with ROSEMARY WAKEUN. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys 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 EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Presented by Chris Dunkley Producer JOY HATWOOD
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Maya by dilys ROSE
Read by Siobhan Redmond Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG BBC Scotland
NEM, p 114; 0 praise ye the Lord (BBC HB 279); Psalm 31; Genesis 11, vv 1-9; Let all the nations of the earth (bp 47) Stereo
Introduced by Penelope Lively From Greyfriars to Grange Hill, Tony Russell explores the changing nature of the school story with the help of Bernard Ashley , Jan Mark and Mary Cadogan.
Producers SALLY FELDMAN and REBECCA ABRAMS
Presented by John Howard For Factsheet No 21 write to: [address removed] Please send sae
Presented by Derek Cooper Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Daphne the Dry Duck. Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In The Caliph's Magic Powder by Wilhelm Hauff , adapted by Tony Mc- Ewan. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree Drums, Dragons and Dreams (4) by Barry Gibson. Presented by Hilary James and Simon Mayor with Pye Wackett . Stereo (e)
2.40 Folk Dance Wales 4: Ceiliog y Rhedyn (Grasshopper) Script by Patricia Holuster Stereo (e) (First broadcast on BBC Radio Cymru)
from Glasgow
For four years, the Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital for Women, in Edinburgh, has been threatened with closure. The women who have been battling to save it describe how they mounted their campaign - and how it has affected their lives.
Story: A Book of Spells
Three stories by SARA MAITLAND abridged by DOREEN ESTALL Read by Jill Gascoine 1: The Eighth Planet (Music: Hahn's Portrait)
Presenter Mary Marquis
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised in two parts by Bert Coules
With Roger Rees as Sherlock Holmes, Crawford Logan as Dr John Watson and Matt Zimmerman as Sir Henry Baskerville
The eerie landscape of Dartmoor conceals many secrets; but can it really be possible that the legendary hound of hell still walks by night, bringing death to all who bear the ancient name of Baskerville? Sherlock Holmes is too busy to investigate - but John Watson is not.
Stereo
Radio 4 is Going to the Dogs to meet the men and women who either have fun or make money, and sometimes if they're lucky both, at one of the nation's greyhound stadiums.
For some it's for excitement and entertainment; for others it's their livelihood; to many it's simply the thrill of owning and racing a pet.
Producer ANNIE CUFFORD BBC Pebble Mill
0 WODDIS ON: page 81
Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25* PM Letters
5.31 City News continuedon FM 5.50-5.55
With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
with Barry Norman
Mike Dicken is on his telephone from Weymouth with the Code Cracker clues: 'Oh I do love to be beside the seaside, and this week I am at one of Britain's favourite holiday resorts. The Freewheeling Code-Cracking mini will promenade in sight of the record breakers so that the Code Crackers meet the record breakers.'
This week's Code Cracker symbol: X -
Producer IRENE MALUS
(Re-broadcast on Spring Bank Holiday)
with June Knox-Mawer
Producer JULIAN HALE Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Rt Hon David Owen. mp Clare Short. mp and Christina Gorna , barrister From Fawley, Hampshire
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm) Send your letters to: Any Answers?
BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Geoffrey Goodman presents a personal view of the week's newspapers and talks to the people behind the headlines. Producer VALERIE SANDERSON
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Nancy Reagan's astrologer, 1988
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Former White House aide Donald Regan makes public the First Lady's intrusion on policy and appointments. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Art and Seoul
South Korea is a traditional country plunged suddenly into the 20th century. Ancient arts and crafts rub up against the ultra-modern. Christopher Cook explores the Korean culture clash to discover the national character preserved within, just a couple of months before the eyes of the world focus on Seoul for the Olympic Games.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON (Re-broadcast on Spring Bank Holiday)
Nights at the Alexandra by WILLIAM TREVOR abridged in five episodes by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Denys Hawthorne (5)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
with Bill Wallis
David Tate and Sally Grace Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON , JOHN OFARRELL PETER HICKEY. BILL MATTHEWS ROBERT LINFORD , MAX HANDLEY GED PARSONS. DAVID BADDIEL
ROB NEWMAN. ALISON RENSHAW
SIMON BULUVANT , MARK BRISENDEN PAUL B. DAVIES and others
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm L W)
12.30-12.50 Safety First (R) (e) at 12.30
On Holiday Drama by KEN BLAKESON . Stereo and at 12.40
On Holiday Documentary by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK
Presented by LAMBROS ATTESHLIS
12.50 Looking After Other People's Children by JANET COHEN
Producer FIONA SHORE . Stereo (e)
R4,4.05pm Going to the Dogs Hare-raising entertainment: in the lead by a whisker, the crowds cheer the favourite home