With MICHAEL HARDING. 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 DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Ireland: The House on the Hill In the last of his journeys back in time, novelist Joseph Hone returns to Kilkenny.
Producer JOY HATWOOD (R)

Producer CAROLE LACEY

Divine Guidance by GAIL ROGERS
Read by Marjorie Westbury The child is father of the man - or, in this case, father of the grandma. But grandma is a reluctant pupil. Blinkered, self-righteous, she's got the straitjacket of a lifetime to shed.

NEM, p 71; The day is filled with splendour (BP 84); Psalm 97; Revelation 21, vv 1-7; The Church of God a kingdom is (BBC HB 183) Stereo

Rupert Murdoch started it with his takeovers of the Sun and the Times. Once word got back to the boardrooms of Australia of the gold to be mined in the City of London, the rush began in earnest.
Heather Payton has been to
Australia to discover how and why corporate raiders from Down Under, such as Alan Bond , Robert Holmes a Court and the Fosters lager baron
John Elliot , managed to out-wit and out-bid the British bulldogs ... and where they'll strike next.
Producer RICHARD QUEST (R)

The children's book programme introduced by Penelope Lively lam very childish, and I enjoy my own jokes. But not too much - because making people laugh is a very serious business.
He's consistently voted top writer by children - yet some libraries have banned him, and he's often criticised for his seeming cruelty and vulgarity. Julia Eccleshare meets
Roald Dahl , and discovers the motivation behind the magic. Producer SALLY FELDMAN

Presented by John Howard For information about this week's 's programme. write for Factsheet No 15 to: [address removed]

Presented by Derek Cooper Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Presented by Brian Widlake

Calico Pie, the Little Birds Fly Stereo (R)

from Bristol
What do women want? If Freud had been a regular listener he'd have known.
Presenter Jenni Mills
Serial: Dangerous in Love by LESLIE THOMAS abridged in nine episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Bruce Lidington (9)

by GEORGE ELIOT dramatised in six parts by ALAN ENGLAND with and 1: The Return of the Captain
June 1799: The little village of Hayslope is disrupted by the arrival of a dynamic young woman, a methodist preacher. Dinah Morris inspires Seth Bede with more than a love of religion, while Adam's attentions are caught by the coquettish Hetty Sorrell. But she only has eyes for the dashing Captain Donnithorne.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
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John Waite reports on five small businesses.
5: A Wine Merchant's in Shipston-on-Stour Run by Tom Abel
Producer NICK UTECHIN (R)

Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25* PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55

With CLIVE ROSUN including Financial Report

Tom Boswell puts the extra spark into the Going Places charabanc, expertly steered by Clive Jacobs with a little extra direction from Alanah Martin. Producer IRENE MALLIS

Written by MARY CUTLER
BBC Pebble Mill

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

The Rt Hon Malcolm Rifkind , mp, Secretary of State for Scotland
Michael Meacher, mp, Shadow Employment Secretary
Rosalind Gilmore. business consultant and Owen Dudley Edwards ,
Reader in History, University of Edinburgh
From Kirkcaldy, Fife
Chairman John Humphrys
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm) Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS82LR

Geoffrey Goodman presents a personal view of the week's newspapers and talks to the people behind the headlines. Producer SHEILA COOK

Enjoying a different pace of life at the Augusta National, a Georgia Shangri-La. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

My Enemy Is Kitsch
Milan Kundera was president of the Czechoslovakian Writers' Union and a distinguished poet and academic at the Film
School in Prague - until in 1968 he published The Joke, a satirical novel on Stalin's legacy. Within 18 months he was unemployed, unemployable, subjected to
100 per cent tax on his foreign earnings and hounded into expatriation in France.
Richard Mayne examines the career of the author of Life Is
Elsewhere and The Unbearable Lightness of Being - the film version of which opens this week in London.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

A Clergyman's Daughter (5)

Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment

Radio 4's international business report, market trends

A satirical antidote to the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON. JOHN O'FARRELL PAUL B. DAVIES , BILL MATTHEWS ROBERT LINFORD , MAX HANDLEY GED PARSONS. PETER HICKEY DAVID BADDIEL. ROB NEWMAN
ALISON RENSHAW , SIMON BULLIV ANT MARK BRISENDEN and others Producer BILL DARE. Stereo