with PHILIP HAYDEN. Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

by Anthony Smith

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

The Outcasts of Poker Flat The 19th-century American classic by BRET HARTE Read by Jon Glover Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, pl7: Of the Father's love begotten (BBC HB 57); Quem pastores (Carols for Choirs 2);
Luke l.vv 26-38; Tell out, my soul (Bp 81) Stereo

The children's book programme presented by Penelope Lively. Do children need traditional fairy tales, or should wicked stepmothers and handsome princes be abandoned in favour of contemporary themes?
Catherine Storr , Terry Jones and Jamilia Gavin talk to Frances Donnelly.
Producer SALLY FELDMAN

with John Howard
For information about this week's programme, write for Factsheet No 48: [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 SHEELAGH gilbey (R)
2.05 Let's Join In The Hi-jacking of Father Christmas by JEAN KENWARD with music by TOBY SIMS Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree Huff and Puff (W) 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 (10) (R) (e)

The programme where you can meet the people behind the headlines and the women who are making the news.
Today, the arguments for and against Bristol's plans for
Avon Metro, the rapid transit track-car system.
Presenter Jenni Mills

A selection of works by one of Britain's greatest living writers Our Man in Havana dramatised in three parts by GREGORY EVANS
3: In the secretive, paranoid atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Cuba,
Wormold's made-up spy-stories are beginning to have a strange way of coming true.
Now Wormold has real enemies, out to murder him....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo

Larry Harris talks to well-known people about what was going on at the time of their birth. 2: Glynis Barber
(born 25 October 1955)
The star of television's Dempsey and Makepeace was born in South Africa at a time when the British and Soviet navies were exchanging courtesy visits. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by Bill Frost and Frances Coverdale continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

with LAURIE MACMILLAN Half an hour of reports from 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 CATHY DRYSDALE. Stereo

The Rt Hon Shirley Williams Frances Morrell
The Rt Hon Enoch Powell Lord St John of Fawsley tackle issues raised by the audience at
Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

A report on the Washington summit for the US and Soviet leaders to sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty treaty limiting medium-range nuclear armaments.

Edward Pearce casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers. Producer SAM COLLYNS

by Alistair Cooke

Showcase!
For clubland artists and entertainers the 'showcase' is their opportunity to demonstrate their talents to bookers and agents. Magicians, singers, comedy duos, horror cabarets, steamy dance groups - they each get a chance to go for the bigger time.
David Roper reports on the tensions and hopes of the participants and the reactions of those with bills to fill in clubs, cabaret and summer shows.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD

You Should Have Seen the Mess The last of five stories by MURIEL SPARK
Reader Naomi Capron Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland

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

Science Problem-Solving Adventures in Electronics A different way to teach electronics - the eight short units combine closely with the teachers' notes to provide the basis for either industrial simulation or a murder mystery. The choice of the problem-solving environment is yours. Producer JULIAN COLEMAN Stereo (e)