Producer MARTIN SMALL
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Rosemary Hartill
6.55 Weather; travel: programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
This week Alan Wright chairs a discussion on the thorny question of animal welfare.
Producer allan WRIGHT BBC Scotland
Norman Tozer with how to get the best from your hard-earned cash.
Today: Tumble Dryers
7.55 Weather; travel; programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Lewis is your host before setting off ' Down Under ' to cover the ENGLAND cricket tour of AUSTRALIA. Appropriately enough, cricket holds centre-stage today.
There's the latest news from the second day's play in the Second Test at ' The Gabba ' ground in Brisbane. Plus, of course, a variety of off-beat items designed to ease you gently into the major sporting day of the week.
Producer ROB BONNET Editor DAVE GORDON
8.57 Weather; travel
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with help from SUSAN MARLING and IAN LYON , taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Mike Chaney takes a look at the weekly magazines. Producer SHARON BANOFF
Robert Carvel views the past week through the eyes of backbench mps and peers.
Producer MARGARET BUDY
New Every Morning, page 38; Lo! he comes with clouds descending (BBC HB 35); Psalm 20; Luke 21 v 29-22, v 6 (GNB): Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27)
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings and the financial problems of everyday life.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to
Alan Coren and Richard Ingrams
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and DANNY GREENSTONE
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE (Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Lord Marsh Neil Kinnock , mp Claire Rayner and Edwina Currie
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
The Foreigners by GRAHAM SWANNELL and A young man remembers a weekend when, as a boy, his aunt took him out from his boarding school. Both of them have a sense of having been betrayed by people they love.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (Repeated: Tues 11.3 am)
Geoff Watts reports
Listeners' questions
A ten-part adventure serial in time and space by JAMES FOLLETT and 7: Deathship
Having been dragged down into Spaceguard
Six - an artificial black hole designed to protect Earth - the crew of the Challenger have been told by the spaceguards that they are going to destroy the two giant computers, Angel One and Angel Two, and with them the starship and its crew.
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on matters of concern to them. Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Tel: [number removed], Ext 7048
Second of five programmes Dr Martin Bax of St
Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, examines how researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are disentangling the remarkable process by which babies acquire language.
Games Babies Play
During the first year these are preparations for the ' real' conversations to come. Thorough and inclusive without overwhelming the listener with indigestible /acts and opinions.
(TIMES EDUCATIONAL
SUPPLEMENT)
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news.
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: travel; programme news
with PETER DONALDSON including Sports Round-up
Amiably competitive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations. Music by INSTANT SUNSHINE Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. mixing the well-loved with the less familiar, and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer ray abbott
(Repeated: Wed 11.3 am)
by Paul Thain
The year: 2007. An intelligence far beyond our own understanding, from the star system Sirius B, has been observing the moral progress of our planet and decides the time has come for decisive intervention. Having stopped the European War of 1998, it now offers to provoke the next leap in human evolution - but where may that 'leap', if taken, lead to?
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
A series of six programmes
Themes and variations from the lives of the British in South-East
Asia in the days of the Empire, in the words of some of those who were there.
2: Chummeries, Sarongs and Bajus: Settling In
' My first impressions of the country were ... it's like a large greenhouse.
The colours were splashes against the green-purple, orange, yellow - oh, everything clashed but it didn't, It looked like a great bed of zinneas.
The stars were so bright you could almost read by them. The strange thing was, the moon was sideways.'
Narrator Garard Green Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS , BBC
Radiophonic Workshop
Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON
with John Stuart Roberts BBC Wales
followed by an interlude
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am
Shipping forecast and inshore forecast
