with BOB JEFFERY. Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with JEREMY BOWEN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Conversation with Libby Purves and others.
Including a Birthday Guest. Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo

Clay Jones calls on the expertise of Dr Stefan Buczacki , Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith to answer listeners' gardening queries sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Gardeners' Question Time,
BBC. PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

On Slay Down by MICHAEL GILBERT
Read by Hugh Dickson
A spy story of sorts, including a murder-by-mistake, and a very enterprising young officer who has to deal with it. Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 11; 0 praise ye the Lord (BBC HB 279); Psalm 100;
Hebrews 3, vv 1-10; Lift up your hearts (BBC HB 326) Stereo

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

Presented by John Howard

Alistair Cooke presents a selection of favourite records. Nothing But the Blues
A programme dedicated to the memory of Philip Larkin for whom it was made. Producer ALAN OWEN

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

3: King Jolly and the Snow (R)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Serial: The Village Doctor (5)

A verse play.
Drizzlecoombe, a farmhouse on the moors, runs a course offering therapy at a spot 'as altered as possible from their clients' normal lot'. Sir James Canthium, captain of industry, arrives just when they are two teachers short. Observing the crisis are Harmony, Energy, Nature, a raven and an otter.
Stereo

David Crystal looks at some of the letters received from listeners to the current series, and announces two English Now competition results. Producer ALAN WILDING

Centres of Excellence?
Shopping centres are the 20th-century equivalent of medieval cathedrals.
Do they reach, or aspire to, the same high standards of architectural and artistic excellence?
Gillian Darley reports on changing fashions in the world of the shopping mall. Producer RICHARD DUNN

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

with CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report

Going rattin 'Harris?
Who said it and what on earth did they mean by it?
Nigel Rees puts the questions to Sir David Hunt
Peter Jeffrey , Miles Kington and Fred Trueman Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Margo MacDonald investigates a case from her postbag of listeners' grievances about major abuses.
The programme exposes serious cases of injustice, incompetence, fraud, victimisation, bureaucratic bungling and environmental and health hazards. It is aimed particularly at victims who have been beaten by the system and, through no fault of their own, have been unable to get things put right.
If you have suffered a serious wrong at the hands of others, have any information about systematic offences against the public interest, or know of people who are abusing positions of trust, or who are failing those in their care. write to:
[address removed]
Production team
SHARON BANOFF. GRAHAM ELLIS
ROBERT DEL MAESTRO. SIMON WESTROP Editor KEN VASS
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5am)
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The second of four programmes in which Juliet Alexander investigates what lies beyond the beaches, the folklore, the carnivals, even the cricket. Island Campus
A university founded jointly by 14 nation states, with faculties in three of them linked by communication satellite, faces unusual opportunities and problems. As the academic year draws to a close many long-term projects continue, ranging from research into tropical diseases to the compilation of a dictionary of Caribbean English.
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS Book list available from:
[address removed]
Please send a SAE (12 * 8i)

Stands Scotland Where it Did? What are the chances of the Scots getting their own
Assembly? Polls show massive support for some form of devolution. The Scottish TUC and all the political parties, except the Conservatives, are in favour of an Assembly. But what powers should it have and would it work economically? David Wheeler reports. Producer ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0am)

Full Fathom Five by MICHAEL ROBSON Stereo

Colin Semper continues his exploration of the recent history of the city with some of its leaders. This evening he talks to Tom White , until recently Director of Coventry's Social Services.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Birmingham

Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)

Still Life (8)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

followed by an interlude

This week: programmes affected by transmitter breakdown earlier in the term may be re-broadcast.