A meditation for the beginning of the day with KATE COMPSTON Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor in London with Peter Hobday in Blackpool for the SLD Conference
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7,00,8,00 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.22*, 8.22* Olympic Sports Desk with GARRY RICHARDSON in Seoul and CHARLES COLVILE in London
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
2: The Speeding Ticket
2: The Old Cumbie Cat
Read by Anna Massey. Stereo
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Join the debate with Nick and guests on a topic in the news. Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.00am
The promotion of good health is an expanding industry in the late 1980s. Which approaches to health promotion are most successful in keeping people away from the doctor? 5: Take It to Heart
Heart disease is the major cause of death among the middle-aged in Britain today. Changing dietary, exercise and smoking habits can reduce the chances of developing heart problems. Georgina Ferry looks at schemes that encourage these changes, including human MOTs in Oxford and 'Heartbeat Wales' in Cardiff. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
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The Four Dutchmen by SOMERSET MAUGHAM Read by Brian Gear Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
New Every Morning, page 79; Thou, whose almighty word (BBC HB 185); Te Deum laudamus; John 13, w 1-14; Now the green blade riseth (BBC HB 109) Stereo
John Parkinson sees a total eclipse in Papua, New Guinea. BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by John Howard
What does Sagan um
Tuma Kettling have to do with Beatrix Potter - and who preferred sucking boiled sweets to writing poetry? Cogitating the answers to these and other queries are John Julius Norwich
Mavis Nicholson , David Hunt and Beryl Bainbridge. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo (R)
Presented by Brian Widlake with James Naughtie at the SLD Conference in Blackpool
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Bold Bad Bus Stereo
2.05 History Lost and Found Give Us a Clue. Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT
1: Biology. Stereo (e)
The hour which blends the timeless and the topical, the personal, the practical and the political. So who needs women's programmes? You do! Serial: Letters from a Faint-Hearted Feminist (2) Presenter Jenni Murray
Six 30-minute plays 4: Sticks and Stones by ALEX BARON and JEAN BINNIE with and Fur flies when a critic writes an extremely bad review of an English prima donna's first London appearance in years.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo
Last of the present series. Writer and broadcaster
John Julius Norwich discusses with Brian Kay certain musical moments which enrich his life. Producer ANDREW MUSSETT. Stereo
Cathedral n. and a. principal church of diocese, a museum, tourist attraction, or multi-million pound business. Money in Spires
Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton link up with BBC Local Radio stations to examine the cathedral business. Cathedrals attract more tourists than Britain's wildlife parks and zoos. But they still struggle to raise the millions needed for repairs and restoration.
Is God taking a back-pew as the money-men move in? Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
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Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
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 SIMON VANCE including Financial Report
Another chance to hear one of the most popular and successful shows produced by BBC Radio's Light Entertainment Department, starring
Tim Brooke-Taylor , John Cleese Graeme Garden , David Hatch Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie
Written by JOHN CLEESE. GRAEME
GARDEN. DAVID HATCH. JO KENDALL ,
PETER AND DAVID LUND , BILL ODDIE Music by THE DAVE LEE GROUP Producer HUMPHREY BARCLAY (First broadcast in March 1966)
(Details tomorrow at 4.05pm)
A 12-part series
9: The Dream of Jerusalem
Brian Redhead continues his journey through the Middle Ages with a footslogging
2,000 mile trek to Jerusalem.
He starts in a field in France on 27 November 1095 listening to Odo de Lagery, Pope Urban II, preaching the First Crusade. On the way he meets a holy goat, the great Schism of 1054, an infernal ladder, some hooliganism, a god whose logical existence was nearly proved, and several thousand dead horses.
Readers GARARD GREEN and ZELAH CLARKE
Studio producer AMANDA HANCOX Series producer FRANCES GUMLEY
How good are you at intelligence tests? What do you reveal of yourself in personality interviews? How highly would you rate your powers of imagination? And what role do you think a psychological profile should play in individual career development and career prospects?
Peter Evans considers the pros and cons of psychometric testing and assessment in the company of psychologist
Mackenzie Davey who puts one of his clients through a battery of tests and interviews. Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
News and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Ian Macrae Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8.30 and 10. 15pm. For weekly factsheets or quarterly bulletins summarising broadcast information, send large sae, approx 13" x 9", to:
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Paul Allen presents the arts magazine which includes
Salman Rushdie 's new novel,
The Satanic Verses, and a report by Malcolm Singer on the tenth anniversary of Opera North. Producer lis EDWARDS
The Iron Staircase (7)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod with a special report by Peter Hill from the SLD Conference in Blackpool.
FM joins at 12.10
Books, Plays, Poems Futures (2)
Ursula Le Guin and Nicholas Fisk. Stereo (e)
