With KATHLEEN RICHARDSON. Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With JOHN RAWUNG
7.45* Thought for the Day

Last of five parts. (R)

A series of four quarterly programmes. 1: Winter
Retoedjournalist Ann Angus settled in a West Wales village 12 years ago, and has become a keen naturalist studying the wildlife in the hedgerow near her home through the changing seasons. BBC Wales

Producers CAROLE LACEY and ADAM RAPHAEL

A Very Committed Woman by MAEVE KENNEDY.
Read by Frances Tomelty Producer JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland

NEM p 21; O worship the Lord
(BBC HB 267); King of Kings, be mine today (Roger Heath ); Matthew 2, w 1-12; As with gladness men of old (BBC HB 62) Stereo

A series of four documentary features.
1: Character
Richard Mayne traces the sources of European culture and asks why Europe uniquely developed modern science.
What has been the importance to Europe that so many of its peoples live near the sea and what impact have its cities had on the development of the continent?
Producer ZINA ROHAN
(First broadcast on the BBC World Service)

Presented by John Waite

Derek Cooper with his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Presented by Brian Widlake

John Dowie reads All at Sea Stereo (R)

from Newcastle
Take one steel-worker, one bus conductor, one shop worker, and what do you get? The Chuffinelles - a three-woman cabaret act that belts out boisterous songs, routines and one-liners and is taking clubland by storm!
Serial: The Skin Chairs (5)
Presenter Rosemary Hartill

by Victor Hugo, translated by John Sturrock, dramatised in five parts by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska.
With Christopher Bowen as Phoebus, Dermot Crowley as Pierre Gringoire, Jack Klaff as Quasimodo, Emily Morgan as Esmerelda and Nigel Terry as Dom Claude Frollo

Paris, 4 January 1482: on the Feast of Fools, the people of Paris choose their own Pope for the day. This year Quasimodo, the one-eyed hunchback, ringer of the bells in the great church of Notre Dame, is elected, and thus the dark tale unfolds...

(Stereo)

Two years ago Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager piloted their home-built plane, Voyager, non-stop around the world - aviation's 'last first'. But the agony of planning, then achieving a flight even they called suicidal, bust up their love affair. Sean Maffett tells the untold story of Voyager, charting the ups and final down of two people desperate for adventure.
Producer JULIAN HALE. Stereo

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Gordon Clough
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

including Financial Report

Earls Court is once again the venue for the London
International Boat Show which is packed with boats, nautical equipment and accessories. Cliff Michelmore and Dilly Barlow go aboard the Waterlines special, finding out what's new in the boating world for 1989 and visiting the special features which include
'The Malta Experience' and 'Windsurfing World'.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANNE WINDER Stereo

Jeffrey Archer, Ann Leslie, journalist, Peter Snape, MP and Claire Rayner, author, tackle the issues raised in Dudley, West Midlands.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(A new phone-in 'Any Answers?' series begins tomorrow at 2.00pm)

Presented by Michael Elliot Producer JOHN FORSYTH

As a new political year begins, Alistair Cooke considers the official announcement in the House of Representatives of George H W Bush's presidency.

Were the Wise Men kings? Were there even three? And how have they gripped the imagination of poets and writers?
Rosemary Hartill presents an anthology of readings, poems and music for Epiphany, marking the visit of the Wise Men to the infant
Christ, and the slaughter of the innocents by Herod.
Producer DAVID COOMES. Stereo

by Alistair Cooke

Who's the Writer on This Picture?
Writing films has traditionally been a lottery. Firstly, will it get made and secondly, will the final result bear any relation to the typed original?
Nigel Andrews traces the history of the screenwriter from the days of the writing pool to their new improved status, hewn out of the Writers' Guild strike in Hollywood. The writers include Robert Zemeckis , John Milius , Michael Cimino and William Goldman. Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (15)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

with Bill Wallis ,
David Tate and Sally Grace Written by MIKE COLEMAN.
MARK BURTON. JOHN O'FARRELL.
BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT LINFORD. MAX HANDLEY. GED PARSONS. ALISON RENSHAW. SIMON BULLIVANT ,
MARK BRISENDEN. DAVID BADDIEL. ROB NEWMAN , BARRY ATKINS. MICHAEL DINES . PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo