What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by Brian Redhead
With Libby Purves

including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
with Fr Eric Doyle
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Colin Doran
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

by ERNEST HEMINGWAY abridged by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by David Buck
' If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young nran, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH '

and prepare to be highly amused, mildly shocked, but aways stimulated as, he, Mavis Nicholson, Dr Rob Buckman, Kenneth Robinson, Victoria Wood and their guests, entertain you for the next unpredictable 55 minutes.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE

' is it possible that primitive life evolved in several areas on earth, producing more than one " tree of life "? '

NEM, p 9; Before the almighty Father's throne <BBC HB 452); Psalm 8; Romans 11, v 33 to 12, v 9 (RSV); Praise the Lord! (BBC HB 16)

Richard Briers picks a pot-pourri of poetry, prose, music and comedy to celebrate the changing seasons. Adding merriment to May are PAM AYRES , SHIRLEY BASSEY , JOHN BETJEMAN ,
GEORGE BURNS , JOHN CLEESE , BING CROSBY , TONY HANCOCK , FRANKIE nOWERD , OGDEN NASH and FATS WALLEII - to name but a few. A menu of spring greens, summer wine and autumn ambrosia served in an atmosphere of winter warmth. With COUNTERPOINT-a singing sextet providing songs for all seasons.
Script by BARRY PILTON
Research' by ALAN HAMILTON Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE

Presenter Nancy Wise with The Rise or Fall of the Great British Afternoon Tea, and Ten finger Exercise: Andy Price reports on giving your child a musical education.

Chairman Robert Robinsoa 14: Home Counties (2)
JOHN windus, Tax Inspector (Hertfordshire); JACK COVINGTON, Retired School-master (Hertfordshire); TONY ROBERTSON , Student (Middlesex); CHARLES BURNS , Scientist (Surrey) Including Beat the Brains, Devised by JOHN p, WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer Richard EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: tong wave only

Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Sue MacGregor with Bank Holiday guests Googie Withers and John McCallum.
Tax Haven of the Western World: Henry Kelly talks to some of the famous writers who are living tax-free in the Republic of Ireland.
It's Been a Hard Day's Work: for those familiar faces on your tv screen. 1: Yesterday John Arlott was busy commentating on the cricket field and Helen Palmer caught him for a back-screen chat.
Gentle Words for the Gentle Sex: Gillian Strickland with a monthly review of newly published magazines.
Into the Serum: Paul Wade talks to Linda Bourque, founder of an all-women American Rugby Team.
"Space Fiction" by Geoffrey Household abridged by Delia Patok Read by John Pullen

A remote guest house in the Peak District, a haunting tune from a musical box, and an insane craving for revenge - these are the ingredients which turn a happy Easter holiday into a terrifying nightmare.

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. DELAFIELD abridged for radio in five
- parts by PAMELA HOWE
Read by Anna Massey (1) The trials and tribulations of a middle-class lady dealing with fractious children, obtuse husband, pretentious neighbours and surly domestic staff. Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(First broadcast in 1977)

Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

by P.G. Wodehouse.
Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
with James Villiers as 'Stilton' Cheesewright, Vivian Pickles as Aunt Dahlia and Liza Goddard as Lady Florence Craye

(Repeated: Wed at 12.27pm)

(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)

Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE

starring the BBC Drama Repertory Company in a modern interpretation of a revenge tragedy by JOHN FLETCHER
This new work for radio is written in the style of an Elizabethan revenge tragedy, but unlike most plays in that genre the events described are set in this country. Stourton was a real 16th-century Catholic landowner who came into conflict with his Protestant neighbours. Unable to obtain justice in the courts, Stourton was forced into an act of violence leading to his own death.
Dialogue coach RAY BURROWS
Music composed by VIC GAMMON
Musical consultant
PHILIP PICKET. Musicians THE NEW LONDON CONSORT
Technical team
JANET MITCHELL , PENNY LEICESTER and ENYD CLOWES Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

Robert Foxcroft with some recent religious books.
Producer CRISPIAN HOLLIS

Sondheim by Sondheim
' I've been moving towards singing more and speaking less because it stretches the musical muscles. In fact, I would love to write a movie, but the content dictates form - once you've got the story you also have the form of the musical.'
Stephen Sondheim , composer and lyricist, talks to Sheridan Morley about his latest musical based on the story of Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and recalls some of his various successes.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Sheridan Morley 's films: p 21
9.59 Weather

Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE

'If I had my time all over again, I would never think of London as the place where you went, if you wanted to get on.' Sue MacGregor talks to the poet Patricia Beer about her life and work. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Eating People is Wrong (11)

An inconclusive and distracting assemblage of verse, songs, stories and musical oddments on ... Rivers.
Presented by Judi Dench With additional readings by Joss Ackland .Music from
CAMBRIDGE CITY JASS BAND Vocal refrains DAVE SKITANI and the RHYTHM BOYS
Written and compiled by PETE ATKIN , RUSSELL DAVIES Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
(Judi Dench is a member of the RSC. Joss Ackland is in 'Evita' at the Prince Edward Theatre, London)

Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude