Producers TIM FINNEY and REBECCA POW
With THE RT REV THOMAS BUTLER , Bishop of Willesden. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead 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 20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 2
Talk to John and his studio guests on an issue of the moment. Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8. Oam
The Perfect Match by ALEC BARON
Read by William Ingram Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
New Every Morning, page 75;
Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 328); Psalm 121; Mark 9, vv 30-37; The King of love my
Shepherd is (BBC HB 475) Stereo
The Vicar Trick by COLIN HAYDN EVANS with The vicar prays fervently for a renewal of the faith of his youth. Young Terry longs to bring off a masterful conjuring trick. At the village fete they are able to help each other in an unexpected way.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.0pm)
Would you be surprised to see worms wriggling past your window or alarmed if a mole bumped into the glass?
Peter France goes underground to a rhizotron laboratory where these are normal occurrences and where scientists hope to shed more light on life in the soil beneath our feet.
Producer TIM HAINES. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Presented by Susan Rae
Chairman Robert Robinson Second Semi-Final: Midlands and North Christopher Argyle
(author/proof reader)
Clarence Rickards (librarian) Peter Richardson
(product manager - retired) Michael Hazeldine
(marketing information officer) Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Programme devised by JOHN P WYNN Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Nick Worrall
JOHNNY morris reads The Shoelaces (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor "I was brought up to think I was white".... should black children always be fostered by black parents? Jenny Cuffe looks at some of the arguments.
Serial: Just You Wait and See (7)
The British Abroad
Ski-Lark by ELIZABETH MORGAN A ski-ing holiday in Eastern
Europe is the background to an unusual affair concerning two English divorcees, who can't be sure if the two local men they meet are after their bodies, their clothes or their nationality.
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo (R)
Presented by Anthony Smith 5: The Forest Edge
Is there a future for the Amazon forest? How much has to be cut away before the rain system breaks down and all the forest dies, causing massive extinction and, perhaps climatic change? In the last programme of the series, Anthony Smith reviews the fate of the greatest of forests, and looks for solutions that people who use it might accept. Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Details on Friday at 12.25pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
The last programme of the present series.
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
The second of five programmes eavesdropping on the wards, clinics and corridors of London's Middlesex Hospital.
'The young doctor has to be told the basic scientific facts about human illness and how to deal with them ... but that's only a very small part of what being a doctor means.'
On the surgical ward is a gentleman who has undergone an amputation. In the Intensive Care Unit lies a patient, apparently unconscious, her breathing taken over by machine. Both must be treated as people, not just as medical problems.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS. Stereo
Peter Tinniswood and his good friend from Witney Scrotum, the Brigadier, have obtained access to the highly classified MCC sound archive and at last are able to tell the full truth and nothing but the truth about this unique establishment.
(Stereo)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer SUSAN DENNY
Phone in on [number removed]Lines open from 8.30 to 10.15pm
Presented by Paul Allen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Cannery Row (7)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude