with JOHN MORGAN. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday andSueMacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7 45* Thoughtfor the Day
8 35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Christopher Dunkley , of the Financial Times, airs your complaints, queries and comments about the BBC.
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Send uour comments to: Feedback, BBC. London WIA 4WW
Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Leaving by FERDINAND DENNIS
Read by John Westbrook Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM. p 9: Angel voices, ever singing (AMNS 163); Psalm 63;
Ephesians 4, vv 11-16; Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost (BBC HB 153) Stereo
The children's book programme presented by Penelope Lively. In a special Hallowe'en edition Roald Dahl and Jill Murphy are among the authors talking to Jenny Cuffe about witches.
Naomi Lewis and Leon Garfield discuss the supernatural in children's literature. Producer SALLY FELDMAN
with John Howard
with Derek Cooper
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by FRED HARRIS Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Ugly Duckling by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN adapted by JEAN MCKENZIE Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree Huff and Puff (5) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON Stereo (e)
2.40 Country Dancing Stage 3 Presented by JOHN TETHER (5) (R) (e)
Julia Shaw says Godan daginn from Reykjavik for a special Icelandic edition.
Wanted - Fish-Filleters to work in Iceland
Unemployed women from Hull and Grimsby are travelling over 1,000 miles to get a job.
Experienced filleters can earn high bonuses working for the old Cod War enemy, but it's a hard life and some women long for their contract to end. Vigdis Finnbogodottir ,
Iceland's President and the first woman to be democratically elected as a head of state, explains her love of Iceland, its language and people, and Julia samples the best in traditional Icelandic food - sheep's heads. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East Story:
Another Marvellous Thing 7: Another Marvellous Thing
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Life on the English canals 4: Horse Power
Interviews collected and presented by Arthur Wood Producer FRAN ACHESON (R)
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Michael Woodhead
continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
London City Airport opened for business last Monday and will be officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen next Thursday. Will this new airport be a runaway success or will the next landing be that of a white elephant? Check in with Clive Jacobs and the team.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Written by david MARSHALL Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
with Margaret Howard Producer HELEN FRY. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp Dafydd Elis Thomas , mp Teresa Gorman , MP
Bishop Hugh Montefiore from Penrhiwceiber, Mid-Glamorgan
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
The 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
Time for more taxes
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
The money men are waiting for President Reagan to take the lead in attempts to stabilise the rocky economy. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
From the Calton Weavers - the trade union martyrs of 1787 - to the miners' strike of 1985, Ken Currie has completed a series of murals from Scottish working-class history for the People's Palace in Glasgow.
The scale and commitment of the work is rare in Britain, but follows the tradition of the great Mexican political muralist Diego Rivera.
As a major retrospective of Rivera's work opens in London, Paul Allen reports.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Tarka the Otter by HENRY WILLIAMSON , abridged in ten parts by ANDREW SIMPSON Read by David Davis (10) Producer GRAHAM GAULD
(Starting on Monday: 'A Child in Time' by Ian McEwan )
Presented by Richard Kershaw
with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by RICHARD QUICK STEVE PUNT , MIKE COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW , PETE SINCLAIR KEVIN MANDRY. GED PARSONS BILL MATTHEWS , MAX HANDLEY MARK BURTON , JOHN OFARRELL
ROBERT UNFORD , LES PETERS ROWLEY PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)
followed by an interlude
Geography: Our Changing World
12.30 China and World Trade Written and narrated by KEITH HINDELL and at 12.50 Tourism Written and narrated by MARY CHERRY Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (R) (e)