With SARAH JONES. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Six talks on Spain by Ray Gosling
3: Catholic Kings
'We let our Empire go - but Spain remembers. In my Malaga hotel, every room is named -
Filipinas or Argentina, Haiti or Texas. Says the owner, "They're all part of La Hispanidad. " In Spain, everywhere - Venezuela, El Salvador , Formosa, Nevada - is remembered....' BBC Manchester (R)
BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3. 0pm)
The Man on the Telephone by MARY FREEMAN
Read by Jonathan Cecil 'The stranger's voice is charming - his manner is impeccable. For a woman like
Cordelia - an addict of romantic novels - the combination is irresistible.'
Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 25; Christ whose glory
(BBC HB 137); Psalm 119, w 9-16; Mark 10, vv 17-27; Fill thou my life (BBC HB 271). Stereo
Flea Business
Despite an unpopular press, the flea is an achiever of remarkable feats - seven-inch high jumps, 13-inch long jumps and chariot racingpar excellence.
John Maunder speaks up for the fabulous flea.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol (R)
Spilling the Beans
Derek Cooper seeks the essence of coffee in a rich blend of opinions from Europe to South America.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Tuesday)
Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP reads Walter Crumpton Goes Skating with the Penguins by KATE WILKINSON
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Most Astonishing Birthday Present by JEAN PLAISTOW
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King Stories On the Paint Trail by DEREK FARMER
2.40 Listen! Armada Rock by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL
2: Boat Ride into Danger (R)
Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Diamond for the Countryside: film producer DAVID PUTTNAM takes on a starring role - as newly-elected President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England. For their
Diamond Jubilee Year, he's supported by a glittering cast. Producer JILL MARSHALL BBC Bristol
Serial: The Reason Why (2)
by HONORE DE BALZAC dramatised in four parts by JOAN O'CONNOR
3: In Search of Destiny
For the sake of the Republican soldiers slaughtered at
Vivetieres, Marie de Verneuil is determined to find Montauran and to bring his head to the scaffold. She still loves him, but swears to be revenged on the man she thinks responsible for the terrible massacre.
Directed by JANE MORGAN. Stereo
Sentimentality
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour.
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo (R) Revised
Presented by Gordon Clough and Robert Williams
continuedon VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport. Producer HELEN ROBSON
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 1.40pm)
Presented by Margaret Howard Producer JULIAN HALE Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Makers of the law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to the first edition of a new series of this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Sir David English , Editor Daily Mail
Nicholas Hinton , Director-General, Save the Children Fund
John Edmonds , General
Secretary, General. Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union (GMBATU) and Marghanita Laski , novelist and journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Swindon, Wiltshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Martin Luther King day
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Three years after it became law, a national holiday to celebrate the civil rights' leader is observed across the US. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast on Sunday at 9. 15 am)
Presented by Sheridan Morley Including reviews of English
National Opera's production of Rossini's Moses and of The Sure Thing, a romantic comedy film. Producer RICHARD DUNN
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Praises
The last of three stories by ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Miss Smythe of the Gown
Department has led a glamorous life serving the highest in the land, but now the Clearance Sale has begun.
(Starting on Monday: Wind. Sandand Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery )
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 MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DA VIES. RICHARD QUICK
STUART SILVER. PETE SINCLAIR
IAN BROWN. DA VID COHEN.
PETERHICKEY JOHN MORRISH , ALISON RENSHAW and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25 pm)
followed by an interlude
Radio Geography - Our Changing World Northern Ireland Farming Written and presented by MAURICE TODD and at 12.50 Britain's 's Motorway Network Written and presented by ERIC TWADDELL