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With THE REV SHELAGH BROWN Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

Written in ten parts and read by Christopher Matthew (10)

BBC correspondents report Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Blessed Damozel by PETER GILLOTT
Read by Edward de Souza Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM, p71; Jesus shall reign
(BBC HB 460); Psalm 19; Acts 1, w 6-14; Behold the mountain (BBC HB 485) Stereo

Shakespeare on his Lips Charles Laughton in the theatre; an investigation by Simon Callow
Charles Laughton will never be forgotten for his roles in such films as Mutiny on the Bounty and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Those who saw him in his rarer performances on stage could not forget him either, as Simon Callow discovered in his research on Laughton's biography.
With Fabia Drake , Albert Finney , Sir Alec Guinness , Ian Holm and others
Producer NED CHAILLET. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Tuesday)
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4: Heat and Dust and Turkish Baths
In the story of his journey by ancient car in 1961 through
Europe, the Soviet Union and points south, Fred Basnett has reached Turkey, and is covered in dust. Fortunately there are Turkish baths, and Fred becomes addicted, particularly to apres-hamaan....

John Howard with the latest news and advice for consumers For information about this week's 's programme, write for Factsheet No 31: [address removed]Please send sae

A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge
Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines

Anansi and the Magic Cooking Pot Stereo (R)

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
The National Foal Bank is a service designed to help breeders in trouble, whether they have an orphaned foal, or one that dies leaving the mare available for foster rearing.
Jeremy Hayes visits
Johanna Vardon who runs the Foal Bank from her shed in Shropshire. Producer ANNEMARIE COLE
Serial: Travels with Charley (5)

by JANE AUSTEN
1: Old Friends and New Meetings Stereo

Six lives and six perspectives of North America emerge in conversation with Anne Brown. 1: John Ehrlichman
Watergate conspirator and one of Nixon's fall-guys,
John Ehrlichman served his prison sentence and retreated to New Mexico to write political thrillers.
Observing Washington from a distance, he reflects on White House corruption then - and now.
Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by Bill Frost and Robert Williams continuedon VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With PAUUNE BUSHNELL 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 CATHY DRYSDALE. Stereo (Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

I've always thought that if people become famous too early they're likely to reach a sticky end - in fact it worries me that perhaps
I've had a bit too much publicity myself....
Photographer the Earl of Lichfield presents, before an audience in the Midland Arts
Centre, Birmingham, a selection of his favourite poetry and prose.
Readers ROBERT HARDY and FRANK WINDSOR
Producer BRIAN PATTEN Stereo (R)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow)

Glyn Worsnip casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Thatcher refuses to back Reagan over US naval involvement in the Persian Gulf as oil price rises boost inflation. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Works of Nature
Jewellers and instrument makers are finding raw materials other than ivory and tortoiseshell, and furniture makers are turning from exotic hardwoods to native timbers. This is not only because materials are getting scarce, but because of growing ecological concern among craft workers. Fine artists, too, are looking differently at the natural world, seeking not only inspiration, but appropriate materials.
Rosemary Hill talks to craft workers and artists whose work is interwoven with the way they live.
Producer JULIAN MAY

A Classical Education 5: Booterstown

Presented by David Sells
National and international news, background, analysis and comment

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

A satirical view of the week's news with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by PAUL B DAVIES
RICHARD QUICK, STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN , ALISON RENSHAW PETE SINCLAIR , KEVIN MANDRY GED PARSONS , MAX HANDLEY
BILL MATTHEWS. MARK
BURTON JOHN O'FARRELL , ROBERT UNFORD LES PETERS ROWLEY. PETER HICKEY and others
Producer ANDY WILSON Stereo

followed by an interlude