Producer Tim Finney

with James Whitbourn.

with Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr John McDade. Editor Philip Harding

with Cliff Morgan. Producer Joanne Watson

with Ken Bruce.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Another chance to hear the 40th birthday celebration of The Goons.
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine, with Eric Sykes, Graham Stark, George Chisholm, Charles Chilton, John Browell, Dennis Main Wilson and Angela Morley. Producer Dirk Maggs. Stereo
(First broadcast on Radio 2. See also 'Spike's Pick of the Goons' on Thursday at 12.25pm)

The Way Forward In the last of three programmes about Britain's main political parties,
Vivian White considers how far the parties are maintaining internal discipline, how far they are willing to adapt to face the future and where power lies as the party machines are gearing up to fight the General Election.
Producer Margaret Hill

Reflections on life and politics abroad. Producer Geoff Spink

Freshwater Pearls In the third of four programmes, Paul Heiney wades through the rivers of the Scottish Highlands in the company of Peter Goodwin , one of the few remaining professional freshwater pearl fishermen. Producer Marc Jobst

Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains
Alan Coren and Richard Ingrams and their guests. Producer Diane Messias. Stereo

The last of the series in which Michael Buerk chairs an investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news. Witnesses face cross-examination from Janet Daley , Edward Pearce and Rabbi Hugo Gryn.
Stereo and at 2.00pm
The Moral Maze
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Call Michael Buerk with your views on the issues raised in The Moral Maze. Producers Ernest Rea and John Newbury
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A thriller by Eric Pringle set against the exciting test of endurance known as the Bob Graham Round of the Fells.

Physical and mental stamina are pushed to the limits as Jeffery Cotterell retraces his dead brother's attempt on the 42 mountains of the Lake District. Was Edward Cotterell's death an accident or something more sinister?
(Stereo)

Just beside the yachting bustle of Sussex's
Chichester Harbour lie the dunes, saltings and salt marsh of East Head where sea heath, sea holly and sea lavender thrive. David Streeter explores the local botany with Derek Jones.
Producer John Harrison

with Alun Lewis , from the annual meeeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Plymouth. Producer Julia Durbin

Joanna Buchan visits five Scots acknowledged as remarkable achievers in their chosen professions. 3: Oswald Wynd , author of The Ginger Tree.
Stereo

All the news from Chris Morris and reports from Steven Wells, David Quantick, Stuart Lee and Richard Herring.
Stereo

and Sports Round-Up

In the last of the present series, Clare Francis , transatlantic sailor and novelist, presents a selection of her favourite poetry and prose.
The readers are Ronald
Pickup and Yvonne Gilan. Producer Alec Reid. Stereo

Cartoonist Mel Calman talks to Dr Anthony Clare.

The Sea Wolf
The third episode of Jack London 's four-part tale of brutality and survival on the high seas.
Singer Sarah Connolly. Music Elizabeth Parker ,
BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Adapted by Ed Thomason
Director Adrian Bean. Stereo

Cell Brother No 155413
James Brown , released from a South Carolina jail earlier this year, is back touring and recording in the flamboyant manner which has made him such a vital influence on popular music. Quincy Jones , Herbie Hancock ,
Neneh Cherry and James Brown himself talk to
John de Bono about the music and the legend surrounding 'the Godfather of Soul'.
Producer Anthony Densetow
Stereo

Presented by Brian Kay. Producer Christina Pritchard Stereo

led by the Rev
Dr Leslie Griffiths. Stereo

Dr Stefan Buczacki questions two teams led by Irene Thomas and Norman Painting. Today's guests are Hugh Johnson , Leslie Crowther , Edna Healey and Molly Weir. Stereo

The Great Dictator
The third of four talks by BBC Foreign Affairs Editor John Simpson , in which he looks back at the events of 1989 and 1990. Today he looks at Romania, and draws on his own experience of reporting the bloody aftermath of Ceausescu's overthrow.

John Dankworth is
Robin Ray 's guest.
Stereo

The last of the comedy series presented by Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell.
With Felicity Montagu and Jasper Jacob.
Producer Paul Mayhew Archer
Stereo