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With THE RT REV GORDON BATES Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys and Jenni Murray
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 CARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Presented by Laurie Taylor including the announcement of the overall winner in the Write a Commercial' competition
Under Review: Aspects of Egypt (Radio 3) and 20th-century Sex (Radio 4) Producer JENNY DANKS
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Write to The Radio gramme,
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A series of six programmes 2: Countess Constance Markievicz , Irish nationalist and revolutionary. Born Constance Gore Booth in 1868 she had a conventional and privileged Victorian childhood. She took an active part in the Easter Rising, was condemned to death but was released in a general amnesty in 1917. and became the first woman to be directly elected to the British
Parliament in 1918. She served several prison terms and died in the public ward of a hospital among the poor of Dublin. Presented by Hugh Sykes Researcher MIKE WOOLF
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE (R)

An Inspector Falls written and read by Owen Kelly Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland

reflecting the issues of the day. Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo

A close encounter with a tarantula would fill even the most stout-hearted with terror, but it is not so for David Phipps. As the founder of the Tarantula Fellowship, he has a strange affection for them. and feels impelled to improve the public image of these hairy arachnids. The star of his collection is Trudy, a hairy Mexican Red
Knee with a five-and-a-half inch leg span.
Marjorie Lofthouse reluctantly meets her and David Phipps at their home in Essex.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by John Howard For details of this week 's programmes, write for Fact Sheet No 20 to: [address removed] Please enclose sae

Heaven
Heaven goes byfavour, if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. (MARK TWAIN)
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin ofjokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from
BILL COSBY. ALAN BENNETT
MARTY FELDMAN , TIM BROOKE TAYLOR PETER COOK and DUDLEY MOORE
Compiled and written by SIMON BRETT Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo

Presented by Sir Robin Day with news and topics in and behind the headlines

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Tommy's Tuba by BEN BUTTERWORTH. Stereo
2.5 The Song Tree The Instant Music Grow-bag (4) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON Stereo (e)
2.20 Living Language The Wanderer (3) A retelling of the Odyssey by LEON GARFIELD with NICKY HENSON as Odysseus Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Make Up Your Mind on topical issues This week: God and the Big Bang Theory Can we believe in both? Presented by MARGARET PERCY Stereo (e) Your views would like to be heard. To take part in the poll, write for the broadcast notes, sending sae to: [address removed]

Introduced by Sue MacGregor For the Living and the Dead: the graveyard of St Mary
Magdalene offers an oasis of quiet between two major trunk roads in east London. While some tend family graves, youngsters follow the nature trail or visit the interpretative centre for living lessons in biology, history and archaeology. Dilly Barlow visits this ancient churchyard with its face set firmly to the future.
Serial: With O'Leary in the Grave by KEVIN FITZGERALD abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Joseph O'Conor (11)
(Music: Rimsky-Korsakov's Quintet)

Care of Mr and Mrs Eldridge by DAVID MARSHALL
Two teenage runaways are adrift in London. They are
'adopted' by a pair of middle-aged refugees, the Eldridges. But the peculiar Mr Eldridge has a terrible price to pay....
MARY NASH (piano)
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY. Stereo

Susan Hill presents Radio 4's good books programme.
This week: a biography of Compton Mackenzie and Bel Mooney discusses a reissue of E. H. Young's classic stories of West Country provincial life. Producer ANDREW parfitt (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

(Revised broadcast of yesterday programme at 9. 45pm)

Presented by Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With DAVID SYMONDS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

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

How much power and influence is vested in Britain's leading institutions? Are they changing to meet the challenge of the late 80s? This second series takes a critical look at six more pillars of society.
5: The Freemasons
What lies behind the closed doors of a Freemasons' lodge? Is Freemasonry merely a charitable institution with high ideals? Or is its power far-reaching, undermining other bastions of society? David Lomax investigates. Producer MARGARET HILL
(Re-broadcast next Wednesday)

In the last encounter of this series Greville Wynne , the former British spy, talks to Dr Anthony Clare about the major influences on his life of deception.
Researcher LOUISE HIBBINS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER (R)

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London W1A 4WW Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.0 am to 5.Opm Monday to Friday

Presented by Paul Allen
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

A Cure for Serpents (9)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

followed by an interlude

Secondary Science
12.30 The Mole Concept
Presented by Fred Harris
(R) (e) (computer synchronised radio)

and at 12.50 Uniformly Accelerated Motion
Presented by Nigel Graham
(R) (e) (computer synchronised radio)