With DAVID BENTLEYTAYLOR Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by cuve rosun
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Robert Powell reads some favourite tales told in verse. The Armada by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY and The Jackdaw of Rheims by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

Believed Lost by JOHN GRILLO
Read by Tim Mclnnerny
City life was a ball and chain around Harris's ankle. So he thought he'd go back to nature for the afternoon, to unchain his spirit. Nature, however, wasn't at all impressed.... Producer SHEILA FOX

nem, p 13; Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 328);
Psalm 103, w 1-12; I Corinthians 13; The King of love my
Shepherd is (BBC HB 475) Stereo

At the age of 5, Peter White was sent away to boarding school. In the 50s there was no alternative provision for blind children. He recalls the impact of a rather Dickensian institution on a young child separated from his parents for 13 weeks at a time.

Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by IAIN LAUCHLAN and SANDRA KERR. Stereo
2.5 Let's Join In Murdo by MARGARET SPEIGHT (e)
2.25 Instruments of the Orchestra 5: The Growth of the Orchestra Presented by PETER HUTCHINGS Stereo (e)
2.40 Listen! Dangerous Holiday (10) by ROB GITTINS (e)

Introduced from Scotland by Mary Marquis

Breast Cancer Screening
Professor Sir Patrick Forrest of Edinburgh University led the team whose recommendations have been accepted by the Government.

Toddlers in Tow: John Thomson reports on how Ayrshire is leading the way in providing services for the pre-5s.

BBC Scotland

Serial: The Accidental Tourist (8)

by Charles Dickens dramatised in ten episodes by Betty Davies
and
Narrator Simon Cadell
'"An evil journey", Montague repeated several times, "An evil journey. But I'll travel home alone. I'll have no more of this." But his presentiment, or superstition, that it was an evil journey, did not at all deter him from doing the evil for which the journey was undertaken.'
(Stereo)

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm

With Eugene Fraser including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport. Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents herselectionofextractsfrom BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer JUUAN HALE. Stereo

Alex Salmond , Vice-chairman, Scottish National Party John Cousins, Head of Personnel, Scottish Daily Record
Charles Kennedy , mp
Emma Nicholson , Vice-chairman, Conservative Party tackle the issues raised by the audience in Aberdeen Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

The case of US marine Clayton Lonetree accused of espionage in Moscow reminds Cooke of how electronic surveillance was feared at the founding of the UN in 1945.

A group of young people living in Northern Ireland were asked by a psychologist to write down as in a diary, their activities, thoughts and feelings any one day they chose. This selection from those journals, edited and arranged by Sankha Guha , demonstrates how political events (in particular the Anglo-Irish Agreement) affect their day-to-day lives.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON

by Alistair Cooke

Emulous of Light
... th' returning sun
Exhaled earth's humid bubbles, and emulous of light
Reflected her lost forms, each in prismatic guise.
(Fallacies of Hope by J. M. W. TURNER)
Turner's vision of a permanent exhibition space for his work will finally be realised in the new Clore Gallery at the Tate in London. John Jacob talks to people involved in its creation and reflects on the artist's life. Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT

Victory (10)

Presented by David Sells

A satirical review of the past week's news and events with Bill Wallis , Sally Grace
Jon Glover and Martin Jarvis Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B DAVIES , RICHARD QUICK STUART SILVER. PETE SINCLAIR PETER mCKEY. STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN. ALISON RENSHAW KEVIN MANDRY. GED PARSONS MAX HANDLEY , BILL MATTHEWS and others
Producer DAN PATTERSON
Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25 pm L W)
(Martin Jarvis is in 'Woman in Mind ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

followed by an interlude

Some Caribbean Writers 3: Poet LORNA GOODISON and novelist MERLE HODGE (e)