With DEREK WILLIAMS. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys 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 clive ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
John Waite and his team tackle another case concerning injustice and the abuse of power.
Producer GRAHAM ELLIS Editor KEN VASS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
If you have come across an issue which deserves investigation, write to: Face the Facts, BBC London W1A 4WW
With the temperature 103' F in the shade, George Adamson talks to Fergus Keeling about his 'Pride and Joy' - his lions and their future in the Kora Game Reserve in Kenya.
Producer MILES BARTON. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Sixty pilots climb aboard their planes for this year's DEC Schneider Trophy Race.
This famous competition, which started in 1913, was originally for seaplanes and attracted an international field of competitors. Nowadays the planes will touch down on dry land, but the speeds won't be as great as 50 years ago.
Sean Maffett dons his goggles and investigates the past and present of Europe's largest air race.
Producer CAROUNE ELUOT
The Merry Widow by SEAN LOUGHRAN
Read by Mark Mulholland Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland
reflecting the issues of the day. Introduced from Broadcasting House, London Stereo
In the last of six programmes
Bruce Sandison talks of fishing, wildlife and history with Christopher Lowell. Gairloch. Wester Ross
Classic West Highland scenery with mountains and forests. There are also spectacles, faeries, and diamonds if you want to include the lochs.
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
The Right Prescription? An audience of health watchdogs quiz a panel of experts about the state of the National Health Service. John Howard chairs the meeting at the annual conference of the Association of Community Health Councils in the Universisty of York. Producer CHRIS HIPWELL
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
(Stereo)
Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP reads Walter Crumpton and the Homesick Donkey Stereo (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor 'You ask-yourself what is at fault, the society or yourself?' While approving of people who undertake voluntary work overseas, do we value the experience they acquire abroad? Janet Davey hears of the emotional and practical difficulties in returning to life in Britain.
Serial: Reasonable Doubts (3)
by Derrick Geer
An occasional series of plays for radio.
With John Alderton as David and Alistair White as Joe
While his mother visits his father in America to finalise their divorce, Joe is sent to stay with Uncle David in a Welsh coastal village. For both of them it becomes an unforgettable experience.
(Stereo)
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Susan Hill is at the wheel as Radio 4's good books programme drives off for its summer break the gospel according to Our Ford in the glove compartment and an evocation of the delights of the French B road from passenger Richard Binns. Producer SIMON ELMES
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Revised broadcast of yesterday's programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Nick Worrall and Susannah Simons continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN
Halfanhourof reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm) Written by SAM JACOBS Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
Introduced by John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
An eight-part series presented by the outgoing BBC Middle East Correspondent Gerald Butt. 5: Egypt
One Arab in three is from Egypt, the country that has produced two of the Arab world's most charismatic leaders: Nasser and Sadat. Yet Egypt has been expelled from the Arab League for signing a peace treaty with Israel, has acute economic problems and population growth is out of control. How does this ancient and sometimes chaotic country get by? Producer ALAN WILDING (e)
Book, same title, £7.95 from bookshops ('Get by in Arabic next Sunday
5.30pm VHFjFM)
A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote; an assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
The last of five programmes
Beatles bags, Beatles sweaters, Mersey boots.... they were all part of the swinging 60s.
Miniskirts arrived and old attitudes went. Songs by the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, and poems by Roger McGough and Adrian Henri , caught the mood of the times.
With RAY SMITH ,
CHRISTINE PRITCHARD and SION PROBERT Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
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 WIA 4WW
Phone [number removed]. Lines open from
10.0am to 5.0pm Monday to Friday
Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition.
Producer RACHEL YORKE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
TheSonglinesO)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
followed by an interlude