with DONALD ANDERSON. MP. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Bill Frost
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
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Your Letters

Keith Allan continues his series in company with Douglas Clayton , Keeper of Saltwell Park at Gateshead.
'The Park has to cater for everything, but it's a very old park and I don't think it should go too far. There should still be areas where people can sit and enjoy what the Park is really there for.... the beauty of the place.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcasttomormwat4.45pmLW)

Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.30pm)

Evening with the Marchesa by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
An evening with the beautiful marchesa is all that the young man desires. But the marchesa has money troubles, which develop in the most unexpected way!
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM. p 46; Jesus, Lord of life and glory (BBC HB 291); Psalm 114; Acts 13, vv 26-39; Lord of all hopefulness (BBC HB 309). Stereo

Stereo

When Dan Cherrington was a lad, a farmer's son spent much of his time pursuing rabbits, not always with success. But the latest technology offered new hope - or did it? BBC Bristol

Last in the series
A panel of experts answers your questions on your rights in the National Health Service and private medicine.
Chaired by Pattie Coldwell before a live audience in Bristol A You and Yours production

A non-stop comedy cabaret with Fundation: JOE GRIFFITHS (piano) GARETH HALE , NORMAN PACE TERRY MORRISON , VICTY SILVA and MARYANNE MORGAN Written by FUNDATION with contributions from
CHARLIE ADAMS. GEOFFREY ATKINSON and others
Producer ALAN NIXON. Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

Today's story: King Jolly and the Sandcastle. stereo

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Wellies, Weeds.... and Whitewash?
Woman's Hour goes down among the converted pigsties to meet a new breed of holiday hosts. The Wakes Weeders explain why they go down on their knees on the first Sunday of the month. And the Dinnington Docks and Railway Preservation Society reveal treasures of the industrial past.
Producer JILL MARSHALL. BBC Bristol Serial:
The Custom of the Country by EDITH WHARTON. abridged in 15 episodes by MEG CLARKE
Read by Gayle Hunnicutt (15) (Music: SchulhofFs Esquisses de Jazz)

by RUDYARD KIPLING
The last of three parts dramatised by FREDERICK BRADNUM
After Maisie and Sarah have left for France, Dick realises his sight is failing. He has to paint one last canvas for Maisie. But Bessie destroys the completed picture, though by now Dick is blind.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo

Four programmes looking at film versions of famous novels 1: Oliver Twist
Young Oliver Twist asking for more is one of the best-remembered moments of any English novel and of British cinema. Christopher Cook considers how Oliver fared on his journey from the printed page to the screen, with soundtrack illustrations and readings from Charles Dickens 's book by EMRYS JAMES . Producer WENDY CLAY

The Theatre on the Hill
Ten years ago a theatre, built on a green hill overlooking a small market town in North Wales, was greeted by as much suspicion as acclaim. This year Theatr Clwyd at Mold celebrated its birthday by dispatching two Shakespeare productions to the West End.
Artistic director Toby Robertson is ambitious and confident about its second decade.
Compiled and presented by Chris Segar. BBC Wales

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Cliff Michelmore is at Cowes for Britain's premier yachting regatta, with more than 800 yachts competing. Plus Dilly Barlow with an update on events.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Anne Nightingale Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Tom Salmon travels through the heartland of Devon from Tiverton to Honiton and then to the croquet lawns of Budleigh Salterton. In Exeter he explores underground passages, visits the Cathedral and Maritime Museum, before going on to Starcross to learn about Brunel's atmospheric railway.
BBC Bristol. (Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

How to get on with Californian life when the next earthquake could well be the expected Big One. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

A Plague on Anglo-Saxons!
This is the week of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, when to win the bardic chair is, in the words of poet Die Jones , 'like winning the Open Golf and FA Cup and Wimbledon all rolled into one'. Historian Hywel Teifi Edwards sees it as 'countering the pox of Anglo-Saxonism'. Yet other Welshmen hate the Eisteddfod and all it stands for. Martyn Williams investigates Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Under a Monsoon Cloud by H. R. F. KEATING abridged in ten episodes by ANDREW SIMPSON
Read by Sam Dastor (10) Producer PETER KING

Presented by David Sells

In the last of the present series the lid is ripped off the seething cauldron of modern politics and all its horror is exposed. Then Bill Wallis , David Tate ,
Jon Glover and Carole Hayman all go off on holiday.
Written by MARTIN BOOTH .
PAUL B. DAVIES , RICHARD QUICK. STUART SILVER. PETE SINCLAIR. DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY. STEVE PUNT. MIKE COLEMAN.
ALISON RENSHAW. JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)

followed by an interlude