A meditation for the beginning of the day with FR JOHN MCCULLOUGH. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25 Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
To mark 40 years of the world's self-proclaimed supreme small car David Willmott introduces a birthday treat with drivers, devotees and its designer, the late Sir Alec Issigonis. producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo
Lionel Kelleway has some fireside wildlife as he selects from the year's crop of natural history books with a view to the perennial Christmas rush.
Also some armchair travel is on offer from mountain walker Stephen Pern , just back from the Pyrenees, and from veteran Amazon explorer Margaret Mee.
Producer KATE WHITEHEAD
introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
Sue MacGregor's guest is Kaffe Fassett, American painter turned textile designer, whose original and colourful work has transformed conventional ideas about knitting and needlepoint. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
7: Anton Antonovicz is a Daily Mirror reporter. People are his stock in trade -- but often they're far more than that.
Presented by John Howard Write to: You and Yours, BBC. London WIA 1AA
Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Morgan the Milkman 's Mistake. Stereo
2.05 Looking at Nature - Goes Science Winter Wind. Stereo (e)
2.20 Slambash Wangs of a Compo Gormer by ROBERT LEESON with REECE DINSDALE as Arnold and Dornal (7) Stereo (e)
2.40 Science for All Feed the World by TONY JAMES Presented by STEVE BLACKNELL Stereo (R) (e)
How about a two-bed house for £25,000? Quite good value. But when it's only three feet high... ? Frances Donnelly discovers that doll's houses offer far more than child's play. Serial: Memory (2)
Presenter Jenni Murray
by GUY SLATER
For Anneke and Mick the world is set fair. For Sarah and Dave the future is more perilous. Can one couple be held responsible for the fate of the other? As a social worker,
Anneke is inclined to believe it can.
Directed by PENNY GOLD . Stereo
with Nigel Forde , featuring a biography of Gerard Hoffnung and an interview with poet and novelist Patricia Beer. Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
(Revised repeat of yesterday s programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters Letters to: PM, BBC London W1A 1AA
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
Stereo
Written by PAUL BURNS Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by Brian Gear. Producer LAURIE MASON BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC Bristol, BS82LR
by Anthony Smith (R)
(Details tomorrow at 11. 00am LW)
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and Enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar? BBC London WIA IAA or phone [number removed]
Philip Glass's opera Akhnaten packed out the Coliseum in London in 1985 and 1987. Last night his new collaboration with Doris Lessing had its European premiere at the English National Opera; while in Stratford-upon-Avon it was curtain up for the world premiere of a new play by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Presented by Prabhu Guptara Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE
Five Short Stories by L. P. HARTLEY
4: Someone in the Lift
Presented by Richard Kershaw
at 12.30 Deutsch fur die Oberstufe
5: Nachrichten und Neuigkeiten compiled and produced by INGRID HASSLER (e) and at 12.50 Deutscher Club
1: Die Globetrotter compiled and presented by CHRISTOPHER LINDENMEYER Producer RICHARD SMITH. Stereo (e)