with THE REV GEOFFREY AINGER Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead andSueMacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo

Clay Jones calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Sid Robertson to answer listeners' gardening queries. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time BBC, PO Box 27. Manchester M60 ISJ

Diamonds Is Forever by JANETS GOLDFINCH
Read by Joan Matheson
Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM, p71; Thy kingdom come!
On bended knee (BBC HB 2,8);
Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
(Carols for Choirs 2); Luke 1, vv
57-66; Awake, awake: fling off the night (AMNS 342) 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

tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family
Presented by John Buckley

by E W. HORNUNG
Four of the early Raffles stories dramatised by DAVID BUCK
4: The Chest of Silver
With Inspector MacKenzie's suspicions about Raffles's professional life growing, A.J. decides the time has come to pay a visit to Scotland. But Bunny is not to go with him. To Bunny's chagrin he has the responsibility of guarding Raffles's illegally acquired silver-plate.
Stereo (R)

Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines

1.55 Listening Corner Today's songs: Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (R) English Resources (2) at 2.05 People Speaking 3: Talk at Work Researcher SIMON FULLER (e) and at 2.45 Introducing... Untouchable by MULK RAJ ANAND Stereo (e)

Jenni Murray with the women making the news, and the stories behind the headlines. So who needs women's programmes? You do!

The last of five magical plays The Good, the Bad and the Slightly Unprepossessing by SARAH MAXWELL
A modern version of Beauty and the Beast set in America, with multi-millionaire 'Heartless' Harrison Hope, of the six-inch nails and hair and beard to the ground, as the Beast and - well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Stereo

Six programmes chosen and presented by Wendy Cope 5: How Vile Is Man
Readers ELIZABETH PROUD. STEVE HODSON and MARGARET WARD Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo

Reporter David Levy
Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester

Of Mammas and Matzohs
American writers have often struck literary gold from the rich mine of Jewish culture.
Is there a comparable body of British fiction? Novelists like Frederic Raphael ,
Bernice Rubens and Howard Jacobson may write about Jewish characters, but does their work make up a recognisable literary tradition?
Anne Karpf investigates the case of the missing Anglo-Jewish novel.
Producer WILL CANTOPHER

continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

with PAULINE BUSH NELL including Financial Report

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of cinema stars. 8: Robert Redford
He takes the best close-ups of any star today, and although Redford excels at playing the flawed side of American heroes, what he probably grinds his teeth over in private is the fact that the public still insist on taking away an impression of perfection.
Producer WENDY CLAY (R)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Stereo

As long as there are punters prepared to part with their money, there is always a bookie willing to take it.
Chris Serle , in at the deep end again, looks at this multi-million pound industry, tracing its history and attempting to understand the intricacies of the mathematics and back-slang that bookmakers use in their day-to-day dealings. He also encounters the 'Prince of Punters' who, even as far back as the 1940s, won a princely E70,000 on one race.
Producer HARALD FUCHS BBC Pebble Mill
0 HEAR THIS! page 24 and WODDIS ON ... page 97

The Survival of the Symphony Six talks by the composer
Alexander Goehr , Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, about what musicians have done to music. 5: Let the People Sing
In democratic as well as totalitarian societies, composers have tried to link their music to an ideal of service. But neither Utopian aspirations nor politics are the way for composers to make music central to life.
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on R3) ('Stand Up and Be Misunderstood next Wednesday on Radio 4)
'The Reith Lectures' are printed weekly in the 'Listener'

Michael Berkeley presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)

Jackdaw Cake (8) Stereo

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude