With BISHOP ROY DA VIES Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Nine out often cats said their owners prefer it.
Producer Liz BANO. Stereo

This week Chairman Clay Jones digs into the heavy postbag of listeners' gardening problems and to solve them, calls on the expert advice of Fred Downham
Dr Stefan Buczacki and Daphne Ledward Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions should be on postcards only please and addressed to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC. PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ
Plant lists and topical tips on Ceefax page 188

Voices by ELIZABETH MCGREGOR
Read by David Gooderson Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM, p 47; All as God wills (BBC HB 1); Psalm 111;
Colossians 2, vv 1-5; 0 taste and see (Vaughan Williams); All my hope on God is founded (bp 3) Stereo

"P.E.: the most energetic part of his visits (rare) to the sports centre is generally the stroll through town."
Robert Booth summons the writer and comic actor, Stephen Fry, to his study for a quiet word about his school report.

Presented by John Buckley

A serial in five parts by EDWARD BOYD
2: 'You can't even get your act together, you lot. Do you want Jock Cameron found, or would he be better left where he is?'
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER

Presented by Nick Worrall

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Everybody Said No! by SHEILA LAVELLE. Stereo (R)
2.05 Wavelength Plus WPFM The weekly radio magazine for under-20s, with news, reviews, information and music. Stereo (e) Ring Freefone [number removed] during the programme for free referral service

Introduced by Jenni Murray Novelist and playwright Fay Weldon talks about mothers, daughters and marriage. Serial:
Where Angels Fear to Tread (2)

by DOT RUBIN
Three separate stories about people holidaying by the sea - in Scotland, Spain and Cornwall. For all the characters, their time away from the pressures of everyday life enables them to get their lives and emotional relationships into some kind of perspective.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON . Stereo

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill uncovers the hidden yet vital tradition of Irish poetry from the 12th' century until the present day. 5: The Saviour Image
Readers MAIRE Ni GHRAINNE MACDARA 0 FATHARTA and DONALL FARMER
Producer KATHRYN PORTER
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

Let's Get the Show on the Road Small-scale touring companies seem an ideal way of taking theatre to a wider audience. But these companies must confront not only the rigours of life on the road, but also the increasingly popular idea that drama must be more related to the community in which it's performed. So what's the future for these 'hit and run' groups? Joyce MacMiUan reports. Producer JOHN GOUDIE

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams continuedon VHFiFM 5.50-5.55

With PAULINE BUSHNELL Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world. including Financial Report

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. 2: Greta Gar bo
'I want to be alone' is a catch-phrase that her imitators still thrive on. But why did the 'Divine Garbo' (also known as Camille, Ninotchka and Queen Christina) quit the movies in 1941, aged just 36, in the prime of life and at the top of her talents?
Producer WENDY CLAY (R)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Lawrence Lecendre is a Canadian Indian living in northern Saskatchewan. He has been a fur trapper all his life. As the annual fur season opens in Canada, he'll be working his own Trapline - setting lines of traps through ten square miles of forest. Margaret Horsfield has been with him, exploring his controversial way of life. Producer SALLY THOMPSON

A life of Tchaikovsky in three movements, written and compiled by PAUL ALLEN
Second Movement:
Be Thou Exalted, 0 Bridegroom
Other parts played by STEPHEN HARROLD. STEPHEN THORNE
JO MANNING WILSON , JULIE BERRY
ANTHONY JACKSON. STEVE HODSON and IAN THOMPSON.
Directed byJOHN POWELL Stereo

Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SALLY MARMION

The Child in Time (3)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

20th-Century Witness
12.30 Life in the Depression (1) and at 12.50 Life in the Depression (2) (R)(e)