With CANON DAVID PARTRIDGE Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Bernard Rutherford talks to
Patricia Hayes and Irene Handl
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer MILES BARTON
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reflecting the issues of the day. Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
Phil Smith offers an idiosyncratic insight into the pains and precious few pleasures involved in setting up your own business.
3: The Secondary Moderns' Revenge
BBC Manchester
Presented by John Howard For Fact Sheet No 4 write to:
You and Yours, BBC, Room 726 Broadcasting House London WIA 1M
Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Corner Today: Slow, Slow, Quick-Quick, Slow (R)
2.5 The Song Tree
4: Oak, Ash and Water Splash Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo
2.20 Living Language The Endless Steppe (3) by ESTHER HAUTZIG adapted by JACKIE GRAYDON. Stereo
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges Presented by LIBBY FAWBERT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
'Biographers are generally a disease of English literature GERMAINE GREER and VICTORIA GLENDINNING explain their opposite standpoints before going on to debate the motion at the Folio Society tonight.
Serial: The Reason Why (11)
Two Stops on the Piccadilly by PETER SIMPKIN with A bottle smashes.
Blood flows. A young man loses the sight of one eye. His father sets out to find the thugs who attacked his son. The thugs turn out to be soccer fans. The question is, whether to try and understand them or to take revenge?
Directed by PETER KING Stereo (R)
Hunter Davies casts a line into the lake of fishing literature. Plus: 'Hedgehogs think they have curls' (Czech proverb). Czech-born writer
Edith Templeton talks about three of her novels - written in English and recently republished - which share the underlying theme of self-deception. Producer NIGEL ACHESON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Revised broadcast of yesterday programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
withCLTVEROSLIN
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world, including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, BristolBS82LR
How do you use your credit or charge card? Is that piece of plastic a bonus, helping you budget your finances, or is it a curse, gently sinking you into debt? With over 22 million cards now issued in this country,
Alison Mitchell gives you an insight into how the card systems work, how you can use them to your advantage and speculates if there will ever come a time when all you will have is plastic in your purse. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF (R) Revised
Britain's ills are often attributed to an inability to adapt to change. But is change possible if the country's leading institutions remain set in their ways? This series takes a critical look at six pillars of society, outwardly powerful but facing the insecurity of being misunderstood by a sceptical public.
Robert Carvel travels through the ancient dioceses of England to discover how Anglican Bishops face up to the challenges of the 1980s. He finds the Church in ferment but still sure that, with the bishops, God will keep the show on the road.
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0 am)
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)
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer CARROLL MOORE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
Wind, Sand and Stars (9)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Photography Developing and Printing Written and presented by DAVID BELLAN (R) and at 12.50 Advertising, Commercial and Industrial Photography (RV) Written and presented by DAVID FREEMAN (R)
