With CANON JOHN GUNSTONE Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and David Lomax
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* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Six programmes in which Kerry Shale performs selections from WOODY ALLEN 'S three volumes of thoughts on love, sex, death and pretending to be an artichoke. 5: My Apology
'Of all the famous men who ever lived, the one I would most like to have been was Socrates. For does not the eternal "form" mean that each object exists in perpetuity, and there is no death? Or does that just go for heavy objects... ?'
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Time England Sank by SYDNEY BERNARD SMITH Read by Kevin Flood Producer JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland
NEM, p 79; Firmly I believe and truly (BBC HB 168); Psalm 95; Mark 6, w 30-44; Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140) Stereo
How can you have a secret service ifit has to tell its secrets to a parliamentary committee? It's easy to call for MI5 and MI6 to be made accountable - but the reality is more complex.
In the second of this three-part series, Paul Barker talks both to former spies and to present politicians about the dilemmas they face and asks what Britain can learn from countries such as the United States, West Germany and Israel. Producers SHEILA COOK and DENNIS SEWELL
Editor ANNE SLOMAN (R)
Peter White concludes his series of autobiographical talks with reflections on his experiences in pubs, where he used to play the piano, and developed an effective technique for attracting the barman's attention. Producer THENA HESHEL
News and advice for consumers Presented by John Waite
For information about this week's 's programme. write for Factsheet No 28 to: You and Yours, BBC London WIA 1AA
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
Tongue Twisters Poems read by MICHAEL ROSEN Stereo (R)
from Birmingham
How long will it be before Liverpool is led by a lady, or Spurs spurred on by a superwoman? The programme that keeps the score in the match between the sexes investigates how far girls are being included in football training.
Serial: The Healing Art (12) Presenter Sally Jones
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE dramatised in eight parts by DAVID SPENSER
6: It is the day of the dinner being given by Augustus Melmotte in honour of the Emperor of China. Horrid rumours have swept through the City, linking the great financier's name with such unpleasant words as 'swindler' and 'fraud'. Many of those invited have to decide whether to go or stay away.
Narrator ALAN DUDLEY
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo
In the first of six programmes offering an intimate view of working life in Lancashire, Phil Smith listens to the experiences of the Demolition Men.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Golf: The Open
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
The weekend starts here with Barry Norman.
Mike Dicken is on his portable phone with the Code Cracker clues. 'Known for its mills, valleys and canals, Bradford is my destination this week and in the park where all three come together I shall be.'
This week's Code Cracker symbol: - X
And, from Code Crackerto 'It's a cracker!', Frank Carson takes a wander through his old haunts in Belfast.
Producer IRENE MALLIS
INFO: page 77
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANDREW PARFITT Stereo
Brenda Dean , General Secretary, SOGAT
Louis Blom-Cooper , qc Lord Marsh, Chairman, Newspaper Publishers Association and Jill Knight , mp tackle the issues raised in Brownhills, West Midlands. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Indict and remand
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Alistair Cooke reflects on protection rackets in 1930s Manhattan, the meaning of indict and remand, and the purpose and history of the US Grand Jury.
Makers of the law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the courts and by Parliament.
Presented by John Eidinow Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
by Alistair Cooke
Hong Kong: Golden Harvest and Young Shoots
Christopher Cook explores two contrasting areas of Hong Kong arts - Kung Fu movies and political theatre. As the colony prepares to revert back to China in 1997, the avant-garde Zuni
Theatre is one of the few trying to raise political consciousness. Meanwhile down at the docks, it's flying kicks inducing unconsciousness. Kaleidoscope goes on location with the film company, Golden Harvest, and its star Jackie Chan - Kung Fu's biggest movie phenomenon. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON (Re-broadcast next Monday)
And So Did I by MALACHI WHITAKER abridged in eight episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by Stephanie Turner (8) Producer TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by David Sells
A satirical view of the week's news with Sally Grace
David Tate and Bill Wallis Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON and JOHN O'FARRELL BILL MATTHEWS , ROBERT UNFORD MAX HANDLEY , GED
PARSONS DAVID BADDIEL and ROB NEWMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. SIMON BULLIVANT and MARK BRISENDEN , PAUL B. DAVIES BARRY ATKINS. MICHAEL DINES PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm LW)