visits Charles Matts in Northamptonshire

A meditation for the beginning of a new day with BISHOP TREVOR HUDDLESTON. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Michael Stewart
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0.8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day

with Kate Moon

edited in five parts by BRIAN BETHELL
Read by Timothy Bateson (1)
Last year W. Morgan Petty declared his house and garden a nuclear-free zone. Now he takes the independence of 3 Cherry Drive a stage further and applies to join the Common Market. As always, he isn't frightened to ask for help.
Producer TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester. Stereo

Mozart, Cole Porter, Rachmaninov, Gilbert and Sullivan, Lennon and McCartney -just some of those who never imagined what the likes of Noel Coward, Alan Sherman, Spike Jones, Richard Stilgoe, The Barron Knights, Flotsam and Jetsam, Paddy Roberts, and Flanders and Swann would do with - or to - their work.
Jeremy Nicholas takes an affectionate look at song parodies, burlesques, lampoons, pastiches and simple send-ups in a special holiday edition of this popular series.

(Broadcast on Saturday at 12 noon)

by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon

Annie and Ralph are the new neighbours. But why does Annie take such a deep interest in her brother.... and why does the young narrator feel suspicious of Ralph's little visits?

New Every Morning, page 46;
Child in the manger (BBC HB 45); Te Deum ; Philippians 2, vv 1-13; Of the Father's love (BBC HB 57) Stereo

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by P. J. Kavanagh Readers JILL BALCON and RONALD PICKUP
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, BristolBS82LR

Consumer Quiz
If you're faced with a sharp second-hand car dealer, an autocratic landlord or a belligerent bull in a field, how well can you stand up for your rights? Join celebrity teams from the four home countries as they challenge one another in an affable battle of consumer wits.
Today the scots take on the ENGLISH in the first semi-final. Questionmaster John Howard Producer BILL MORRIS

Four stirring tales in which Sir Digby Spode and the trusty Hubert Carstairs thwart the forces of swarthy skulduggery.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
Hear This! page 22

Presented by John Sergeant

BRIAN CANT reads Simon and the Ringmaster's Hat by KATE WILKINSON Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN

looks back....
Your chance to hear again some of the highlights of the past year's programmes. Including contributions from HRH The Prince Andrew, Winnie Mandela , Helen Shapiro , Victoria Wood ,
Maureen Lipman and Rankin' Anne
Introduced by Sue MacGregor

Season's Greetings by ALAN AYCKBOURN
Stereo 0 HEAR THIS! page 22

Presented by Gordon Clough and Carole West continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

10 June 1938: Went to Bot Lab for prep - horrible stink there - Mair said afterwards she wouldn't come near me because I stank so much. Told her she stank before going in to Bot Lab! Did crossword puzzle after tea. Started diary - wonder how far I'll get....
That diary, written by a South Wales schoolgirl, ended in December 1939. It was the year that war broke out - and it was also the year that Mary Bevan didn't make the hockey team, became Head Girl and fell in love. This is a portrait - in her own words - of that year in her brief life.
Compiled and produced by SIAN LLOYD BBC Wales
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.33 am)

Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer MILES BARTON
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

by Peter Luke
'In Bloomsbury all the couples are triangles and everyone lives in Squares.'
Virginia Woolf observes a most curious, and tumultuous, relationship.

(Stereo) (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

In the first of two programmes Rodney Slatford reflects on the delights and difficulties of being a guest professor at the Kusatsu Summer Academy in Japan. BBC Manchester (R)
(Programme 2: tomorrow at 9.30pm)

Paul Allen presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting music and exhibitions. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Vice Versa or A Lesson to the Fathers by F. ANSTEY abridged in 12 parts by ANDREW SIMPSON
Read by David Davis (1)
Late in January 1881, Paul Bultitude , Esq was near the hour of deliverance when his son, Dick, would return to Dr
Grimstone's school leaving his father anything but inconsolable.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Presented by Charles Wheeler

There are ordinary bird-watchers and there are
'twitchers'. Each autumn this strange breed descends on the Isles of Scilly in search of its quarry. Sue Hicks joined last year's migration and discovered that twitchers have their own language and plumage, and are driven by an instinct to 'tick' as many species as possible, for the longer the tick-list the more important you are.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN BBC Bristol (R)

followed by an interlude