with IAN RENTON. Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and Jon Silverman in London with Sue MacGregor at the Liberal Party Assembly in Eastbourne
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* Your Letters

5: Christian Soldiers

A chance meeting with Siri, a young teacher, drew Dr Ray Barron into village life in Sri Lanka. In the first of two talks he describes preparations for the New Year festival play. 'For Siri, drama has become only one means to a wider end: helping his village to come into the modern world without destroying the values which have served it for centuries.' BBC Manchester

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3. 30pm)

by Jill Norris.
Read by Fleur Chandler

Mike Saunders runs the grocery store in a small American town. But he seems more interested in the kids playing baseball on the vacant lot. It's an interest with unexpected results!

from St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol conducted by MGR CRlSPIAN HOLLIS with the choir of ST BRENDAN'S SIXTH FORM COLLEGE
Musical director BRIAN WATKINS Teach me thy way, O Lord (William Fox); Prepare ye the way of the Lord (from Godspell); Lead kindly light (Benigna/Newman)
Reading: Isaiah 35, w 1-10 Stereo

The Creatures that Come and Go In the old days, additions to the British migration list at Spurn Point came via a gun-barrel and a charge of dust-shot.
Today, they come from a ringing station.
Presented by Michael Clegg BBCBristol

Third of four programmes Blindness in the Family
When an elderly person is registered as blind, it often seems like the end of the world. Relatives and friends are sympathetic, but what else can they do? Some advice from the In Touch team on how to help an older person cope with the loss of sight.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
• INFO: page 93

An inflationary edition written and presented by Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell with Felicity Montagu and Harry Enfield
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Mrs Lather 's Laundry. Stereo
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox Ernest the Elephant by BARBARA CATFORD adapted by EDWARD KELSEY Producer COUN SMITH (E)
2.25 Talkwaves Baxter Wall and the Vanishing Boy
1: Where's our Norman? by JOHN TAYLOR (E)
2.40 Listen! The Strange Case of Mr Jupiter A new Friday afternoon adventure serial written by SUE LIMB
1: 'Just you wait and see....' Producer DAN GARRETT. Stereo (E)

Introduced from Northern Ireland by Wendy Austin.
The family holiday is meant to be a time for fun, relaxation and togetherness but, as the Marriage Guidance Council in Belfast has discovered, for many people it can have the opposite effect. Producer COLIN LEWIS BBC Northern Ireland
Serial: Cold Heaven (8)

by JOSEPH CONRAD , dramatised in six parts by JACEK LASKOWSKI withand
4: The Silence of the Golfo Placido
As Nostromo and Martin prepare to take the silver out on to the gulf, Colonel Sotillo and a shipful of soldiers is making for Sulaco. In the race against time will Charles Gould be forced to surrender the silver mine?
Other parts played by ROBIN SUMMERS and NATASHA PYNE Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER. Stereo
• FEATURE: page 101

Johnny Morris recalls some of the places he has visited and the people he has met. This week: Malaya
'A fertile Jack and the Beanstalk jungle where the great green banners of the banana trees wave to all who look for the sky, where palm trees explode all along the road, where the bullock carts plod out the shady pace of life.'
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol (R) revised

Presented bySusannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55 pm

WithCLTVEROSUN 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
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Glyn Worsnip casts an eye over this week's newspapers. Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Lord Chappie Emma Nicholson , Vice-chairman
Conservative Party
David Penhaligon. mp
Andreas Whittam Smith , Editor, The Independent tackle the issues raised by the audience in Otford, Kent. Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Public confidence in the United Nations at its lowest as it loses its ability to adjudicate on international troubles. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Presented by Robert Hewison Producer KEVIN JACKSON
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Handley Cross
10: The Pomponius Ego Day

Presented by Richard Kershaw including a report from the Liberal Party Assembly in Eastbourne

The last of four investigative reports

The money men may be making a killing, but are they getting away with murder? David Lander looks at the City and in particular the Rouget-Dory Venture Capital Syndicate.

Studio production by Stephen Fry assisted by Robert Bathurst, Felicity Montagu and Jack Klaff
Dramatic reconstructions by Mark Arden and Harry Enfield

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm LW)

followed by an interlude

A-level English Chaucer as Comic and Moralist The Miller's Tale (2) Stereo (E)