with FR CORMAC RIGBY. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
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 DAVID MERCER
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

with Chris Dunkley Producer JOHN WATKINS

Producers CAROLE LACEY and ADAM RAPHAEL

The Man Who Kept the Sweet Shop at the Station by HELEN HARRIS
Read by Jan Francis
Producer ANNE-MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill

mem, p 106; New every morning (BBC HB 408); Psalm 114; Hosea 2, w 14-23; Fill thou my life (BBC HB 271) Stereo

Introduced by Penelope Lively
The Carnegie Medal, the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award - just a few of the many prizes awarded in the children's book world. But do they have any real value? What effect do they have on the winners and the losers? Jill Paton Walsh and Jan Needle debate the merits of literary prizes and review some recent winners.

Presented by John Howard

Presented by Derek Cooper Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Mrs Lee 's Restaurant. Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Eggshell. A gypsy folktale Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree A Gaggle of Music Games (9) by BARRY GIBSON. Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR with PYEWACKETT. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 The Friday Serial Harry's Mad (4) by DICK KING-SMITH Read by MARTIN jarvis (e)

from Newcastle upon Tyne
Presented by Rosemary Hartill Serial: The Gipsy's Baby (2)

A 12-part series by DON TAYLOR with and 8: The Disciplines of the War
To escape her father's plans for her to marry a middle-aged suitor, Penelope flees to Nun s Stowe in Essex. On her arrival, her brother Edmund is killed by Royalist marauders. Meanwhile her other brother Francis is with Cromwell's army, preparing to attack the invading Scots at Preston.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo

Professor Anthony Clare presents a weekly magazine about matters of psychology. Researcher RONNI DAVIS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

and including PM World Watch
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report

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

Written by ROB GirnNS Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill

with Margaret Howard Producer NIGEL ACHESON
Stereo

Baroness Blackstone, Master of Birkbeck College, University of London; Mary Baker, Chairman of the Holiday Care Service; Paul Foot, journalist

From Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby

BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? [address removed]

Marcel Berlins takes a weekly look at events in the courts and what the lawyers are up to. Producer GARETH BUTLER

The economy will be the first challenge facing the new president when his term starts in January. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Hitting the High Notes
The popular image of jazz musicians places them in a smoky twilit world of clubs and bars - rebels and outsiders whose intense music is fuelled by drink and drugs.
John Fordham investigates the myth, and talks to today's jazz performers about the relationship between their music and their lives. Producer LIS EDWARDS

A Far Cry from Kensington by MURIEL SPARK abridged in ten parts by STEWART CONN
Read by Phyllida Hewat 10: A Far Cry...
Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland

Presented by Richard Kershaw

A satirical view of the week's news with Sally Grace. David Tate , Bill Wallis , 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 BULLTV ANT AND MARK
BRISENDEN BARRY ATKINS. MICHAEL DINES PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer NEIL CARGILL. Stereo

Sounds Inventive (2) Stereo (R) (e) at 12.30
4: Composing and at 12.50
5: ... And All That Jazz