with NORMA CRADOCK. Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With JEREMY BOWEN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

with David Moreau 3: Pulling Rank

Producer
IAN STRACHAN. Stereo

visits the county of Durham, where members of the Derwentside Federation of Allotment Associations put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

The Yellow Meads of Asphodel by HE. BATES
Read by Fleur Chandler
The affection between John and his sister Virginia is deep and long-standing. Nothing can spoil its tranquillity.... or so, at least, it seems....
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, pl3; 0 praise ye the Lord
(BBC HB 279); Psalm 15; Mark 1, w 29-39; Praise to the holiest (BBC HB 88). Stereo

Coverage direct from the Palace of Westminster of the traditional ceremony in which Her Majesty The Queen, Lords and Commons assemble for the formal announcement of the Government's intentions for the next session of Parliament. John Hosken describes the arrival of the Royal Procession in the Chamber of the House of Lords, and the summoning of the House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. The political implications of Her Majesty's speech will be assessed by the BBC's Chief Political
Correspondent, Brian Curtois.

Info: page 91

Presented by John Howard

by JEFFREY ARCHER (1)
Stereo

Presented by Sir Robin Day

by the Social Democratic Party

1.55 Listening Corner Story: Learning to Rain (R)
2.5 Looking at Nature Woodland Floor Where do all the leaves go? TIMMY MALLET finds out with the aid of his pooter. Stereo (E)
2.20 Let's Make a Story!
7: The Jewels of the Sea King Storyteller ANNE ROSENFELD Written by RON JAMES. Stereo (E)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Invisible Fire by KATHY HENDERSON (R) (E)
2.40 Using Unemployment Presented by CHRIS SERLE 7: Getting Qualified (R) (E) For tutors' notes send sae to: Using Unemployment. [address removed]

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guests of the Week-
Peter Fluck and Roger Law , iconoclastic masters of the Spitting Image puppets.
Serial: The Soul of Kindness (3)

Saying Goodbye to Sylvia by GILLIAN SLINN
Sylvia and Henry have been happily married for 35 years but now face their biggest crisis. Sylvia has always been the dominant partner and when she is admitted to a hospice Henry cannot cope with the prospect of life without her.
Directed by MARY CLYNE BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

Children
Seven programmes compiled and presented by Roy Fuller 6: Death
Readers JILL BALCON and HUGH DICKSON
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol. Stereo

When literary editor Charles Monteith first saw William Golding's manuscript of Lord of The Flies it was a good deal longer and less focused. He pruned it and reshaped it together with the author and the book launched Golding's career. Kate Figes talks to Monteith and to Liz Calder, one of the new generation of editors, as well as to authors themselves, about that vital link between them and their work and how it is changing in the modern publishing world.

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm

With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge crime- writer
Jessica Mann and Bill Russell from Reading University Researcher KAREN OSTLE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Peter Smith goes into the world of business to report on the latest initiatives and problems. Producer GUDRUN DALIBOR
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am L W)

Six talks about
Law, Justice and Democracy by Lord McCluskey
Scottish High Court Judge,
Solicitor-General for Scotland 1974-9
2: The Clanking of Medieval Chains
'Law is a tool used by men to sculpt justice out of the raw material of life ... [but] how do judges, with precisely the same starting materials in terms of fact and legal tradition, end up crusading for diametrically opposite conclusions?'
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on Radio 3) (Lecture 3. 'Hard Cases and Bad Law', next Wednesday on Radio 4)
The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in THE LISTENER

Mary Goldring raises trade union and employment issues with John Edmonds , General Secretary of the General,
Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union; and Eric Hammond ,
General Secretary of the Electrical, Electronic,
Telecommunications and Plumbing Union
Producer FRASER STEEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11. am L W)

A Dog Called Sam by CAROL BRUGGEN

David Bean reports on his encounters with animals and those who cherish them.
2: Nothing but a Hound Dog Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

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

A House for Mr Biswas by v. S. NAIPAUL abridged in 15 parts by MICHAEL VOYSEY
Read by Garard Green (1)
For Mohun Biswas , success means the wonder and audacity of having a house and portion of the earth all his own. But the odds seem all against him and as he moves from job to job, as he acquires a wife and four children, as he struggles to escape from the household of his in-laws, Mr Biswas 's ambition becomes ever more remote.... Producer MAURICE LEITCH (R)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

followed by an interlude

Help Yourself to Study Skills Presented and produced by GRAHAM TAYAR (R) (E)
12.301: 1: Getting Started (a) Time and Space (b) Tasks and Targets
12.50 2: Resources and Reading