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

A meditation for the beginning of a new day with PAUL OESTREICHER BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor 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 LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

with Brian Perkins

goes into the Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
Producer HELEN FRY
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)

Controversy, debate, humour and gossip are in the air when famous names and new faces meet across the Start the Week table. Today Desmond Wilcox keeps order.
Researcher MARINA SALANDY BROWN Producer JENNY DANKS. Stereo

Presented by Louise Botting
Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money. Whether it is a mortgage or insurance policy, an investment bond or a bank loan, a tax dispute or a social security squabble - Money Box gets the answers from the people in the know.
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

The Romantic by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Read by Eva Haddon
Isabel knew that the novels she read were like a drug: she loved the magnetic attraction of girl and man at first meeting....
When handsome Dudley Hall asked her out to dinner and then failed to turn up, she got an idea....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

New Every Morning, page 13; Jesus calls us o'er the tumult (BBC HB 354); Psalm 66, vv 1-11; Ephesians 1, vv 3-15; What does the Lord require (bp 98). Stereo

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers ELIZABETH BELL and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR

Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor PAT TAYLOR

by JOHN LE CARRE adapted in six parts byRENEBASILICO starring
6: The tribunal - and Leamas, the key witness, is in sight of his goal. Then he can finally come in from the cold.
Theme music by MAX HARRIS
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)

Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS

1.55 Listening Corner This week: Over the Sea and Far Away Presented by BEN BAZELL Storyteller SHIREEN SHAH Today's story: What Made Tiddalik Laugh by JOANNA TROUGHTON Script by JANET SORENSEN (R)
2.5 Playtime Moving: Trains and Boats and Planes Presented by SHIREEN SHAH and ANDREW BRANCH (R) (Re-broadcast on Thurs at 10.10am)
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 2, Programme 2 How We See (R)
2.40 Introducing Science Extra Junior Electronics Getting a Buzz (R)

and Jenni Murray invite you to join them for an action-packed session of ideas and emotions; paradigms and practicalities; fellowship and fun; news and views - some of them your own.
Serial: Among the Quiet Folks by JOHN MOORE abridged in seven parts by DELIA PATON
Read by Douglas Blackwell 6: The Young Capitalists Editor SANDRA CHALMERS 0 RECIPE TIMES: page 103

by Derek Kartun.

(Stereo)

Presented by Nigel Andrews

Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHFjFM5.50-5.55pm

With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

More questionable entertainment concerning the week's news, as the heavyweight champion on Punch, Alan Coren , takes on the small but perfectly formed editor-elect of Private Eye,
Ian Hislop. Bill Tidy and Janet Street-Porter are the two seconds, with Barry Took once more caught in the middle. Written ana compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Cast for the week: [see below]

BBC Birmingham

(Revised broadcast of Saturday at 7.15 am)

Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

by Peter Buckman

Richard, Oliver Cromwell's son and his successor Lord Protector for less than two years, has returned to England after 20 years exile in France. So far, he has led the peaceful life of a country gentleman. Will the past be allowed to rest?

(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer THOMAS SUTCUFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Under the Net by IRIS MURDOCH abridged in ten episodes by JANE MAYS
Read by Stephen Rea (1)
In Iris Murdoch 's first novel, Jake Donaghue returns to
London to find that his mistress has thrown him out. The
'intolerably eventful day' that follows starts Jake on a journey that takes him from Bohemian London to the smartest hotel in Paris, leading him into surprising encounters with gamblers, actresses, financiers and a heroic dog.
Producer NED CHAILLET

Presented by David Sells Editor BLAIR THOMSON

Dilly Barlow makes a bid for her feline favourites in the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer FRAN ACHESON (R)

followed by an interlude

Voix de France: French VI
6: Quelques ecrivains modernes Written by REGIS SALADO