With BROTHER RAMON. SSF. Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With Simon Rose
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

Isolated populations of endangered animals are particularly vulnerable tq pathogens. Lionel Kelleway uncovers the role of disease in the decline of the Hawaiian goose, and Fergus Keeling finds out about the sexually transmitted disease that is ravaging the Australian koala population.
Producer miles BARTON BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Itchy Ryder and the Green Frog byENAMAY
Read by Mary Ryan
'Mr and Mrs Ryder lived right across the road from us with their daughter, Itchy, the only child they ever had, and she loved frogs.
'She used to go around with a frog in her pocket whenever she could and you'd always know when she had one because her eyes got kind of sly and veiled-over looking and she'd keep wetting her lips all the time, smiling secretively.' Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland

Stereo

The fourth programme of the series from Dublin in which
Aidan Carl Mathews discusses politics and poetry.
Readers CONOR FARRINGTON and DANIEL REARDON
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol

Presented by John Howard

Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

Today's story: Walter Crumpton and the Homesick Donkey. Stereo

with Sue MacGregor Serial:
The Custom of the Country (9)

Keeping in Touch by OWEN HOLDER
Eve is entertaining old friends to dinner. All of them have in some way or other been linked to her in the past and all of them have in some way betrayed her. It seems to be a gesture of reconciliation....
Directed by IAN COTTERELL. Stereo

Brian Gear invites Humphrey Carpenter and Isobel Quigly to pick some paperbacks.
BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

More Than the Rolling of a Dice The Princess Grace Irish
Library in Monaco was opened in November 1984, the only Irish library in the Mediterranean. This memorial to Princess
Grace contains her collection of books and music scores and offers a programme of lectures and seminars to students of Ireland.
It can combine for visiting scholars the opportunity to live a sort of sybaritic life on the Cote d 'Azur, and at the same time get down to a bit of work.
(ANTHONY BURGESS)
Many people unfortunately think of Monaco just as the rolling of a dice. It isn't. It has a serious side. This library is serious and we who are running itare serious, (MRS PAUL GALLlCO) Producer CHRIS SPURR
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster)

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

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Stereo

Written by JOANNA TOYE Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

In the first of six programmes Stanley Williamson prowls through the pages of the provincial papers and discovers how they reflected the lives and concerns of the people of Plymouth 100 years ago. Readers ANN aris and GEOFFREY WHEELER Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

The People Who Came A shift of focus from the Caribbean itself to the Caribbean communities in Britain.
How can the cultural richness of the Caribbean have any bearing on the tough conditions experienced by the children and grandchildren of the people who came from the Caribbean in the 1950s?
Trevor McDonald introduces this programme, which links up with Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, to hear from community leaders, business people and educationists.
You can contribute by phoning [number removed], from 7.0 pm. Reporters LIBBY FAWBERT
JUUET ALEXANDER , JEREMY HAYES Researchers ANGELA ACKAH and BEVERLEY WYNTER
Producers MARY HAYDON and SARAH MCNEILL. Stereo
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Presented by John Mills Producer MARLENE PEASE
Phone [number removed]from 10.0am to 5.0pm

Two Great Minds
In 1933 the brilliant Ulster scholar of medieval literature, Helen Waddell , made her name as a novelist with the publication of Peter Abelard , the story of the passionate love between the renowned theologian of the Middle Ages and his beautiful young pupil
Heloise. It became a worldwide bestseller and brought Helen many honours, both literary and academic. Dorothy Gharbaoui tells the story of Helen Waddell 's life and her identification with Abelard and Heloise. with Stella McCusker as Helen Waddell
Narrator Brigid Erin Bates Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland

Under a Monsoon Cloud (4)

Presented by David Sells

Jeanine McMullen talks about three of her favourite humorous characters from fiction
Readers JOHN FRANKLYN ·ROBBtNS and ROSAUND AYRES (R)

followed by an interlude