direct from the farming event of the year, the Royal Show at
Stoneleigh in Warwickshire.

With CANON JOHN DA VIES Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Where chat stops and talk starts and continues for 55 minutes. Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo

visits Hampshire, where members of the Portsmouth and Hayling Island Horticultural
Societies put their questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

The Supreme Artist by DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Read by Noel Johnson
'She came to see the actor in his dressing-room. "This is too marvellous," he said, "why on earth didn't you tell me you were in front?" He racked his memory for some light out of the past....'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

NEM, p 50; A gladsome hymn of praise we sing (BP 1); Psalm 23; I Kings 3, w 3-15; Give to me Lord, a thankful heart (bp 21) Stereo

Stereo

We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve. 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

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

Some Classic Jazz Solos played by Bix Beiderbecke , Benny Goodman and Earl Hines , among others. Producer ALAN OWEN

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

Today's story: The Pig Who Thought He Could Fly

and Sue MacGregor invite you to join them for an action-packed session.
Guest of the week
Sir John Hoskyns. Director General of the Institute of Directors.
Serial: The Village Doctor (10)

A preview of some of the award-winning BBC Radio Drama which you can hear on Radio 4 over the next few weeks. Stereo

Outpatient A comedy by RHYS ADRIAN with In the outpatients' waiting-room of a large hospital, everyone must wait their turn in the system. But sometimes the system is very hard to follow.... Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Stereo (R)
(Giles Cooper Award winner for one of the six best radio plays of 1985)

Last programme in the present series for anyone interested in the English language.
David Crystal looks at more of your letters and announces the winners of the slogan, names and etymologies competitions. Producer ALAN WILDING

Pavilioned in Splendour
Christopher Cook reports on the 42nd Venice Biennale, where leading international artists exhibit their work in decorated national pavilions clustered at the end of the Grand Canal. This year the British pavilion boasts a major collection of new works by Frank Auerbach. Producer KEVIN JACKSON

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

With BRIAN PERKINS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

A small thing but my own.
In which Nigel Rees shares a small selection of quotable questions with his guests for the week
Patricia Hodge , Irene Thomas , Peter Tinniswood and Ernie Wise
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo

Margo MacDonald investigates another case of serious injustice, incompetence, fraud or public danger.
If you have information about major abuses, write to: Face the Facts. BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 1AA Production team SHARON BANOFF
GRAHAM ELLIS. ROBERT DEL MAESTRO and SIMON WESTROP Editor KEN VASS

A four-part series presented by Juliet Alexander. 3: Battle of Flowers
On the island of St Lucia, which has changed hands 14 times between the English and the French, everybody is connected to one of the two rival courts of La Marguerite and La Rose which celebrate their own carnivals with songs in French Creole.
Can this traditional folklore survive unchanged, or will it be transformed as a new nation develops its cultural heritage? Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS

Bigger, Worse and Uglier
After the United States' raid on Libya, many European critics of Washington's policies see their view of America confirmed - a selfish, aggressive giant whose postures threaten stability around the world, no better in the popular equation than the Soviet Union.
Does anti-Americanism translate itself into policy? Are the distinctions between friend and foe becoming blurred? How have European perceptions changed? A discussion with Michael Charlton in the Chair. Producer PETER BROD

What a Saga
A comedy by DIANA SOUHAMI Stereo

Colin Semper continues his conversations with some of the city's leaders.
Jaguar Cars is now Coventry's most successful manufacturing industry. The Chairman and Chief Executive, who steered the Company through privatisation, is Sir John Egan. Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Birmingham

Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

Unexplained Laughter by ALICE THOMAS ELLIS abridged in eight episodes by DOREEN MAHON
Read by Christine Pritchard (1) Lydia has fled from London to rural Wales to recover from a broken love affair. But she finds there may be even more passion, tragedy, and sin in the quiet of the countryside.
Producer JANE DAUNCEY BBC Wales

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude