with Stewart Lamont

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Elaine Storkey
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Listeners report on a variety of issues with the help of Susan Marling.
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A series of six talks about the Third World. 5: Tales of a Hybrid Bourgeoisie
Homi Bhabha reflects on the cultural values and ambivalence of India's large and powerful urban middle class. Producer Zareer Masani

Fergus Keeling investigates a 'mutant' starling with a beak that would make an oystercatcher envious, while Nick Cater reports on a major event Down Under. Producer John Harrison

Reflecting on the concerns of the day. Stereo

Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday at 6.25pm)

Sue MacGregor meets the North-East writer
Pat Barker , whose novel Union Street inspired a Hollywood movie. Producer Gillian Hush

Else Wendel-Forster remembers a shocking case she stumbled across when she was a welfare worker in Berlin during the 1930s. Stereo

with John Waite

Stereo

with Nick Clarke and James Naughtie

Jenni Murray talks to the poet Charlotte Mitchell , whose observations of everyday fads and fancies are summed up in her new anthology, / Want to Go Home.
Serial:
Billy Bayswater (2)

Queen Elizabeth I, the 1980s and an African journey are the subjects of three new books that illustrate how historical and cultural events are documented in biography, photo-journalism and travel reportage. With Nigel Forde. Producer Vivien Devlin

Robert Dawson-Scott finds out whether the National Theatre's new adaptation of The Wind in the Willows will rival
Toad of Toad Hall; the experimental theatre group Theatre de Complicité presents its new production, Help! I'm Alive; and Manchester's
Contact Theatre joins others in offering Christmas theatre for children.
Producer Beaty Rubens
Stereo

Presented by Wendy Austin and Frank Partridge

and Financial Report

Iain Johnstone hosts the celebrity panel show that features magic movie moments.
This week's panel: Dick Vosburgh, Michael Bentine, Angela Douglas and Robin Ray.
(Stereo) (R)

The second of two programmes in which Humphrey Carpenter looks at present trends in British publishing and speculates on the future of this complex industry. Producer Nick Utechin

Diminished
Responsibility?
Heseltine, Lawson, Howe - each resigned from the Cabinet talking of both Europe and the style of government. But is classic cabinet government - collective discussion before decision - still practical, given the demands of modern politics?
Will Mrs Thatcher 's successor be able to restore it?
Presented by Peter Hennessy.
Producer Caroline Anstey

Presented by Kati Whitaker.
For disabled listeners. Producer Marlene Pease
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Stereo

Presented by Roger White. Stereo

Presented by Richard Kershaw. Stereo

In My Wildest Dreams by Leslie Thomas.
The autobiography of a boy born into a working-class family in south Wales, who was to become a successful novelist. The first of 12 parts read by Hywel Bennett (who, as a young actor, starred in the film of Thomas's best-selling novel
The Virgin Soldiers). Abridged by John Scotney Producer Peter King (R)

with Dennis Waterman.
The fifth of a six-part political thriller written by Nigel Baldwin.
Too much knowledge can end in death if anyone is prepared to go right to the end of the line.
Music Laurie Scott Baker Director Jane Dauncey Stereo