With THE REV ANDREW MCLELLAN Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Phil Longman
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters
While I was still quite small - no more than 3 or 4 - it was usually my mother who read to me; before bedtime, as I sat on her knee by the poppling gas fire to look at the pictures and ask questions....
The novelist Richard Adams presents, before an audience in the BBC's Paris Studio, London, a selection of his favourite poetry and prose.
Readers Ronald Pickup and Cheri Lunghi
BBC Bristol
Christopher Dunkley of the Financial Times airs your complaints and queries about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
Producer JENNY HARGREAVES (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Send your letters to: Feedback, BBC, London W1A 4WW
0 RADIO TIMES LETTERS: page 80
In Cages by ELIZABETH MCGREGOR
Read by Lesley Manville Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM, p 46; Bright the vision that delighted (BBC HB 269) Psalm 116
Luke 15, vv 1-10
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us (BBC HB 307) Stereo
As the demands of industry change, Britain's workforce is having to look elsewhere for employment. Soon a job may mean being a full-time volunteer or achieving self-fulfillment through sport.
In his examination of a world where to work does not always mean to have a job, Richard North searches through the labyrinth of theories surrounding the future of employment and asks how it will affect our lives.
BBC Bristol
A series of four programmes which discovers some of England's more unusual exhibits and exhibitors. 2: The Gladstone Pottery Museum
Marjorie Lofthouse visits the Gladstone Pottery Museum and meets a curator whose career has gone to pot.
Producer ANNE HINDS BBC Pebble Mill (R)
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.
Stereo
Presented by Gordon Clough
Today's story: Ronan the Rowing Boat Goes For Repair Stereo
Introduced from Birmingham by Majorie Lofthouse
The medieval Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael , is rapidly becoming one of fiction's most popular detectives. Sally Wright visits his creator, Ellis Peters , at her Shropshire home to discover more about this unlikely hero. Producer LUCY LUNT BBC Pebble Mill Serial:
No More than Human (11)
by MRS HENRY WOOD dramatised in seven parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
2: The Keepers of the Dead
Lord Mount Severn has died suddenly, leaving his daughter, the Lady Isabel, destitute.
Meanwhile young Richard Hare has risked his life, wanted as he is for the murder of Hallijohn, by returning secretly to West
Lynne in a desperate attempt to clear his name.
MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano)
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
Neil Walker and David Clayton get that déjà vu feeling as they link up with Local Radio stations around the country to meet lookalikes and namesakes. Double Trouble
Today's electronic showbiz world creates stars overnight making their names and faces immediately familiar in a million households. In their shadow come others, blessed or cursed in reflected glory with lookalike appearances or just the same famous name. Some are embarrassed, others learn to live with the jibes. But more and more are also learning to double their money.
Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
(Continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55)
With EUGENE FRASER
Half an hour of 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)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer JULIAN HALE
Donald Trelford. Editor of the Observer
The Rt Hon James Prior , Chairman of GEC
Jean Rook , Assistant Editor of the Daily Express and John Mortimer , qc
The programme comes from Ampney Crucis. Cirencester Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
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 John Eidinow Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Fred Astaire, 1987
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Small in stature, a giant on the screen - an appreciation of the life and work of Fred Astaire. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
Verse and Circuses
"It's hard to say exactly what we are. A bit like 'The Flying Pickets' but we don 't sing; four-part harmony with rhythm and rhyme perhaps. One thing we do say we are and that's funny."
A profile of The Circus of Poets, a South Yorkshire performance poetry group who appear nationwide in clubs, pubs, schools and arts centres merging literary art with pure cabaret.
Presenter Paul Allen
BBC North East
The Songlines (5)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by RICHARD QUICK PAUL B. DAVIES . STEVE PUNT, PETE SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER, ALISON RENSHAW, MIKE COLEMAN, MAX HANDLEY, KEVIN MANDRY, BILL MATTHEWS, GED PARSONS, PETER HICKEY and others Producer ANDY WILSON
followed by an interlude