with clive LAWTON. Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor in London with Brian Redhead in Canton
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

What's to Become of the Pussies? by CELIA DALE
Read by Shirley Dixon
The wild cats on the derelict site are well cared for by the two old ladies. And when danger threatens, they're more than ready to meet force with force! Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 118; Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371); Psalm 143; Luke 19, w 11-26; Lord, our gifts we bring to thee (bp 56) Stereo

Stoddart Doum Under
Its poison can stop a child's heart and large dogs die 15 minutes after biting it. Mike Stoddart considers the rapid spread throughout northern Australia of the large and dangerous cane toad. BBC Bristol

Fresh Fruit and Veg?
Derek Cooper investigates a new technique which claims to keep produce at its peak. Producer VANESSA HARRISON

The money finally runs out for Andy Hamilton Nick Revell
Felicity Montagu and Harry Enfield.
Contributions to the next series (large denominations only) to be sent to:
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: The Little Car Stops by LEILA BERG Stereo
2.5 Let's Join In with SOUNDBOX The Cat and the Fiddle by JO MANNING WILSON (R) (E)
2.25 Talkwaves Runaway
4: Ghostrain by JOHN TAYLOR (E)
2.40 Listen! The Strange Case of Mr Jupiter A Friday afternoon adventure serial written by SUE LIMB 4: Run for Your Life Stereo (E)

Introduced from Birmingham by Majorie Lofthouse
A son and daughter, both from Thailand, have made the Norris family complete. Barbara Myers traces the long process of their adoption by a childless British couple and investigates the pitfalls and problems of adopting children from Third World countries.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Serial: Under the Red Robe by STANLEY J.WEYMAN , abridged in 10 episodes by JACK SINGLETON Read by Nigel Anthony (10) (Music: Saint-Saens's 'Cypres et lauriers' for organ and orchestra)

by James Hilton, dramatised in two parts by Margaret Simpson
with John Church as Mr Chipping

In comfortable retirement at Mrs Wickett's, just across the way from Brookfield, the gentle old schoolmaster has a thousand tangled memories of more than 60 years at his beloved school.
(R)

Roy Hudd laughs at the news with June Whitfield, Chris Emmett and THE HUDDLINERS
Written by PETER HICKEY. TONY HARE. NICK REVELL. MARTIN BOOTH.
PAUL B. DAVIES , STUART SILVER.
MALCOLM WILLIAMSON. ALAN WHITING and others
Songs by JEREMY BROWNE and RICHARD QUICK
Producer PAUL SPENCER
Stereo

Presented by Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer.
This week Tom Boswell tests the Maestro Diesel Van Producer IRENE MALLIS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANGELA HIND

This edition of the topical weekly magazine programme about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament is broadcast from the National
Conference of the Law Society meeting in Torquay and includes an interview with the President of the Law Society, John Wickerson.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

The Rt Rev Stanley Booth-
Clibborn, Bishop of Manchester John Butcher, mp,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry
Ann Mallalieu , barrister and Des Wilson , President Liberal Party from Sale, Cheshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev's disarmament summit in Reykjavik ends in failure after Reagan's refusal to abandon the Strategic Defence Initiative.

by Alistair Cooke

Out of the Orchid House
There's a wealth of artists, musicians and performers visiting Britain as part of the nine-month Caribbean Focus celebration of the arts and cultures of the West Indies. The
Trinidad Carnival and calypso nurture some of the liveliest traditions in a frenzy of music, costume and dance, but they are also important social and political barometers of the region. Jan Murray discusses traditions and developments with performers fresh from the orchid house of the Caribbean. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON

Hangover Square (10)

Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

A nostalgic look back at the 40s, and other famous shipping areas. But first.... some more satirical sketches on the week's news with Bill Wallis ,
David Tate , Jon Glover and Susie Blake
Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B DAVIES. STUART SILVER RICHARD QUICK. STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN. ALISON RENSHAW JOHN MORRISH. PETER HICKEY PETE SINCLAIR and others Producer DAVID TYLER Stereo

followed by an interlude

Secondary Science: Energy Written and presented by DR MIKE FLOOD (R) (E)
12.30 3: Energy Conversion
12.50 4: Alternative Energy (RV)