULIA COOK , alias The Biddalls, perform a daring trapeze act in a circus. Serial: Crampton Hodnet (3)

The British Abroad
An occasional series of plays for radio Ski-lark by ELIZABETH MORGAN
A ski-ing holiday in Eastern
Europe is the background to an unusual affair concerning two English divorcees who can't be sure if the two local men they meet are after their bodies, their clothes or their nationality.
Directed by GERRY JONES Stereo

There's No Business Like Show Business Hunter Da vies and Alan Strachan make their selection of some of the 'showbiz' books of the year.
Producer JOHN POWELL

(Revised broadcast ofyesterday's programme at 9.45pm)

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55

With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Cast for the fortnight: [see below]

BBC Birmingham

by STANLEY SADIE
Originally broadcast in three parts, this biography of the composer of Messiah now tells its dramatic and moving story in one two-hour programme, with extracts from a wide range of Handel's music, including the Water Music, the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest, the operas Julius Caesar and Alcina, the Music for the Royal
Fireworks and the oratorios Judas Maccabaeus , Semele,
Jephtha and, of course, Messiah. Narrator John Rowe with Carl Duering as George Frideric Handel and MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES
CAROLE BOYD , MARGOT BOYD
GWEN CHERRELL. WILLIAM EEDLE
NIGEL GRAHAM. GARARD GREEN
CLIFFORD NORGATE and JOHN RYE
A very model of what Radio 4 at its best can do (THE GUARDIAN) Producer ALAN HAYDOCK Stereo (R) Revised

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by John Mills Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC. Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW
Phone [number removed](10. 0am-5.0pm)

Irene Thomas finds there's plenty in store on the shelves of the Archives to help her eat. drink and be merry.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS

Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer KEVIN JACKSON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Vice Versa (4)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

On the day the War in the Pacific ended. Peter Rhodes was a PoW working in a Japanese coalmine. For many years he relived that experience in his nightmares. He realised that his hatred for the Japanese - one man in particular - was getting worse as the years passed. Peter Rhodes talks to
Robin Harris about the extraordinary steps he took to overcome that hatred.
Producer MOORE SINNERTON (R)

followed by an interlude