with the Rev Chris Ellis Stereo

with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev
Richard Harries
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament

Six programmes in which Frank Whitford meets the personalities behind some well-known signatures and discovers how seriously they take the art of humour.
4: Tony Husband
Producer Judrth Bumpus. Stereo

BBC correspondents at home and abroad report on one of the main
British or foreign topics in this week's news. Producers Howard Rogers and Carole Lacey

The Man Who Kept the Sweet Shop at the Bus Station
Read by Jan Francis. Written by Helen Harris
Producer Anne-Marie Cole (R)

Fill Thou My Life, 0 Lord My God (Richmond, BBC HB 271); Revelation 7, vv 9-17; Before Jehovah's Awesome Throne
(T Dean); Crown Him with Many Crowns
(Diademata, BBC HB 124). Stereo

Introduced by Michael Rosen.
Novelist Alison Lurie celebrates the work of her favourite children's writers including
E Nesbit, A A Milne and Frances Hodgson-Bumett . Producer Jill Burridge
40 FAMILY: page 79

Presenter John Waite

The first of six programmes in which three very different but interlinked Somerset families talk to Jenni Mills.
The Taylors own a Georgian mansion and a thousand-acre estate, while the Moreys - originally from Surrey - have restored a cottage, and the Jennings live in a village council house. Producer Jenny Stuart (R)

Presenter Nick Clarke

Benjamin Bear Goes on a Picnic Stereo (R)

from Bristol.
Presenter Jenni Mills. Sons and mothers - Sara Davies explores the problems of bringing up a New Man.
Serial: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (3)

2.05 Let's Join In Solomon the Rusty Nail Stereo
2.25 The Song Tree Drums, Dragons and Dreams (5) Presenters Hilary James and Simon Mayo , with Pyewackett Stereo (R)
2.40 The Friday Story Millie Murray reads her own new story.

The Quiet American
Graham Greene 's classic novel set in the Saigon of the early 50s.
The first of three parts with Ian Holm.
A burnt-out British journalist has fallen in love with a local girl, but the arrival of an apparently innocent economic attache disrupts both their relationship and the balance of power.
Dramatised by Gregory Evans Director David Benedictus Stereo

with Patrick Hannan Producer Richard Thomas

Stereo

with Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams

and Financial Report

with Peter Hobday Producer Jill Thomas

Written by Mary Cutler

Chantal Cuer presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television over the past seven days.
Producer Nigel Acheson Stereo

Margaret Hodge , Leader of the Association of London Authorities;
Rt Hon Richard Luce ,
MP, Minister for the Arts; Edward Pearce , journalist; and Pauline Perry , Director of the South Bank Polytechnic, tackle the issues raised in Merseyside. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Anna Carragher

Presenter Andrew Marr Producer Andrew Denwood

Charles de Gaulle's 1967 speech calling for an independent Quebec, healthcare and gun control in Canada, and the American view of their neighbour to the north.

Hanging the Splendour This week HM the Queen Mother opened the new exhibition space for the Courtauld Collection - including masterpieces from Cranach's Adam and Eve to Cezanne's
Card Players.
Waldemar Januszczak discusses the new display and its setting, the renovated
Somerset House.
Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo

by Alistair Cooke

with Richard Kershaw Stereo

The Dragon Can't Dance (4)

with Bill Wallis ,
David Tate ,
Peter Whitman and Sally Grace Producer Neil Cargill
Stereo

Presenter
Vincent Duggleby Stereo

TVEI Resource Package
9: How to Get TVEI Into Your School - Convincing Staff; Involving Parents (R)
12.50 10: Summing Up - Looking Back - Looking Ahead (R)