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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
700, 8.00 Today's News Head by BRYAN MARTIN '•25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Bryan Martin

A 50-strong armed security force seems a little excessive for the average farmer. But that's exactly what's required when your prize bull isn't a placid
Hereford but a two tonne black rhino. Fergus Keeling visits a private ranch in Northern
Kenya which contains 50 rhino - one tenth of the population of the entire country - and accompanies rhino tracker Rob Brett through the mist-laden scrub in search of this elusive and dangerous creature. Producer MILES BARTON. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fergus Keeling
Unknown:
Rob Brett

This week sees the climax of the centenary celebrations of the National Institutes of Health, America's largest biomedical research organisation.
Geoff Watts reports on its history and achievements. Producer DEBORAH COHEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

in Lines of Communication
'It's been wonderfully peaceful. Or it would have been if I hadn't felt so guilty all the time. I mean, really - she is the one who is 100 per cent in the wrong, and I am the one who feels guilty!'
Written by SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Pete Atkin.
Sarah:
Prunella Scales
Eleanor:
Joan Sanderson
Russell:
Benjamin Whitrow
Clare:
And Gerry Cowper

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Moonrocket Stereo
2.05 Looking at Nature The Spider Hunters ROBIN ROBBINS ShOWS TIMMY MALLETT her spider hunting kit. Stereo (e)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! The Hungry Dragons Storyteller PETER CUTTS written by RON JAMES. Stereo (R) (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind Fire Mountain by zoe BAILEY (R) (e)
2.40 Listen! Return to Badlidrempt (4) by DEREK FARMER. Stereo (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Robbins
Unknown:
Timmy Mallett
Unknown:
Peter Cutts
Written By:
Ron James.
Unknown:
Zoe Bailey

Nigel Forde presents Radio 4's good books programme.
This week: an interview with prize-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , whose new novel Three Continents has just been published. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Producer:
Anne Howells

A feature on the life and work of the American poet John Berryman compiled byMICHAEL BUTT
He was capable of the heights of poetic exaltation and of the depths of self-degrading alcoholic stupor. He achieved fame as a poet, great distinction as a university lecturer, but his spirit was restless, his self-awareness painful. On 7 January 1972, aged 57,
John Berryman walked to the Washington Avenue Bridge - high over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis -jumped up on the railing and fell to his death. With ANDREW BRANCH, SUSIE BRANN DEBORAH MAKEPEACE , DIANA OLSSON and PHILLIP O’SULLIVAN
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Berryman
Unknown:
Michael Butt
Unknown:
John Berryman
Unknown:
Susie Brann
Unknown:
Deborah Makepeace
Unknown:
Diana Olsson
Directed By:
John Theocharis
John Berryman:
Joss Ackland

Aggression is aggression, against nice chaps or nasty chaps. The United Nations
Charter makes no distinction. The Gulf War, between two independent states in which the great powers have no direct interest, is exactly the kind of conflict the UN was devised to prevent. Sir Brian Urquhart who recently retired as Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, examines the handling of the seven-year war by the international community, and the significance of new agreements between Britain, France, China, the USA and the USSR. With
Secretary-General Javier Perez De Cuellar ; Richard Murphy ,
US Assistant Secretary of State: Vladimir Petrovskiy , Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister;
Mohamed Sahnoun , Algerian Ambassador to the US;
Cyrus Vance , US Secretary of State in 1980: Sir Anthony Parsons and Donald McHenry , the representatives of Britain and the United States at the UN in 1980. Producer MICHAEL STEVENSON
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Brian Urquhart
Unknown:
General Javier Perez
Unknown:
De Cuellar
Unknown:
Richard Murphy
Unknown:
Vladimir Petrovskiy
Unknown:
Mohamed Sahnoun
Unknown:
Cyrus Vance
Unknown:
Sir Anthony Parsons
Unknown:
Donald McHenry
Producer:
Michael Stevenson

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families.with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
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 10.00am to 4. 00pm Monday to Friday

Contributors

Presented By:
Kati Whitaker
Producer:
Marlene Pease

A monthly scries of 12 programmes.
For the people of the East an individual's animal sign, dictated by the year of birth, plays a central role in the formation of their relationships. Barry Fantoni tests the accuracy of this ancient oriental game with Anneka Rice and her agent and friend, Catherine Kenyon.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
(Re-broadcast next Thursday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Fantoni
Unknown:
Anneka Rice
Unknown:
Catherine Kenyon.
Producer:
Andrew Parfitt

Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Bigsby
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

Geography: Home or Away
12.30 River Authority - UK written and narrated by JUDITH ROBERTS Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (e) and at 12.50 Snowy Mountain Scheme written and narrated by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK Directed by DAN GARRETT (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Roberts
Producer:
Geoffrey Sherlock
Unknown:
Geoffrey Sherlock
Directed By:
Dan Garrett

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