Presented from Wales by Gerry Monté
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only

Brian Redhead reports from Brighton on the opening day of this year's Trades Union Congress
In London, Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

A look ahead with Kate Moon

Aged 131 Part 3
8.57 Weather; travel

Back from holiday and once again in charge of an unpredictable 55 minutes of entertainment. Producer MICHAEL EMBER

I (Rev rpt of Sat 12.2 pm)

NEM, p 118; My Father, for another night
(BBC HB 407); Psalm 46; Luke 2, vv 40-52 (NEB); Lord of all good (BP 56) long wave only

The Sponge Diver by JOHN MILLER
Read by John Westbrook Producer MITCH RAPER

followed by travel

David Crystal looks at your letters on the subject of English language today and discusses usages that seem to cause most concern.
Guest: Graham Polnton , BBC Pronunciation Adviser
Producer ALAN WILDING

Presenter Jennl Mills Health Screening Cheryl Armitage investigates what's on offer and what's worth having. Regular health checks for your child are given as a matter of course. But how thorough are they?
* YOU AND YOURS: p 71

Tune Into Radio Active If you want to know exactly What's Going On with Anna Daptor and Mike Stand starring Helen Atkinson -Wood, Angus Deayton
Michael Fenton-Stevens Geoffrey Perkins and Philip Pope Written by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON with JON CANTER , RICHARD CURTIS and others
Music by PHILIP POPE
Producer JIMMY MULVILLE (Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news

Presenter Brian Wldlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Including during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today
Laser Eraser? KAREN DECO Investigates one of the newest types of beauty therapy, and asks if the laser really is the secret of eternal youth.
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B EDWARDS Part Two abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by ROY DOTRICE (5) Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50 from booksellers

In the Secret State by ROBERT MCCRUM

An eight-part series
Jack Regan reports on a historical walk around his home in Cathcart, Glasgow.

The Diamond Maker by H. G. WELLS Read by Nigel Stock
The young man has a pocketful of diamonds but can buy neither food nor shelter.
Producer JEREMY MORTIMER

Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

With PAULINE BUSHNELL
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world
Including Financial Report

(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)

(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)

Farewell, My Friend by RABINDRANATH TAGORE translated by K. R. KRIPALANI dramatised by WILLIAM ASH with and This romantic and delightful novel by the great Indian poet and novelist Tagore, written in 1929. has been dramatised in celebration of the Indian Festival. Amit, a young Oxford-educated lawyer returns to Bengal and meets and falls in love with Labanya. She realises that Amit has created a romantic ideal- can she possibly sustain it?
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

After a year in Peking,
Stephen Jessel reflects on conceptions of China. true and false.
(Repeated: Sun 3.45 pm)

includes reviews of Way Upstream.
Alan Ayckbourn 's play set aboard a cabin cruiser during a summer holiday, starring Susan Fleetwood and Tony Haygarth at the National's Lyttelton Theatre, London.
And celebrates the 50th anniversary of the film magazine Sight and Sound.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER Editor ROSEMARY HART

Editor KEN GOUDIE

In a green field outside Oxford, physicists are trying to re-create the conditions at the heart of a star. They believe that If they can produce nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, they may have found a cheap and inexhaustible supply of energy.
Peter Evans examines how close we are to achieving fusion in the laboratory and whether success will answer all of our energy needs.
Producer JULIAN BROWN

Madame Bovary by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT abridged in 15 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by IAN HOLM (11)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only

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A play on numbers,
Including a Sinfonia by Alberti for four trumpets, a trio from a Mozart opera, a sextet by Poulenc and a work by Bach for nine stringed instruments divided Into three groups of three. gramophone records long wave only

weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude