Stereo

Presenters Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead

with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo

(Details as Sunday 2.00pm)

A Wee Bit Odd
Written and read by Harry Towb
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT

Awake, our souls
(BBC HB 300); Exodus 3, vv 1-12; Sing, my soul, his wondrous love
(Ned Rorem ); Immortal, invisible (BBC HB 10) Director of Music
BARRY ROSE Stereo

Reith Remembered
The first of two programmes. John Charles Walsham
Reith was born on 20 July 1889. In 1922 he joined the BBC as its General
Manager. When he left 16 years later, as the first Director General of the BBC, it was a 'frightful mistake'.
Frank Gillard traces
Lord Reith's life from his childhood in Glasgow, through the First World War and on to the BBC.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE
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In the fourth of six programmes marking the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Tessa Shaw visits India and Mozambique to meet children at school.
Producer MOHINI PATEL

Presenter John Howard

Composer Ted Watson set the nature poems of Margaret Buckle to music and then set out to find the author. Nigel Forde returned across the Yorkshire moors to discover the truth about this mysterious poet. Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Presenter James Naughtie

Peg-Leg Pete 's Challenge Stereo

with Jenni Murray

A season of seven stories 3: Babies in Rhinestones Written and dramatised by SHENA MACKAY. With and A kidnapped ginger pussy cat holds the key to true romance!
MARY NASH (piano) ALICE ARNOLD and RICHARD PEARCE (Tiny Tap Dancers)
Directed by CAROLINE RAPHAEL Stereo

The final programme in which George MacBeth interviews the poet Norman McCaig.
Reader Henry Stamper Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol

Phil Korbel has been watching 1,000 musicians, actors and performers and their huge audiences of young and old alike at this year's Glastonbury Festival.
Producer TIM DEE. Stereo

Presenters Hugh Sykes and Frances Coverdale

and Financial Report

Stereo (Details as Monday
12.25pm)

with John Waite
Producer GRAHAM ELLIS

(Details as Saturday 4.00pm)

In the Light of the East
'In Asia we are confronted with the great tradition of an ancient wisdom, which is part of our inheritance. The question is, how do we relate this to our own tradition of Christian faith?'
Benedictine monk Bede Griffiths , aged 82, has embodied in his own life the marriage of East and West. At his community, the Saccidananda Ashram in south India, he reflects on the encounter of Christianity with Hinduism.
Introduced by Rosemary Hartill
Producer NORMAN WINTER BBC Manchester
(Rosemary Hartill interviews Bede Griffiths on points raised by the lecture next Sunday at
8.15am)
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2: The Doctors' View
In the second of a two-part inquiry into the growing number of claims for medical negligence, Marjorie Lofthouse considers the impact on doctors and how it might affect their relationships with patients.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill

A 108-year-old American horse-trader tells his story; Julie Walters and Brian Cox on stage; and the music of the Sun King. Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer MIKE GREENWOOD Stereo (Revised repeat on Thursday at 4. 35pm)

The Heat of the Day (8)

with Robin Lustig

LW only 12.00-12.10