With THE REV ANDREW WYLIE Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport with JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Instant poetry, unrehearsed conversation, erudition and Libby Purves
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo

visits Cambridge, where members of the Melbourn and District Gardening Club put their questions to
Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

The Coldest Winter Since 1854 by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read by Errol MacKinnon
... and a memorable one for the young narrator! A torn ligament - a new job.... and, most important of all, there was Emma Haines. Producer MITCH RAPER

nem, p 21; Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (BBC HB 534); Psalm 34, vv 1-10; Romans 8, w 28-39; 0 thou who earnest from above (BBC HB 362) Stereo

A portrait of Walt Whitman , poet and passionately involved observer and recorder of the American Civil War

Suzanne Burden reads from the journals and letters of the 19th-century actress, Fanny Kemble. 2: Stage Début Compiled by MONICA GOUGH Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family
Presented by John Howard

Johnny Morris recalls some of the places he has visited and the people he has met in a quarter of a century of jaunting. This week: France BBC Bristol

Presented by Sir Robin Day

IRENE HANDL reads Grandma and Bopper at the Sports and Fun Day by JANET SORENSEN

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: the writer, Hammond Innes
Serial: The Man of Property (8)

by Shirley Cooklin from a short story by Guy de Maupassant
The fourth in a series of seven dramatised short stories
with Moir Leslie as Lou-Lou

No young wife should be totally innocent and totally bored. Lou-Lou is both - and her desperate remedy soon finds her playing with fire.
(Stereo)

Poems about poets' last resting places, chosen and introduced by John Carroll Readers
GARARD GREEN and ANTHONY HYDE Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo

Beckett's Humour
The Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett , 80 this week, is often thought of as grimly pessimistic, even morbid. Many of his admirers, however, consider Beckett not only one of the greatest but perhaps the funniest of this century's writers. Dr Eric Griffiths , Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, considers some of Beckett's betterjokes. Producer KEVIN JACKSON

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55pm

With PAULINE BUSHNELL Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

The last often programmes in which Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars This week: Michael Caine who promised himself:
'I'll take any film offered to me - good, bad or indifferent - and I'll be a star before they find out I can't act.'
He did just that: he is a star. But the bonus is - he can act. Producer WENDY CLAY
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Peter Smith goes into the world of business to report on the latest initiatives and problems. Producer MARGARET BUDY
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am)

The education magazine
Presented by Margaret Percy This week:
Schoolchildren at Work
Each year, only about five or six traders are convicted for employing under-age labour.
Yet the hidden figure is known to be far more substantial. Is school plus work exploitation or education?
Also, polytechnics have a new application system. Will hopeful entrants find the route more difficult?
Producer SIMON MAJOR

A series of six programmes 4: Putting Down Roots
Beachcombers, traders and planters - many of them highly eccentric - are the subject of June Knox-Mawer's voyage through time and space, in which she goes in search of more memories of the British in the South Pacific. Producer JULIAN HALE Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0am)

The Trap by PHILOMENA ULYATT

A weekly series for those interested in adventure pursuits - in the hills, in the air, on or under water, or from the comfort of an armchair
Mike Hollingworth takes a look at new ideas and topical events. This week: White Water Rafting

Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer KATHRYN PORTER
(Revre-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)

The Battle of Pollock's Crossing(8)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

followed by an interlude VHFIFM joins at 12.10am