Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom

with the Rev
Pauline Warner. Stereo

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor Editor Philip Harding

Test-Tube Baby Robert Edwards remembers the events leading up to the birth of Louise Brown , the first 'test-tube' baby. Producer Julia Durbin

with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

The Voice That
Breathed o'er Eden by Margaret Barrington. Reader Eleanor Bron. Producer Tessa Kendall

from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.
Lord of Beauty, Thine the , Splendour; Job 28 vv,
12-28; O Thou in All Thy Might (L Pike); Be Thou My Vision (Slane)

Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests. Readers
Elaine Ives-Cameron and John Matshikiza , with guest Derek Walcott.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
• REQUESTS (o: 'Poetry
Please!', BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Presenter John Howard.
The third of the weekly series about recent health scares looks at outbreaks of botulism. Producer David Berry

The fourth heat in the general knowledge music competition.
Chairman Ned Sherrin.
Producer Diane Messias. Stereo

with James Naughtie Editor Roger Mosey

Presenter Jenni Murray. Serial: An Awfully Big Adventure
The fourth of eight parts read by the author, Beryl Bainbridge.
Editor Clare Selerie-Grey

In 1484 a man with a future, a great lady, a man with a past and the founder of the communication revolution meet in an awful pub on Alderley Edge. English history lurches forward. Written by Christopher Denys.
Director Tony Cliff. Stereo (R)

The American author
John Updike has brought his rumbustious Rabbit, hero of four novels, back home in Rabbit at Rest. Paul Vaughan talks to Updike at his home in Massachusetts about
'Rabbit' and his America. Producer Beaty Rubens
Stereo (Repealed at 9. 15pm)

with Valerie'Singleton and Hugh Sykes

and Financial Report

Stereo

(A trivial comedy for serious people.)
Ernest Worthing, wit and aesthete, bearing more than a passing resemblance to
Oscar Wilde, is prosecuted for indecent acts in the cloakroom of Victoria station... An account of the final years in the life of one of the great icons of the 19th century as seen through the characters of his most famous play.
(Stereo)

Stereo

Presenter Roger White Stereo

Presenter
Richard Kershaw
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

Jonathan Son of Jeremiah Vahan Totovents 's moving short novel about an aged potter, Andreas, set in an Armenia of bygone days.
The first of five parts read by Andrew Sachs. Translated by Mischa Kudian Producer Alec Reid