6.40 A Wealth of Words

7.5 Limits on Political Independence

7.30 Charles Tomlinson

Today's story:
Bobby and the Kite Written by ELIZABETH MACDONALD
Presenters: Carol Chell, Stuart McGugan
Pianist PETER PONTZEN Designer CHRIS HULL
Written by STEPHEN ROBIN Director PETER WILTSHIRE Producer ANNE GOBEY Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Book: Play School, Play Ideas 2, 75p, from bookshops. The Tale of a Donkey's Tail and Other Stories from Play School, record (REC 232) or cassette (MRMC 045), Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away, record (REC 242), or cassette (MRMC 004), from record shops

5.20 Thermodynamics

5.45 The Role of the Budget

6.10 Understanding Aggro

6.35 Moderne and Modernistic

with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2

An exploration of the British countryside by David Bellamy Go West
The Gulf Stream is one American influence we can't do without', and it produces some very strange effects in the western parts of our islands.
Producer MIKE WEATHERLEY
Book (same title), fl.00, from bookshops

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from Bressingham, Norfolk
In this second visit to the home of Adrian Bloom , Peter Seabrook looks at the wider vistas of the garden, where island beds are devoted to individual species of conifers, heathers and flowering shrubs.
Producer BARRIE EDGAR BBC Birmingham

A series of three programmes
It was hot, dry, one for the record books. But there are other things to remember too.
The Fun of the Fair
Reporter Jeanne la Chard
Joe Weston-Webb , Old Harrovian, is in the fairground business. He spent last summer attempting to set up his most ambitious show to date. Helping Joe was Mary Con nors, leading lady in Joe's all-girl team of motor-cycle stunt girls, the MOTOBIRDS.
For all the Motobirds there were bruises, sprains and fractured bones as they practised jumping over cars, through plate-glass windows, burning hoops. And for Joe there were the financial headaches. When the show was finally assembled at Tewkesbury, he waited to see if he would make, or lose, a fortune.
Film editor GRAHAM SHIPHAM
Producer JULIAN COOPER

Reflecting the varied music, rhythms and moods of musicians today.
This week features
The Music of Trinidad and Tobago
The Groovers Steelband
The Rainbow Steelband
Santley Steel
Music and movement from
The Trinbago Dancers with soloists
Greta Mendez , Lennard Moore and Louis St Just

(Recorded at Patio Caribe, The Sheraton Skyline, Heathrow, London)

Do you really Love your local river? What do you expect to find there - leaping salmon . , . or stinking mud? Britain's inland rivers are the cleanest in the world; our estuaries are among the foulest. But one great British estuary has come clean - the Thames.
A century ago Disraeli called the Thames "a Stygian pool reeking with intolerable horrors". Forty thousand Londoners died of cholera from drinking infected river water. Only 20 years ago the Thames, at low tide, smelled of bad eggs from Westminster to Woolwich. Ships gleaming white for the Festival of Britain turned black as hydrogen sulphide attacked their lead-painted hulls. The Thames salmon vanished for over a century.
Now the salmon is cautiously coming back. Its return has become a standard for measuring river pollution.
So how did the Thames become the cleanest metropolitan river in the world? Horizon looks at an environmental story that actually succeeded.

Based on the novels by Robert Graves
The BBC2 serial in 12 parts
Written by Jack Pulman

Claudius has been married to Messalina and is blissfully happy. Caligula, having grown increasingly mad, has been assassinated. To his astonishment, Claudius has apparently been proclaimed Emperor by the Praetorian Guard.

Cast in order of appearance [see below]:

"Derek Jacobi's portrait of a fast mind trapped on a slow tongue continues to give unfailing pleasure throughout." (The Times)
"No one gets the scale of this kind of dramatisation quite like Pulman. The irony and the irresistible lure of conflict are finely crafted." (Time Out)
"I, Claudius is a mountain of achievement." (Western Daily Mail)

Drama series chronicling the reigns of four Roman emperors. The mad Caligula has been assassinated and Claudius has been proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian Guard. Show more

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Sean Barrett reads "The Poet on the Island" by Richard Murphy