with KATE COMPSTON. 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 EUGENE FRASER
7.20*, 8.20* Olympic Sports Desk with GARRY RICHARDSON in Seoul and CHARLES COLVILE in London
7.45* Thought for the Day
Written and read by Garrison Keillor 5: Life Is Good
5: The Song of the Jellicles Reader Fenella Fielding Stereo (Monday: 'Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
A series of six programmes with Jenni Mills
2: In 1983 PC Billy Burns was shot in the face by robbers trying to make a getaway from a bank robbery - he survived a hero, but has found it hard to put it behind him.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS BBC Pebble Mill
Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON
The Peas by KATHLEEN MACONOCHIE Read by Ralph Riach Producer LOUISE DALZIEL BBC Scotland
NEM p 50; Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost (BBC HB 153); Psalm 47;
1 Corinthians 12, w 1-11; There's a spirit in the air (Bp 88). Stereo
David Crystal , using a nasal twang, a husky voice, a creaky tone, and doing some fairly everyday things with his throat, tongue, palate and velum says, 'Don't look at me in that tone of voice.' Producer ALAN WILDING (R)
Call to Account
Presented by John Waite
The Story of Radio Comedy
The 1960s are in full swing and transistors throughout the land are, as Russell Davies recalls, tuned to an ever-widening spectrum of talent, covering everything from nouveau-knockabout to the more considered comedy of 'the intellectuals'.
Written by RUSSELL DAVIES Producer NEIL CARGILL
Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by SHIREEN SHAH and ALEX NORTON. Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox. An Evening at Alfie's 's by SHIRLEY HUGHES Busy Brown Hen by JEAN KENWARD. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree The Gaggle of Music Games (2) by BARRY GIBSON Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR with PYEWACKETT Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 The Friday Serial Tim All Alone and Tim's Friend Towser by EDWARD ARDIZZONE Read by BERNARD CRIBBINS (e)
from Cardiff
If Oedipus had been a regular listener he'd have known what his mother really wanted. Serial: Letters from a Faint-Hearted Feminist (5) Presenter Sian Roberts
by Stella Gibbons, adapted in four parts by Elizabeth Proud
with
Will Flora get her rights at last?
(Stereo) (R)
A series of six programmes. Joined to Cornwall by helicopter and steamer - except on Sundays - the Scilly Islanders enjoy a relaxed life. The chairman of the local authority is a rock drummer and the newsagent the local reporter. Tony Wilkinson brings back all the news. 2: The Cornishman
The Scilly Isles edition in holiday mood.
Written and compiled by TONY WILKINSON
Producer JULIAN HALE
Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Olympic Report
5.25 PM Letters: 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs is in the driving seat, with Tom Boswell firing on all cylinders; Alanah Martin signals extra directions for transport on land, sea and air. Producer MOLLY PRICE-OWEN
with Margaret Howard
Producer ANNE HOWELLS. Stereo (Revised repeat next Sunday)
Lord Young of Graffham, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , mp The Rt Hon David Owen , mp Rosalind Miles , Head of the Centre for Women's Studies, Coventry Polytechnic tackle the issues raised in Grove, Oxfordshire.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol
with Geoffrey Goodman Producer JOHN FORSYTH
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Looking good on TV
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
As the presidential candidates debate on TV, political prowess seems to be in the eye of the beholder. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
Censored'.
Sir John Johnston was the last official censor. On the 20th anniversary of the abolition of that office, he talks to Michael Billington about his role at a time censorship might return - if it hasn't already.
Producer CARROLL MOORE.
The Iron Staircase by GEORGES SIMENON translated by ElLEEN ELLENBOGEN abridged in ten episodes by ANDREW SIMPSON
Read by Struan Rodger (10) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by David Sells
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis look behind the scenes to discover smelly socks and soiled running shorts and unearth some little-known facts about Olympic etiquette. Written by STEVE PUNT
Producer BILL DARE. Stereo
Books, Plays, Poems. Futures (5) Arthur C. Clarke and John Christopher dramatised by MICHAEL butt , Stereo