with Peter Hobday and Alison Leigh
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Savings and Investment
How to invest your hard-earned money profitably and without risk is the perennial$64,000 question and never more so than now, when the opportunities for the small investor are enormous and sometimes baffling.
In the studio to help you through the money maze are the investment editor of The Observer, John Davis , and writer on family finance Maggie Drummond.
Judith Chalmers is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in.
The Boss by HADRIAN ROGERS
Read by Brian Hewlett Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
The Parable of the Sower NEM, p 67; Almighty God , thy word is cast (BBC HB 188); Laudate nomen domine (Tye); Mark 4, vv 1-20; 0 Jesus I have promised (BBC HB 360) long wave only
The Principles of Rocketry by BOB couttie
Clare has a tyrranical mum, a dim boyfriend and a dead-end job. There is a way out, but first she must build herself a space rocket.
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER long wave only
Why do starlings and sparrows flock together while robins prefer to remain in the solitary state? The naturalists form a small group to answer your questions.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
Presenter Patti Coldwell
A new series of the nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman
Robert Robinson 1:LONDON
John Kinroy
(photographer and lecturer)
Robert Carley (retired teacher) Dennis Byers
(computer operator)
Philip Cowen (lawyer)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN p. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm) Quiz answers: 1: 40
2: Brunei University, Uxbridge 3: Macaws
Presenter Sir Robin Day
with Gillian Reynolds Three's a Crowd: KAREN
DECO looks at the effect a first baby has upon the family.
The Birds Fall Down (4) long wave only
by Valerie Barker
Mary and Lawrence find themselves with an autistic child, Polly, whose awakening seems hopeless, until the intervention of an unlikely catalyst....
BBC Bristol
Children Talking
Gyn Freeman canvasses the views of youngsters in Newcastle.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
For some 800 years the Irish have been the butt of many a joke. Images of 'the stupid Irish Paddy' are handed down from generation to generation. But just why is so much leg-pulling committed against the Irish? Denys Hawthorne examines some of the myths and asks why the British feel the need to belittle the Irish.
Written by MARY CAMPBELL Producer ANGELA HIND
The Marsh Lions (6)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
with BRYAN MARTIN including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Wed 1.40pm)
Geoff Watts reports
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Details: Wed 4.10 pm)
The effects of 1997 on Hong Kong's religious communities.
From temple to tower block, the length and breadth of the Colony, the sound of fortune sticks and religious rituals is in the air. Eighty-five per cent of Hong Kong's population claims religious or superstitious beliefs of some sort - beliefs which have been the source of considerable conflict and pain in China itself since 1949. Rosemary Hartill , the BBC's Religious
Affairs Correspondent, seeks out the religious believers of Hong Kong, and looks at the problems facing them as 1997 approaches.
Producer SUE DAVIES
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm
Six programmes of recollections of working-class childhood 60 years and more ago, selected by Stephen Humphries with music arranged and performed by SANDRA KERR and with additional recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives. 4: Work
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
with Richard Mayne
Producer ROLAND KEATING
The Cone-gatherers (2)
11.0 Headlines long wave only from 11.0
long wave only
long wave only
12.23-12.28*
The Chip Shop Takeaway Service
(Details: Sat 12.23* am)
