With MICHAEL GLANVILLE-SMITH Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6-30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With Bob Finigan
7.00,8.00 Today's News
Read by Charlotte Green
7.25* 8.25* Sport
With Charles Colvile
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Presented by Fergus Keeling Arrivals and Departures
As the summer bird visitors head south to the sun, new populations arrive at our shores to spend the winter.
Jessica Holm is at Martin Mere, where the pink-footed geese are expected from Iceland and Greenland; Jeremy Cherfas finds out how birds know when to migrate and how their bodies are made ready for the long journey; and Lionel Kelleway is at Cardiff Bay, where a feeding ground for over-wintering migratory waders is under threat. And young listeners are invited to compete for
Wildwatch Reporter of the Year. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Sunday. See also 7.30pm)

Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo

In the first of eight programmes Sue MacGregor meets the Scottish writer Jessie Kesson , author of The White Bird Passes and Another Time, Another
Place, to talk about her life and work and to invite her to reflect a little on both.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Two years spent teaching in Nigeria left journalist
Ferdi Dennis with an abiding curiosity about Africa.
In this series of five talks he gives a personal account of his return to that mysterious and troubled continent, this time to five capitals of East and Southern Africa. 1: Nairobi
Kenya is the success story of East Africa, but what lies behind the apparent prosperity and beneath the political calm? (R)

Presented by John Howard

in A Box of Chocolates
'Any treaty drawn up with my mother would have to include strict boundary agreements. I'm afraid she has the same attitude to frontiers as Genghis Khan. And now I come to think of it, the similarities don't end there.' Written by SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Presented by Nick Worral )

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: When Willy Went to the Wedding by JUDITH KERR Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Leafwork TIMMY MALLETT rows to Minibeast Island and solves the mystery of the disappearing leaves. Stereo (e)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! The Lost City by LIZ PINDAR Storyteller JILL LIDSTONE Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): The Cave of Making by LESLIE NORRIS (R) (e)
2.40 Listen! Return to Badlidrempt (5) by DEREK FARMER. Stereo (e)

Introduced byJenni Murray
To Be a Farmer's Girl: as times get tougher down on the farm, what does the future hold for the women who want to work on the land? Jill Burridge reports on the hopes and ambitions of a new generation of female agriculturalists. Story:
Another Marvellous Thing 6: A Country Wedding

by ANGUS GRAHAM CAMPBELL with
Stone Island is a beautiful island off the coast of Maine in the USA, and it's where the Westbrook family spend their summer holidays. But their daughter Lexy has invited two of her friends along, and they threaten to disrupt everything.
Directed by TIM SUTER. Stereo

In which Nigel Forde talks to intrepid solo traveller,
Christina Dodwell , about her recent journeys through Turkey and Iran.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

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

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
continued on VHFFM 5.50-5.55

With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report

A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS82LR

The Domesday Oak written by PAUL THOMAS
The natural history of an oak tree, from the acorn buried by an absent-minded squirrel in 1400, to the ageing tree still standing near Bristol today.
Narrated by Carol Drinkwater , Andrew Sachs and Jack Watson Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol. Stereo (R)

(Details tomorrow 11.00am L W)

celebrates its tenth anniversary this month. Kati Whitaker and John Mills look back at some of the programme's highlights and achievements in those ten years, and ask what the future holds for disabled people in the next decade.
Producer MARLENE PEASE
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10. 00am to 4. 00pm Monday to Friday

Presented by Mark Steyn Producer CARROLL MOORE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Tarka the Otter (9)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

followed by an interlude

Geography: Our Changing World
12.30 Energy Sources in East Asia Written and narrated by RAY MILES and at 12.50 Rice Growing in Asia Written and narrated by MICHAEL PICKSTOCK Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (R)(e)