With THE RT REV CORMACK MURPHY
O'CONNOR, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

If you had broken a world record or won the Nobel Prize or been crowned Miss World, would you remember that date as 'the best day of your life'?
Elfrieda Fallowfield talks about the day she was presented at Court in 1958 with the last of the debutantes.
Producer SANCHIA BERG BBC Pebble Mill

BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

South of Sonora by BRENDA O'BYRNE
Read by William Eedle Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 122: Who are these like stars appearing (BBC HB 236); Psalm 1; John 14, vv 1-12;
Let saints on earth in concert sing (BBC HB 249). Stereo

Arthur Martin explains how he copes with being an Avon lady. Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by Derek Cooper Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner
Today's story: Bad Harry and Mrs Cocoa's Art-Pot
Stereo (R)

2.5 Let's Join In The Old Man and His Three Daughters (Russian folktale) Producer COLIN SMITH (e)

2.25 Popalong
With ROY CASTLE
1: Getting Ready to Dance
Written by ROBERT PENMAN

2.40 In the Picture
With MURIEL GRAY
1: Every picture tells a story
Written by ANTHEA PEPPIN Producer DICKON READ (e)

Introduced from Cardiff by Sian Roberts
What do you tell a child who asks if there's going to be a nuclear war? The truth, decided Deidre Rhys Thomas , but first she had to find it. From her cottage in the Welsh countryside she wrote letters to world leaders and public figures. The resulting correspondence, with people as diverse as Indira Gandhi and Dr Spock, Lynn Redgrave and Senator John Glenn , is funny as well as moving.
Pregnancy can be risky if you're diabetic, and may mean spending months in hospital. Woman's Hour visits an antenatal clinic in Cardiff which specialises in treating women with diabetes, helping them to lead normal lives for as long as possible.
Producer LIS EDWARDS BBC Wales
Serial: In the Springtime of the Year (9)

by LLOYD C DOUGLAS (3) Stereo

Father and Daughter
A series of four programmes in which women whose fathers were leading figures of their day talk to June Knox-Mawer about their relationship and reveal the private side of these public men. This week: Sheila Lochhead , daughter of the first Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald
Producer BRIDGET CARTER

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continuedon VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With BKYAN MARTIN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer.
Producer JENNY MALUNSON DUFF

(Re-broadcast on May Day Bank Holiday)
BBC Pebble Mill

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer HELEN FRY

The Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley , mp Secretary of State for the Environment
The Rt Hon Shirley Williams , President of the SDP
Brenda Dean, President of SOGAT82
Gilbert Gray. Qc
Chairman John Timpson from Southam, Warwickshire Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Ian Skidmoe talks to five people about their lives.
4: Tim Da vies one of the world's finest recorders of insect noises Producer ANNE HOWELLS (R)

Rethink needed on rubbish disposal as landfill solution proves to be polluting water resources. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Frank McGuinness was named as 'Most Promising Playwright' last year for Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.
Born in Donegal, his plays explore the different emotions and influences of the Puritan and Catholic traditions. With his translations of two classic European dramas opening in London and Dublin, he talks to Paul Allen about his work. Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland
(Re-broadcast on May Day Bank Holiday)

Docherty
5: Realignment

Presented by Richard Kershaw

A satirical review of the past week's news and events with: Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by PAUL B. DAVIES
STUART SILVER. RICHARD QUICK STEVE PUNT. MIKE COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. PETER HICKEY PETE SINCLAIR. KEVIN MANDRY GED PARSONS. MAX HANDLEY BILL MATTHEWS and others Producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo

followed by an interlude

GCSE English: Help with Spoken English
12.30
3: For My Talk Today... by DAVID SELF (R)(e) and at 12.50
4: Who's There? by DAVID SELF (R) (e)