Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Rosemary Hartill
6.55 Weather; travel; programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Presenter Norman Tozer
7.55 Weather: travel: programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Presented by Tony Lewis Wembley today stages Rugby League's showpiece, the State
Express Challenge Cup Final. The holders, Hull, defend their crown against Featherstone Rovers.
Savour this occasion and look at some of the other events and issues making the headlines in the sporting world.
Producers DAVE GORDON and EMILY MCMAHON
8.57 Weather; travel
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with help from
SUSAN MARLING and ROBIN DEWHURST. taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Mike Chaney reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON
Adam Raphael , Political Editor of The Observer, views the past week.
Producer MARGARET BUDY
New Every Morning, page 110; For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272); Psalm 138; John 15, vv 5-17 (GNB); Happy are they, they that love God (BBC HB 274)
Radio and TV extracts with Margaret Howard
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
Louise Boiling keeps you in touch with the financial problems of everyday life.
A Financial World Tonight production
The first In a new series of ten programmes
The last seven days put
In a questionable way by Simon Hoggart to Alan Coren
Libby Purves Michael White and Sinn McMurlry
Compiled by John LANODON and the producer DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Mon 8.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Austin Mitchell, MP, Sir Campbell Adamson, The Rt Hon Norman St John-Stevas, MP and David Blunkett tackle the issues raised by the audience at Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Chairman David Jacobs
1.55 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
A Member of the Family by MYLES RUDGE , With and Maggie has invited her divorced husband and his new wife to lunch.
Everyone wants the day to go well ... Directed by ADRIAN UOURBY
An Inquiry into the Treasury
Last of five programmes The Power House of Whitehall
Hugo Young asks: how qualified is the Treasury to help regenerate the British economy? And how responsible is It for economic failure?
Officials, led by the former Permanent
Secretary, Sir Douglas Wass , and including his successorPeterMiddleton, Second Permanent
Secretary Geoffrey Littler and Chief Economic Adviser Terry Burns. discuss the final verdict. Producer ANNE SLOMAN
A special edition with subjects suggested by you the listener.
Presenter Derek Jones
A weekly look at our environment, with ideas on how we can all improve and save it. Presented by Wendy Jones
Today's programme investigates the best ways of recycling glass bottles and looks at the part hunting plays In conserving both animals and the landscape.
Producers GAYNOR SHUTTE and MICK WEBB
BBC correspondents look at a contemporary issue.
A magazine of special interest to the disabled. Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 41VW
Tel: [number removed]. Ext 7048 (Mon-Fri 10.0 am-5.0 pm)
Six programmes for the would-be author, written and presented by Derek Parker
2: Can it be Taughtt
Is learning to become a writer a long process of trial and error, or are there any short cuts?
DEREK PARKER examines these questions, and assesses the usefulness of writers' groups and creative-writing classes. (Neit Saturday: ' It Takes All Sorts ')
An irreverently critical look back at the week.
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
S.55 Weather; travel; programme news
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Sports Round-up
Amiably competitive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations. Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS Producer ALAN ROGERS
with a Saturday-evening selection of music on record.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
A play for radio by David Nathan based on Henri Murger's Scenes de la vie boheme
Bohemia is a district of Paris bordered on the north by cold, on the west by hunger, on the south by love and on the east by hope. It Is a stage in artistic life, a prologue to the Academy, the hospital or the morgue.
Murger's book is the source of Puccini's and Leoncavallo's operas La boheme.
Plant collecting, from rhododendrons In the east to sitka spruce In the west. has changed the gardens and landscape of Britain as well as adding to botanical knowledge. In a series of three programmes
Doreen Taylor looks at the perils and pleasures of plant huntingthroughthe experiences of collectors past and present.
1: North and South America
Readers JOHN SHEDDEN
ROBERT TROTTER , PAUL YOUNG Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland
The radical psychotherapist and theologian Dr Frank Lake died a year ago.
In this last interview he talked about his life and work to Rosemary Hartill. Producer WILLIAM BAYNES
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
