with playwright
Hugh Steadman Williams. Stereo

with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Guest Lord Annan.

Chris Dunkley of The Financial Times airs your letters and comments on BBC programmes and policy.
Producer Nick Utechin
(Repeated Sunday at 6.15pm; * WRITE to: Feedback, BBC. London W1A 1AA

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

Catching Butterflies by Marian McCraith.
'When you are sleeping, I watch you, each time struck by your smallness. Too young, you seem, for cunning and spite, too small and needy....'
Read by Gerda Stevenson. Producer David Jackson Young

Great Is Thy Faithfulness; I Corinthians 1, w 18-30; The Servant (Ae Fond Kiss); Praise to the Holiest in the Height
(Gerontius, BBC HB 88). Director of Music
Alan Wilson. Stereo

A three-part investigation in which George Monbiot exposes the reasons for the destruction of the world's greatest ecosystem. This week, Monbiot is beaten up by military policemen as he follows peasants expelled from their homes and forced to move into the Amazon.
Producer John Ruthven

A series of six programmes in which David Moreau reflects on the dangers of speaking your mind. 1: Life among the Cheese Mongers Producer Tim Suter

Presented by John Howard.

It's time to rake over your gardening knowledge again as Stefan Buczacki questions two teams led by Irene Thomas and Norman Painting. This week's guests are Pam Ayres ,
Bernard Bresslaw , Michael Heseltine and Nicola Pagett.
Producer Diana Stenson. Stereo

Presented by John Sergeant .

from Birmingham.
Serial: Going Wrong (5)

The first of four tales of love and death by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Beach of Falesa

The first in a series of eight topical discussion shows in which Patrick Hannan and his guests take a sceptical look at the week's events.
Producer Richard Thomas

The painter
Francis Bacon is one of Britain's most eminent artists, collected by galleries all over the world. Now in his
80s, Francis Bacon is up at six o'clock every morning to begin work and, as he tells Richard Cork in a rare interview, has more desire to paint than ever. Self-critical, even about his best-known triptych Three Screaming Popes, he talks about his work and life.
Producer John Goudie. Stereo

Presented by Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

and Financial Report

Peter Tinniswood 's
six-part serial.
2: Taking Tea with Roland Nancy invites Roland home to tea, into the lion's den, because she wants the family's approval. But
Winston plans to sabotage the event.
Director Shaun Madoughlin Stereo

It's the day of Lucy's driving test.
Written by Mary Cutler
0 WRITE to: Archers Addicts
Fan Club, [address removed] enclosing an sae

Chris Serle 's selection of extracts from BBC radio and television over the past seven days.
Producer Fiona Couper. Stereo

A series of six programmes in which Michael Buerk chairs an investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news.
Witnesses face cross-examination from a panel including Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Edward Pearce and Janet Daley.
Producer David Coomes. Stereo

with Marcel Berlins.
Producer Sallie Davies

The Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal is heightened when Mr Major dares Mr Kinnock to use the word "liar" in the House of Commons.

by Alistair Cooke.
0 CASSETTE: Letter from
America, from retailers

Presented by Robin Lustig. Stereo

Across the Common by Elizabeth Berridge. Final part.

The fourth of five visits to the worryingly familiar village of Little Blighty. With John Baddeley , Bernadine Corrigan ,
Jo Kendall , Daniel Strauss. Producer Lissa Evans. Stereo

Presented by Heather Payton. Stereo