with JOHN SNELLING. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.22,8.22 Olympic Sports Desk with GARRY RICHARDSON in Seoul and CHARLES colvile in London
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
Part 7
Your chance to make your views on an issue in the news. Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.00am
Which approaches to health promotion in the late 1980s are most successful in keeping people away from the doctor? 4: The Campaign Trail
Groups of women are often the driving forces in campaigns for better preventive medicine.
Georgina Ferry visits a centre in Swindon that's organising a sympathetic and approachable cancer screening service, and a self-help group in Salford for women trying to break their addiction to tranquillisers. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
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Tommy Apples by RON HUGHES Read by Brinley Jenkins Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
New Every Morning, page 122: Disposer supreme, and judge of the earth (BBC HB 226);
Psalm 150; Revelation 7, vv 9-17; Let all the world in every corner sing (BBC HB 275) Stereo
John Parkinson follows Jason and Odysseus into the cricket-playing, moped-riding, ouzo-drinking world of the real Corfu.
BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by John Howard
In this week's quotation game, George Melly ,
Katharine Whitehorn , Julian Mitchell and Sue Limb recall the most quotable remarks ever made about them.
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo (R)
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner Today's Story: Bumper the Dog by GEORGE TARRY. Stereo
2.05 History Lost and Found This Is Your Life-line Producer ELIZABETH CLEAVER Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT Parents and teachers - record this! GCSE pupils grill chief examiners. There is a careers service and reports far and wide on good practice in the schools. All with help and advice from the Secondary Examinations Council. 1: Biology Editor PETER WARD. Stereo (e)
The programme that is always one step ahead reports on a series of projects which offer an alternative to custody for young offenders.
Serial: Jane Eyre (16)
Presenter Jenni Murray
Six 30-minute plays 3: The Wooing of Gillian Carstairs and Christopher Binding by DIANA SOUHAMI with and Love blossoms when Cupid's arrow glances the heart and lands adjacent to Christopher Binding's chequebook.
Directed by STUART KERR. Stereo
Charles Causley explains to
Brian Kay why his life as a busy writer and poet is enriched by a combination of words and music.
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT. Stereo
Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton link up with BBC Local Radio stations in a search for Britain's stuntmen and daredevils.
London to Brighton on a Bed of Nails
Thrills, spills and excitement, from the Great Omani, who claims he's Britain's oldest stuntman, to a 7-year-old fire-eater from Kent. Plus a computer programmer who dreams of fame as 'Wayne Secret - Master of Escape'. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
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Presented by Robert Williams and Hugh Sykes
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Olympic Report
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With JOHN HEDGES including Financial Report
by JOHN LE CARRE
The last of a seven-part adaptation by RENE BASILICO starring with and The last clever knot has been unravelled.... and George Smiley devises the stratagem that will lead the Russian 'mole' to reveal his identity.
Theme music by MAX HARRIS Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
The last of four family portraits by Michael O'Donnell. The Marshalls and the Kitteridges Jo and Rob live in East Sussex with their two teenage daughters - and Jo's parents, and her brother and his girlfriend, and 23 hens, three horses and two cats.... but can they all live happily every after?
Researcher RUTH ADAM
Producer SHARON BANOFF. Stereo
A 12-part series
8: The Music of Angels
This week's stopping-off point for Brian Redhead in his journey through the middle ages is the tenth century
Principality of Kiev and its ruler, Vladimir, whose conversion to Christianity is marked in this year's millennium celebrations of the Russian Orthodox Church. Brian discovers Viking bodyguards in Byzantium, a babushka who was not required to prostrate herself before an automatic throne, the earliest recorded evidence of meals on wheels and an Archbishop of Canterbury who pinched the devil's nose with a pair of tongs. Reader RONALD FARROW Researcher IAN MORGAN
Series producer FRANCES GUMLEY
Max Wall , in company with Heather Bell and Bruce Beeby , presents a selection of poetry and prose.
Producer ALEC REID
BBC Bristol. Stereo (R)
News and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Phone in on [number removed] between
8.30and 10. 15pm. For weekly factsheets or quarterly bulletins summarising broadcast information, send large sae to: [address removed]
The ultimate in musical revivals, Sugar Babies, starring Mickey Rooney and Anne Miller , opens tonight in London. Tonight's programme includes a first-night review of the show, and, in complete contrast, a look at what kind of music sets the joint jumping in Seoul. Producer FIONA MCLEAN
The Iron Staircase (2)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
With a special report by Peter Hill from the SDP Conference in Torquay.
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
FM joins at 12.10
English Resources 3 (RV) Producer colin SMITH Stereo (e) at 12.30 Introducing the Liverpool Poets and their Poems and at 12.50 Introducing D.H. Lawrence by ROY APPS
