With MARGARET HEBBLETHWAITE Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

An opportunity for listeners to express their views and question the experts.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am

A Position of Power by DOUG MORGAN
Read by Ray Handy
'People stood aside when he passed. They gave him space.
They seemed to want to do him favours, to be in his good books....'
Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales

NEM, p 38; Sing to the Lord a joyful song (BBC HB 19); Psalm
93; Daniel 2, vv 25-30,46-49; Have faith in God, my heart (Bp 28) Stereo

by GURMEET KASBA
In her strange and terrifying realm of fantasy, the evil Queen battles with Tilly for the life and very soul of Cas.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.0pm) 0 HEAR THIS! page 11

'I've heard that birds won't eat red insects because the colour denotes danger. Why then do the birds eat my strawberries and cherries?' The naturalists answer your wildlife questions. Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

with Cindy Robinson

A nationwide general knowledge contest.
Second Round: North West Chairman Robert Robinson Arthur Naylor
(retired schoolmaster) Andrew Francis (lecturer)
James Watson (civil servant)
Philip Hardingham (unemployed)
Including Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P WYNN Questions set by LAN GILUES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)

Presented by Sir Robin Day

2: Captain Betty and the Pirates (R)

presented by Sue MacGregor The Royal Wedding on 23 July will be celebrated in many different ways. How hard is it to organise such an event? Janet Davey reports on celebratory plans from venues including Miss Sarah Ferguson's home village, HMS Brazen and the Savoy Hotel.
Serial: The Perfect Stranger by P. J. KAVANAGH abridged in seven episodes by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by Charles Kay (7)
(Music: Ireland's Summer Evening)

Gemma's Children by DOROTHY GHARBAOUI
Gemma Carson 's childhood in Ulster was greatly complicated by having a Catholic mother and a Protestant father. Perhaps as an escape she has married a Moroccan and moved to
Tangier. Gemma's problems are not solved, but is it fair that her children too should have to suffer an identity crisis?
Directed by PETER KAVANAGH. Stereo

What can the Church do when a small community is devastated by unemployment? Bernard Jackson visits St Just in Cornwall where the recent closure of the local tin mine means a bleak future for hundreds of people. At a time such as this, what moral and spiritual strengths can the community call upon and what can the Church realistically offer?
Research AMANDA PHILLIPS Producer DAVID COOMES
Series editor JOHN NEWBURY (R) Revised

Presented by Robert Williams and Carole West
continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Liz Donnelly Producer JOHN DRURY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 5pm)

A three-part celebration of the animal world
This week: Cats
For I will consider my cat
Jeoffry.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point. For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion....
(CHRISTOPHER SMART)
Jill Balcon , Patricia Gallimore and Richard Pasco fete our feline friends in verse, prose and music.
Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Birmingham t HEAR THIS! page 11

A Free Press?
Throughout the provinces, the casualties are mounting as the established press and the free-sheets do battle. Larry Harris reports on the struggle between old and new in the print revolution that reverberates far beyond Fleet Street. Producer JOHN ABBERLEY BBC Birmingham 0 INFO: page 75 and WODDIS ON: page 81

For people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Ian MacRae Producer THENAHESHEL Phone [number removed].
Lines open from 8.30 to 10. Opm Free quarterly bulletin from:
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A series often short stories from different parts of the world 2:Vendettaby the Ethiopian writer HAMATUMA
Read by Alex Tetteh-Lartey A sick man receives a mysterious visitor in his hut - and the stranger comes on a deadly mission.
Producer JANE DAUNCEY
First broadcast on BBC World Service

presented by Natalie Wheen Producer CARROLL MOORE

The Third Policeman (2)

with Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude