Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM TICKELL
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILLE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

A second series of six lighthearted talks in which
David Moreau recollects his largely unsuccessful attempts to come to grips with life. 5: Preparing to be a NastyOldMan
'Road behaviour is a succulent bit part for the Nasty Old Man. I'll begin by driving . increasingly badly, occasionally trying to engage reverse while rushing forward....'

Reports from BBC correspondents around the world...
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

Cousins by JULIA STONEHAM
Read by Elizabeth Proud
Her cousin was four years older - and she carried an air of excitement with her. But for one man it led, indirectly, to heartbreak and tragedy. Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 97; 0 God, give ear unto my cry (BBC HB 466); Psalm 11; Romans 6, w 15-23; Thy hand, 0 God, has guided (BBC HB 187) Stereo

Guacharo - the bird of perpetual darkness
If you travel to the Amazon
Basin and find your way into the cave systems that run deep beneath the foothills you will find the bird that never sees the light of day.
John Waters crosses the continents to experience the alien world of the Guacharo.
Producer CAROL JEFFERSON-DAVIES BBC Bristol

Presented by Pattie Coldwell

The fourth of six entertainments as David Barlow , Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together again with their special guests Humphrev Lyttelton and his Band.
Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Script by LEE PRESSMAN
2.5 Let's Join In Sinbad the Sailor adapted from The Arabian Nights by EDWARD KELSEY Producer COLIN SMITH
2.25 Mother Tongue: Song and Story
1: Greek as Spoken in Cyprus The Hedgehog, the Spider, the Tortoise and the Bee Storytellers BEULAH CANDAPPA and MARIA STROUTNON
2.40 Listen The Decide-It- Yourself Cliffhanger serial: Schools are invited to participate in creating a serial drama Producer DAN GARRETT * HELPLINES: page 69

Introduced from Belfast by Wendy Austin How They See Us
What do the Russians make of the conflict in Ireland?
BERNADETTE Ross , who spent ten months in Voronezh, a small university town 350 miles south-east of Moscow, reflects on the Soviet view from behind the Iron Curtain
Real Life with Small Children Underfoot (3)
BBC Northern Ireland

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatised in five parts by Constance Cox

Thanks to the treachery of their guide and the eventual flight of their leader, the Duke of Monmouth's forces are routed at Sedgemoor. Sir Gervas slain, Reuben wounded and captive, Micah leaves and turns his horse's head away from the west.
(Stereo)
(Starting next Sunday: Daughters and Sons by Ivy Compton-Burnett)

Clive Jacobs brings you stories from behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport with help from
ALANAH MARTIN and TOM BOSWELL Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Schoolgirls' Own
5: Jemima Gets Them Guessing by HILDA RICHARDS
(Starting on Monday: The Past is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg )

Presenters Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough

With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report

(Broadcaston Saturday at 11.30) Stereo

Ian Carmichael presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer KATE FENTON
Stereo
0 HEAR THIS! page 12

Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

The Rt Hon James Prior , mp Terry Marsland , Deputy General Secretary,
Tobacco Workers' Union Oliver Walston , farmer
The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , mp tackle the issues raised by the audience in Ipswich, Suffolk Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Defeat for the president as House cuts off aid to Nicaragua's Contras amid fears of another Vietnam. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Presented by Nigel Andrews Producer RICHARD DUNN

Voices in an Empty Room (5)

Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF:FM until 11.0

with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace
Written by IAN BROWN.
RICHARD QUICK. PAUL B. DAVIES , JAMES HENDRIE. MARTIN BOOTH. PETE SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER and PETER HICKEY
Producer PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER

followed by an interlude

English for Examinations (14-17) CSE English
12.30 Walkabout by DAVID SELF and at 12.50 Introducing 'Kes' by BARRY hines adapted by TONY coult