With THE RT REV PATRICK KELLY , Bishop of Salford. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
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 GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Chris Dunkley , of the Financial Times, with more of your letters on BBC programmes and policy. Producer JOHN WATKINS Sendyour comments to:
Feedback, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producers CAROLE LACEY and ADAM RAPHAEL
The Egg Room by G. NELSON Read by Jan Francis
Producer ANNE-MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill
NEM p 93; Praise to the Holiest in the height (BBC HB 88); Psalm 95; John 1. w 29-35; Come down,
0 love divine (BBC HB 149) Stereo
Presented by John Waite
with Derek Cooper
Producer VANESSA HARRISON
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Giant Pot Plant. Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In The Sleeping Beauty Retold by ANGELA CARTER with music by TOBY SIMS Producer COUN SMITH. Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 The Song Tree The Music Menagerie (1) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written and produced by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 The Friday Serial Erik the Viking (1) Read by TERRY JONES. Stereo (e)
from Birmingham.
Sally Jones and guests invite you to share the hour that no woman can afford to miss! Serial: The Skin Chairs(10) by BARBARA COMYNS abridged in ten episodes by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE.
Read by Susie Brann
(Music: Richardson's Roundelay)
by VICTOR HUGO , dramatised in five parts by CATHERINE LUCY CZERKAWSKA. With and 2: Monster and Maiden
'The 6 January 1482 was not a good day as far as I was concerned ... I had been attacked by Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, when I tried to rescue the gypsy girl La Esmeralda from his clutches.'
Music by PHILIP PICKETT ,
TOM FINUCANE. STEPHEN HENDERSON Directed by MARILYN IMRIE. Stereo
... are what a novice needs in the company of an expert, says champion bird-breeder
Ted Hounslow. In Ted's aviary, Chris Stuart is all ears. Producer RUTH PRINCE
Stereo
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Gordon Clough 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
including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs , Tom Boswell and Alanah Martin.
Producer MOLLY PRICE-OWEN
Presented by Margaret Howard Producer WILL CANTOPHER
Tonight's panel includes David Blunkett , MP Rosie Barnes , mp The Rt Hon
Michael Heseltine , mp from Hereford.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol
Presented by Geoffrey Goodman Producer JOHN FORSYTH
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
The inauguration of George Bush, 1989
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
The campaign that won George Bush the presidency of the United States, and the Washington insiders he has chosen to form his cabinet.
Nick Baker time travels to a 60s party and encounters gorillas and a giant strawberry, courtesy of some BBC Sound Effects.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo
by Alistair Cooke
Who Killed Prees Heath ?
This piece of common land on the Shropshire/Cheshire border has suffered the paws of dinosaurs, the boots of Cromwell's troops, the crash of Second World War planes, the deceit of EEC grain silos, and the light touch of rare butterflies.
Eleanor Cooke captures this threatened area of land in a work which is both poem and documentary.
Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE. Stereo
Tess of the D'Urbervilles(20) by THOMAS HARDY abridged in 20 episodes by DONALD BANCROFT.
Read by Kenneth Haigh Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Richard Kershaw
with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace.
Written by MIKE COLEMAN. BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT LINFORD.
MAX HANDLEY , GED PARSONS.
ALISON RENSHAW , SIMON BULLIVANT.
MARK BRLSENDEN. DAVID BADDIEL.
ROB NEWMAN. BARRY ATKINS. MICHAEL DINES, PETER HICKEY and others. Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
Help Yourself: Business German Compiled and presented by CAROLINE SARLL. Producers CAROLINE SARLL and GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE (R) (e) at 12.30 1: Communications at 12.40 2: Business Affairs at 12.50
3: Commercial Transactions and at 1.00
4: The Practical Traveller