Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom

A meditation for the beginning of Ramadan with Nadim Qureshi. BBC Manchester. Stereo

with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue

Hugh Prysor-Jones dips into the BBC Sound Archives and reaps some farming tales. Producer Jude Howells

with Melvyn Bragg
Researcher Jayne Morgan Producer
Marina Salandy-Brown . Stereo

(Details Saturday 12 noon)

Concerning Virgins by Clare Boylan.
Reader Maureen O'Brien. Producer Duncan Minshull (R)

with Shirley Scott from St Paul's Church, Birmingham.
With the Birmingham Conservatoire Choir.
Immortal, invisible;
To thee, 0 Lord; 0 nata lux; I heard the voice of Jesus. Director of Music David Saint BBC Pebble Mill

with Simon Rae.
Readers Garard Green and Rosalind Shanks. Guest Fleur Adcock. Producer Susan Roberts BBC Bristol
0 REQUESTS: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Presenter John Waite. Editor Ken Vass

Paul Barker and Margaret Lesser in another classic North v South confrontation against Irene Thomas and Eric Korn.
In the chair
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen. Researchers Audrey Robins and Bernice Coupe
Producer Paul Z Jackson BBC Manchester. Stereo

with James Naughtie Editor Roger Mosey

Let's Go with Shireen Shah and Philip Hawthorn. This week's stories and scripts by Michael Rosen. Producer David Ian Neville Stereo

Live from New York,
Jenni Murray presents a Manhattan cocktail of art and fashion, feisty feminists, top tycoons, gossip, stars and wild humour.
Editor Clare Selerie-Grey

2.05 Playtime Machines Are Fun with Joanne Zorian and Lionel Morton. Stereo (R)
2.20 Operation Maths Calculated Tales 5: Going for Gold
6: Madonna's Millions by Alan Graham. Presenter Marshall Corwin Stereo
2.40 Whirligig Stories with Music The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Tony Robinson and the BBC Concert Orchestra Story Brian Scott-Hughes Music Paul Dukas. Stereo

A play by Paul Thain (Details Saturday 7.45pm)

Leonard Barras reads two of his stories of Wallsend life:
The Millennium Minus a Bit and Under Canvas with Trapezium.
Producer Gillian Hush BBC Manchester (R)

Giselle Dancing Act One
An evening in June
1841. Giselle came out to dance with Albrecht for the first time. The consequences were a disaster for her, but a triumph for the 'ballet. Many have followed in her footsteps ...
Stereo (Act Two on Friday 9.15pm)

with Hugh Sykes an Libby Fawbert Editor Kevin Marsh
0 WRITE to: PM Letters, BBC. London WIA 1AA

and Financial Report

Stereo (Details Sat 12.25pm)

with Derek Cooper

Emerald City by David Williamson.
With Ivar Kants Robyn Nevin. A successful scriptwriter and his less successful publisher wife move from
Melbourne to Sydney, the emerald city. He soon finds himself commercially exploited and in danger of debasing his talents and losing his integrity. He is also in danger of losing his wife....
Produced in co-operation with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Director John Tydeman. Stereo

Natalie Wheen explores the latest artistic tastes of Charles Saatchi ; author Christopher Hope reports on his recent visits to Moscow and South Africa; and the temperature of the book world is taken at the London Book Fair. Producer Belinda Sample
Stereo

Presenter David Sells Editor Margaret Budy Stereo

A Border Station
Written, abridged and read in six parts by Shane Connaughton. In the 1950s, a young
Irish boy grows up in a tiny village close to the border, cut off from the rest of the world by hills, lakes and politics. 1: Topping, as the British Officer Said at the Border
Producer Pam Brighton BBC Northern Ireland

The critics say:
'One of the not-bad funny shows.'
The Observer
'A quite good comedy series.' The Listener With Christopher Barrie Nick Maloney Nick Wilton
Script Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
Producer Alan Nixon Stereo (R)

12.30 Teachers' Programme: German. Stereo
12.50 Deutscher Club (1) Stereo (R)