With THE REV PHILIP CROWE BBC Birmingham

Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

with Richard Baker
(Revised broadcast of Saturday 's programme at 7.45pm)

with Colin Semper
Producer SALLY THOMPSON

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

by BARBARA BELL
Read by David Ashford
The old man looks back to his boyhood and the circle of 'uncles' who surrounded his mother. Which of them though, was actually his father? Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 62; Rejoice today with one accord (BBC HB 281); Psalm 42;
II Timothy 3, v 16 to 4, v 8; All my hope on God is founded (bp 3) Stereo

Winged Victory
From the dust of a North
African desert comes a peril so densely-packed and so voracious that its sudden visitations can lead to pandemic famine and financial ruin. But the same beast spends most of its life in inoffensive solitude. Steve Simpson unfolds the complex and volatile natural history of the locust.
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol

The challenge of the diet and health debate often lies more in disentangling useful information from commercial interest or evangelical zeal. Derek Cooper and his guest.
Dr David Player, Director of the Health Education Council, digest the issues.
Producer JOHN FORSYTH

A selection of the best of the 1985 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, recorded at the Fringe Club. Your host: John Sparkes Producers ALAN NIXON and JENNIE CAMPBELL (R) Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by FRED Harris Script by RUTH CRAFT
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Goblins at the Bath-house Estonian folk-tale
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (29) by DEREK FARMER (R)
2.40 Listen! Journey through Badlidrempt(9) (R)

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
The Magical World of Puppets: JOHN BLUNDALL shows his unique collection of puppets at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. He describes to uz DANIELS how his cast of comic characters and folk heroes have brought pleasure to audiences all over the world. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Serial: Breath of Life (4)

by D.H. Lawrence, dramatised in six parts by Roy Spencer

December 1900: Lettie has promised to be engaged to Leslie at Christmas when she is 21. But while Leslie is away on business, she spends more and more time at Strelley Mill with George.
BBC Birmingham

Roy Hudd laughs at the news Stereo

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

With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport. This week Tom Boswell tests the VW Golf Turbo diesel. Producer IRENE MALLIS

(Re-broadcaston Monday at 1.40pm)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 10.30 am) Stereo

The last in the series of the topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenburg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo , KCB, Managing Director and Chief Executive, British Aerospace PLC Brenda Dean
General Secretary, SOGAT
The Rt Hon Dr Dickson Mabon , European Spokesman for the SDP
Edwina Currie , mp tackle the issues raised by the audience in Shavington, Cheshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Computers are changing the way we live - but can they work out how we can live together? Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Presented by Sheridan Morley Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

Palace of Green Days (5)

Presented by Tim Llewellyn

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis, David Tate,
Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by RICHARD QUICK, PAUL B. DAVIES, STUART SILVER, MARTIN BOOTH, IAN BROWN, JAMES HENDRIE, PETE SINCLAIR, STEVE PUNT, DAVID COHEN, PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER

followed by an interlude

Twentieth-Century Witness
12.30 Women 's Changing Role (1) and at 12.50 Women's Changing Role (2) Presented by ALARIC COTTER