A meditation for the beginning of a new day
With THE REV JOHN GILYEAD Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

5: Alpine Drilling

The second of six talks on Spain by Ray Gosling
Here we go, here we go....
'In the 1950s, pundits predicted we'd be as poor as Spain if we couldn't pull our socks up. Well we didn't....'
BBC Manchester (R)

BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.0 pm)

The Axe by PENELOPE FITZGERALD Read by Hugh Dickson
The axe is the axe of redundancy and it falls on poor old
Singlebury. But Singlebury has his own way of getting his revenge.... in a story most definitely not for the nervous! Producer mitch RAPER

NEM, p 102; The Son of God, his glory hides (BBC HB 68); Psalm 1; John 2, vv 1-11; Hail, thou source of every blessing (BBC HB 66). Stereo

In Appreciation of Lice
They swing from hair to hair like gibbons (despite being bom with size ten feet), were once thought of as a sign of holiness and are now much underrated. John Maunder speaks up for the humble louse.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol (R)

What's in an orange?
Derek Cooper investigates the juicy side of the vitamin business and discovers that vitamin C doesn't only grow on trees.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Tuesday)

Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner VICTORIA WOOD reads Captain Betty and the Pirates (5) by JOE DUNLOP
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox Arlo the Dandy Lion by MORRIS LURIE Producer COLIN SMITH
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King Stories Mrs Wobble the Waitress by ALLAN AHLBERG
2.40 Listen! Armada Rock by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL 1: A Huge Pyramid of Grey Rock.... Producer COLIN SMITH (R)

Presented from Northern Ireland by Wendy Austin After all the excesses of Christmas and the New Year there's nothing like a good gallop to shake up the liver. You don't have to be in the pony club age-group to take up the challenge of the horse as WENDY AUSTIN, mother of two and with no previous experience, finds out.
Vernon Handley , the extrovert principal conductor and artistic director of the Ulster Orchestra, talks about the challenge of his new post.
Producer CONOR BRADFORD BBC Northern Ireland
Serial: Crampton Hodnet (9)

by Honore De Balzac, dramatised in four parts by Joan O'Connor

The Chateau at Vivetieres seems to the young Republican officers to be a rat trap and they the rats, but they are sworn to follow Marie de Verneuil, and she, preferring to doubt or believe as passion sways her, is prepared to play with fire and follow Montauran to the Chateau.

(Stereo)

Failure
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour.
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATHN Stereo (R) Revised

Presented by Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough continued on VHF(FM5.50-5.55

With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport. Producer IRENE MALLIS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANDREW PARFITT Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

We painters are upon the level with writers, as being Poets,
Historians, Philosophers and Divines.
A portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds , the most famous and successful 18th-century English artist, friend of Dr Johnson and David Garrick , President of the Royal Academy and painter in ordinary to George Ill.
Compiled from contemporary sources and presented by Dr Nicholas Penny , Keeper of Western Art, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with Paul Rogers as Reynolds' biographer James Northcote
Also taking part: JANE LEONARD GWEN CHERRELL. JOHN CHURCH
RICHARD DURDEN. ADRIAN EGAN
RONALD HERDMAN , PETER HOWELL and JAMES MACPHERSON Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
(The exhibition 'Reynolds' opens at the Royal Academy of Arts, London on 16 January)

Lord Tonypandy
Dame Shelagh Roberts, mep Dr John Rae, Head Master Westminster School
Garfield Davies, General Secretary, Union of Shop,
Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) tackle the issues raised by the audience in Llandovery, Wales Chairman John Timpson ProducerCAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Gaddafi's public support of airport terrorists prompts US into imposing sanctions against Libya. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Presented by Michael Billington

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Vice Versa (10)

Presented by Charles Wheeler

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DAVIES , RICHARD QUICK STUART SILVER, PETE SINCLAIR IAN BROWN. DAVID COHEN
PETER HICKEY , JOHN MORRISH AUSON RENSHAW and others Producer PAUL SPENCER Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)

followed by an interlude

English Archive Resources The Woman Writer and Society