A meditation for the beginning of a new day.

Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM TICKELL
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILLE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

A second series of six lighthearted talks in which David Moreau recollects his largely unsuccessful attempts to come to grips with life. 3: Apples and Au Pairs
'I decided to accept the written propaganda, rather than the evidence of my own eyes. And, in doing so, I have the uneasy feeling that the girl I hired was actually a man in drag....'

Mike and Me
Written and read by Brian Glanville
Mike was a big influence in the young man's boyhood-always ready with a word of advice. But the boy finds early success-in a world where Mike has no place. Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 42; 0 dearest Lord, thy sacred head (BBC HB 358);
Psalm 122; I Peter 5, vv 1-14; Rejoice, 0 people, in the mounting years (BBC HB 181) Stereo

As a child in the 1950s, playwright John Burrows managed at various times to fall in all but one of the ponds on Hampstead Heath. Thus began a very personal, lifelong association with one of London's best-loved open spaces.
With LAUREN BURROWS. WALLY BURROWS and ANNA FOSTER Written by JOHN BURROWS Producer ED THOMASON Stereo

Amid frenzied vampires, medicinal potions and Continental cuisine,
Barry Paine uncovers the virtues of garlic.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Presented by John Howard

Reasonably Together Again The second of six entertainments in words and music to help you beat the weather as David Barlow , Peter Christie Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together again with their special guest Susan Drake.
Producer RICHARD EDIS

Presented by Brian Widlake

Mog at the Zoo (3)

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse Flights of Fancy!
Two thousand years ago kites were made out of leaves and used by South Sea islanders for fishing. Today they help space capsules to land.
BRIAN NAYLOR is the enthusiast who talks to DEBBIE FISHER about the history of kites. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
The Summer of the Barshinskeys Part 2 (5)

by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE dramatised in five parts by CONSTANCE COX
3: King Monmouth
Having set off on the dangerous ride to Taunton to join
Monmouth's rebel forces, Micah and his friend Reuben have many extraordinary encounters: with Sir Jacob Clancing who sends an enigmatic and ominous message to the Duke; with the deceptively foppish Sir Gervas who joins their cause; with Mayor Timewell whose pretty daughter catches Reuben's eye. Finally they come face to face with the great Monmouth himself.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
Stereo

Clive Jacobs brings you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport with help from ALANAH MARTIN and TOM BOSWELL.
Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

A Night to Remember
5: 7 believe she's gone, Hardy'

Presented by Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

The first of four programmes At last-the big live debate: Thatcher and Scargill.
Plus the usual phone-in -this week Reagan and Gorbachev answer your questions. John Docherty (script) Moray Hunter (script) Pete Baikie (songs) Gordon Kennedy (Gordon Kennedy )
ALAN NIXON (Gordon Kennedy )
Stereo

June Knox-Mawer presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television over the past seven days.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON

Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

LordFitt
Malcolm Muggeridge Tim Bell , Group Chief
Executive of advertising company Lowe Howard-Spink Campbell-Ewald and Ann Mallalieu , barrister, tackle issues raised by an audience from Wadhurst, East Sussex Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Uproar over president's anniversary plans to visit German war cemetery but not a concentration camp. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Presented by Sheridan Morley Producer DANIEL DODD

A Moveable Feast
3: Paris in the Spring

Presented by Richard Kershaw

with Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by LAN
BROWN RICHARD QUICK. PAUL B. DA VIES MARTIN BOOTH. PETE SINCLAIR STUART SILVER. DA VID COHEN JEREMY HARDY. PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER

followed by an interlude