with FR JOHN MCCULLOUGH. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Jon Silverman
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by JOHN HEDGES
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with PETER DAY
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Chris Dunkley of the Financial Times airs your comments on BBC programmes and policy. Producer JOHN w ATKINS
Send your comments to Feedback, BBC, London WIA 4WW

Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON

The Bird Cage by CAROLE ANNE PARSONS Read by Tom Criddle Producer BRUCE YOUNG BBC Scotland

NEM, p 114; Let all the world in every corner sing (BBC HB 275); Psalm 100; Ecclesiasticus 44, w 1-15; 0 God, our help in ages past (BBC HB 467) Stereo

Introduced by Penelope Lively. Margaret Clark , formerly of the Bodley Head, and critic George English review the best new books for young children. Producer SALLY FELDMAN

Presented by John Waite For Factsheet No 45 write to: You and Yours, BBC London WIA 1AA

Presented by Derek Cooper Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Presented by Nick Worrall

1.55 Listening Comer Morgan the Milkman Meets the Mayor. Stereo
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Horse Egg Indian folktale adapted by EDWARD KELSEY. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree A Gaggle of Music Games (7) by BARRY GIBSON. Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR with PYEWACKETT. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 The Friday Serial Harry's Mad (2) by DICK KING SMITH Read by MARTIN JARVIS (e)

from Manchester
Helen Boaden invites you to share a dazzling cocktail of the topical and the timeless, the personal, the practical and the political. Serial: Memory (3)

A 12-part series by DON TAYLOR
6: Discussions at Putney
The Levellers - or the radical faction among the Puritans believe that the State has broken down during the Civil War and that the opportunity exists for a new kind of political freedom. At the Putney
Debates, October 1647, they try to achieve the first real democracy in England.
Directed by RONALD MASON BBC Bristol. Stereo

Professor Anthony Clare presents a weekly magazine devoted to matters of psychology, normal and abnormal, as reflected in events, books, films and plays as well as in the work of psychologists and psychiatrists. Researcher RONNI DAVIS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale and including PM World Watch: reports about environmental issues of today - and tomorrow.
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs is in the driving seat, with Tom Boswell firing on all cylinders, and Alanah Martin signalling extra directions as they consider transport on land, sea and air. Producer MOLLY PRICE-OWEN

with Margaret Howard Producer HELEN FRY. Stereo

Ted Harrison , the BBC's Religious Affairs
Correspondent, reports on the debates from this week's meeting in London of the General Synod.
Producer AMANDA HANCOX

The Rt Hon Norman Fowler , mp, Secretary of State for Employment
Pierre Salinger ,
Chief Correspondent, ABC News Gordon Brown , mp
Sara Parkin , International
Liaison Secretary, Green Party from Winsford, Cheshire
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol

An overview of the ballot paper in the 1988 presidential elections, George Bush's "inevitable" victory, and the issues that proved most important for voting Americans. Show more

with Marcel Berlins
Producer GARETH BUTLER

by Alistair Cooke

What's On - Brum
The City of Birmingham is changing its skyline to become a leading cultural centre. Birmingham Repertory
Theatre, Symphony Orchestra and Touring Opera all have outstanding reputations. Now an ambitious building programme will provide new opportunities for the arts including a new concert hall. Natalie Wheen investigates. Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Five Short Stories by L.P. HARTLEY
Read by Robert Lang
5: The Price of the Absolute

Presented by Richard Kershaw

with Sally Grace , David Tate , Bill Wallis and Royce Mills 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 BARRY ATKINS. MICHAEL DINES PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer NEIL CARGILL. Stereo

Deutscher Club. Stereo (e) at 12.30
2: Junge Schriftsteller compiled and presented by CHRISTOPH UNDENMEYER and at 12.50
3: Skifahren und Winterurlaub in Deutschland compiled by RICHARD SMITH