with the Very Rev
John Fitzsimmons. Stereo

with Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor.
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue

Five programmes.
4: 'We've got a problem here.' Twenty years ago, the world held its breath for a week as the crew of Apollo XIII battled to solve the oxygen tank problem that seemed likely to cost them their lives. Reginald Turnill , reporting for the BBC from Mission Control, counted out the hours with them.
Producer Simon Elmes

with Melvyn Bragg Research Jayne Morgan Producer
Marina Salandy-Brown . Stereo

The Loaded Dog by Henry Lawson. Reader Denis Lill.
Producer Maurice Leitch (R)

with Malcolm Love BBC Wales. Stereo

with Simon Rae.
Readers Judith Pearson and David Goodland. Guest Adrian Henri. Producer Susan Roberts BBC Bristol

Presenter John Howard. The second in a series on UK transport policy focuses on railways.
British Rail has a new chairman, determined to improve the network. So what can he do and what lessons can be leamt from other countries? Producer Ian Gilvear. Stereo

Chair Robert Robinson. First round - Midlands and East Anglia.
John Moore (solicitor) Chris Gonet
(computer consultant) Dick Jones
(policy research officer) Julie Tedds
(wife and mother).
Plus 'Beat the Brains'. Devised by John P Wynn Questions Ian Gillies
Producer Richard Edis
Stereo

with James Naughtie Editor Roger Mosey

Down at the Market with Judith Jacob and Oliver. Story: The Foolish Farmer Goes to Market adapted by Fred Harris. Producer David Ian Neville Stereo (R)

Presenter Jenni Murray. Serial: The Other
Occupant (part5) by Peter Benson abridged in11 episodes by Doreen Estall.
Reader Crawford Logan. Serial producer Pat McLoughlin
Editor Clare Selerie-Grey

2.05 Playtime All Sorts of People Presenters Jane Hardy and Tony Aitken. Producer Sara Strange. Stereo (R)
2.20 Active Science Teachers' Programme Presenter Fred Harris Producer Sally Beeston
2.40 Whirligig. Where We Live 1: The House on the Corner by Jill Brand. Producer Alan Lambert. Stereo (R)

by Alun Richards.
Miss Probert is a fiercely respectable librarian, but retirement threatens to reveal a guilty secret.
Director Jane Dauncey BBC Wales. Stereo

Two programmes.
1: Sun, Sand and Snow Ex-RAF Commander
John Lewis recalls unusual flights he made in the Middle East and the Antarctic.
Producer Nick Clarke BBC North (R)

Today's writers are predicting their vision of the future. Hermione Lee compares them with their predecessors. Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes Editor Kevin Marsh

and Financial Report

with Derek Cooper

Time of Their Lives
An occasional series of biographical plays.
Solstice by Jo Anderson . London, 1873: 19-year-old Vincent Van Gogh starts work in a Covent
Garden basement. What happens next influences the rest of his life.
Director Andy Jordan BBC Bristol. Stereo

Nigel Andrews reports from the Cannes Film
Festival; the Dubcek era in Czechoslovakia is the background for a new novel. Presenter
Paul Vaughan.
Producer John Boundy. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

by Joseph Heller, abridged in 12 episodes by Alan England.
Reader Quint Boa.
BBC Pebble Mill
(Stereo)

Four programmes. 2: Illness
David Jason chases nurses aided by Sheila Burnette , Royce Mills , David Tate and the music of John Owen Edwards. Script Colin Bostock Smith
Andy Hamilton. Barry Pilton Lyrics Alistair Beaton
Producer Geoffrey Perkins Stereo (R)

12.30 Working in Spanish 1: The Practical Traveller
12.45 2: Social Aspects of Industry
1.00 Talking of World Spanish (1) Producer Tony Staples. Stereo