With FR DEREK LANCE BBC Birmingham

Presenters Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

John Amis browses through the BBC's Sound Archives catalogue and chooses the recordings he would most like to own.
Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEY

by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon

NEM, p 71; Lord of all being, throned afar (BBC HB 11);
Psalm 8; Hebrew 12, w 1-13; Sing a song of joy (bp 75) Stereo

The Generation Game
What have bicycles and neck size to do with the way we choose a mate?
Stephen Jones gives some surprising answers.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Presenter Pattie Coldwell

Richard Anthony Baker contemplates the clownish characteristics of cacophony and codswallop with the voices Of LILY TOMUN, PETER
SELLERS, ROBB WILTON and others. Producer ALAN OWEN
(Repeated: Saturday 3.0 pm) Stereo

Presenter Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Written and presented by FRED HARRIS BBC Birmingham
2.5 Let's Join In Pengersec and the Witch of Fraddom (Cornish folktale)
2.25 Sounds, Words and Movement Adventures of a Robot (2) Presenters JILL shilling and PAUL BURA
2.40 Listen! Armada Rock by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL
2: Boat Ride into Danger

Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
It's Burns' Night - the excuse for Scots all over the world to toast the Immortal Memory in gallons of the 'cratur'; to recite to the haggis; and generally enjoy a good old-fashioned wallow in all the tartan feelings they may well reject for the rest of the year. Mary takes a look at the annual festivities.
Children's panels are the Scottish answer to the problems of children in trouble with the law - but do they work? DAVID CALDER reports.
Is a sheep barren or fertile?
And will the ewe have twins? A lot of money could be riding on the answer. JENNY STEWART talks to ELISSA SUTHERLAND from Aberdeenshire about a new scheme she has devised to scan ewes at lambing time. Producer COLIN CALEY BBC Scotland
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (5)

An 18-part serialisation of JOHN MASTERS' saga of the Savage family spanning the years 1825-1946.
Book Four: Bhowani Junction dramatised in five parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with 4: Ranjit Singh Kasel
Unrest is growing in Bhowani, Victoria Jones comes under suspicion from the police, and Mr Surabhai entertains unexpected visitors.
GREGORY,RAJ PATEL , JIGGY BHORE and KUMAR RANJI
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING Stereo

with Clive Jacobs and ALANAH MARTIN , TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS Producer IRENE MALUS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

A Country Doctor's Notebook

Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Stereo

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEY
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am) Stereo

Radio 4's Do-it-Yourself Magazine
The first of two programmes in which Marjorie Lofthouse looks at some of the DIY queries raised in listeners' letters since the last series, discusses more seasonal problems with a studio audience, and asks advice from Tony Wilkins , Executive Editor of Do-it-Yourself Magazine, Peter Harper , designer and lecturer, and John Crawford , member of the Guild of Master Craftsmen. Producers DAVID WELSBY and MICHAEL FORD
BBC Birmingham
W HELPLINES: page 77

Robert Maxwell , publisher, Mirror Group Newspapers The Rt Hon Sir Edward du Cann, mp
Derek Jameson , former Fleet Street editor and Doreen Miller , mp international businesswoman from Wolverhampton
Chairman John Timpson Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol

Plunging temperatures force cancellation of Reagan's second term inauguration parade. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sunday 9.15 am)

with Nigel Andrews Producer KEVIN JACKSON

Second from Last in the Sack-Race (5)

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 LAN BROWN, RICHARD QUICK, PAUL B. DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH , PETE SINCLAIR , STUART SILVER , DAVID COHEN ,
JEREMY HARDY , PETER HICKEY and others Producer PAUL SPENCER

followed by an interlude

Radio Geography: Our Changing World
12.30 North American Energy Scene Written and presented by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK and at 12.50 The Leisure Scene Written and presented by MARGARET HORSFIELD