With DONALD HILTON Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Bill Frost
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Fifty-five minutes of verbal corybantics. Sometimes.
(Stereo)

Clay Jones calls on the expertise of Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith to answer listeners' gardening queries sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, POBox27. Manchester M60 1SJ Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Red in the Morning by LEWIS HOSEGOOD
Read by Frank Duncan
In the holiday hotel, the elderly guest becomes intrigued by a trio of teenagers staying there. He's unaware of the drama about to unfold.
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 54; Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258); Psalm 50, vv 6-16; Ephesians 2, vv 11-19; O God of earth and altar (BBC HB 394).
(Stereo)

Let Neil Landor , with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out the answers to your queries. Questions, on postcards only please, to: Enquire Within,
BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Producer ANDREW PARFITT

Presented by John Howard

The first of six programmes in which Alistair Cooke presents a selection of his favourite records from his private collection.
The first three programmes are devoted to
The American Musical: The Great Age.
Later programmes will look at 'Nothing but the Blues', 'Classic Jazz Solos' and an 'Album of Eccentrics and Oddities'.
Producer ALAN OWEN
(Alistair Cooke is in 'Bookshelf tomorrow at 4.5pm)
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Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Cat Who Kept Her Name by J. C. YGLESIAS (R)
2.5 Looking at Nature Hedge. Stereo
2.20 Discovery Lost and Found by BOB DOCHERTY Presented by FLOELLA BENJAMIN
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Sea Creatures by ANITA HEWETT (R)
2.50 Something to Think About Sticks and Stones by ANITA HEWETT

and Sue MacGregor 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: Sisters by Rite by JOAN LINGARD abridged in 11 episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by Frances Tomelty (1) Christian Scientist
Cora Caldwell , Protestant Rosie
Meneely and Catholic Teresa Lavery grow up in a staunchly Protestant street in Belfast and, despite their religious differences, become firm friends.
(Music: Walton's 'Touch her soft lips and part')

The Ring Around the Bath by MICHAEL JUDGE Mark Lambert
When Swedish radio comes to record a portrait of a typical
Irish family, the Darcys reveal rather too much....

BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

'Nice one, Cyril. ' 'On your bike!' 'Lotta bottle.'
David Crystal looks at catch-phrases and slogans and talks to Nigel Rees, author of a book on the subject.

Empty spaces can be crucial to the architecture of a novel or a play, even when they just end up as intervals or chapter-breaks. Robert Cushman talks to writers and directors about those moments when the action stops, including John Fowles, Terry Hands, Michael Frayn and H.R.F. Keating.

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55pm

with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Who said what? When did they say it? And why? The quotation game is back, with Nigel Rees posing the questions to a panel of guests. This week: lyricist and frustrated cricketer Tim Rice; journalist and quotation collector Frank Keating; singer Dillie Keane of Fascinating Aida; and jockey and racing commentator par excellence Lord Oaksey

(Stereo)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

This week Peter Smith steps into the world of retailing and franchising.

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am)

With so much skin-diving and over-fishing, the marine wildlife off British coasts is increasingly at risk. In some places it has been necessary to create, by law, a new sort of nature reserve underneath the waves.
Hugh Prysor-Jones dons his snorkel and wet-suit to investigate.
Presented by Hugh Sykes
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

The new, up-to-date Labour Party delivers its modem slogans in grey packages. How red are the policies inside the packaging - and will they be acceptable to Labour supporters? John Eidinow reports.
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0am LW)

by Marilyn Morris.
(Stereo)

The first of eight programmes. Coventry was one of the West Midlands' boom cities of the 60s and 70s... until the recession started biting. By last year 53,000 jobs had been lost - half of them in traditional industries. The seriousness of unemployment is underlined by the fact that nearly 45 per cent of those without jobs have been out of work for more than a year. Only 13 per cent of 16-year-old school-leavers have been able to find jobs in the last year.
Colin Semper talks to the city's leaders politicians, industrialists, union bosses and others - about how the city is coping with its problems. In the first programme he talks to the leader of the Labour-controlled city council, Councillor Peter Lister.
BBC Birmingham

Presented by David Roper
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)

Under the Net (3)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

Voix de France: French VI
8: Vivre a Paris Compiled by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE