With VERNON SPROXTON. Stereo

Presented by Jenni Murray 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Laurie Taylor presents an addict's guide to good listening Guest listener Rosie Barnes , MP Under Review: Call Nick Ross (Radio 4); The Brian Hayes
Phone-in (LBC); The Living Poel Irina Ratushinskaya (Radio 3) Producer JENNY DANKS Editor SALLY THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast nert Sunday) Letters should be sent to:
The Radio Programme. BBC London W1A 4WW

Liam by ANNETTE MASSIE Read by Shay Gorman Producer ANNE MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill

Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo

Ann Knowles loves cats, all kinds of cats from sad old Toms to superior Siamese. She has over 70, some just passing through for a good meal and a warm night, while others have come to stay.
Marjorie Lofthouse meets
Ann Knowles and her cats at their home in Surrey.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill

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Hope

Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Up in a Big Balloon (4). Stereo
2.5 The Song Tree
2: The Instant Music Grow-bag Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (e)
2.20 Living Language The Wanderer (1) A retelling of the Odyssey by LEON GARFIELD With NICKY HENSON as Odysseus. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Make Up Your Mind on topical issues This week: Designer Genes Out of the lab, into the unknown? Presented by MARGARET PERCY Stereo (e) Your views would like to be heard. To take part in the poll, write for the broadcast notes, sending sae to: [address removed]

Introduced by Sue MacGregor A Delicate Balance: learning through action involves teachers and children in a day-long exploration. But does it make the more usual kind of teaching seem boring?
Sara Parker has been to see the techniques at work. Serial:
With O'Leary in the Grave by KEVIN FITZGERALD abridged in 11 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Joseph O'Conor (1) 'My father was usually a rich man. But there were times when he was that strange phenomenon, a rich man without a penny.... My mother was the gentlest creature but always got her way in the end. People were always sending for her so that they could die in her arms....'
(Music: Rimsky-Korsakov's Quintet)

None So Rare by ALAN MEADOWS
Andrew looks back to the summer of 1959, when his faltering steps into manhood were hampered by giant cricket pads and the attentions of the wanton Abigail.
Narrator ALAN MEADOWS
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo (R)

Susan Hill presents Radio 4's good books programme.
This week: Troublesome People A history of world pacifism; and war in the western desert, in PENELOPE LIVELY'S new novel
Moon Tiger. Plus some hip and groovy beat writing.
Producer ANDREW PARnTT

(Revised broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9. 45pm)

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55

With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Introduced by John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. BristolBS82LR

This second series takes a critical look at six more pillars of society. 3:
Oxford Simon Jenkins looks behind the idyll of the dreaming spires to discover how far our oldest university is still an unshakable bastion of the establishment. Producer MARGARET HILL

Dr Anthony Clare 's subject is
Jane Deknatel , the English-born daughter of a Communist trade union organiser, who has become one of the most powerful figures in the American film industry. Researcher LOUISE HIBBINS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER (R)

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE

Keith Floyd savours moments from the culinary past and cooks up something a little special in the process. Producer ANDREW PARFITT

Presented by Christopher Bigsby
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

Docherty
9: The Strange Virus

Presented by Richard Kershaw

David Sells presents coverage of the results of today's local elections for approximately
12,000 seats on district councils in England and Wales. In some areas the whole council is up for re-election, and all the results will be closely studied by those looking for clues to the possible outcome of the General Election - the very date of which could be decided by tonight's events.
BBC regional correspondents and BBC Local Radio stations report the most significant results as they come in. In the studio: results analysis by Peter Kellner of The
Independent and political commentary by Robert Harris of The Observer.
Joining them to discuss the implications of the results for local and national government are David Williams (Liberal/ SDP Alliance), leader of Richmond Borough Council; Ken Livingstone (Labour), former leader of the GLC; and Nicholas Freeman
(Conservative), Leader, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. including at 12.30 L W Shipping Forecast
VHFIFM joins at 1.10 am

A-level Geography
12.30 Water Supply Written and narrated by ASTLEY JONES (e) and at 12.50 What Happened to the Green Revolution? Written and narrated by MICHAEL PICKSTOCK (e)