A meditation to mark the beginning of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, With Yusuf Islam.

(Stereo)

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With Peter Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Laurie Macmillan
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Garry Richardson
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

(Stereo)

This week the team travels to Wales, where members of the Llandaff Horticultural and Conservation Society put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki, Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones

BBC Manchester

by Aufa Rifaat
Read by Souad Faress

NEM, p 93; Alleluia, alleluia! (BBC HB 98); Psalm 121; I Corinthians 15 vv 1-11; Come ye faithful, raise the anthem (BBC hb 123) Stereo

In the first of six programmes, Patricia Carroll introduces and plays music from her Victorian collection of pieces composed by famous pianists of the day. This week: Marie Pleyel

A weekly examination into how children and parents stand in the eyes of the law

John Howard investigates what happens when families split up. With one in three marriages breaking down, could family conciliation services be improved? How do divorce courts decide on access and custody of a child and what happens when parents are not married?

Richard Anthony Baker examines the exultant exertions of Billy Connolly, Gerald Hoffnung, Victoria Wood and others.

(Stereo)

Presented by Sir Robin Day

by the Labour Party

1.55 Listening Corner
Today's story: Crusts.
(Stereo) (R)

2.5 Looking at Nature: Pond
Stop Press! Emergency mercy dash! Timmy Mallett saves Rochdale pond creatures.
(Stereo) (R) (e)

2.20 Talk to Me: 1: What Can You Say?
The Arrival of the Doofernow by Anita Hewett.
(Stereo) (e)

2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): The Tree Says...
Compiled by Mary Haydon
(R) (e)

2.40 Travel and Tourism: 1: The Travel and Tourism Business
A series for 16- to 19-year-olds
Presented by Val Bethell
(Stereo) (e)

(For tutor's pack send £1.00 and large sae to: [address removed])

Introduced by Sue MacGregor

Guest of the Week: Clive Lloyd, cricketer

Serial: In the Springtime of the Year (7)

by J.G. Ballard dramatised by Michelene Wandor
with Philip Voss as Raymond
Graham Seed as Gerald
Anna Nygh as Lorraine
Mia Soteriou as Carol

An American sculptress is commissioned to create a 'sonic' sculpture for a new building complex in London. When her work is unveiled, the sponsors are in for a loud surprise.

(Stereo) (R)

I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who
Rudyard Kipling's poem stimulated H. Colin Davis to compile six programmes of poems that ask questions.

BBC Bristol

(Winner of the 1987 Sony Radio Award for Best Classical Music Programme)
Variations on the life and music of Giacomo Puccini
Compiled and translated by Michael Oliver
with Norman Rodway as Puccini and Jill Balcon as his wife, Elvira

"I am a passionate hunter of wild-fowl, libretti and women and the shyest quarry of all is a good libretto."
Shortly before Puccini entered the Institute de la Couronne, Brussels, in 1924, for painful radium therapy of a tumour in his throat, the composer was reconciled with the conductor Arturo Toscanini, with whom he had quarrelled some time previously. Toscanini agreed to conduct the world premiere of Puccini's 12th and as yet unfinished opera Turandot at La Scala, Milan. But would it ever be finished?
(Stereo)
(R) (revised)

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
(continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55)

with Pauline Bushnell
including Financial Report

Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from Victor Borge, Shelley Berman, Jack Sheldon, Bob Newhart, Peter Cook and Alan Bennett.

"In the midst of life we are in debt."
(Ethel Watts Mumford)

(Stereo)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

The first in a series of seven programmes in which the tenor and opera producer
Nigel Douglas talks about some of his favourite singers and plays some recordings. 1: Elisabeth Schumann

"All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Tolstoy)

Following today's programme at 12 noon, John Howard is joined by legal experts and single parent groups to answer your questions on what happens to children and parents when a family splits up. What can you do if a former partner defaults on maintenance or refuses access to your child?

Ring [number removed]
Lines open from 7.0pm

by Chris Hawes

(Stereo)

Jamaican-born Ferdi Dennis has lived most of his life in London. He's spent the last few months visiting six major cities on a personal journey of discovery among the communities of Black Britain.

A hunt for the elusive young man who's painted the street signs in the Rastafarian colours leads to a 108-year-old seafarer who dreams of marrying Margaret Thatcher, to Gaddafi, who's given up rioting, and to Kwame, who believes in divine justice.

Presented by Michael Berkeley

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

12.30 Do We Not Bleed?
With Alan Brownjohn and James Berry
(e)

and at 12.50 Trippingly on the Tongue
With Alan Brownjohn and John Mole
(e)