Producers ROBIN hicks and BRYAN PLATT

with Susan Denny
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather

Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester

with Susan Denny
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather

Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport

by SfMON HARCOURT-SMITH 2: Titmarsh

Backyard Farming
Many more people are turning to producing their own food and keeping their own livestock. John Seymour runs a self-sufficiency school in Wales, and Elizabeth Downing keeps a variety of animals on her smallholding in Norfolk. You can telephone them to ask advice on what you can do if you have a backyard, a small plot of land, or just a few acres; on what regulations exist for keeping livestock; on what breeds to go for; and on the benefits and responsibilities of becoming more self-sufficient.
In the Chair Jill Burridge Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

A choice of operatic highlights 3: Operatic In-Laws
Nigel Douglas takes a light-hearted look at some of the predicaments of operatic lovers. (Shortened repeat)

NEM, p 21; Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (BBC HB 287); Canticle 9; I Corinthians 12, vv 21-31a (Rsv); Love of love, and light of light (BBC HB 521)

Composition by richard AUSTIN Read by Peter Bull
' Oriole was tall, flat and distinguished. There was hardly a curve anywhere. Paul on the other hand was completely spherical. " I love her madly," Paul told me. " I'd rather marry a toad," she said.'

Haunted by PETER RUSSELL

Home and Family Edition Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters

Deborah Kerr, the actress

12.55 (medium only) Weather and programme news; VHF (exc London and SE) Regional news and weather

and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Brian Widlake

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Field Studies Council: Do you know the folklore of plants, or how stained glass windows are made? ANN JONES discovers countryside matters at visits to the Field Studies Council.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Grandma Shoots Rapids! - or how VICKEY HAYDON survived a canoeing holiday in Canada.
Help for the Handicapped: PHIL SUTCLIFFE examines the ways disabled people are helped to claim welfare benefits by the Whickham Support Group in Newcastle.
The World of Ukridge by P. o. WODEHOUSE Read by JOHN RYE
2: Ukridge's Accident Syndicate

Story: The Big Drum Man by ANNE BRUCE ENGLISH BBC Scotland

(Repeated from Sunday)

Twilight for the Gods (2)

Presented by Brian Widlake

Waxing Lyrical
Peter Clayton investigates some of the lyric writers' favourite themes in popular song.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather

Including Financial Report and reports from BBC News-men around the world

(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)

A weekly series of poetry programmes oompiled and presented by Patric Dickinson
Poems read by ELIZABETH BELL and SEAN BARRETT
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Part 1: as Radio 3

Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude

Sutherland in Wales
On the eve of his 74th birthday, the artist Graham Suther land talks to Bryan Robertson at The Sutherland Gallery in Picton Castle, Wales.
' I look upon my work as a metamorphosis of an original object. Nature in the raw is almost impossible to represent today. One has to re-present it in a different way, and in a way which keeps the savour of the original impact felt by the artist.' Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Douglas Stuart reporting

Another chance to hear a selected edition from this series. The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal, starring
Peter Sellers , Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan with ADOLPHUS SPRINGS - the North Korean Johnny Ray , THE THREE. IN JEOPARDY, unaccompanied by the orchestra not conducted by the conductor
Announcer WALLACE GREENSLADE Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN Producer PAT DIXON
(First broadcast in Feb 1956)

A High Wind in Jamaica
7: Pigs, Squalls and Squabbles

Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends

A series of four talks on aspects of the weather and climate of Great Britain. 2: Great British Weather Disasters by meteorologist and author, Ingrid Holford

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude