With Fr John McCullagh
6.25 Prayer for the Day

Presented by John Humphrys and Chris Lowe in London with Peter Hobday at the Liberal Party Assembly in Harrogate
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Harold Innocent (10)

'The river quickens me, when I am far away, to think of it.
I am absurdly fascinated by it. It beckons and consoles ...
I see the early sun glint on its first narrow pools and am at peace and at home.'
Fishing a Highland Stream - A Love Affair with a River Michael Hordern reads the second of three extracts from JOHN INGUS HALL'S classic
Producer JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Wednesday)

Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Aren't Plums Cheap? by PAT JOHNS
Read by William Eedle Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM,P 54; Come down, O love divine (BBC HB 149); Psalm 95; Acts 2 vv 1-11; Breathe on me, breath of God (BBC HB 148)
Stereo

The Fratricides
At the height of the American war in Vietnam, between 1968 and 1970, Roger Martin was political officer in the British Embassy in Saigon.
In the last of three talks, he recalls some of the people he met and places he visited in those three turbulent years.

with John Howard
British Gas, privatised in 1986, has 17 million customers. Ron Probert , Managing Director of Marketing, answers listeners' concerns. For information about this week’s programme, write for Factsheet No 37, [address removed]Please send sae

Iain Johnstone loads the last reel of the movie quiz that puts 'stars in your ears'.
The all-star cast this week is Dinah Sheridan, Jeremy Hanley, Jenny Hanley and Dick Vosburgh
(Stereo)

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner TONY AITKEN reads Wriggly Worm Unlucky Day. Stereo
2.00 Books, Plays, Poems Trust by LYNNE REID BANKS. Stereo (e)
2.30 Science for All Up, Up and Away Balloons and jets and yaw 'n' roll. JoinsTEVEBLACKNELL up in the clouds. Written by TONY JAMES (e) StereolBinaural The full binaural effect can be heard only through stereo headphones
2.50 Authentic German for GCSE 5: Am Telefon Compiled and presented by LOL BRIGGS and BRYAN GOODMAN STEPHENS (R) (e)

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Mills , featuring the work of Ann Jellicoe , playwright and pioneer of the community play. Ann's dynamic work in a series of West Country towns has inspired dozens of other communities to dramatise their own history. With a cast of hundreds, from young children to octogenarians, the play can take over the town.
Producer MARY HARDIMAN BBC Bristol
Serial: Prenez Garde (4)

by ALEXANDRE DUMAS dramatised in seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL starring
4: The House at Auteuil While visiting Rome in February 1838, the Vicomte de Morcerf was kidnapped and held for ransom by bandits. His friend, Franz d'Epinay. immediately sought the help of the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, with the result that
Albert was set free. Albert, out of gratitude, has promised to introduce the Count into Parisian society.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo

A story of a mother and her 50 sons.
In the Kent resort of Margate Doris Pargeter looks back on 25 years of providing a home for the men no one wanted. There was Ernie the kleptomaniac.... Peter the elephant man ... and the gypsy who wouldn't take his boots off in bed. 'I used to put my head in my hands,' says Doris, 'and ask what have I done!'
Narrator Gordon Cooper Producer JILL MARSHALL BBC Bristol

Presented by Bill Frost and Carole West continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

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

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Miles Kington presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

Denise Robertson , author
The Rt Hon Michael Heseltine ,
MP
Polly Toynbee , journalist and Joe Ashton , mp tackle the issues raised by the audience at Todmorden in West Yorkshire.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

President Reagan's nomination of conservative Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, the highest power in the US, has alarmed liberals and heartened far-right Republicans.

Ed Pearce casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers. Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The East is Read
In China Chairman Mao is renowned not only as a leader but as a poet. And his countrymen were writing historical novels as far back as the seventh century. In the light of this tradition, Christopher Cook talks to writers and translators to chart the long march of Chinese literature. And he asks what, after the recent political changes, is a quarter of the world likely to be reading now?
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Behind the Wall
5: Old Men Remember. Stereo

Presented by David Sells
National and international news, background, analysis and comment, including special coverage by Sally Hardcastle of the Liberal Party Assembly in Harrogate.

The last of four investigative reports
The Resurrection of St Jerome In 1986 a popular uprising on the Caribbean island of St Jerome ended the despotic rule of Felipe Delnazo.
David Lander examines the extravagant lifestyle of Delnazo and his wife Isabella and the events that led to his fall. Studio production by Stephen Fry assisted by Brenda Blethyn and Andrew Sachs
Dramatic reconstructions by Mark Arden, Robert Bathurst and Phil Pope
Research by Tony Sarchet
Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)

followed by an interlude