Presented from
Northern Ireland by John Johnston A regional view of farming in the week ahead BBC Northern Ireland

Presenters John Timpson 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 HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

A look ahead with Susan Rae

by FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT translated by RICHARD CLARA WINSTON abridged in five episodes by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Bernard Hepton (1) One wet April afternoon, Police Inspector Matthai is called out on a case of murder. The place -a remote village, the victim, a young schoolgirl. It is the Inspector's last day before an overseas posting, but instead of boarding his plane, Matthai sacrifices his career in an obsessive hunt for the killer.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Famous faces and new voices meet for a not entirely serious talk about subjects that interest them and may surprise you. Producer IAN STRACHAN

Rogue Wheels written and read by Andy Smith
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM p 25; All as God wills, who wisely heeds
(BBC HB 1); Psalm 16;
Daniel 2, vv 36-45; Awake, our souls, away, our fears (BBC HB 300)

Brian Johnston is in Alton in Hampshire. He discovers a scheme to help rehabilitate people who have suffered heart attacks, just who Sweet Fanny Adams was and visits Jane Austen 's House and the Gliding Centre at Lasham.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by D. J. Enright
Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and ANTHONY HYDE Compiled by MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Requests to:
Poetry Please!
BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Paul Heiney with the latest news and advice for consumers and a sympathetic ear for your telephone comments on [number removed]. Editor KEN VASS

by JEROME K. JEROME adapted in three episodes and performed by Jeremy Nicholas
2: "I woke at six the next morning and set to work to wake up Harris with a scull. The third prod did it: and he turned over on the other side, and said he would be down in a minute."
Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Performed by THE GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER

Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS

with Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today:
Kidney Patients: why are they waiting? jill BURRIDGE reports on the situation in which some patients get life-saving treatment and others do not.
Over the Bridge (6)

Anderby Wold by WINIFRED HOLTBY

What is it that makes some of us persist against all odds?
Nigel Rees has been talking to six people who just won't give up.
4: Marcus Wenner of the British Raelian Movement Producer ROS BARTLETT

Diary of a Pilgrimage by JEROME K. JEROME abridged in 5 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Read by Lance Percival (1)
A pilgrimage sounds a somewhat staid and sober affair. But when the pilgrim is the author of Three Men in a Boat you can be sure the journey will be fun from start to finish. So why not join him?

Presenters Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough EJltor DEREK LEWIS

with BRYAN MARTIN
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including
Financial Report

(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)

I do, says operatic bass Robert Lloyd and he explains how many other people would be completely lost without theirs. How far do the preacher and politician, for instance, rely on their voices for their impact? And what are the pleasures we get from hearing a voice we like or dislike? Voices talking about voices include those of Kate Bush The Rt Hon
J. Enoch Powell , MP
Sir Harry Secombe and Lord Soper. Producer
DANIEL SNOWMAN (Revised repeat)

by Richard Edmunds
with Keith Drinkel as Gavin
Heather Bell as Noelle
and Nigel Hughes as Ben
A young man is obsessed with developing a new office computer. As he strives fiercely for the affluence he believes in, his passion for technology begins to exclude everything and everyone else, including his wife and child.

(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
(Stereo)

The master raconteur with a compendium of entertaining reminiscences and personal opinions. Producer MICHAEL FORD BBC Birmingham (Repeated)

Presented tonight by Paul Vaughan including interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY HART

Nineteen Eighty-Four by GEORGE ORWELL abridged in 15 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by KENNETH HAIGH (6) Producer MAURICE LEITCH

reporting the news and the background to the news from around the world.
10.30 Headlines
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE long wave only from 11.0

plays music by Handel, Delius, Elgar, Grainger and Vaughan Williams records