With THE RT REV MICHAEL BAUGHEN , Bishop of Chester. 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 BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Oman is known for its oil and its deserts - not for ancient woodlands and mudflats teeming with flamingos.
Paul Munton , who has just returned from Oman, talks to Fergus Keeling and Lionel Kelleway about the rich fauna and flora of the Wahiba Sands, including the white-tailed mongoose and its relationship with the knarled prosopis tree.
Producer MILES BARTON. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Question and Answer by JILL SUMNER
Read by Marcella Evaristi
Seventy years after the Battle of the Somme. a journey to the grave of Miss Tarrant's fiance raises questions and suggests answers.
Producer JOHN ARNOTT.
BBC Scotland
reflecting the issues of the day. Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
The last of seven programmes compiled and presented by John Heath -Stubbs Dreams
Readers TIM PIGOTT-SMITH and STEPHEN THORNE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY
BBC Bristol
Presented by John Howard For Fact Sheet No 20, write to: You and Yours, BBC. Room 726
Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Mr Corkingdale and the Dentist Bird by WILLIAM RANKIN (R)
2.5 The Song Tree The Fantastic Fish Tank ' Fantasy (4) Presented by HILARY JONES and SIMON MAYOR i With PYEWACKETT : Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo
2.20 Living Language Echo and Narcissus by LEON GARFIELD
2.40 Make Up Your Mind This week: Star Wars Presented by SUSIE GRANT To take part in the poll. or for the broadcast notes, send 84 x 12SAEto: Make Up Your Mind, [address removed]
and Sue MacGregor with an action-packed session of ideas and emotions, news and views - and the latest report on the Woman's Hour Red Cross Sudan Appeal. Serial:
Watcher in the Shadows (8)
0 INFO: page 93
Purely from Principle in her own play
Joan is a single parent and by her own admission a far from perfect one. But she was determined to bring her son up to be honest and to stand on his own two feet. So, what went wrong?
ARNOLD DIAMOND. DAVID SINCLAIR
Directed by JOHN CARDY. Stereo (R)
with Hunter Davies
Word processors: writers' boon or bane of their existence? Sarah Dunant sorts out devotees from detractors, including Kingsley Amis and Len Deighton.
Plus Bamber Gascoigne on his new theological extravaganza God Streuth.
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Revised broadcast of yesterday's programme at 9. 45pm)
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55pm
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm) Written by MARGARET PHELAN Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS82LR
The last of four programmes by Hugh O'Shaughnessy Mexico in the World
'On the frontier between
Laredo and Nuevo Laredo you find yourself on the border of two worlds.'
The geography of the Americas has put Mexico in an ideal position to influence political events in the region, and to mediate between the USA and the Central American states. Recently, though, Mexico's importance to the whole of the developed world has increased dramatically as a result of its huge debt to foreign banks.
Producer MICK WEBB
For book list, send SAE to: Mexican Journey, [address removed]
The last in a series of six programmes in which the tenor and opera producer Nigel Douglas talks about some of his favourite singers, with recordings. Ettore Bastianini
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK. Stereo
The last of the present series 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 on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by John Mills Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC, Broadcasting House
London W1A 4WW. Phone [number removed]Lines openfrom 10.0am to 5.0pm
Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer KEVIN JACKSON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
The Girl in His Past (4)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
followed by an interlude
Help Yourself to Biology: Human Physiology by PETER WARD
12.30 The capillary network - a leaky system (R) and at 12.50 The circulation system at work (R)
