With EILEEN LAKE Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary 6 45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Your Letters

Two centuries of cricketing prose, poetry and anecdote narrated in ten parts 10: Close of Play

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Don't Tell by JANE COLES
Read by Fiona Mathieson Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM, p 67; The Lord is my shepherd (BBC HB 480);
Psalm 139; Mark 6, vv 7-13, 30-32; Breathe on me, breath of God (BBC HB 148) Stereo

MCC - Cricket's House of Lord's The Marylebone Cricket Club has been a private club with a public function for 200 years now. Although it has relinquished its benign dictatorship over the game, it is still a powerful influence on it, not least in its guardianship of the laws.
Christopher Martin-Jenkins looks at MCC's history, which is the story of the game itself, at its characters, its mystique and its role today.
Producer PETER BAXTER
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday. You can also hear a shortened version today at
1.10pm on Radio 3)

The last of six programmes The Peacocks of Trebizond
Fred Basnett and the vintage
Alvis are nearing journey's end. It is still 1961. Do the peacocks exist? Are there towers?
Certainly everyone he meets now wants to be photographed. But small boys send him on his way with stones.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

John Howard with the latest news and advice for consumers For information about this week 's programme. write for Factsheet No 33, [address removed]. Please send sae

Iain Johnstone is in the director's seat again as he hosts another reel of the quiz that puts 'stars in your ears'. Returning after a week's intermission are Peter Noble, Marianne Stone, Dick Vosburgh and Sylvia Syms
(Stereo)

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

TONY AITKEN reads The Trimble Town Band's Playgroup Visit Stereo

Introduced from the North East by Julia Shaw
The Twins and the Yeti Man
Alex and Thomas Parkinson , 1987 Young Travellers of the Year, relive the excitement of their four-month expedition in the Himalayas. In Nepal the 11-year-old twins met a Sherpa who once came face-to-face with an abominable snowman. Back home in Yorkshire they treasure two hairs.... which came from the scalp of a Yeti. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East Serial:
Charters and Caldicott (7)

by JANE AUSTEN dramatised in three parts by MICHELENE WANDOR
3: Friendly Persuasion
Louisa Musgrove has become engaged to Captain Benwick and Anne Elliot dares to hope that Captain Wentworth's affections might, once again, be hers.
Square piano (William Rolfe and Sons, C1810) played by KENNETH MOBBS
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Pebble Mill Stereo

Six lives and six perspectives of North America emerge in conversation with Anne Brown 3: Alice Walker
I think I'm becoming an ecstatic in my old age....
Poet and novelist Alice Walker reflects on personal struggle and happiness amid cultural upheaval and a threatened world.
Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Nick Worrall and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55

With DAVID SYMONDS
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 NIGEL ACHESON. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

I wish I could have sung tenor, or been as good as Nureyev in the ballet - that would have been a talent. But to remember the Latin names of plants ...
The botanist David Bellamy presents, before an audience in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, a selection of his favourite poetry and prose. Readers DINSDALE LANDEN and MICHELE DOTRlCE Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

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

In the dog days of summer, even the Seven Dwarfs get to celebrate an anniversary. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Paul Allen presents an edition from the 1987 Edinburgh International Festival, including exhibitions of contemporary Soviet and Scottish art; Henze's comic opera The English Cat, and highlights from the Fringe. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

In Custody (5)

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

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

The second of two programmes of songs, sketches and stand-up - a selection of the best of the 1987 Edinburgh International
Festival Fringe, recorded at the Fringe Club.
Compered by Dave Cohen Producer DAVID TYLER Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)

followed by an interlude