With BISHOP JOSEPH DEVINE Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Bill Frost
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

How do you anaesthetise an elephant? Do fish feel pain? How can test-tube baby techniques help to preserve the rare bongo? These are some of the questions Nick Davies and Fergus Keeling will be asking zoo vets as they find out about the care of exotic animals in the 80s.
Producer MILES BARTON BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Vegetable Garden by DEBBIE COOK
Read by Hedli Niklaus
Pigeons were the passion of Mr Struthers. Ringed and barrelled, they lived safe in the knowledge that Mr Struthers would protect them from all harm, including Dr McGregor's tortoiseshell cat. Safe, that is, until the arrival of the war and Staff Sergeant Smith.
Producer DIANE CULVERHOUSE BBC Birmingham

from Chester led by THE REV ANGUS W. DUNCAN With the ABBEY GATE COLLEGE CHAMBER choir and the TONY LEWIS BRASS QUARTET
Galatians 1, vv 11-23 (TEv); Love divine (BBC HB 329); Psalm 67; Disposer supreme (A&MR 506) Stereo

Seven programmes compiled and presented by John Heath-Stubbs 3: Birds
Readers tim PIGOTT-SMITH and TESSA WORSLEY
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol

Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family
Presented by John Howard For Fact Sheet No 16, write to: You and Yours, BBC, Room 726. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Robert Cushman presents his personal view of the British theatre during his period as drama critic on The Observer from 1973 to 1984.
1: The Royal Shakespeare Company He talks to
Mike Alfreds , Judi Dench , David Edgar , Terry Hands , Ian McKellen , Trevor Nunn , David Suchet
With performance extracts from Henry VI
(ALAN HOWARD ) Macbeth
(IAN MCKELLEN and JUDI DENCH ) The Comedy of Errors
(ROGER REES and MICHAEL WILLIAMS ) Nicholas Nickleby
(cast and orchestra)
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo
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Presented by Sir Robin Day with news and topics in and behind the headlines

1.55 Listening Corner JOHNNY MORRIS reads Night Noises by TONY JOHNSTON
2.0 Teenage Plays 4: End of the Road by KARA MAY Stereo
2.30 Patterns of Language 7: A Faire Felde Ful of Folke Compiled by RODERICK HUNT and at 2.45 8: Hear What I Say Compiled by PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL

and Sue Macgregor invite you to join them for an action-packed session of ideas and emotions; paradigms and practicalities; fellowship and fun; news and views - some of them your own. Serial:The Man of Property (14)

by Stefan Zweig adapted by Elizabeth Troop
The sixth of seven dramatised short stories
with Janet Maw as Sophie as a woman, John Castle as 'R', and Deborah Makepeace as Sophie as a girl

'R' is a successful novelist. He has wealth, fame and any woman he desires. Nineteenth-century Vienna is at his feet. He even has a mysterious admirer who regularly sends him white roses on his birthday. Then, one year, the roses don't appear...
(Stereo)

Hunter Davies presents Radio 4's good books programme.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

(Revised broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 10. 0pm)

Presented by Susannah Simons and Jon Silverman continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55pm

With PETER DONALDSON
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm) Written by MARGARET PHELAN Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson Producer ROY HAYWARD BBCBristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers?
BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

'The patients get an uplift by attending a spa. They feel as if someone's taking an interest in what's going on. They don't feel as if they've been thrown on the scrapheap.'
(CONSULTANT ORTHOPAEDIC
SURGEON)
In the second of two programmes exploring the spas of Europe, Ian Bradley finds them flourishing on the Continent and starting to revive in sceptical Britain. Health or hedonism? Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.30am)

The second in a series of six programmes in which the tenor and opera producer
Nigel Douglas talks about some of his favourite singers with recordings.
Giuseppe di Stefano Producer ALAN HAYDOCK Stereo

A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote; an assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views
Presented by John Mills Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC. Broadcasting House,
London WIA 4WW Phone [number removed]Lines open from 10.0 am to 5.0pm

Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Plus Starting Off 4: The Actor
Producer KATHRYN PORTER

Mr Wakefield 's Crusade (4)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

followed by an interlude

Punjabi Language Magazine Presented by JAG KANCHANA SINGH Play by HARI SINGH SEWAK and SWARAN CHANDAN (R)