With THE RT REV BRIAN HANNON. BISHOP OF CLOGHER. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary 6 45* Business News
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer NICK UTECHIN
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer CATHERINE CHARNAUD
Rita, Conchita by HELEN SLAVIN
Read by Lesley Nicol Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
New Every Morning, page 67;
Father, hear the prayer we offer (BBC HB 352); Psalm 63;
John 11, w 20-27 and 38-44; All for Jesus (bp 2) Stereo
The last of six programmes The Generation Game
Presented by John Gribbin Might the smile be an interesting evolutionary feedback? BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by John Howard
A series of eight programmes in which Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
3: James Dean
With only three films
James Dean created an image that is as potent today as it was in his own time. He made being mixed-up seem romantic and hip; he popularised neurosis among teenagers, and died before he could be overtaken by new fashions and new stars. Producer WENDY CLAY
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Tilly Mint Tales - Wonderful Worms. Stereo
2.05 History Lost and Found Fitting the Pieces. Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT
4: English. Stereo (e)
Men have died because of it, women have killed for it, some people never feel it and others think it's something else.
Marya Burgess discovers lust, and learns how it differs from its close companions
- love, passion, sin and duty! Serial: Memory (5)
Presenter Jenni Murray
by MELVYN BURGESS with and George is enjoying his canteen lunch - until he is joined by a man who asks him a rather personal question!
Directed by STUART KERR. Stereo
with Richard Baker
What Price a Stradivarius? With more and more string players chasing a limited number of fine instruments, prices at auction are now staggeringly high. But why are the old instruments so coveted? Why can't the same quality be reproduced today?
Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and leading restorer and dealer Charles Beare unravel the mysteries of this specialist world.
Producer NIGEL WILKINSON Stereo
A series of six programmes Bel Mooney talks to the poet Seamus Heaney about the turning points in his life, the most dramatic being his move from the troubled North of Ireland to County Wicklow in the South.
'It was,' he says, 'the time I changed from sometimes writing poetry to putting the practice of poetry at the centre of my life.'
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
0 HEAR THIS! page 28
INFO: page 100
The American director
Francis Ford Coppola 's new film Tucker: The Man and His'
Dream is out this week; and there's a new publishing initiative of stories by women writers.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Presented by Robert Williams and Gordon Clough
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 4.05pm)
From the Dead Sea to
Mozambique lies a 6,000km tear in the earth's crust - the Great Rift Valley.
Bordered by active volcanoes and lined with alkaline lakes, the rocks in this embryonic ocean hide the evidence of man's origins and earliest evolution.
Travelling by train, truck, light aircraft and hot-air balloon,
Anthony Smith visits the East
African section of the Great Rift and discovers how the geology has shaped a richness of life. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
The Rediscovery of Politics
Six talks on authority, culture and community in the USSR given by Geoffrey Hosking ,
Professor of Russian History at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
2: The Return of the Repressed 'The publication in 1962 of Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich released a flood of popular memory. Overnight Solzhenitsyn became, as it were, honorary archivist for a nation which had lacked its own memory.
This was the "return of the repressed" not in the individual psyche, but in the cultural community. And as Freud has taught us, the repressed always returns with tremendous emotional force.'
The 1988 Reith Lectures are printed weekly in the 'Listener'.
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8.30 and 10. 15pm.
For weekly fact sheet No 46 or quarterly bulletins summarising broadcast information, send large sae, approx 13" x 9", to: [address removed] The 'In Touch' handbook, a comprehensive guide to services and equipmentfor blind people, £5.95 from: [address removed]
The Royal Opera House stages a new production by John Cox of Massenet's opera Manon; and actor Kerry Shale talks about some of the characters he brings to life in his one-man show.
Producer NOAH RICHLER
A Far Cry from Kensington 2: The Ullswater Press
Presented by Richard Kershaw
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
12.30 French B Branchez-vous! (4) Three more programmes in this popular series Written by MADELEINE LE CUNFF Producer TONY STAPLES. Stereo (e)
1.00 French E Horizons de France 1: Chez moi Presented by MARC CH ÉMALl Series compiled and produced by TONY STAPLES. Stereo (e)
