with BISHOP ROY DAVIES. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

' The last in the series in which
Christopher Dunkley , of the Financial Times, airs your complaints, queries and comments about the BBC.
Producer MARINA SALANDY-BROWN

Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

The Other Woman by BRENDAN O'BYRNE
Read by Fleur Chandler Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 54; Holy Spirit, truth divine (BBC HB 155); Psalm 16; I Corinthians 12, w 1-11; 0 Spirit of the living God (BBC HB 159) Stereo

The children's book programme presented by Penelope Lively. How are children's books published and marketed?
Are they more expensive than general titles, and are they given less attention?
Sebastian Walker , of Walker Books, Judith Elliott , founder of Orchard Books, and Liz Attenborough , Editorial Director of Puffin, share their experiences.
Producer SALLY FELDMAN

John Howard with the latest news and advice for consumers For information about this week's 's programme. write for Factsheet No 44: [address removed] Please send sae

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.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by JANE HARDY and ROY CASTLE. Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox Peskybogle by JANETTA BOWIE (R) (e)
2.25 The Song Tree Huff and Puff 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 (6) (R)(e)

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
To Surname - with Love?
Margaret Thatcher and Molly Parkin did it, but Maureen Lipman and Margaret Drabble didn't. If you decide not to take your husband's name, what are the legal and social implications?
LucyLunt reports. Producer LUCY LUNT BBC Birmingham Serial:
Where Angels Fear to Tread (4)

by vs. PRITCHETT (2). Stereo

A six-part series recalling life on the English canal system. 5: The View from the Bank
'What I didn't like was when that boat sailed away. I felt as if I'd lost a part of my life. Once you've made that boat, you missed it when it had gone.' Interviews collected and presented by Arthur Wood. Producer FRAN ACHESON (R)

Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

with BRIAN PERKINS 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) Written by JULIET ACE and TAMSIN REES
Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT Stereo

Nairn Attallah , publisher Phillip Whitehead , writer,
Chairman of the New Statesman Rosie Barnes , mp and Graham Dowson , industrialist, Chairman of the Migraine Trust tackle the issues raised by the audience in Derby
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

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

Fiery speech from President Gorbachev before December summit outlines arms limitation and hopes for a new economy in Russia. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Souping-up Soaps
Soap opera has constantly to evolve to keep storylines in touch with the preoccupations of its 1980s audience, hence the current new radio soap Citizens and a revamped Brookside.
But are social issues the real reason why people follow soaps or do they fulfil a more basic human need?
Sue Summers investigates.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT

The Child in Time (5)

Presented by Richard Kershaw 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 RICHARD QUICK STEVE PUNT, MIKE COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW , PETE SINCLAIR KEVIN MANDRY. GED PARSONS BILL MATTHEWS , MAX HANDLEY MARK BURTON , JOHN O'FARRELL
ROBERT LINFORD , LES PETERS ROWLEY PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER Stereo

followed by an interlude

20th-Century Witness
12.30 Women's Changing Role (1) and at 12.50 Women's Changing Role (2) (R) (e)