with ROSEMARY WAKELIN. Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Melvyn Bragg examines the state of the art of political orators. In the secondprogramme of the series,
The Rt Hon Neil Kinnock , mp,
The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , mp, The Rt Hon Michael Heseltine , mp and The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp, talk about the continuing importance to them of political speeches out in the constituencies, and about the annual opportunity for oratory afforded by the party conferences.
Researcher SALUE DA VIES Producer ANNE SLOMAN
(Re-broadcast next Wednesday)

In southern France, Hermann's tortoises are probably more common as garden pets than they are in the wild, so a unique village has been created to help redress the balance. Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm present news from the wildlife world.
Producer HELEN ODAMS. BBC Bristol. (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Introduced from Broadcasting House. Bristol. BBC Bristol. Stereo

Four conversations in which Jenny Cuffe talks to men and women who now find themselves outside the world to which they once belonged. 2: John Crawford-Leighton Twelve years ago,
John Crawford-Leighton was a busy Roman Catholic priest. Then he met Angela.... Producer JOY HATWOOD
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Four programmes about jobs taken for granted by everyone except the people who do them. 3: Watching the Pictures
Gallery warders Bob Caldwell and Callum Hart talk about protecting the city of Edinburgh's art treasures from sticky-fingered schoolchildren. Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG (First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland)

Help, advice and information about your consumer concerns. Presented by John Howard

Clement Freud , Derek Nimmo , Lance Percival and Kenneth Williams try to talk for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer EDWARD TAYLOR Stereo

Presented by Nick Worrall

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Desmond's Fog Horn. Stereo (R)
2.05 Looking at Nature Chalk Downland Butterfly meadows and anthill projects - opportunities for school parties and your class at Durlston Head, Swanage, with TIMMY MALLETT (e)
2.20 Talk to Me
4: What's It Like? by ANITA HEWETT. Stereo (R) (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poems and Music) The Little Red Fish by DORIS HARPER WILLS
2.40 Listen! The Do-It- Yourself Cliffhanger Serial Episode 4 by KEN JONES. Stereo (e)
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The birth-control pill was invented during research into the causes of infertility.
A remedy for hair-loss was stumbled upon in experiments on blood pressure. In the programme that adds spice to everyday life, Jean Snedegar investigates serendipity - the process of making discoveries by accident.
Serial: B-Movie(8)
Presenter Jenni Murray

by DOROTHY GHARBAOUI 'I made such idiotic assumptions when we were young, about my sister Jessie taking on too many burdens with the children and the tasks around the farm, and I could only imagine happiness through escape from that dreary dark terrace in Belfast.' Alice Arnold , now a respected writer, is torn between her home in London and her sister's house in Northern Ireland, which has always been 'the home of her heart'...
Directed by KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

with Nigel Forde
My Experience, Which Is Unique ...
Martin Gilbert on tracing
Winston Churchill's moods, aims and actions in the last 20 years of life. And, from politics to the picaresque:
Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess.
Producer WILL CANTOPHER (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

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

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report

Stereo

Written by GILLIAN RICHMOND Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by Brian Gear
Producer LAURIE MASON. BBC Bristol

The second of two programmes. Almost 12 years before Israel gained independence, the Palestine Symphony Orchestra was born in a converted hangar in Tel Aviv. Later renamed the Israel Philharmonic, it has become one of the world's great orchestras.
Though based in the Middle East, it is in some ways more European than its European rivals. Fritz Spiegl discovers why, in the company of some of its founder members. Producer JILLIAN WHITE BBC Bristol, Stereo

The 40 Years War
The Cold War was never formally declared, yet its course has dominated international politics for almost half a century. In the run-up to the forthcoming summit,
Peter Hennessy chairs a discussion on its changing nature.
Have East and West been here before? How will people know when the Cold War is over?
Taking part: Professor Walter La Feber , Sir Frank Cooper
Professor Donald Cameron Watt and Dr Martin McCauley Producer CAROLINE ANSTEY

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE Write to:
Does He Take Sugar?
BBC. London WlA 1AA Phone [number removed]from 10.00am to
5. 00pm Monday to Friday

Michael Berkeley reports on the first international Comedy Festival at Glasgow's Mayfest. Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT

Nights at the Alexandra (4)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

Safety First Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (R)(e) at 12.30 In the Home Drama by KEN BLAKESON. Stereo at 12.40 In the Home Documentary by GEOh FREY SHERLOCK Presented by LANBROS ATRESHLIS Stereo at 12.50 In the Factory Drama by KEN BLAKESON. Stereo and at 1.00 In the Factory Documentary by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK Presented by LAMBROS ATTESHLIS