With DONALD MACDONALD Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Your Letters
Written and read by Maureen Lipman abridged in seven parts by PAT MCLOUGHUN
7: You're Driving Me Crazy Producer PAT MCLOUGHLIN (Music: Adrian Williams 's 'Jubilypso')
(First broadcast in 'Woman's Hour') (Starting on Monday: 'Figures in a Bygone Landscape by Don Haworth )
The last of five Robb Wilton monologues by ALLEN SADDLER with Michael Williams as Robb Wilton The Bigamist
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.45 pm L W)
BBC Correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3. 30pm)
The Poisoned Dow '08 by DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Read by Geoffrey Beevers A bottle of poisoned port features prominently in this final story of Monty Egg - the author's 'other' detective. Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 67; Lord of mercy and of might (BBC HB 295); Thou knowest Lord, the secrets of our hearts (Purcell); Psalm 62;
Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC HB 481) Stereo
The Land that Comes and Goes Spurn Point is a long curved sandspit trapped between the mouth of the Humber and the North Sea. Some remark that 'there's nowt there' or it's the 'last place God made', but for Michael Clegg it's magic. BBCBristol
A series of four special programmes, in addition to the regular In Touch magazine Presented by Peter White 2: The In Touch team has designed a kitchen, now on display at the Disabled Living
Foundation in London, which is safe for use by a visually handicapped person.
Hannah Wright guides
Mary Berry round some of the 200 items on display and explains how it is possible to prepare and cook food if one has little or no sight.
Producer THENA HESHEL
Andy Hamilton, Nick Revell, Felicity Montagu and Harry Enfield bring you another fun-filled half hour from their tax haven in the West Indies.
BBC Barbados
(Stereo)
Presented by Gordon Clough
1.55 Listening Corner A Fancy Dress Fit for a King (R)
2.0 Black British The Politician: Shapurji Saklatvala by NAKIB NARAT Stereo
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Macbeth (5) Stereo
Introduced from Manchester by Judy Merry who meets Dr Colin Rogers , author of Tracing Missing Persons, visits the Merseyside schools' Adopt a Poet scheme and reports on the 'Tranquilliser Trap'.
Producer HELEN BOADEN BBC Manchester
Serial: Cold Heaven (3)
by JOSEPH CONRAD dramatised in six parts by JACEK LASKOWSKI with and 3: Revolution in Costaguana Pedro Montero has defeated the government forces and is poised to lead his troops into Sulaco. Martin sees that the time has come for action, but can he persuade Gould to use his silver to bring a new South American republic to life?
Other parts played by ROBIN SUMMERS and GORDON REID Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER
Stereo
Johnny Morris recalls some of the places he has visited and the people he has met in a quarter of a century of jaunting. This week: Finland
'Helsinki is another vigorous, energetic northern capital.' Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol (R) revised
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continuedon VHFlFM5.50-5.55pm
with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer. Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Margaret Howard Producer NIGEL ACHESON Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Ludovic Kennedy casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
Marghanita Laski , novelist, critic
John Mortimer , qc, playwright Michael Winner , film critic, producer, director
Douglas Brooks , management consultant tackle the issues raised by the audience in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire.
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Tougher drug laws
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Politicians seen to join the 'rush to righteousness' as the anti-drugs crusade takes on a vote-catching twist. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
(He-broadcast next Sunday)
Christopher Cook presents tonight's edition.
Producer MARY SHARP
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Handley Cross 5: Early Days
Presented by Richard Kershaw
A series of four investigative reports
3: Food for Thought
'You are what you eat' goes the saying. If so, are we a nation of headless chickens with the giblets removed?
David Lander looks at food, and in particular an alarming new chemical additive N7Q.
Studio production by STEPHEN FRY assisted by JULIA HILLS , HARRY ENFIELD and JACK KLAFF
Dramatic reconstructions by MARK ARDEN. ROBERT BATHUKSTand FELICITY MONTAGU
Researcher TONY SARCHET
Editor PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25 pm L W)
followed by an interlude