with JUDITH ONEILL. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
by SARA MAITLAND abridged by DOREEN ESTALL ReadbyJUlGascoine
'They called her Cinderella.
I'm not exactly looking for self-justification ... all I want to say is that it's more complicated than it's told.'
Producer PAT MCLOUGHLIN
(First broadcast on Woman s Hour)
with Chris Dunkley of the Financial Times
Producer JOHN WATKINS
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
If you have questions you wish to raise with those responsible for BBC output, write to: Feedback, BBC, London WIA 4WW
Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Tommy Moss Is Dead and Gone by SEAN LOUGHRAN
Read by Kevin Flood Producer KATHRYN BAIRD BBC Northern Ireland
NEM p 1; Come down, 0 Love divine (BBC HB 149); Psalm 23; I Corinthians 11, vv 17-26; God is love (BBC HB 7) Stereo
Eight portraits presented by Hugh O'Shaughnessy 5: Edgard Leal
Edgard Leal is managing director of a Venezuelan state-owned oil company. As the end of the financial year approaches, it's not his own annual results that worry him - he's concerned that Venezuela depends far too much on its oil industry.
Series producer MICK WEBB Stereo (R)
A series of six programmes 3: Pier Paolo Pasolini
'He had two souls: one mad, damned, riotous, malicious; the other mild, tranquil, charitable, full of compassion.'
Film-maker, novelist, journalist and poet, Pier Paolo Pasolini fits into no easy category. He was a Roman Catholic, a Communist, a defender of traditional standards, a promiscuous homosexual, a stern moralist and a rebel against bourgeois values. Written and presented by Hugh Sykes
Researcher MICHAEL WOOLF Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
The Manpower Services Commission was disbanded this year. Responsibility for all government job-training schemes was passed to the new Training Commission. Has it managed to improve your chances of getting a job? John Howard calls it to account.
The Story of Radio Comedy A Socialist government and rationing kept the comedy writers busy as 1950 approached, but change was in the air, as Russell Davies illustrates.
Following the death of ITMA's TOMMY HANDLEY , the American influence on radio scripts began to make its impact.
Written by RUSSELL DAVIES Producer NEIL CARGILL
(Re-broadcast on August Bank Holiday)
Presented by Nick Worrall
Donald and His Very Own Parcel Stereo (R)
from Glasgow
Mary Marquis invites you to share the hour that highlights women's interests and colours men's thinking.
Story: Ding Dong Bell by MARIE CROSSMAN
Read by Brenda Blethyn 'Ever since it had been whispered that she was in line for Sales Girl of the Year, Millie Varley had found it hard to concentrate.'
by HENRY JAMES dramatised in five episodes by BETTY DAVIES with
4: Paul Muniment
'If Hyacinth doesn't even believe in what he pretends to do, that's a pretty situation!
What is he in for? What devilish folly has he undertaken?'
Storyteller RICHARD TATE
Directed by BETTY DAVIES. Stereo
recalls yet more intriguing and revealing episodes from his lifetime in show business. 1: The Teabag Affair
Written and told by Peter Jones in four parts
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Test Match Report
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continuedon FM 5.50-5.55
With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report
Last in the present series with Barry Norman.
Tonight Mike Dickin 's Code
Cracker competition reaches its conclusion. 'Well, have you cracked it? Have you worked out the code that will lead you to the hiding place of the Radio Times minicar and the portable phone? Barry's all at sea, but I'll be waiting with a supply of shovels to help you to complete your task.' Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast on August Bank Holiday)
Presented by Margaret Howard Producer NIGEL ACHESON. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Future of the Seven Deadly Sins
Today: Avarice and Envy
The fourth of six programmes. Is acquiring wealth a sin or an admirable part of our enterprise culture? This programme, from the Maritime Museum in Liverpool, asks whether the gulf between rich and poor will increase or if there will be a backlash to the 'greed creed'? Chairman John Humphrys Researcher JO WHILEY Producers BILL MORRIS and JANE BERTHOUD
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Dan Quayle for vice president
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Alistair Cooke reflects on why George H W Bush may have chosen Dan Quayle as vice-presidential candidate, and the constitutional powers of the vice president's role.
Michael Elliott presents a personal view of the week's newspapers and interviews with the people behind the headlines.
Producer JOHN FORSYTH
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
at the Edinburgh Festival with Paul Allen , including reports from the new Italian
Exhibitions and Cat Cinderella - fairy tale, Neopolitan style - plus the best from the fringe. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Re-broadcast on August Bank Holiday)
Three Stories
3: The Self-Loathing Diet or How to Hate Yourself into Thin Air Stereo
Presented by David Sells
In the last of two programmes,
Hunter and Docherty introduce a selection of the best cabaret and comedy at this year's
Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Producers MARK
ROBSON DAVID TYLER and BILL DARE Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)