With VERNON SPROXTON. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The atmosphere can be infectious. Why not consult your GP?
Producer PIPP BURSTON. Stereo
This week the team visits
Herefordshire, where members of the Bodenham Gardening Club put their horticultural queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki
Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBCManchester
The Table Cloth byjOHNHALSTEAD
Read by Jim McManus Producer SHEILA FOX
nem.p 71; Soldiers of Christ, arise (BBC HB 366); Psalm 27, w 1-7; John 21. vv 20-25; Beloved, let us love (BBC HB 373). Stereo
Patricia Carroll introduces and plays music from her Victorian collection of pieces composed by famous pianists of the day.
This week: Leopold de Meyer
The conclusion of the series examining how parents and children stand in the eyes of the law.
4: The Parting
AU families grow up. The children themselves may become parents and parents grandparents. But when exactly does a child become an adult and able to leave home or go to work? What arrangements should parents make in a will? John Howard investigates.
Researcher AUSON VERNON-SMITH Producer HAZEL CASTELL Editor KEN VASS
Richard Anthony Baker with a kaleidoscope of kitsch and kultur provided by Victor Borge , Joyce Grenfell Robb Wilton and others Producer ALAN OWEN. Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
by the Labour Party
1.55 Listening Comer Up in a Big Balloon (3). Stereo
2.5 Looking at Nature Seashore - 'Boring sand!' says TIMMY MALLETT. But PAM MORRIS shows him that scientific sand-castles are great fun. Stereo (R) (e)
2.20 Talk to Me
2: Why, What, Where, Who? The Doofernow Goes to School by ANITA HEWETT. Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Songs of the Greenwood by PETER BOND (R) (e)
2.40 Travel and Tourism A series for 16- to 19-year-olds 2: Travel Agencies and ABTA Presented by VAL BETHELL (e) For tutor's pack send £1. 00 and large sae to: [address removed]
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Professor Barbara Clayton ,
President of the Royal College ofPathologists
Story: Malgudi Days 3: Attila
by Sharon Butler
With Mark Payton as Chris and Natasha Pyne as Sara
When you're a student away from home for the first time, falling in love with an experienced older woman can be quite an education.
(Stereo)
Six Honest Serving Men 2: Why?
Stimulated by the Kipling poem, H. Colin Davis continues his series of programmes of poems that ask questions.
Readers ROSALIND SHANKS and GEOFFREY COLLINS
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
The Immortal Bohemian
(Winner of the 1987 Sony Radio Award for Best Classical Music Programme)
Variations on the life and music of Giacomo Puccini
The second of two programmes compiled and translated by MICHAEL OLIVER Evviva Puccini ! with and / know in my bones that either I shall finish "Turandot' and it will be a fiasco, or I shall not finish it and it will be staged incomplete - and someone will come on to the stage and say to the audience: 'At this point the maestro died. '
Hopefully undergoing a painful cure for a tumour of the throat in a Brussels clinic, Puccini still struggles to complete his 12th opera, Turandot, for its world premiere at La Scala, Milan, to be conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
With GWEN CHERRELL , PAULINE LETTS
RONALD HERDMAN. TIM REYNOLDS EDWARD DE SOUZA and MANNING WILSON
Technical presentation by NICK RUSSELL-PAVIER and MARK CALLUM
Directed by JOHN POWELL Stereo (R) revised
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Hope Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper (FRANCIS BACON) Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from
MICHAEL BENTINE. GERARD HOFFNUNG
PETER SELLERS. PETER COOKE and DUDLEY MOORE
Compiled and written by SIMON BRETT
Producer RICHARD EDIS Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
A series of seven programmes in which the tenor and opera producer Nigel Douglas talks about some of his favourite singers with recordings 2: Titta Ruffo
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
The Parting
Following today's programme at 12 noon, John Howard is joined by a legal expert to answer your queries on what happens when a family grows up. Do children have a duty to look after ageing parents? What future arrangements should parents make for handicapped children? Producer HAZEL CASTELL Ring [number removed]
by Raymond Hartshorne
(Stereo)
Jamaican-born Ferdi Dennis has lived most of his life in London. He's spent the last few months visiting six major cities on a journey of discovery among the communities of Black Britain.
2: Sheffield - Another Generation The 'Sheffield Kid' is 17 and wears his hair in dreadlocks. That may be the way of the young, but his Jamaican grandmother doesn't see eye to eye with him.
Producer MARINA SALANDY-BROWN
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
Docherty
8: A Terrible Erosion
Presented by Alexander MacLeod National and international news, background, analysis and comment
A-level Geography
12.30 Waste Disposal in the Oceans Written and narrated by MALCOLM BILLINGS (e) and at 12.50 Disposal and Recycling Waste Written and narrated by BILL CHARLTON (e)
