6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only

Presenter Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 roday's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.36, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

8.59 Continental Travel Information

David Simmons takes up your comments about BBC programmes and policy with producers and management.
Producer JENNY DE YONG
Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television, to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW.
Eiery letter cannot be answered, but each one will be read.
(Repeated: Sun 5.0 pm)

BBC Washington Correspondent Clive Small makes an Independence Day assessment of how the United States stands with the rest of the world.
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER

NEM, p 42; Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes (BBC HB 490); Psalm 122; James 2. w 1-13 (av); The God of Abraham praise (BBC HB 283)

Dragonflight (10)

The Great Pretenders
Counterfeiting of brand name products has become a booming international business.
Bill Breckon follows the counterfeit trail from the factories of the Far East to the shops of Britain.

Vincent Kane presents seven programmes looking at The Lighter Side of Life. Parody, poetry and satire applied to normally weighty matters like politics, economics, sex, culture and so on. Also a chance to meet again some of the characters created in previous series. Written and produced by VINCENT KANE. BBC Wales

Presented by Bill Breckon

12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Presenter Brian Widlake

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Mills
On American Independence Day, GWYN RICHARDS visits Bath's unique American Museum.
JENNY SHINN talks about an exhibition of 200 quilts which she has organised at Ashleworth Tythe Barn, in Gloucestershire - some of which have never before been seen in public. BRIAN JACKSON , well-known educationist, and author of many books about children, discusses his ideas on parenthood. BBC Bristol
Smallbone Deceased (3)

Story: Mr McTinkle and the Crofter's Wife by WILLIAM RANKIN. Presenters ALISON MCMORLAND and MICHAEL DEACON
Written by MARY HAYDON Producer DAVID BELL

Grandad Never Told Lies by IVOR WILSON
When Joe falls out with his daughter and leaves home it's a crisis for his grandson, Raymond. Should he stay with his mother or follow the one person he really gets on with? Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester

A series of seven programmes about the science of growing things

What are gardens for? Over the centuries they have been sources of food, medicines, perfumes and sheer pleasure. Dr Glyn Jones explores some of the reasons why people grow plants.
(First broadcast on R3)

The Look by VICTOR TUDOR
Read by Dillwyn Owen
' During the night, while the moon was riding high, old Twm had laid the slatted box-trap, with its tempting trail of corn, along a pheasant run in the south neck of the woods. No trouble. But this morning a big problem had come up in the person of Stanley Jobbings, the gamekeeper....' Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

with Gordon C'lough and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

including Financial Report

Richard Hudson-Evans on the world of travel and tiansport. Including Continental Travel Information
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)

with Margaret Howard Producer BRIAN COOK
(Rptd; tomorrow 10.45am)

The Rt Hon John Silkin. mp. Shadow industry spokesman, former Agriculture Minister, potential candidate for the Labour leadership, and in the vanguard of Labour anti-Marketeers, talks to Peter Paterson.
Producer KAROLYN SHINDLER

The Rt Hon
Michael Foot , mp David Frost
Teddy Taylor , mp and Bonnie Angelo tackle the issues raised by the audience in Acocks Green. Birmingham.
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Rptd: tomorrow 1.10 pm)

Alistair Cooke reflects on the wide-ranging functions of the US Supreme Court which has ultimate jurisdiction in America and takes its authority from the US Constitution.

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am) Alistair Cooke 's America: hardback f7.50, paperback £5.25; from bookshops

Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer ANNE WINDER

with Alexander MacLeod

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis David Tate , Sheila Steafel and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK, ANDY WILSON , BOB SINFIELD , BRIAN BETHELL , JEREMY BROWNE , CHRIS STRATFORD and DAVE MORLEY Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Rptd: tomorrow 5.25 pm)

The Chorus Girl
A short story by ANTON CHEKHOV , translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT
Read by Maureen O'Brien ' There is only one girl in our chorus who has a rich admirer: all the rest of us live from hand to mouth on bread and kvass. Nikolay Petro vitch is a highly educated, refined gentleman. so I've made him welcome. We are bound to make gentlemen welcome.'
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting on Monday: ' The Sign of Four' by Arthur Conan Doyle , read by Nigel Stock ) long wave only

long wave only

'Broadcast Mon 8.45 am)

Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am
Shipping forecast and Inshore forecast