The Monday feature on the farm or the fringe of the farm followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers.
Producer TIM FINNEY

With FR PATRICK CRILLY BBC Northern Ireland

Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON GOMPERTZ
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day

A look ahead with Eugene Fraser

Wake up to Andy Kershaw as he raids the BBC Sound Archives for revelations about the way we spend one third of our lives: sleeping.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE

Producer ELAINE BEDELL. Stereo

Presented by Louise Botting
Money Box reports on the latest developments in the fields of investment, insurance, mortgages, social security and tax and helps to sort out the type of financial problems that crop up in everyone's lives.

Choosing a Father by LESLIE HALWARD
Read by William Eedle Producer MITCH RAPER

from
St George 's Church, Belfast led by THE REV DR BERT TOSH with the CHOIR OF GROSVENOR HIGH SCHOOL conducted by RONALD LEE (BBC HB) 0 praise ye the Lord (279): Almighty God , thy word is cast (188)
BBC Northern Ireland

Presented by Sean Street Readers DENYS HAWTHORNE and BONNIE HURREN
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS. Stereo Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR

Presented by John Howard Editor KEN VASS

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman Robert Robinson First Round: South Rodney Cuff
(computer scientist)
Una Kidd (housewife)
Christopher Cooke (bank official) Dr Ann Lloyd (civil servant)
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by LAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD EDIS

Presented by Brian Widlake Editor MARTIN COX

1.55 Listening Corner VICTORIA WOOD reads Captain Betty and the Pirates (1) by JOE DUNLOP Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.00 Running Your Office A short course for young adults (16-plus) on office communications and practice, details of RSA assessment and associated Open College course in course-notes. Presented by MARGARET KORVING With ANNA KENNEDY and MICHAEL JAFFE Drama written by PETER KING Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Producer GRAHAM TAYAR (e) Send f1. 00 and a large sae to: [address removed]
1: What's Your Job Really About? and at 2.20
2: Planning and Priorities
2.40 The YTS Road A series for new or intending YTS trainees on the opportunities it offers. Presented by TUDOR LOMAS 1: Two Years' YTS as Springboard Consultant JAN LLOYD Producer GRAHAM TAYAR (e)

In the programme that gives you fashion, finance, foreign affairs, fantasy and food, Jenni Murray says cheers to the wine expert Jancis Robinson , who will offer back a few bouquets. Serial: Helen of Burma by HELEN RODRIGUEZ abridged in eight episodes by ANN REES-JONES
Read by Mary Wimbush (5)
Helen Rodriguez was matron of a civilian hospital in Burma when, on the morning of 10 April 1941, the town was bombed by the Japanese. (Music: Khachaturian's Third Symphony)

A play by ROBERT ELLISON. Stereo

Carney Gavin , Curator of Harvard's Semitic Museum, describes how a bomb blast in 1970 opened up exciting new areas of'phono-archaeology'. Producer ED THOMASON

The Write Stuff
Writing a successful film script is an ambition held by many.
Christopher Cook talks to those who teach the skills and to those who have mastered the art.
Producer SALLY MARMION

Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters Letters to: PM, BBC London WIA 1AA
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5.55

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Join the jolly japesters for more jocular jokery...
Starring Jeremy Hardy as Jeremy, Paul B. Davies as Paul, Kit Hollerbach as Kit and Caroline Leddy as Caroline

When the local vicar pops round for tea and poetry, Kit and Caroline find themselves on the wrong side of some very strange people...

(Stereo)
(Broadcast on Saturday at 11.30pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Presented by Derek Cooper

by MARGARET GILLARD with The writer Edward Thomas died in the First World War just when he was at the height of his powers as a poet. This play traces the years prior to his death when his complex and emotional nature put great strain on his marriage. During this time, Eleanor Farjeon became a close family friend, offering a loyalty and devotion to both Edward and his wife that transcended any sense of jealousy, for it was clear to all that she was deeply in love with him.
Eleanor Farjeon 's songs sung by NICOLE TIBBELS
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON . Stereo

Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN

God's Snake by IRINI SPANIDOU abridged in ten parts by JANE MAYS
Read by Paola Dionisotti
A young girl, brave, clever, affectionate, grows up in a military family in post-war
Greece. The animals teach her about love and death; the people reveal what lies between - ugliness and beauty, cruelty and passion. Painfully her wide-eyed innocence hardens into worldly wisdom.
This remarkable first novel has been highly acclaimed for its powerful imagery, its wit, humour and compassion. 1: The Snake Skin
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON

The best of Come and Praise 1: Twelve assembly songs for primary schools introduced by GEOFF MARSHALL-TAYLOR . Stereo