With DENIS NOWLAN. Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
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: It Reminds Me of Bloomin' Picnic

Roy Johnston tells the story of the marriage between a well-bred Irish girl and the Italian singer Tenducci.
Reader MARCELLA RIORDAN Producer DAVID BYERS
BBC Northern Ireland (R)

4: In Tune With the Waves
Prussia Cove, Cornwall, is a place apart. There, wrapped around by rocks and sea, 60 musicians abandon themselves to their music and the elements. For one day Susan Marling immerses herself in the music and the place.
Producer MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol

Carved Eagle by LESLIE HALWARD Read by Hugh Dickson
In a run-down back street near the pickle factory, Mr Prince works as an undertaker. To the young man who calls one day, he talks of his memories -and of his plans....
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 75; 0 for a faith that will not shrink (BBC HB 310); Psalm 122; Acts 20, vv 13-24; I'll praise my maker while I've breath (bp 36). Stereo

Memories of hop-picking between the wars.
(Stereo/Binaural)
The full binaural effect can be heard through stereo headphones

Clare Francis reveals to
Ron AUdridge the three 'secrets of life' she would feel compelled to pass on to her nearest and dearest, if she knew she had but ten minutes left on earth.

Presented by John Howard

Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

3: Sand and Sunshine

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: the distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize-winner, Professor
Dorothy Hodgkin Serial:
Indian Summer of a Forsyte by JOHN GALSWORTHY abridged in three episodes by ANN REES JONES
Read by John Bennett (1) Five years after
Philip Bosinney 's death, Irene Forsyte is living apart from her husband Soames. And old Jolyon, his son young Jolyon and young
Jolyon's family are all living at Robin Hill - the house Bosinney designed and built.
(Music: Hanson's Symphony No 1)

Southport Sunday by ROGER CRAWFORD
George's mother-in-law has come to take his family for an afternoon at the zoo. Appalled at the prospect, George believes the outing can contain no surprises, but he's wrong.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester. Stereo

David Bean dispatches a personal report on rural life. BBC Manchester

Suzanne Burden reads from the journals and letters of the 19th-century actress Fanny Kemble. 4: On Tour
Compiled by MONICA GOUGH Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)

Mario Vargas Llosa
The Peruvian author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and The War of the End of the World is among the most respected writers of Latin America. The power of his literature is such that he was once offered the post of Prime Minister.
Michael Oliver talks to Llosa about the role he plays as a bridge between the extremes of Latin American politics. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON

continuedon VHFlFM5.50-5.55pm

With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report

Umpire Brian Johnston Team Captains Tim Rice and Willie Rushton
Spinners Robin Bailey and Alfred Marks
Statisticians PETER HICKEY and MALCOLM WILUAMSON Groundsman PAUL SPENCER
Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow 12.27)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

In the last of four programmes on the politics of health in Britain Clive Cookson attempts a prognosis for the NHS. How will it cope with the demands of a huge elderly population, and will policies to move patients out of hospital and into the community mean that hospitals become obsolete?
Producer OLIVIA SEUGMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am L W)

Second of four programmes in which Jenni Mills traces critical periods in family life
It's Like Having Another Baby in the House....
Valerie's mother-in-law lives with the family. She's 81 and mentally confused.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS (R)

A celebration of one of the most gifted composers of the century, born 100 years ago on 27 August 1886

The tunes of Eric Coates helped to ensure the success of many radio and television programmes and films, including In Town Tonight, Music While You Work, Desert Island Discs, The Forsyte Saga and The Dam Busters. Bryan Crimp, with contributions from the composer's son Austin Coates and others, talks about the music and the man who wrote it.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11.0 am)

by Simon Persighetti
Stereo

Phil Smith goes prowling.... 5: The Night of the Spangled G-string
Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Birmingham

Presented by Paul Allen Producer HANS PIETSCH
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)

Academic Year (3)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude