with SYLVIA SANDYS. 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* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Conversation's answer to 'A trip to the moon on gossamer wings'. Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo

The Interlopers by SAKI Read by Ronald Pickup
In a lonely forest two men meet - each one sworn to see the other dead. Before the night is out, the bargain is sealed - but not as they expected. Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 84; All as God wills
(BBC HB 1); Psalm 22, vv 7-13;
Matthew 9, vv 18-26; How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (BBC HB 142). Stereo

Let Neil Landor answer your queries.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT

Presented by John Howard
Jenny Lacey presents the third of a series of reports which look at current teaching methods, and provides parents with an education checklist.
Today: Junior Schools

A serial in nine episodes by GARETH JONES with and 4: The Conjurer's Price
Gruffydd has inadvertently saved Ffowlke from the gallows and blamed Madlen for spoiling his revenge. Hywel Bevan has been sentenced to 50 lashes for failing to testify in court.
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

1.55 Listening Corner Today: Andrew McAndrew and the Red Bike by BERNARD MACLAVERTY. Stereo
2.5 Looking at Nature Spring Spotters' Guide: All About Frogs with TIMMY MALLETT. Stereo
2.20 Quest: Jesus 8: The Trial with Presented by ROSEMARY HARTILL Written by ARTHUR SCHOLEY. Stereo
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Horses at Work by LESLIE NORRIS (R)
2.50 Something to Think About The Man Who Kept His Promise (R)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Dennis Potter Serial:
Blue Remembered Hills (5)

by Tony Dennis
With Nichola McAuliffe as Alice and Karen Archer as Cindy

Two girls shared a flat. One remembers the fun, the other the reality, the watching.
She watching for Him watching for her. And then that night when He followed her through the park...
(Stereo)

With a Poet's Eye
Kevin Crossley-Holland presents more poems inspired by pictures in the Tate Gallery, London. 3: Animals Readers
LIANE AUKIN. NATASHA PYNE BRIAN SMITH. PETER WICKHAM Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol

Dmitri Shostakovich
The String Quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich have been seen as intimate and private works beside the public statements of his symphonies. All 15 have just been recorded by the Borodin Quartet in the USSR.
Christopher Cook talks to members of the Quartet and others who knew the composer to find what these pieces reveal of this intensely private man. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

with PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

The fourth of ten programmes in which Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. This week: Woody Allen who rejected the limited possibilities of being a cowboy, FBI man or confidence trickster to become the writer, director and star of film comedies that are never too far from the analyst's couch.

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27 pm)
(See also Radio 3 at 7.30pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

The last of four programmes in which Bel Mooney discusses women's attitudes towards equality
A Woman at the Top
Rosalind Gilmore is the Director of Personal Banking at the National Girobank. She is the first woman full-time director of a national bank in the country. Women are still rarely found in the boardrooms of business and industry. Could the reason for this lie with women themselves? Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.35am)

Five programmes exploring current thinking in psychology 4: Humour
What are jokes for? To amuse and criticise, certainly. But can they also serve some deeper functions - sexual, aggressive and therapeutic?
Peter Evans introduces the topic, and chairs a discussion between psychologists
Hugh Foot of the University of Wales and Glenn Wilson of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and psychiatrist Anthony Storr.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN

The third of five programmes Running Out of Our Ears
Tumbling oil prices are manna from heaven for a world economy whose recovery had been faltering. But do they offer us in Britain the hope - with time - of a boost to growth?
Adrian Hamilton examines the likely effects of the reverse oil shock and questions the implications for the future of energy and for the international money system.
Producer DAVID MORTON

Mrs Donaldson at 60 by CONSTANCE COX Stereo

In his penultimate portrait, Fritz Spiegl introduces Mrs Percy Grainger.
Her wedding, during which her husband conducted the first performance of his new piece, 'To a Nordic Princess', took place in the Hollywood Bowl. Life with Percy was never the same again....
Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE (First broadcast on BBC World Service)

Presented by Paul Allen Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
(Revised re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)

Bengal Lancer (3)

Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment

followed by an interlude

12.30 Rehearsing for Work Looking Back - the lessons to be learnt
12.50 Words for Real (BTEC) Teachers' Programme