Presented by Michael Pickstock Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill

Hope Sealy in conversation with a special guest about a prayer which has inspired their life and faith.

Presented by John Humphrys and Jenni Murray
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective with ROSEMARY HARTILL , the BBC'S
Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.25 The Weeklies With DAVID WALKER
Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

Presented by Cliff Morgan
The inaugural Rugby Union World Cup is underway: first reports on ENGLAND'S tie against AUSTRALIA in Sydney, and FRANCE v SCOTLAND in Christchurch. Plus today's cricket and football internationals. Producer PETER GRIFFITHS

Bernard Falk reports on holidays and travel. With
Susan Marling and Nigel Coombs Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF

with Ned Sherrin , Robert Elms Craig Charles , Victoria Mather and Stephen Fry.
Plus the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward.
Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY

What are the real choices before the electorate on those issues which the polls say most concern the people of this country?
The first of six programmes in which Geoffrey Goodman steps back from the politicians' rhetoric to identify the alternatives with the help of families whose everyday lives will be affected by the result and experts in health, education, taxation and employment. Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Producer SUE LITTLEDALE

(Re-broadcast on Spring Bank Holiday at 10.0 am)

Sheila Hancock , Derek Nimmo Tim Rice and Kenneth Williams and Nicholas Parsons Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo

Cyril Smith
Robert Worcester and Peter Snape

An Album of Eccentrics and Oddities
Producer ALAN OWEN (R)

The Rules of the Game by LUIGI PIRANDELLO translated by ROBERT RIETTY and NOEL CREGEEN
A town in Italy, 1919: Leone and Silia, man and wife, live apart, and Guido is Silia's lover. About this. there is an uncanny lack of jealousy on Leone's part, for he seems a man without any emotional cares whatever: to him it is all a game. It can still be a dangerous game....
Other parts played by CAROL HOWARD and JANICE SOMERS Adapted and directed by BRIAN MILLER. BBCBristoL Stereo

A year in the life of an English village
In the second of 12 monthly talks Wilfred De'Ath reports on April in Corby Glen,
Lincolnshire. BBC Manchester

on Mauna Kea
Poking out through the clouds 14,000 feet above the island of Hawaii is the largest telescope of its kind in the world. The
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope was built jointly by Britain and the Netherlands, and was officially opened on 27 April by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Peter Evans was there, and he reports on the insights it will make possible into the structure of the universe.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

with Frank Perring and Derek Jones

with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sally Grace and Jon Glover

With BRIAN PERKINS including Sports Round-up

Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

by HENRIK IBSEN translated from the Norwegian by MICHAEL MEYER with When Dr Stockmann discovers that the spa baths, on which the livelihood of his town depends, are contaminated, he is initially praised as a public benefactor.
But such adulation is sadly short-lived....
Directed by GORDON HOUSE . Stereo A BBC World Service/ Radio 4 production (R)

Presented by Richard Baker Producer JUDITH ROLES. Stereo

by JOHN CHRISTOPHER abridged in 12 parts by BRIAN GEAR
Read by Hywel Bennett 8: Voices from the Snow
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

A reading, a hymn and reflection led by Kenneth Slack. Stereo

The Day London Lost its Nerve London - like most large cities - has had its share of civil disorder. One of the most bizarre examples took place in February 1886 when a meeting called to protest against the plight of the destitute and homeless led to mass looting, violence and a state of general panic. Afterwards the popular orator John Burns and the journalist Henry Hyndman were charged with sedition.
Mitch Raper relates what led up to their arrest and what took place at the trial.
With
William Eedle , Jon Glover and Garard Green
Producer SALLY THOMPSON. Stereo

Second of eight programmes France: Silence is Golden
Novelist Joseph Hone takes the Blue Train south to Nice, where the old Victorine film studios prompt memories of Jacques Tati and a silent set.
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Stereo (Details on Friday at 12.27pm)

by MORAY HUNTER
This week's episode starring
Morwenna Banks, Robin Driscoll, Robert Glenister, Hugh Laurie, Clive Mantle and Rory Bremner

1992: the leader of the Party Party, Action Man, has met the Queen and is now Prime Minister. Meanwhile the people of Microcosm are passing the time by taking acting lessons in sitcom techniques from Mr Mann. Will they emerge as the lead characters in a sitcom of their own, or will they be asked to serve in the new Cabinet? Only the Narrator knows.
Producer JAMIE RIX.
Stereo

followed by an interlude