An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers Producers ALLAN WRIGHT and TIM FINNEY

With THE REV TONY BURNHAM BBC Manchester. Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

A look ahead with Kate Moon

by FREDERICK FORSYTH abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE Read by Sean Barrett
Big Billie Cameron bullies the Indian student on the building site once too often, for Ram Lal is a member of a proud warrior caste....
Producer PAT MCLOUGHLIN
(First broadcast in 'Woman 's Hour')
('No Comebacks' by Frederick Forsyth tomorrow at 8. 43 am)

Jeremy Nicholas , with the gifted guidance of Roy Hudd , takes an affectionate look at music-hall monologues and other melody-backed manifestations masquerading as recitation. Written by JEREMY NICHOLAS Producer SALLY THOMPSON

Presented by Louise Botting
The latest news from the world of personal finance

Exile by ROBIN JENKINS Read by Margot Boyd
It seemed such a good idea at the time - retirement to a place in the sun. But now the 'good idea' has turned into something very different....
Producer MITCH RAPER

New Every Morning, page 110;
Tell out my soul (BP 81); Psalm 1; 11 Corinthians 9, w 6-15; Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire (BBC HB 126). Stereo

The first of two programmes
Judge James Pickles is a circuit judge based in Leeds, who has openly stated his belief that the time has come to reveal to the public how the mind of a serving judge works. He speaks out, for the first time, in conversation with Roger Wilkes.
1: Pickles and the Permissive Society
The Judge visits Leeds's red-light district. Chapeltown, to talk about vice with Joan, a prostitute; and he argues against Clare Short , mp, who wants to ban page three topless models.
Producers HELEN BOADEN and BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast on Friday at 8.20pm)
Judge James Pickles writes in THE LISTENER, on sale from Thursday
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Theme Park Special
Where can you sample life in Roman times, dock at a space station and go for a ride in a teacup? Answer: at one of Britain's growing number of Theme Parks.
Malcolm Stacey meets monsters and risks rides that defy gravity to investigate their appeal. Producer JOHN WATKINS

by JOHN LE CARRE adapted for radio in six parts byRENE BASILICO starring with and 2: After his abrupt departure from British Intelligence,
Alec Leamas tries desperately to cope with life outside the Service.
Theme music by MAX HARRIS
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at & 30pm)

Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS

by the Labour Party

Song and Rhyme Time Presented by SANDRA KERR and TONY AITKEN Today: What's Your Name Compiled and produced by MARY KALEMKERlAN

and Jenni Murray invite you to join them for a Bank holiday action-packed session of ideas and emotions; paradigms and practicalities; fellowship and fun; news and views - some of them your own.
Serial: How Was It For You? abridged in ten parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Written and read by Maureen Lipman 5: Pumping Irony
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Golden Girls by LOUISE PAGE
An adaptation in two parts of the stage play
2: Dorcas has been dropped from the Gateshead race in favour of the newcomer Janet Morris. Will she be dropped from the Olympics team? Pressure from the sponsors should guarantee Sue Kinder's position: a white girl with the appropriate blonde hair is the perfect advert for 'Golden Girls' shampoo.

Presented by Sheridan Morley

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With PETER DONALDSON

A panel game on food and drink Your convivial host Russell Davies
Maitres de teams
Paul Levy , Oz Clarke Resident vegetarian Denise Coffey
Guest gourmet Claudia Roden Toastmaster Robert Booth Questions set by CHRISTOPHER DRIVER and the producer
JONATHAN JAMES MOORE. Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

(Revised broadcast of Saturday at 7.15 am)

Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer STUART KERR
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Good Morning Blues by JOHN WAIN and A lot of young English people in the 40s and 50s were mad about jazz, but for most of them it remained a private passion. However, for one group of friends the influence of Ulysses Baker , the trumpeter from New Orleans, meant that it became their life.
Music played by ALAN ELSDON BRIAN LEAKE. ANDRE BEESON
PETE STRANGE . LAURIE CHESCOE JIM DOUGLAS and DAVE GREEN
Directed by JANE MORGAN. Stereo
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Making Television Sing
'British television is the last place left where a writer can still walk tall.'
Despite brief excursions into film and theatre, Dennis Potter is best-known for testing possibilities of television to the limit. Paul Allen talks to the author of Pennies from Heaven about his life, writing and his forthcoming series The Singing Detective.
Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

The Amateur Emigrant by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON abridged in five episodes by TREVOR ROYLE
Read by Paul Young (1)
In 1879 the young Stevenson left Scotland, at odds with his family and in anxious pursuit of his future wife. He sailed the Atlantic on an emigrant ship and crossed America by emigrant train.
This is his classic account of that passage to the New World. Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland

Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON

Bank Holiday in London so John Roberts reports from New York on the American business scene.

followed by an interlude