with the Rev
Michael Lawson. Stereo

with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Dr Donald English.

4: Smiling Through

Chris Dunkley airs your letters and comments on BBC programmes and policy. Producer Nick utechin
0 WRITE to: Feedback, BBC. London W1A A 1 AA

with BBC correspondents at home and abroad.
Producers Carole Lacey and Howard Rogers

USSR by Alexander McCall Smith. 'Ever since he had arrived in Moscow he had felt a dull sense of hopelessness, an emptiness that he had never felt or experienced anywhere else before. Three generations of effort come to naught....' Read by John Buick.
Producer David Jackson Young

Come, Let Us Join Our
Cheerful Songs (Nativity; BBC HB 122); Revelation 21, vv 23 to 22, v 5; Bring Us, 0 Lord (Harris); 0 Holy City, Seen of John (Sancta Civitas). Director of Music James Whitbourn. Stereo

The first rule of the junk mail business was 'you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince'. Now, as computers know so much about us, they hope to make every mailshot count. But if the EC bans
'Lifestyle Marketing', we could again be buried in junk mail.
Anna Grayson reports.
Producer Gwyn Richards. Stereo

In the first of two talks, the poet Vernon Scannell reflects on events in his part of Yorkshire.

Presented by Debbie Thrower.

Dr Stefan Buczacki questions two teams led by Irene Thomas and Norman Painting.
This week's guests are Glenda Jackson, Harry Chapman Pincher, Rod Hull and Mary O'Hara.
(Stereo)

Presented by Nick Clarke.

The cocktail party, the ceilidh, the wake, the booze-up - what makes for the party spirit?
Wendy Austin is in Belfast for a celebration special. Serial: The Shrimp and the Anemone (7)
(For details see Monday;

The Sea Wolf
The third episode of Jack London 's four-part tale of brutality and survival on the high seas. Stereo

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

Tim Marlow warily investigates Cornelia Parker 's Exploding
Garden Shed Installation, and goes inside the Schroder House, a design masterpiece, recreated in the Royal Festival Hall. Producer Tim Dee. Stereo

with Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

A humorous and moving exploration of middle age, written in seven parts by Ken Blakeson. 2: Changes
Life is changing fast for Ted and Billy. They find they have more in common than loneliness.
With pupils of Tarporley High School. Additional material by Tom Mennard. Director Susan Hogg. Stereo

Brian gets a phone call.

Clive Anderson presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio and television over the past seven days.
Producer Penny Lawrence. Stereo

The return of the series.
This week's panel:
Margaret Jay , Director, the National Aids Trust; Sir Bernard Ingham , former Head of Information at No 10
Downing Street;
Emma Nicholson , MP; and John Prescott , MP, Opposition Spokesman for Transport. From Clyst
Hydon, Devon. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Anna Carragher

with Sheena McDonald.
Producer Andrew Denwood

President George H W Bush's ratings for re-election are boosted by the Gorbachev coup. Cooke compares his invulnerability with that of Winston Churchill.

James Brown , the 'Godfather of Soul'.
Stereo (Broadcast on Saturday at 8.45pm;

by Alistair Cooke.

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. Final part.

News from Chris Morris in the last of the present series. Including a look back at the previous 25 minutes. With contributions from the likes of Steve Coogan, Doon MacKichan, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, David Schneider and Dr John Hapgood.
Editor Armando Iannucci. Stereo (Repeated tomorrow at 5.25pm)

with Heather Payton. Stereo

reflects on four comers of the world which have caught his journalist's eye and his conscience.
1: Two Beaches in Australia
'I grew up on Bondi Beach in Sydney. And I love it still, perhaps because the beach is Australia's true democracy.'
Producer Simon Elmes