With JOHN STACY MARKS BBC Wales

Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by david SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Matutinal conversation of an angular kind.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo

Clay Jones calls on the expertise of Dr Stefan Buczacki Geoffrey Smith and Sid Robertson to answer listeners' gardening queries which have been sent in by post. Questions on postcards only please to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, PO Box 27. Manchester M60 1SJ Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Notes from a Respectable Cockroach by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
Read by Martin Jarvis His family had lived for generations in a hotel on Washington Square, but the place had degenerated. It was time to check out....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Readings: Colossians 1

Hymns: Father of heaven (BBC HB 290); All hail the power (BBC HB 118); Efengyl Tangnefedd

BBC Wales

Johnny Morris with a philosophical perspective on a pet subject. 5: Scuttling Off BBC Birmingham

A weekly practical guide to tenants' rights 5: Disrepair
Over a million British homes are unfit for occupation, despite laws designed to maintain decent standards. So what can you do if your rented home is in need of vital repairs? With the help of experts in housing law and practice, John Howard explains your rights as a tenant. Producer GRAHAM ELLIS Editor LESLIE ROBINSON
(Phone-in tonight at 8.15pm)

by E.W. Hornung
Six of the early Raffles stories dramatised for radio by David Buck
With Jeremy Clyde as Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny

When Raffles and Bunny are engaged for cricketing weeks at country estates, the playing of cricket can hardly be said to be their chief preoccupation. Bunny is an incorrigible ladies' man, while Raffles takes an understandable professional interest in his fellow guests' portable property.

(Radio 41 World Service co-production)
(Broadcast on Sunday at 7.0pm)
(Stereo)

Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: King Jolly and the Ghost
2.5 Looking at Nature Nature at Night (RV) KEN BLAKESON offers hints and tips to young investigators exploring their back garden in the early evening.
2.20 Quest Hannukah by MARIANNE COOK
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) The Cave of Making by LESLIE NORRIS
2.50 Something to Think About The Son who Went Away by GEOFFREY CURTIS

Introduced by Mary Marquis Guest of the Week:
Britain's top woman hurdler Shirley Strong
Serial: The Bonsai Tree (5)

Lucia in London
The final episode in this five-part comedy series based on the novel by E. F. BENSON , dramatised and narrated by Aubrey Woods Fire, Water and Moonlight
East, west, home's best, but on her return to Riseholme Lucia , the prodigal daughter, has to organise her own fatted calf.
Pianist JOHN OWEN EDWARDS Directed by JOHN CARDY Stereo

Six programmes of sporting verse compiled and presented by Vernon Scannell 4: Cricket
Readers STEPHEN THORNE and TREVOR NICHOLS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Stereo

'No sooner am I happy than he crushes me.'
Tolstoy's wife wrote these words in her diary a month after her marriage in 1862, a marriage which lasted 47 years and produced 13 children. Michael Oliver reflects on two versions of the writer's life and marriage in two new editions of the diaries of Sofia and Leo Tolstoy. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

with LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report

A musical panel game
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Programme devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Producer PETE ATKIN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 12.27pm) Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Peter Smith talks to those involved in all aspects of business across the country about the problems they face and the new initiatives they are taking.
Producer CAROLINE MILUNGTON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.35 am)

David Henderson. Head of the Economics and Statistics
Department in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in conversation with Mary Goldring about his life and work. Next week
David Henderson begins the 1985 Reith Lectures on the influence of economic ideas on policy. Entitled 'Innocence and Design' they are broadcast on Wednesdays on Radio 4, re-broadcast on Sundays on Radio 3, and printed weekly in THE LISTENER.
Producer DAVID MORTON
0 FEATURE: page 23

Following today's programme on disrepair John Howard is joined by barrister
Andrew Arden : Bob Young , Director of Housing, Manchester: David Ormandy , Environmental Health Consultant: and Geoffrey Cutting of the Small Landlords Association to answer your questions on getting repairs done to your rented home.
Lines open at 7.0 pm
( Buying Out Your Landlord)

Levels of Unconsciousness by MARGARET JONES
Stereo

Six talks on Spain by Ray Gosling 3: Catholic Kings
'We let our empire go - but Spain remembers. In my Malaga hotel, every room is named "Filipinas" or "Argentina", "Haiti" or "Texas".
'Says the owner, "They're all partofLaHispanidad."In
Spain, everywhere - Venezuela, El Salvador, Formosa, Nevada - is remembered....' BBC Manchester

Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Rev broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (8)

Presented by David Sells

followed by an interlude