with THE REV FR OLIVER CRILLY Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
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
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Another opportunity for listeners to phone two studio guests about a subject of current interest. Not simply a question and answer session, but a real chance to express an opinion and test your ideas and arguments.
Produced by the Woman's 's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am

Titania Has Mumps Written and read by Dee Holliday
'I tried to imagine I was about to take off, flying over all those wet shiny roofs between
Swansea and the West End....' Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

NEM, p 25; Praise to the holiest (BBC HB 88); Psalm 27;
Matthew 9. vv 2-13; Fight the good fight (BBC HB 302) Stereo

The Life of Spice....
... and other tropical crops. Curry and mace come in packets, vanilla comes in bottles, tea comes in bags, but from what part of which plants are these important tropical products derived?
David Streeter and Glyn Jones join Peter France on a culinary , shopping spree.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

with Pattie Coldwell

A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge
Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell Questions compiled by PETER MOORE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)

Presented by Gordon Clough

1.55 Listening Corner Today: Jim and the Beanstalk by RAYMOND BRIGGS
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago The Evacuees (R)
2.25 Contact A Rainy Day by JULIE LLOYD Presented by PAUL MCDOWELL
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) Lone Bull Horse Raid by PAUL GOBLE adapted for radio by BLAIN FAIRMAN (R)

Introduced by Jenni Murray With winter behind us, a little trimming of the figure may be in order.
JILL BURRIDGE investigates how best to lose those unwanted pounds.
Serial: The Aspern Papers (2) m TMPH- nnno 77

Still Life by tony MCHALE and Catherine and Stuart's marriage limps along year after year. Then a traumatic event forces them to reassess their 20 years together.
Directed by PETER KING Stereo

What is it that holds a community together? It is only in a crisis that the skeleton of a community is exposed.
The second of four programmes in which Margaret Percy looks at how communities have coped with different types of crisis. Oil
In 1971, oil was discovered under the North Sea to the east of Shetland. The traditional lifestyle of the remote rural community was threatened by the arrival of a massive multi-billion-pound industry. The fishermen and crofters of Shetland Island Council had to take on the might of the giant oil companies in what they saw as a battle for Shetland's future. Producer BRIAN KING BBC Birmingham

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Roisin McAuley Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)

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 GEOFF DEEHAN
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0 am)

A Labour of Love
I hope I've been loyal, determined and firm, and stuck to my convictions.
For over 40 years, Alice Bacon has represented the Labour movement in Parliament. Born into the mining community of West Yorkshire, she entered the House of Commons after a landslide victory in 1945 and today continues her work in the House of Lords.
Sonia Beesley presents a portrait of the woman the Daily Express described as 'one of the greatest in-fighters the Labour Party has ever known'.
With contributions from
The Rt Hon Denis Healey , MP,
The RtHon Gerald Kaufman , mp, Bernard Atha , and Robert Carvel of The London Standard Producer FRAN ACHESON

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer ANNE THEAKSTONE
Series producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]. Lines open from 8.3010 10.0pm Free quarterly bulletin from:
Room 816. Broadcasting House,
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Stereo

Presented by Michael Oliver Producer KATHRYN porter

Bengal Lancer (7)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

12.30 Help Yourself to Mathematics Unit2 A: Ratio and Scale Factors B: Ratio and Similarity C: Ratio: Areas and Volumes Written by NORMAN UOWER