with MONICA DITMAS. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Chris Lowe
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 CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

3: Italy - the Dark Wood
Novelist Joseph Hone revisits the Italian Riviera. (R)

Producer CAROLE LACEY
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Deep End by JEFF TORRINGTON
Read by Sandy Neilson
Producer DAVID JACKSON YOUNG

NEM, p 95; Oft in danger, oft in woe (BBC HB 363); Psalm 119, w 41-48; Zechariah 13, w 1-9; Shepherd divine, our wants relieve (BBC HB 348) Stereo

In this six-part series, John Timpson takes a wry look at this green and pleasant land. 5: Homes, Stately and Curious Behind the respectable face of the country's stately homes lie tales of stately oddities - of life-size Samurai warriors, of an oriental mansion in deepest Gloucestershire, of temples to dead pets, and even a memorial to a beloved family fish.
Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Pebble Mill

John Howard presents the last of four programmes looking at the radical changes in the social security system, which come into effect on 11 April. Today, You and Your Benefit looks at how these changes will affect families.
Producer BRIDGET OSBORNE Helpline number [number removed] Lines open today until 8. 00pm and over the weekend
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Presented by Derek Cooper Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by LAIN LAUCHLAN and SANDRA KERR. Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In Old Friends or New by HARRY A.JAMES Retold by VALERIE MCGIBBON Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree
7: The Amazing Secret Music-Maze by BARRY GIBSON Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYEWACKETT Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Scottish Traditional Dancing With BILL TORRANCE This week: Up Hellya, Shetland BBC Scotland. Stereo (e)

from Manchester
The programme that puts you in touch with politics, public affairs, fashion, finance and food. So who needs women's programmes? You do!
Presenter Helen Boaden Serial: Home Life (3)

by ARNOLD BENNETT , dramatised in six parts by PETER MACKIE
6: 1895-1906
After 20 years apart, Constance and Sophia are reunited in Bursley. Expecting to enjoy a tranquil old age together, they find that life has one final surprise for Sophia.
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

5: The Merthyr Express
'It's alive, it's warm.... and we've brought home the bacon!' Merthyr Tydfil, in the Welsh Valleys, is the scene of Tony Wilkinson 's fifth visit. He finds the campaigning local weekly coming up against some tough customers - a pub fighter among them. But the young look beyond the pubs, the dying pits and the losing football team.
Producer JULIAN HALE

Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

with Tom Boswell , Clive Jacobs and Alanah Martin Producer IRENE MALLIS

(Re-broadcast next Monday) Written by PAUL BURNS
BBC Pebble Mill

with June Knox-Mawer Producer HELEN FRY. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

Among the team tonight are
The Rt Hon John Wakeham , mp, Lord President of the Council Tessa Blackstone, Master of Birkbeck College, University of London who tackle the issues raised by an audience in Maidstone, Kent
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

On the anniversary of the day Roosevelt closed every bank in America, Alistair Cooke remembers Black Monday, the huge stock market crash of 19th October 1987.

Presented by John Eidinow Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Where there's Muck there's Brass
Children of the Industrial
Revolution, brass bands came of age when British industry ruled the waves. They continue to flourish in competitive leagues and, as Paul Allen discovers, are hungry for new talent and new music. Producer RACHEL YORKE
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

4: The White Stick

Presented by David Sells

A subversively satirical programme that undermines the fabric of our society? Or simply a few topical laughs? Find out with Bill Wallis David Tate , Sally Grace and Royce Mills.
Written by MARK BURTON
JOHN O'FARRELL , PAUL B. DAVIES STEVE PUNT, MIKE COLEMAN
BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT UNFORD MAX HANDLEY , GED PARSONS PETER HICKEY , DAVID BADDIEL ROB NEWMAN , ALISON RENSHAW and others
Producer BILL DARE. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)