with ROSEMARY FOXCROFT. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FIMGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Christopher Dunkley of the Financial Times airs your complaints and queries about the BBC.
Send them to: Feedback, BBC. London Wl A4WW
Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.45 pm)
0 RADIO TIMES LETTERS: page 96

BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.30pm)

by Jill Norris.
Read by Shirley Dixon

Billy Riley, the local bad boy in 'Miz' Taylor's neighbourhood, is in hot pursuit of the Minister's daughter, Laura Plum. But Billy has bitten off more than he can chew!

Advent Calendar
Hope in God The Father
NEM, p 122; All my hope on God is founded (Bp 3); Quern pastores (Carols for Choirs 2); Isaiah 63, v 18 to 64, v 8; Blessed are the pure in heart (BBC HB 318). Stereo

Presented by Andrew Mitchell 5: Killers in the Canopy
Forest predators are often fine aerial acrobats. The harpy eagle drops through the tropical canopy, flies momentarily upside down and plucks a sloth from its inverted perch on the tree.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol

Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

A series of four investigative reports by David Lander 2: A Rocketfor Defence
Every year each British taxpayer gives E700 to the Ministry of Defence for new nuclear weapons. Would we be better off putting an extra lock on the door and having a fortnight in Bermuda?
Studio production by STEPHEN FRY assisted by JACK KLAFF. BRENDA BLETHYN and MARK ARDEN
Dramatic reconstructions by HARRY ENFIELD , FELICITY MONTAGU and ROBERT BATHURST (R)

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: All at Sea Stereo 2.0 Education Now Teacher Shortage in Maths and Science (e)
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Jane Eyre (5). Stereo (e)

Introduced from Manchester by Helen Boaden who investigates the human face of destitution in the North West, visits the 15th-century Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and takes you out into the depths of the countryside to the most haunted house in England....
Producer JENNIFER HOLDEN BBC Manchester
Serial: Circles in a Forest by DALENE MATTHEE, abridged in 14 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Sean Barrett (14)
(Music: Hamilton Harty 's In Ireland)

by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY dramatised in eight parts by PETER BUCKMAN
7: Helen, Pen's mother, has died. Pen finds consolation in the prospect of a career at
Westminster, but trouble is at hand with the reappearance of the mysterious Altamont ...
Directed by PETER KAVANAGH
Stereo

Roy Hudd laughs at the news with June Whitfield, Chris Emmett and THE HUDDLINERS Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.5M. 55 pm

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport. Producer IRENE MALLIS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANDREW PARFITT
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Geoffrey Goodman casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Esther Rantzen
The Rt Hon Cecil Parkinson , mp Ken Livingstone
Dr James McFarlane , Director-General, Engineering Employers' Federation from Bristol
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm)

Reagan describes press as 'sharks' while polls show Americans changing attitudes towards White House. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Sheridan Morley presents tonight's edition.
Producer JOHN POWELL
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

The Fall of Kelvin Walker written and abridged in eight parts by ALASDAIR GRAY Read by Bill Paterson 8: The Fall
Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland
(Starting on Monday: 'Christmas with the Savages ' by Mary Clive )

Presented by Richard Kershaw

This week Week Ending watches in awe as the mighty monolith of totalitarian Marxist.Leninism grapples with the leviathan of Western capitalism in a bloody fight to the finish. (Indoors if wet) with Bill Wallis , David Tate Jon Glover and Sally Grace Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DAVIES . RICHARD QUICK STUART SILVER , PETE SINCLAIR PETER HICKEY. STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN. ALISON RENSHAW and others
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25 pm)

followed by an interlude