Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Susan Marling airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
Producer JANET THOMAS
(Repeated: Sunday 6.45 pm)

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

The Conscript by ALPHONSE DAUDET translated by HARRY BELL Read by Garard Green

NEM. p 67; Jesus call us! o'er the tumult (EH 205); Psalm 48;
Zephaniah 3, w 14-20; Christ for the world we sing (BBC HB 172) Stereo

Michael Jordan discovers that not only do birds and bees giggle and horses and hippos guffaw, but penguins laugh out loud.
Producer MEUNDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Presenter Paul Heiney

Presenter Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again
2.5 Let's Join In No Room for the Donkey . Nativity play by ANN ROSS
2.25 Sounds, Words and Movement: The Miser's Christmas (whole story) Presenters JILL SHILLING and PAUL BURA
2.40 Listen! Journey through Badlidrenrpt (10)
2.0-3.0 L W Woman's Hour Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse Mushaira is an Asian poetry gathering. ADAM CHUGTAI keeps the 2,000-year-old tradition alive and flourishing in England's second city. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham A Room with a View (8)

Nightrunners of Bengal (4) by JOHN MASTERS
Stereo

with Ursula Vaughan
Williams, Vice-President of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
Producer JULIAN HALE

A series of five programmes exploring current thinking in psychology
3: Social Interaction
We gravitate socially towards some people but avoid others. How are friendships formed and broken, and can we learn to improve our social skills? Peter Evans chairs a discussion between
Brian Foss , Professor of Psychology at the New College of Bedford and Royal Holloway,
Dr Anthony Storr and Helen Weinreich-Haste , Senior
Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bath.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN

Pierre et Jean by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by LEONARD tancock abridged in seven episodes by ENYD WILLIAMS and JOHN HARTLEY Read by MICHAEL PENNINGTON (7) Producer JANE MORGAN
(Starting on Monday: 'Laugh with Lardner' by Ring Lardner)

Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs brings you the stories behind the scenes in the travel world with help from ALANAH MARTIN , TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS . Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days

(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
(Stereo)

Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.

Angela Rumbold , mp
Clive Jenkins , General Secretary ASTMS
John Egan , Chief Executive, Jaguar Cars
Prabhu Guptara , writer and broadcaster tackle the issues raised by the audience in Leicester.
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.10 pm)

An upright man - in his walk, and his ways. Remembering Senator George D. Aiken, the politician who could never be bought. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sunday 9.15 am)

Does Edinburgh Want a Festival?
On St Andrew 's Day, John Parry talks to city fathers and to two directors of the International Festival, John Drummond and Frank Dunlop, about the uneasy marriage between the Scottish capital and its biggest money-spinner. Is the Festival 'elitist and out of touch' with the people of Edinburgh? Is the city's attitude to its most famous event 'apathetic and parsimonious'? May the time have come, even, for a divorce?

Mr Facey Romford's Hounds 5: The Larkspur Hunt

Presented by Richard Kershaw

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN , RICHARD QUICK
PAUL B. DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH
PETE SINCLAIR , STUART SILVER
DAVID COHEN , PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER
(Repeated: Saturday 5.25 pm)

followed by an interlude

Programmes affected by transmitter breakdown earlier in the term may be broadcast