with JAMES BUTTERWORTH. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
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 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 comments and pursues your complaints and queries about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
Send them to: Feedback, BBC, [Address Removed]
Producer Jenny Hargreaves (Re-broadcast part Sunday)
0 RADIO TIMES LETTERS: page 80

BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. Opm L W)

Autumn Cricket byLORD DUNSANY
Read by Garard Green
In the gathering dusk, an old man sits alone, apparently engrossed in watching a game of first-class cricket - with W. G. Grace among the players. But the cricket field is empty, and the nights are getting colder.... Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 67; Let all the world in every corner sing (BBC HB 275); Psalm 24; Matthew 6, vv 2-8; Teach me, my God and King (bp 80). Stereo

3: The Intelligence Test
Presented by John Gribbin
Intelligence has evolved. Are we therefore more intelligent than our ancestors, and do we owe our success as a species to that intelligence? BBCBnstol

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)

by TED WALKER and COLIN ROSE starring with Six anarchic tales from those demob days when we was going to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned lax and sour.
2: The French Connection
Producer MARTIN FISHER.

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by JANE HARDY and JOE DUNLOP. Stereo
2.5 Let's Join In The Ogre An Italian folk tale 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 Manchester by Helen Boaden who investigates the healing power of touch in medicine and takes you into the arctic depths of an ice-cream factory to hear a startling story of 'economic illiteracy' in the nation's schools.
Producer JENNIFER HOLDEN BBC Manchester
Serial: In Chancery (3)

by CHARLES DICKENS (4)
Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
continuedon VHF/FM5.50-5.55pm

With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report

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

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Anne Nightingale Producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo
(Extended re-broadcast next Sunday)

Should divorced and remarried men be allowed to become priests? How can the Church of England best avoid a major split if it ordains women priests? And should the church headquarters move out of London?
Rosemary Hartill , the BBC's Religious Affairs
Correspondent, reports on the debates from this week's meeting in London of the Church of England's governing body, the General Synod.
Producer CAROLINE DONNE. Stereo

The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke , mp, Paymaster General
The Rt Hon John Smith , qc, mp Des Wilson , President of the Liberal Party and Mrs Wendy Savage , Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, London Hospital Medical College from Baldock, Hertfordshire Chairman John Timpson
Producer ROBIN HICKS. 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.
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)

The Sound Bank
Music and wildlife, theatrical and broadcasting performances are all collected by the National Sound Archive. Over one million recordings are held by the library on wax cylinders and tape as well as compact and video disc. The whole collection has just been expanded and refurbished: so, with more to listen to, what is collected and who uses the service?
Paul Vaughan reports. Producer ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Madame Bovary (10)

Presented by David Sells

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy. (SIR T. BROWNE ) Many a fancy will tonight be humoured by Bill Wallis David Tate , Jon Glover and Sally Grace
Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DA VIES, STUART SILVER RICHARD QUICK. STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN , ALISON RENSHAW PETER HICKEY , PETE SINCLAIR KEVIN MANDRY. GED
PARSONS MAX HANDLEY. BILL MATTHEWS and others
Producer ANDY WILSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)

followed by an interlude

Voix de France French VI
5: Lamartine, Vigny, Musset by PAUL SPENCER ELLIS (e)