Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT

with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30, News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0, Today's News Read by bryan MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Food to Keep You Fit What is a healthy diet? Can healthy meals be tasty too? Should we cut out sugar and salt? Are animal fats really bad for you? Nutritionist Caroline Walker and cookery writer Gail Duff join
Barbara Myers in the studio to answer your questions on healthy eating.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.

Beach Bags by SHIRLEY MITCHELL Read by Ysanne Churchman
Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham

NEM, p 1; My God, my
King thy various praise (BBC HB 13); Psalm 1; Genesis 37, vv 1-11;
Breathe on me, breath of God (BBC HB 148) long wave only

Roman Fever by EDITH WHARTON
long wave only

-in which we go on the trail of buried eggs, pursue the real thorn bird consider a natural pesticide recipe using elder leaves.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only

Presenter Patti Coldwell

The first of six programmes by GUY JENKIN and JON CANTER
(Details: Thurs 6.30 pm)

Presenter Sir Robin Day

with Sue MacGregor including
A New Woman?: FRANCES DONNELLY is taking a course to maximise her dynamic potential!
The Captains and the Kings (6) long wave only

Welbourn Street by RACHEL WYATT
No one in Welbourn
Street gets up before 8.0: after all, they are the most genteel citizens of Toranto. Yet Bob Ferrand is a familiar early bird to his neighbours as he slips home from his mistress to his all-too-perfect wife.
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Jeff Nuttall - poet, cornet-player, performance-artist and ex-guru - delates on topics on almost national importance.
1: Busking in Burnley
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

This time last year, Ted Edwards set out to attempt the first solo crossing of the southern Sahara - a distance of 300 miles on foot. He took with him two camels and a tape recorder. Ted's running commentary on his own near-fatal adventure has been edited to make this programme. Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

Atlantic City Proof (2)

with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton

with BRIAN PERKINS including
Financial Report

(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer ALISON RICHARDS (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)

Every year thousands of Britain's managers lose their jobs. Mike Chaney hears from them and from the people who are helping them to get back to work.
Producer ROGER CLARK

Last of six programmes Mopping Up, Handing Over, Staying On
I suppose I am in my way perhaps the very last surviving type of the old-fashioned East India
Company trader, exporting spices from the island of Penang ... This must have been going on for at least 300 years. It's one of those old, scented, perfumed trades....'
Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS
BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP Compiled and presented by CHARLES ALLEN
Producer MICHAEL MASON

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presenter Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone on [number removed]. 8.30-10.0 pm

Savill Garden
The Savill Garden which
Professor Alan Gemmell visits today is set in Windsor Great Park in Surrey. No matter the time of year any visitor to the Savill Garden cannot fail to be impressed by the sheer botanical splendour of the place, and seasonal exploration will continue to yield many surprises. Producer
MURDOCH MCPHERSON
BBC Scotland

Paul Allen presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Fire Falcon (7)

Headlines, analysis and comment
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight long wave only from 11.0

12.23-12.28* am The Chip Shop Takeaway Service
(Details: Sat 12.23* am)