with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day 7 0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

and good company with 55 minutes of lively conversation. Libby Purves says ' Happy
Birthday ' to this week's special guest.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON

The Cheat by NANCY DALLAM SINKLER Read by Elizabeth Proud

NEM, p 122; God moves in a mysterious way (BBC HB 8); Psalm 33, VV 1-11; Genesis 29, vv 1-14; 0 love, how deep (BBC hb 73): long wave only

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Monkeys
An ape with a mouth full of razor blades? Monkey puzzles for international zoo vet David Taylor include the story of the capuchin monkey which lived entirely on advocaat ...
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only

with Paul Heiney
Ring [number removed]after 11.0

Presenter Sir Robin Day

Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Guest of the Week: the distinguished composer Sir Michael Tippett , now in his late 70s, who has just completed his huge choral work The Mask ofTime.
I Start Counting (8) long wave only

The Investigators
A series of six plays 2: Obsession by TED WILLIS with and
Denise Dubois admits to murdering
Marcel de Bonnard in his office. An open-and-shut case? Felix Brache , the examining magistrate for the perpignan region of France does not assume so and summons Madame Dubois for questioning.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

Gillian Clarke , the Anglo-Welsh poet, introduces poetry of her choice. 7: Praise
Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE and PAUL WEBSTER
Producer ENYD WILLIAMS BBC Wales

A Little of What You Fancy ... with Cheryl Armitage 2: George Melly - from jazz clubs to the riverbank and fishing rod.

A Passage to India (13)

with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Second Round 10: West
Bodmin School v Wales
Welshpool High School Questionmasters
TIM GUDGIN and PADDY FEENY Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY , NIGEL RICHARDSON , and PADDY FEENY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER

(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)

Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS

Government and the Governed
Six talks by Sir Douglas Wass, GCB, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and Joint Head of the Home Civil Service until his retirement in spring this year.
1: United Thoughts and Counsels
Good government has traditionally been associated with prosperity and contentment. It must be efficient and responsive, above all in its central decision-taking processes. Our present machinery of government provides little guarantee that ministers collectively will make rational choices between different policy options on our behalf. The transcript of this lecture is in THE LISTENER published tomorrow

Peter Hobday with the magazine which goes where work is done and decisions are taken affecting the wealth of the nation.
Producer ROGER PARRY

I think it is my duty to look upon every part I sing as the best one in the world, and the moment I'm on stage I must feet that this is what I really prefer to do. But I think every singer has the same feeling about certain parts: this is my role. The Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom reflects on some of her favourite operatic roles. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Paul Allen presents tonight's edition which includes reviews of Dear Anyone, the new musical by Jack Rosenthal and Geoff Stephens , starring Jane Lapotaire as an agony aunt of the Women's Page, at the Cambridge Theatre, London; and a major exhibition of the work of Raoul Dufy , one of the most popular artists of the 20th century, at the Arts Council's Hayward Gallery.
Producer RICHARD DUNN

John Morgan reporting

Busman's Honeymoon by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON starring
Narrator JOHN WESTBROOK Producer MAF.TIN FISHER

Basil (13) long wave only

Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only