Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Birthday Guest: Ludovic Kennedy , writer and broadcaster
Producer PIPPA BURSTON. Stereo

Mr Harty by ARTURO vivante Read by Errol MacKinnon

from St Paul 's Church, Birmingham
God is love (BBC HB 7);
Psalm 63 (EP 113); Ephesians 2, w 1-7 (JB); He wants not friends that hath thy love (BBC HB 245)
BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Derek Robinson challenges some beliefs we take for granted - and finds that the facts tell a very different story. 4: God and the Armada Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Presenter Paul Heiney
If you have any comments on today's programme, phone [number removed] after 11.0 am.

by TED ALLBEURY (4)

Presenter Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story The Fastest Snail On Earth
2.5 Something to Think About The Blackbird's Garden
2.15 Quest: East comes West
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Things That Go Bump
2.45 Nature: Feeding the Birds

Introduced by Sue MacGregor

Guests of the Week: Diana and Yehudi Menuhin.

"Cluny Brown" (6)

Queen Lucia
The last of five parts; based on the novel by E. F. BENSON ; dramatised and narrated by Aubrey Woods
5: Lucia Resurgent with Barbara Jefford as Lucia
Christmas brings goodwill to Riseholme, but then Olga departs, Georgie mourns,
Daisy emulates the beanstalk, and Lucia, of course, just goes on being Lucia.
Pianist JOHN OWEN EDWARDS Directed by JOHN CARDY. Stereo

Six programmes from Scotland, written and presented by Liz Lochhead 5: Lessons
Readers JOHN SHEDDEN , FINLAY WELSH and ANN SCOTT-JONES Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo

Behaving Badly (8)

Presenters Robert Williams and Richard Bath continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With CUVE ROSLIN including Financial Report

First Round-8: Wales MONMOUTH SCHOOL
V KING HENRY VIII SCHOOL,
Abergavenny Questionmasters
Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER

(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)

visits Northern Ireland for the first time. Bill Breckon looks at housing in the Province and asks whether the methods of conveyancing in Northern
Ireland can provide pointers to improving the system elsewhere. Plus a look at house insurance and the special problems caused by civil unrest.
Tom Tickell , financial expert, will be on hand to give up-to-the-minute advice. Editor ROGER MACDONALD Producer HELEN ROBSON

Next week, John Searle ,
Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,
Berkeley, will deliver the first of his 1984 Reith Lectures.
'Minds, Brains, and Science', fhe-37th series of Reith
Lectures, examines the nature of Man's relationship to the rest of the universe. In conversation with Geoff Watts , Professor Searle talks about his ideas, the business of being a philosopher, and his passions for winemaking, oriental rugs, and fast cars. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(The Reith Lectures will be broadcast on Wednesdays on Radio 4, repeated on Sundays on Radio 3, and printed weekly in THE LISTENER)
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Presented by Peter Hobday
Chambers of Commerce: Should British Chambers of Commerce have a statutory basis, as in many other countries? Tourism: Do we take it seriously enough?
With Duncan Bluck , Chairman of the BTA, who believes that tourism is the 'biggest growth industry in the country, creating new jobs at the rate of 50,000 per annum'. Producer ROSALIND BEW

Flying Blind
Airlines are flying blind in a world where the rules - and the fares -are changing fast and furiously. Mary Goldring asks whether this is really competition and, if it is, can it work?
Producer ANNE WINDER

'Twas the Banshee's lonely wailing -
Well I knew the voice of death On the night-wind slowly sailing
O'er the bleak and gloomy heath.
(19TH-CENTURY TRANSLATION
OF AN IRISH KEEN)
A celebration using-traditional charms or superstitions, 19th-century eye-witness accounts, and archive recordings to portray the many facets of the White Lady of Sorrow. Reader Pat Brannigan Compiled and produced by DAVID BYERS

Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer CARROLL MOORE

Quick Service (8)

Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHFIFM until 11.0

A vous la France!
4: Qu'est-ce que vous avez comme ...? Fancy a sandwich? Or an ice-cream? Need stamps for your letters, or a hotel room for a family of four? YVES AUBERT and PHYLLIS ROOME explain how to describe your exact requirements. Script by ALAN WILDING

When Ted Edwards set out to attempt the first solo crossing of the southern Sahara, he took with him two camels and a tape recorder.
Ted's running commentary on his 300-mile trek has been edited to make this programme. Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

followed by an interlude

General Studies: Unemployment
12.30 In Search of a Job
12.50 Life Without Work