With ROSEMARY WAKEUN. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
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* 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, its programmes and policies.
Send them to: Feedback. BBC. London W1A 4 WW
Producer JENNY HARGREAVES (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
0 RADIO TIMES LETTERS: page 96
BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.0pm L W)
The Lion and the Lizard by MICHAEL WHERLY
Read by Garard Green
Ibrahim's father had told him that a lizard in the house is a blessing. But the Englishman for whom he went to work had other ideas....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 62; 0 worship the king (BBC HB 471); Qui Timetis
Dominum; Revelation 21, w 1-7; Lead us, heavenly Father (BBC HB 307) Stereo
2: In Praise of Sociobiology Presented by John Gribbin
Sociobiology is partly about the predisposition of individual members of different species to do certain things well, and others badly, or not at all. Can it explain why we are predisposed to be nice to each other? 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)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Comer Let's Play it Again Presented by SHIREEN SHAH and BILL TORRANCE Stereo (R) (e)
2.5 Let's Join In The Ogre An Italian folktale Retold by ANNE HOWSON (e)
2.25 Toy Theatre Jack and the Beanstalk (e)
2.40 Listen! Dangerous Holiday (5) by ROB GITTINS (e)
Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse Your Library Needs You
It is the legal requirement of every local authority to provide an efficient library service, but with spending cutbacks many are finding it impossible - libraries are deteriorating.
Marian Foster reports on the Library Association's new campaign to save the service by appealing to all readers. Producer LUCY LUNT BBC Pebble Mill
Serial: The Diary of a Good Neighbour (10)
by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised in ten episodes by BETTY DAVIES and Narrator Simon Cadell 3: Banished
'The indignation felt by Mr Pecksniff was only to be equalled by the kindling anger of his daughters. What! Had they taken to their hearth and home a secretly contracted serpent; a bankrupt bachelor with no effects, trading with the spinster world on false pretences! And oh, to think that he should have disobeyed and practised on that sweet, that venerable gentleman, whose name he bore, horrible, horrible!'
With DAVID GOODLAND. STEPHEN HATTERSLEY. ANDREW BRANCH and NATASHA PYNE
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo
(Broadcaston Monday at 7.20pm)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continuedon VHFjFM5.50-5.55pm
With PAUUNE BUSHNELL Halfanhourof reports from the BBC correspondents around the world 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. Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Stephen Fry presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer ANGELA HIND
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Lord Young, Secretary of State for Employment
Polly Toynbee , columnist, The Guardian
Geoffrey Robinson , mp and Lewis Wolpert , Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine,. Middlesex Hospital Medical
School tackle the issues raised by the audience in Birmingham. Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
Makers of law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Alistair Cooke's weekly talk on American life, history and politics.
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Sermons in Stones
The Boyle Family recreate spots on the earth's surface as powerful works of art. This celebration of the random beauty of the world includes a Swiss motorway, a piece of Hebridean beach and a section of Holland Park pavement. But how do they choose their spots and why? Mark, Joan, Sebastian and Georgia talk about the work that has obsessed them for over 20 years.
Producer MARY SHARP
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Madame Bovary (5)
Presented by David Sells
What is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. (W.S. Landor)
A perfectly splendid satire 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, KEVIN MANDRY, GED PARSONS, MAX HANDLEY, BILL MATTHEWS and others
Producer ANDY WILSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25 pm LW)
followed by an interlude
Voix de France French VI
5: Lamartine, Vigny, Musset by PAUL SPENCER ELLIS (e)