With THE REV RICHARD STEEL. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Jon Silvennan
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

From replicas of ancient stringed instruments, to custom-built guitars, Trevor Couvelle 's work as a luthier demands a tremendous amount of skill and patience. Every piece of the instruments he makes is fashioned by hand.
Malcolm Billings joins him to talk about his ancient craft. Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.15pm)

BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3. 30pm)

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H.G. WELLS
Read by David Ashford
Mr Wedderburn has a passion for collecting orchids. But his latest purchase has a dubious history - which is by no means complete!
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 50; New every morning (BBC HB 408); Psalm 100; I Corinthians 13, w 1-13;
Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 328). Stereo

Stoddart Down Under
First, it releases a shower of evil-smelling urine; next it defecates on your head; and then it attacks with scythe-like claws. Mike Stoddart meets the 'cuddly' koala. BBCBristol

Chips at Sea?
Derek Cooper hears how the Royal Navy has changed its diet to keep its sailors trim.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Leslie Thomas ,
Maureen Lipman and Frank Thornton tell the stories.
Tim Brooke-Taylor , you, and the studio audience, try to spot the lie.
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again! Presented by HEDU NlKLAUS (R)
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Little Master of the Elephants An Indian folk tale (E)
2.25 Talkwaves Supercar
6: The Trap by JOHN TAYLOR. Stereo (E)
2.40 Listen! The Strange Case of Mr Jupiter An adventure serial by SUE LIMB 6: Watch Out, Mr Jupiter ! Stereo (E)

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
Cecil Sharp , who lived at the turn of the century, devoted his life to collecting English folk songs and dances before the drift to the cities destroyed them forever. His life's work is the inspiration for a play which opens at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Other Place Theatre next week. Penny Searley talks to the author Nigel Williams and listens to some of those songs.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Pebble Mill
Suspense Stories byRUTHRENDELL
Six stories abridged by MONICA GREY
Read by Bruce Lidington
6: The Green Road to Quephanda (Starting on Monday 'The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor )

by William Makepeace Thackeray, dramatised in eight parts by Peter Buckman
With Hugh Dickson as the Writer and Dominic Guard as Arthur Pendennis

The Major has been working hard to end his nephew, Pen's, unsuitable courtship. Will he now have to take up Captain Costigan's challenge and fight a duel?
(Stereo)

Roy Hudd laughs at the news with June Whitfield, Chris Emmett and THE HUDDLINERS Stereo
(Broadcastyesterdayat10.0pmon Radio2anare-broadcasttomorrow at 1.0pm on Radio 2)

Presented by Susannah Simons and Nick Worrall continuedon VHF/FM5.50-5.55 pm

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport and examine the implications for you, the customer. Producer IRENE MALLIS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANGELA HIND. Stereo

Makers of law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Alistair Graham , Director the Industrial Society
Mary Baker , Chairman the Holiday Care Service
Graham Dowson , industrialist, Chairman Teltech Marketing Ltd
Sue Slipman, Director National Council for One Parent Families from Kidsgrove, North Staffordshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm)

Reagan may get a bumpy ride in his last two years as Senate goes to the Democrats in off-year elections. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Robert Hewison presents tonight's edition.
Producer HANS PIETSCH
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

A Bit of a Do
10: The Crowning of Miss Frozen Chicken (UK) (part 2)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

A 26-part epic saga which tells of the search for the Magic Snoll ofAgador.
Episode 23: Thoth the Banana God meets some satirical sketches on the week's news. With Bill Wallis ,
David Tate , Jon Glover and Susie Blake
Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B DA VIES. RICHARD QUICK STUART SILVER. PETE SINCLAIR PETER HICKEY , STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN. ALISON RENSHAW JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer ANDY WILSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm LW)

followed by an interlude

Radio History (11-14)
12.30 Who Killed the Princes? by ELIZABETH CLEAVER (E)
12.50 Skara Brae by COLIN DAVIS (E)