With FR BRIAN MCGINLEY. 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 HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Chris Dunkley , of the Financial Times, airs your views on BBC programmes and policies. Producer JOY HATWOOD
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Send your comments to:
Feedback BBC. London W 1A 1AA

Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON

The Moment of Truth by MARTIN MCLEAN
Read by Peter Raffan Producer BRUCE YOUNG BBC Scotland

NEM. p13; Let us, with a gladsome mind (BBC HB 461); Magnificat: Matthew 22, vv 1-10; Father of mercies (BBC HB 189)
(Stereo)

Introduced by Penelope Lively Enid Blyton wrote over 700 books for children, and characters like the Famous Five, Noddy and the girls at
Malory Towers are still popular 20 years after her death. Jenny Cuffe investigates her phenomenal success. Producer SALLY FELDMAN

Presented by John Howard For Factsheet No 18 write to: [address removed]. Please send sae

Presented by Derek Cooper Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Up in a Big Balloon (5) Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In Producer COLIN SMITH. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree Drums, Dragons and Dreams (1) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYE WACKETT Written and produced by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (e)
2.40 Folk Dance Wales 1: YDelynNewydd (The New Harp) Script by PATRICIA HOLLISTER Producer DAVID ENOCH Stereo (R) (e)

from Birmingham
The programme that invites men to eavesdrop on what women really talk about. And to join in. Serial: AU the Best, Kim (4) Presenter Dilly Barlow

by GEORGE ELIOT dramatised in six parts by ALAN ENGLAND with and 4: Conflicts and Departures
'I don't know what you mean by flirting, but if you mean behaving to a woman as if you loved her and yet not loving her all the while, I say that's not the action of an honest man and what isn't honest does come t'harm.'
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

The third of four diverse features about games and their players.
The Board Game Game
Goose from 16th-century Italy was probably the first, Big
Funeral and How to Be a Jewish Mother rank among the more bizarre titles, and industry staples like Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit sell in their tens of millions every year. Nick Baker throws the dice, learns a few expert Scrabble tricks, meets a man with 20,000 board games in his cellar and hears how you can make a million by inventing one of your own.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo (R)

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Hugh Sykes
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

with BRYAN MARTIN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC's correspondents around the world including Financial Report

The weekend starts here. In this summer series Barry Norman presents a weekly guide to what's going on. where and when, and who's doing what and with whom. And when you know what's going on and decide to join in. will you like it? And is it worth it? Tell you what - tune in now and find out for yourself.

Written by ROB GITTINS 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

The Rt Hon Michael Heseltine , mp, Ken Livingstone , mp
Alistair Graham , Director, the Industrial Society and Margaret Jay. Director, the National AIDS Trust tackle the issues raised in St Albans. Hertfordshire
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol

As songwriter Irving Berlin turns 100 Alistair Cooke considers why his extraordinary life and unlikely longevity should make us wary of those claiming to have the secret of health.

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

by Alistair Cooke

A Cluster of Tents
Down the road from the massive Adelaide Festival Centre where theatre, opera and painting hold sway at festival time, there is a row of tents. This is the home of Adelaide's Writers' Week, Australia's oldest literary festival, which has been going for 30 years. John Baxter talks to the gathering of authors, and reports on the issues that preoccupy them.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD

God's Snake by IRINI SPANIDOU abridged in ten parts by JANE MAYS
Read by Paola Dionisotti 10: The Tide
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Presented by Richard Kershaw

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

A satirical swipe at the week's news. With Bill Wallis
David Tate and Sally Grace Written by MARK BURTON
JOHN OFARRELL. PAUL B. DAVIES MIKE COLEMAN. BILL MATTHEWS ROBERT LINFORD. MAX HANDLEY GED PARSONS. PETER HICKEY DAVID BADDIEL. ROB NEWMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. SIMON BULLIVANT MARK BRISENDEN and others Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo

Travel and Tourism Stereo (R) (e) at 12.30
5: Jobs. Skills and Opportunities and at 12.50
6: Into the Future - Technology and Change