Presented by Michael Pickstock Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill

with Hope Sealy

Presented by Peter Hobday and John Humphrys
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILE
7.30.8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective with JOHN NEWBURY, the BBC'S
Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING

Presented by Tony Adamson
Cricket's World Cup reaches its climax in Calcutta this weekend. In Rugby Union, the American Eagles have landed in Cardiff. Today, they take on Wales at the National Stadium. Do the Eagles dare win? Producer GORDON TURNBULL

Bernard Falk reports on holidays and travel with reporter Susan Marling and travel expert Nigel Coombs Producer HELEN ROBSON

Ned Sherrin with the likes of Robert Elms, Craig Charles and Victoria Mather Additional material by PETE SINCLAIR and STEVE PUNT Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY

with Robin Oakley , Political Editor of the Times
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Producer ZAREER MASANI

The Money Box team are at the Olympia Exhibition Hall in London to answer questions on personal finances put by visitors to the Money 87 show. The panel Louise Botting ,
Vincent Duggleby , Christopher Gilchrist and Philip Hardman
(More questions answered on Monday at 10.00am)

The British sense of fair play and the best traditions of journalistic excellence are blatantly ignored in this week's perusal of the news.
Alan Coren and Ian Hislop bend the rules as they lead their teams into battle, and as usual the events are manipulated from the Chair by Barry Took. Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON
Producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at a 30pm)

Nairn Attallah ,
Phillip Whitehead , Rosie Barnes , mp and Graham Dowson

Only Connect.... with Gillian Reynolds and guests
Producer REBECCA NICHOLSON

by JAMES DOUGLAS with Will television be allowed to go the way of the tabloid press?
This play, set in Fleet Street in the very near future, fantasises on the implications of allowing newspaper columnists like Percy Greer to turn TV chat shows into gladiatorial contests - of allowing unscrupulous men of power to create anew form of blood sport, where the victims are torn to pieces for the delight of the masses.
Television show theme music composed by ROGER LIMB of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by SUSAN HOGG BBC Manchester. Stereo

Sue MacGregor meets a marriage of talents:
Vivien Noakes is a writer and her husband Michael is a painter.

with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover

with CHARLOTTE GREEN including Sports Round-up

Omnibus edition
Remember, Remember by CHARLOTTE KEATLEY
Directed by MARILYN IMRIE. Stereo

Music by DILLE KEANE of Fascinating Aida
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

Love on the Dole by RONALD GOW and WALTER GREENWOOD with and Ronald Gow enters his 90th year this month and this new production is a celebration of that event.
It is 1934 in Hanky Park, Salford - unemployment and poverty are rife. The Hardcastle family, like all their neighbours, struggle to survive.
Sally sees a more promising future through her friendship with Larry Meath and his vision of a truly socialist future, but destructive forces surround them.
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3. 00pm)

Richard Baker presents a mid-evening miscellany of words and music.
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo

led by Richard Harries. Stereo

The Tsar's Friends
I find it a trying situation for a Friend to pass through the apartments of palace, amongst a host of servants and military, who stare as if I were not a fellow man.
In 1818 a group of Yorkshire
Quakers, led by Daniel Wheeler , embarked for St Petersburg at the invitation of Tsar
Alexander I. Their task was to drain 100,000 acres of marshland around the city. Barry Carman has compiled the human story of this great undertaking from the letters sent home over the next 23 years.
With and
George Edmondson
Narrator Valerie Windsor ProducerGILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

The sixth of eight programmes in which Johnny Morris continues his radio autobiography. BBC Bristol

A radio version in six parts of the novel by SUE LIMB starring
1: New Year, Old Problems and members of the Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo
(Re-broadcast Wednesday 7.45pm)
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A laugh a minute at El,000 a second. Written and presented by Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell with Felicity Montagu and Harry Enfield
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER Stereo

followed by an interlude