With MICHAEL SHOESMITH. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
6.30 7.30,8.3o News Summary
6.45Business News with PETER DAY
7 00 8.00 Today's News
7.25, 8.25 Sport
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
Presented by Chris Dunkley Producer JOHN WATKINS
Producers CAROLE LACEY and ADAM RAPHAEL
Lost Boys by DEBORAH MOGGACH. Read by Sharon Baylis Producer ANNE-MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill
NEM p 13; Tis good, Lord, to be here (AMNS 318); Psalm 89, w 1-7; Mark 9, w 2-12; Thou art the way (BBC HB 338) Stereo
News and advice for consumers presented by John Waite.
0 FURTHER INFORMATION: write for Factsheet No 8 to You and Yours, BBC, London [Postcode removed]
A 'Humorous' Diet?
Does pineapple cool you down? Does cinnamon heat you up? What do you eat when you're melancholic or full of bile? The sanguine Derek Cooper tests the ancient beliefs of East and West that food can cure more than just hunger.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Sophie Meets a Clown Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Foolish Brother Turkish folktale Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree The Music Menagerie (7) by BARRY GIBSON Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 The Friday Serial Boy by ROALD DAHL Going to Norway (e)
from Birmingham.
Sally Jones and guests puzzle out the meaning of life, love, and anything women worry about and laugh about together. Serial: Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (4)
by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY translated by DAVID MAGARSHACK , dramatised in eight parts by MICHELENE WANDOR. With and 3: Devils and Lovers
Alyosha has a greater concern than the continuing emnity between his father and Mitya - the illness of Fr Zossima.
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
The last of six programmes.
Humphrey Carpenter explores flourishing literary societies. The Dorothy L. Sayers Society P.D. James was influenced by Sayer's detective stories; a member from Tucson, Arizona, discusses her theological writings; and the Society's chairman completed Sayer's great translation of Dante. But what of the uproar over The Man Bom to Be King? Producer NICK UTECHIN
Stereo
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 The Times/PM Environment Award
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News, continued on FM 5.50-5.55
Votes to: Times/PMÃ Environment Award, [address removed]. Please include your name and address.
including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs , Tom Boswell and Alanah Martin
Producer MOLLY PRICE OWEN
with Peter Tinniswood Producer HELEN FRY. Stereo
Tonight's panel includes Robin Cook , mp
Marion Roe , mp, and Lady Antonia Fraser , author. From Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Presented by Marcel Berlins Producer GARETH BUTLER
by Alistair Cooke
Right as I Write
'The writer's only responsibility', said William Faulkner , 'is towards his art.
If a writer has to sell his mother he will not hesitate.'
Paul Allen discusses ethics in fiction with writers, including Allan Massie , Salman Rushdie , William T. VoUman and Wayne C. Booth.
Producer NOAH RICHLER. Stereo
Opposite the Cross Keys (5)
Presented by David Sells
with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Kerry Shale. Written by MIKE COLEMAN
BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT LINFORD MAX HANDLEY. GED
PARSONS SIMON BULLIV ANT, MARK BRISENDEN DAVID BADDIEL. ROB NEWMAN BARRY ATKINS. MICHAEL DINES OLEK STEP ANIUK, PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer USSA EVANS. Stereo
Urdu Boliye! Spoken Urdu Compiled by TASAWWUR KHAN Stereo (R) (e)
