With CANON DAVID PARTRIDGE Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30.7.30.8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FIMGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN perkins
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Coruscating conversation on the premise that the guests turnup
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo

Clay Jones and his team of Geoffrey Smith ,
Dr Stefan Buczacki and Daphne Ledward answer listeners' queries 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

Secret Places by RICHARD PRICE
Read by James Aubrey
A Sunday morning on the common. A young couple are taking a walk. But in spite of the bright sunlight, there is an unexpected mystery ahead of them.
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 84; God moves in a mysterious way (BBC HB 8);
Psalm 121; Genesis 39, w 7-23; Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140) Stereo

William Davis offers you mastery of the media's messages by eliciting explanations from the erudite. Producer JANET THOMAS

Presented by John Howard

by Agatha Christie, dramatised in six parts by Michael Bakewell.
With Maurice Denham as Hercule Poirot, Janet Maw as Katherine Grey and and Robert Beatty as Rufus Van Aldin.
5: A Dancer's Revenge
When Ruth Kettering is found murdered on the Blue Train and her priceless set of rubies gone, both her husband Derek and her former lover become suspects. And when Hercule Poirot finds the latter has recently acquired a set of rubies, the case would seem to be cut and dried ... or is it?
Stereo

Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today: Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (R)
2.5 Looking at Nature Outside the Body. Stereo
2.20 Quest: Jesus 4: Galilee with PAUL COPLEY as Jesus Presented by ROSEMARY HARTILL Written by ARTHUR SCHOLEY Stereo
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Flying to India by LIBBY HOUSTON (R)
2.50 Something to Think About Prince Siddartha and the Swan by GRETA JAMES adapted for radio by PADDY BECHELY (R)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Dancer Anthony Dowell , soon to be director of the Royal Ballet
Serial: The Reason Why (10)

The Missing Links by JOHN ANTROBUS
Why is it that Maurice's future bride seems to be putting obstacles in his way - and why has a deep hole suddenly appeared in the cellar?
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo

The fourth in a series in which Graham Webster presents poems about the theatre. Dramatic Fashions
Readers HUGH DICTON , JILL BALCON Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo

The South African writer
Christopher Hope , winner of the 1984 Whitbread prize for his novel Kruger's Alp, is also the author of a long narrative poem, Englishmen, which recounts the inseparable facts and fictions of South African life and history. In conversation with Richard Mayne , he talks about his work and his relationship to his native country.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.SSpm

With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich challenge a United States team of writer Shana Alexander and Brendan Gill , theatre critic of The New Yorker. Questionmasters
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

A series in which
Bernard Rutherford talks to two people with a common link about what's influenced their lives. Today he's in conversation with Patricia Hayes and Irene Handl. 'Every time things go wrong I think of something
G. K. Chesterton said: "A nuisance is only an adventure wrongly considered", and that's what keeps me happy in a way,
'cos life's a wonderful adventure Still.' (PATRICIA HAYES) Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.35 am LW)

In this third programme,
George Scott recalls some of the people he's met in a long career m journalism and broadcasting, using the music of the day to jog his memory.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

2: The People
It takes a certain foolhardy courage to set change in motion. whether you are changing the face of the world, the face of technology or the cutting face of a machine tool. It needs something between the tenacity of the tortoise, the agility of the hare and, at times, the ability to go nights without sleep. It is individuals that count, not business-school theory. In the second of four programmes about how industry copes with change, Mary Goldring describes the people and the way they make their decisions.
Producer DAVID MORTON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11. 0am)

Another Crack of the Whip by N. J. WARBURTON. Stereo

Fourth often programmes in which Fritz Spiegl lifts the veil on musical matrimony Today: Mrs Berlioz
Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE (First broadcast on BBC World Service)

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

Wind, Sand and Stars (8)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

Photography: The Science of the Lens
(RV)

and at 12.50 The Chemistry of the Film
(RV)(R)