With THE RT REV THOMAS BUTLER , Bishop of Willesden. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead 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 Simon Vance
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Charles Colvile
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 4
Ruth and Edmund Frow share their Manchester home with the 10 000 books of the Working
Class Movement Library they have assembled.
Sue MacGregor meets the Frows to talk about their lives and work and to invite them to reflect a little on both. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)
Why has the great white sharK become an endangered species? Does a marsupial lion still survive in Australia?
Fergus Keeling hears from shark biologists and fishermen about the increase worldwide in shark fishing, and he visits the annual meeting of the International Society of Cryptozoology where delegates are to consider Nessie, Morag, the Onza, King Cheetah and the Queensland tiger-rat.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT. BBCBristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Roshan Seth tells the other side of the Raj story-the experiences of Indians who worked for the British, fought to throw them out, but kept their institutions and language. 4: Quit India
Indian memories of the final and often violent phase ot confrontation with the British authorities. Written and produced by ZAREER MASANl (R)
Interesting Things by KINGSLEY AMIS
Read by Carole Boyd
Producer ANNE-MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill
Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
Rupert Brooke , the First World War poet, was born 100 years ago on 3 August 1887.
Andrew Motion presents a re-appraisal of the legend and the man, with Nigel Havers as Rupert Brooke Additional research by BRIAN GEAR Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
NEW SERIES
For the next six weeks
Martin Wainwright will be considering the lives and achievements of some of the great entomologists. Mr Moffet and Mad Eleanor The first talk introduces the 16th-century naturalist Thomas Moffet - best known as the first collector to leave genuine records and, incidentally, as the father of Miss Muffet of nursery rhyme fame. And, from the 18th-century, Eleanor Glanville , who kept on collecting despite personal adversity; her name lives on in the butterfly she discovered - the Glanville Fritillary.
Readers MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES ALAN DUDLEY and DEBORAH MAKEPEACE
Producer JENNY HARGREAVES
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Presented by John Buckley
Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
JOHNNY MORRIS reads Night Noises (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Ruth Lister , Director of the Child Poverty Action Group, who is soon to become Professor of Applied Social Studies at Bradford University.
Serial: Just You Wait and See (9)
Resurrection Day by ANITA BRONSON with and deserted her husband and daughter 20 years ago. They have hardly heard from her since. So when they hear a radio message that she is in intensive care in hospital, they find it hard to know how to respond.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo
Brian Gear invites
Kevin Crossley-Holland and Patricia Morison to pick some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Revised broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Robert Williams and Michael Woodhead continuedon VHFiFM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
A series of three conversations in which Ian Skidmore talks to people whose lives have been ones of extraordinary achievement and interest.
1: Lady Williams, born Masha Poustchine , daughter of a wealthy landowner in Tsarist Russia, now the widow of a British diplomat. In the first of two conversations, she talks about growing up in exile in the Russian community in London.
The first of two documentaries about science in Brazil
Despite massive social and economic problems including a foreign debt of 120 billion dollars, Brazil has committed herself to rapid industrial and technological development. Geoff Watts examines how
Brazilian scientists are turning the country into a sophisticated society that can build and launch its own satellites, sell aircraft to developed nations, run cars on alcohol, and perhaps re-create the wealth of the Amazonian rubber barons. Producer JULIAN BROWN
Conversations in Zimbabwe collected and introduced by Penelope Lee
'If the missionary, when he came for the first time, had sat down with an old man, and said, "Do you know there is God?", the old man would have explained that they used to go under a tree and pray to God. Sometimes a pot of beer is brought there and sometimes food, and that place was holy....'
With SEBASTIAN BAKARE .
WALLACE BOZANGWANA ,
HERBERT CHICOMO . PAT LEA .
AENEAS MANANYENA . KUMBIRAI MICHAPYO .
MARSHALL MURPHREE.
ALPERT PLANGHER. PAMELA REYNOLDS and JOHN WEAVER
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT. Stereo (R)
for disabled listeners
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
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10.0am to 5.0pm, Monday to Friday)
With help from the BBC's Sound Archives and comments from Steve Davis and Barry Hern , a rooster and rat, Barry Fantoni tests the accuracy of the Chinese horoscope.
Producer ANDREW p ARFITT
Presented by Nigel Andrews Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
Cannery Row (9)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
followed by an interlude