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Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With JEREMY BOWEN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Head by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Jeremy Bowen
Unknown:
Peter Donaldson

Fergus Keeling and Alan Mitchell look at the extraordinary richness of Britain's parkland and garden trees, while Lionel Kelleway hears about one man's efforts to redress the decline in barn owls. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Fergus Keeling
Unknown:
Alan Mitchell
Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
John Harrison

The Cockroach and The Conundrums
Read by Leon Sinden
Two more episodes from the life of BARRY PAIN'S comic suburban couple of the early 1900s: the long-suffering Eliza and her overweening husband.
Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG BBC Scotland

Contributors

Read By:
Leon Sinden
Producer:
David Jackson

1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: The Little Car Helps a Baby by LEILA BERG. Stereo (R)
2.5 The Song Tree The Music Menagerie (6) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON (e)
2.20 Living Language The Mouse and his Child (1) by RUSSELL HOBAN adapted by BERLIE DOHERTY (e)
2.40 Newscast A current affairs series for schools and colleges Presented by RICHARD WACHMAN (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leila Berg.
Presented By:
Hilary James
Presented By:
Simon Mayor
Written By:
Barry Gibson
Unknown:
Russell Hoban
Adapted By:
Berlie Doherty
Presented By:
Richard Wachman

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Adoption was first legalised in 1926 and a change in the law in 1975 gave people the right to search for their natural parents. Now the Post Adoption Centre has been set up to give advice and help in untangling problems which adoption can r\ create. Roz Morris reports. \ Serial: In Chancery (7) ( \

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Roz Morris

by Paula Griffiths
with Lee Montague and David Collings as two travellers on their way to a public execution in the medieval Durrah Valley.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Paula Griffiths
Director:
Adrian Mourby
Unknown:
Lee Montague
Unknown:
David Collings
Leonie:
Beth Morris
Bozzard:
Howell Evans
Old Jane:
Nesta Harris
Marika:
Jenny Funnell
Tollik:
Dillwyn Owen
Cuddy:
Ray Handy

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Mackie
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Jack Woolley:
Arnold Peters
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Lucy Perks:
Tracey-Jane White
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Kathy Holland:
Hedli Niklaus
Mrs Antrobus:
Margot Boyd
Linda Snell:
Carole Boyd

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson Producer LAURIE MASON BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS82LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Producer:
Laurie Mason

Thirty years ago, the Treaty of Rome 'determined to lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe'.
A senes of 11 programmes offering a perspective on the European Community as seen through portraits of Britain's fellow members. 7: Denmark -
Poor Little Rich Country
Stuart Simon reports from our North Sea neighbour, where the state acts as nanny, most prisons are open and football is a safe game to watch. But half of all you earn goes in taxes and a maverick foreign policy has drawn criticism from outside. Producer JULIAN HALE

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Simon
Producer:
Julian Hale

A magazine programme for and about disabled people
Could you give a loving home to a disabled child? With the increasing closure of homes and hospitals, there are more and more handicapped children waiting to be placed with families. Beginning this week is a series of monthly profiles of disabled children in need of adoption.
Tonight: Chris
Presented by Katt Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC, London WLA 4WW Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.0am to 5.0 pm Monday to Friday
INFO: page 92

Contributors

Presented By:
Katt Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

BBC Radio 4 FM

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