from the Royal Smithfield Show, Earls Court, London

With MOTHER FRANCES DOMINICA Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday in London and John Humphrys in Washington
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

The pith of the week
Producer LIZ BANO. Stereo

visits Gwent, where members of the Usk in Bloom Committee put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sid Robertson.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Plant lists and topical tips on Ceefaxpage 188

The Sewing Lady by M. J. BUTLER Read by Hilda Schroder Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 58; Hills of the north, rejoice (BBC HB 33); People look east (Rose); Isaiah 60, vv 1-7; The Lord is King (BBC HB 26) Stereo

From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure, Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions with advice from experts and help from the BBC Reference Library.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 4WW

Presented by John Buckley

by E.W. HORNUNG dramatised by DAVID BUCK with Jeremy Clyde as Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny 2: Gentlemen and Players
When Raffles and Bunny are engaged for cricketing weeks at country estates, the playing of cricket can hardly be said to be their chief preoccupation.
Stereo (R)

Presented by Nick Worrall

1.55 Listening Corner WILLIE RUSHTON reads King Jolly and the Christmas Pudding. Stereo (R)
2.00 GCSE Religious Studies Beliefand War (e) Patterns of Language at 2.30
5: Changing Language Compiled by TONY PENMAN (R) (e) and at 2.45
6: Family Features Compiled by NEIL DRURY (R) (e)

'Dear Woman's Hour, what happened to all those lovely items about cookery, clothes, children, home-making and women like us?'
Answer: They're still there. Tune in, with Jenni Murray and guests.

A series of five magical plays 3: The Peril
A legend for radio by DENNIS ASHTON with the BBC Radio Drama Company There is a legend that King Arthur will return to save
England from great danger.
This will happen when George, son of George, is made King.
The year is 1940 and the Battle of Britain is at its height....
Directed by IAN COTTERELL. Stereo (Tomorrow at 3. OOpm 'Ivan the Fool and Vasilisa the Wise 'by Stephen Mulrine )

Six programmes chosen and presented by Wendy Cope 4: Middle Age
Readers PETER JEFFREY
ELIZABETH PROUD . STEVE HODSON and MARGARET WARD
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY
BBC Bristol. Stereo

Reporter Hugh Prysor-Jones Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester

A Greenaway and Pleasant Land?
Peter Greenaway 's visually stunning and disturbing films often use human game-playing to make a balance between romantic dreams and obsessive order. In his new project, Drowning by Numbers, he develops these themes in what he calls 'a black comedy of love and death', concerning three women who drown their husbands. The cast includes Joan Plowright and Bernard Hill. Mark Steyne visits the film location in Suffolk to ask Greenaway about this experiment with contemporary English manners.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT

Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. 7: W.C. Fields
He didn't act, he represented an attitude which hardly ever changed. It was that of someone who considers himself the only sane man in a world of unfriendly interlopers or evident lunatics. Either way, they are out to do him down - and, if possible, must be done down first.
Producer WENDY CLAY (R)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Stereo

I am going to be married and feel so scared because my married sisters have told me awful things about what will happen to me. Do, please, tell me the truth.
WOMAN'S OWN. 19 May 1934
Social customs and morals change through the years but human emotions stay the same. Oenone Williams takes a look at the advice given on the problem page from the 17th century to the present day. Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

The Survival of the Symphony Six talks by the composer
Alexander Goehr , Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.
4: A Licence for Licence
Little was provided for the innovators of the turn of the century, except cheap accommodation and cafe life. What is the nature of today's avant-garde, which has been absorbed into society?
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on R3) (Lecture 5: 'Let the People Sing next Wednesday on Radio 4)
'The Reith Lectures' are printed weekly in the 'Listener'

Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer JOHN GOUDIE

Jackdaw Cake (3) Stereo

with Alexander MacLeod including special coverage of the Reagan/Gorbachev Summit from Stuart Simon in Washington

followed by an interlude