With THE REV MYRA BLYTH. Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
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 JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

where chat stops and talk starts and continues for 55 minutes
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo

visits the Hampstead
Horticultural Society, London where members put their questions to Geoffrey Smith , Dr Stefan Buczacki and Daphne Ledward.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Now You See Me, Now You Don't byRAHILAKHAN
Read by Shireen Shah
Amina is one of the few girls in the class who wants to learn, and her teacher lends her books - books which her father disapproves of. She thought that at least her teacher understood her needs - but did he?
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

from St Malachy's College, Belfast
A Learning People
Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137); Psalm 119, vv 73-80; King of glory. King of peace (BBC HB 325)

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

Presented by John Howard
Jenny Lacey presents the first of a fortnightly series of reports which looks at current teaching methods and provides parents with an education checklist. 1:Nursery Schools

by AGATHA CHRISTIE
The Mask of the Marquis Stereo

Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Presented by FRED HARRIS Today: Bopper Visits the Hospital by JANET SORENSEN (R)
2.5 Looking at Nature My Nose is Cold How the human body copes with the cold by ASTLEY JONES. Stereo
2.20 Quest: Jesus 5: The Kingdom Presented by ROSEMARY HARTILL with PAUL COPLEY as Jesus Written by ARTHUR SCHOLEY. Stereo
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Music): The Music of Birds by PAMELA KENWAY (R)
2.50 Something to Think About The Boy Who Stopped to Help by COLIN DAVIS. Stereo

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Bridget Rowe , the new Editor of Woman's Own.
Serial: The Reason Why by CECIL WOODHAM-SMTTH abridged in 15 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Robert Powell (15)
(Music: Johnson's A History of War and Peace)

Looking for Marilyn by KEN JONES with Frank learns that he has only a few months to live. That, plus another discovery, makes the tracking down of his missing wife even more urgent....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo

The fifthin the series in which Graham Webster presents poems about the theatre. Audiences
Readers JILL BALCON. HUGH DICKSON and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol.

The Legacy of Jasmine Beckford

Prison Poems
In October 1985, poet
Ken Smith began a year's appointment as writer-in-residence at HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs.
Michael Oliver visits the prison to make a mid-term report on Ken Smith 's project and listens to some of the inmates' work. Producer KEVIN JACKSON

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich challenge a United States team of Shana Alexander , writer, and Brendan Gill. theatre critic of The New Yorker. Questionmasters
Gordon Clough. Louis Allen Researcher KAREN OSTLE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.2 7pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Last of the 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 Dr Jonathan Miller and Dr David Owen.
When I first went up to
Cambridge I was introduced to the works of Wittgenstein, the philosopher. I suddenly realised I had come up against a mind that was to alter mine for the rest of my life. (JONATHAN MILLER ) Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

In this final programme,
George Scott recalls some of the people he's met in a long career in journalism and broadcasting. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

The Prospects
It is a psychological jolt to a well-brought-up researcher, who is trying to understand the way in which the natural world behaves, to find that something quite unnatural has been invented along the way. It is rather like discovering an eighth day in the Book of Genesis. But this is what is happening in electronics and biotechnology.
In the third of four programmes about how industry copes with change, Mary Goldring reports on the unexpected and how it affects products and companies. Producer DAVID MORTON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0 am)

BBC Radio Drama Company in Parting by OWEN HOLDER Stereo

Fritz Spiegl lifts the veil on the perils of musical matrimony. Today he investigates the strange tale of the composer
Carlo Gesualdo , who murdered his wife and wrote madrigals ever after....
Producer PIERS BURTON PAGE (First broadcast on BBC World Service)

Presented by Paul Allen Producer KATHRYN PORTER (Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)

But For Bunter (3)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

12.30 Radio History: 14-16 1911-22 Written by DR ROGER AUSTIN and at 12.50 Bloody Sunday Written and presented by MARGARET PERCY