With THE REV GEOFFREY AJNGER Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys 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 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

by Anthony Smith

Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

God and the Brain by GILLIAN DUDLEY
Read by Maurice Denham Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM. p 25; Hark! A herald voice is calling (EH 5); Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC HB 519);
John 1, vv 19-28; Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27) Stereo

The last in this series of the children's book programme presented by Penelope Lively. From Walter de la Mare and Edward Lear to Roald Dahl and Charles Causley , poetry has always been popular with children - now more than ever. Poets Carol Rumens and Roger McGough assess the latest collections.
Producer SALLY FELDMAN

with John Howard
How to be canny with credit and avoid seasonal overspending. For information about this week 's programme, write for Factsheet No 50: Y[address removed]. Please send sae

Derek Cooper with his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by John Sergeant

1.55 Listening Corner Today's songs: Very Small and Very Tall (R)
2.05 Australian Bicentenary The Aborigines Producer ELIZABETH CLEAVER Stereo (e)
2.45 English Resources 2 Introducing ... I Can Jump Puddles by ALAN MARSHALL. Stereo (e)

from Manchester
The programme no woman can afford to miss visits Britain's most exclusive training ground for nannies, Princess Christian College in Manchester, to discover that guarding against terrorism, drug abuse and kidnapping is as much part of the curriculum as toilet training and table manners. Presenter Julie Carter
BBC Manchester

by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (2)
Stereo

Larry Harris talks to well-known people about what was going on at the time of their birth.
4: Jane Asher
(born 5 April 1946)
When actress and writer Jane was born, Britain was coming to the end of an April heatwave. with a series of thunderstorms causing power failures. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill

continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

with EUGENE FKASKR 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.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone
John Mortimer , qc
Jean Rook , Assistant Editor of the Daily Express and Peter Jenkins , Associate Editor and political columnist of the Independent tackle the issues raised by an audience in Bermondsey, London.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm)

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

Republican glee as voters see Senator Hart's confession of affairs as a serious character flaw. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Traditional Heirs (part 2)
By its nature, traditional music should be continuously developing in response to its environment. Does the music surviving around the country still belong to an evolving tradition or to a museum culture. In the second of two programmes, Andy Kershaw examines how the heirs to a musical tradition are making it their own.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Jackdaw Cake (10) Stereo

Presented by Richard Kershaw

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 (Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm)

followed by an interlude