With CANON DAVID PARTRIDGE Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday andSueMacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by cuve ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Six talks on Spain by Ray Gosling
5: Beggars and Drains
'... Unemployment - very bad in Seville. And Madrid with beggars, the pale faces of their waiters and the drains and the pavements and the toilet paper.
But they are on the up ... (R)
BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.0pm)
Weekend by ELIZABETH EVANS Read by Mary Wimbush Barbie has insisted on a weekend visit from her sister. It ought to be fun, but there are a dozen reasons why it won't be ... mostly due to Barbie! Producer MITCH PAPER
nem, p 105; The God of love my Shepherd is (BBC HB 474);
Psalm 47; Genesis 41, vv 46-49, 53-57; Father in whom we live (BBC HB 166). Stereo
In the tropical rain forest of Guyana Gerald Durrell encountered a band of red howler monkeys.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol (R)
Say Cheese - and see what you get. Derek Cooper pares the rind from the cheese trade in Holland and Italy, in a quest for real Dutch Farmhouse and real Parmesan.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Tuesday)
Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Today: Very Small and Very Tall (R)
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves by SIMONE HALFIN (R)
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King Stories Knots and Knocks by PAUL GROVES
2.40 Listen! Armada Rock by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL
4: Findings at Spoon Haven (R)
Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
'H. D.' Steiner recalls his early days as hairdresser to Queen Mary and how he made film wigs for Vivien Leigh.
Autism: All I want is for my little lad to say "Dad, let's take the dog for a walk." '
ELIZABETH NEWSON, Who works with autistic children at the Child Development Research
Unit in Nottingham, knows only too well how parents miss ordinary social communication when their child suffers from this handicap. AVRIL CARSON reports.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Serial: The Reason Why (12)
by THOMAS HARDY
1: Marriages Remain
Stereo
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature on the subject. Stereo (R) (Rev.)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport. This week Tom Boswell tests the Honda Accord, economy and sporty version.
Producer HELEN ROBSON
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Margaret Howard
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Makers of the law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Rt Hon John Selwyn Gummer, mp
Dr Elizabeth Cottrell , writer/PR's consultant
The Rt Hon Denzil Davies , mp and Jack Boddy , National
Secretary of the Agricultural and Allied Workers' Trade Group, TGWU tackle the issues raised by the audience in Swaffham, Norfolk. Chairman John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger disaster, 1986
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Alistair Cooke reflects on the life and death of Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian astronaut who was killed in the space shuttle Challenger disaster on 28th January 1986.
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Presented by Michael Billington
Producer THOMAS SUTCUFFE (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Wind, Sand and Stars by ANTOINE DE SADJT-EXUPERY abridged in ten parts by JOYOSBORNE
Read by John Bennett (10) Producer MAURICE LEITCH (R)
(Starting on Monday: 'But For Bunter' by David Hughes )
Presented by Richard Kershaw
with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DAVIES , RICHARD QUICK STUART SILVER. PETE SINCLAIR IAN BROWN , DAVID COHEN
PETER HICKEY. JOHN MORRISH ALISON RENSHAW and others Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)
followed by an interlude
Photography High Street Photographer (RV) Written and presented by MARYA BURGESS (R) and at 12.50 Setting Up On Your Own Written and presented by SEANMAFFETT