with DENIS nowlan. Stereo
Presented by Jennie Bond and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30 8.30 News Summary
6.45 Btisiness News with PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by JOHN HEDGES
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
with Chris Dunkley. Producer JOHN WATKINS
Send your comments to: Feedback BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producers CAROLE LACEY and ADAM RAPHAEL
A Description of the Main Sights by LINDA MCNAMARA
Read by Helene Montague producer JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland
NEM P 58; Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (BBC HB 321); II Corinthians 5, v 17 to 6, v 2;
See what love hath the Father bestowed on us (Mendelssohn's St Paul ); Of the Father's love begotten (BBC HB 57). Stereo
The writer Helen Cresswell talks with Penelope Lively about history, humour and horror.
Producer SALLY FELDMAN
Presented by John Howard Write to: You and Yours, BBC London W1A 1AA
Vitamins - the facts. Do fresh fruit and vegetables still provide enough vitamins and minerals ? Or does the soil need a vitamin supplement? Derek Cooper discovers how modern farming methods affect the quality of produce, and finds out why, in New York, personal nutritionists are becoming as fashionable as analysts. Producer VANESSA HARRISON
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Snowdogs Stereo
2.00 Recorder Club Stage 11 (10) Stereo (e)
2.20 Music Project: Instruments of the World
9: String Instruments around the Globe. Stereo (e) and at 2.40
10: String-Sounds and Sound-Waves
from Manchester
Libby Fawbert invites you to share the hour that no woman can afford to miss!
Serial: Sheep's Clothing (7)
A series in 12 parts by DON TAYLOR with and 10: England's New Chains
King Charles I is executed and at last the senior officers feel strong enough to deal with the agitators in their ranks.
But the Geordie radical Colonel Lilburne attacks his former colleagues in an outspoken manner and to popular acclaim presents his latest pamphlet to the House of Commons.
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, 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 CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs is in the driving seat, Tom Boswell is firing on all cylinders, and Alanah Martin signals extra directions as they consider transport on land, sea and air.
Producer MOLLY PRICE-OWEN
Peter White chooses extracts from the past week's radio and television.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS Stereo
Tonight's panel includes The Rt Hon John Major, MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Tony Blair, MP.
from Thurston, Suffolk
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby
BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? [address removed]
Geoffrey Goodman presents a personal view of the week's newspapers and talks to the people behind the headlines. Producer JOHN FORSYTH
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Gorbachev's perilous experiment
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Misgivings over Gorbachev's liberalisation proposals as observers fear further splits from satellite nations. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
Our Other Mother Tongues There is a variety in new writing in Britain extending beyond form and subject to language itself; plays are produced in Gloucestershire dialect, novels in Scots and poems in Caribbean Nation Language.
Joyce McMillan investigates this re-assertion of languages other than standard English. Producer JULIAN MAY
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (10)
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Satire so sharp you can eat soup with it.
With Sally Grace, David Tate Bill Wallis and Royce Mills. Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON. JOHN OFARRELL BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT UNFORD MAX HANDLEY. GED
PARSONS DAVID BADDIEL AND ROB NEWMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. SIMON BULUVANT MARK BRISENDEN. BARRY ATKINS MICHAEL DINES. PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo