Live from the Royal Bath and West Show at Shepton Mallet

With ROBERT PATTERSON

Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
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 GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Your Letters

5: You Should Have Seen the Mess
Read by Naomi Capron

Chris Dunkley of the Financial Times, airs your views on BBC programmes and policies and questions the decision makers on your behalf.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Send your comments to: Feedback, BBC.
London W14 1AA

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producers CAROLE LACEY and BERNARD THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Purple Socks by SHEILA HARRIS
Read by Kevin Flood Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland

NEM, p 67; Lift up your hearts (BBC HB 326); Psalm 63;
Deuteronomy 34; Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371) Stereo

Devil Take the Foremost While Mikhail Gorbachev preaches economic and political reform to the Eastern Bloc, the Yugoslavs have a fair claim to have got there first. But has it done them much good?
Yugoslavia's economy is facing chaos, the foundations of her foreign policy are shifting and her internal stability is threatened by tensions between her constituent republics. Chris Cviic assesses the problems facing Yugoslavia and explores some of the solutions now beginning to surface.

The children's book programme introduced by Penelope Lively. Victorian and Edwardian children's books are now worth a great deal of money, but what about the books in your attic dating from your own childhood - or the ones belonging to your children? Critic Brian Alderson and writer Gillian Avery , both avid collectors, share their enthusiasm and offer advice. Producer SALLY FELDMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 2.47pm)

Presented by John Howard
News and advice for consumers For information about this week's 's programme, write for
Factsheet No 22: [address removed]. Please send sae

Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

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

RICHARD briers reads A Fancy Dress Fit for a King (R)

from Newcastle
Emily Davidson became a legend when she threw herself under a horse at the Derby to further the cause of the suffragettes. Or did she?
The programme that toasts the women of the future and celebrates the heroines of the past retraces her story.
Serial: The Phoenix Tree (3) Presenter Jenny Cuffe

by Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised in two parts by Bert Coules
With Roger Rees as Sherlock Holmes, Crawford Logan as Dr John Watson and Matt Zimmerman as Sir Henry Baskerville
'I know what I saw. It killed your uncle, Sir Henry, and now it's waiting for you. It's out there now; waiting for you.'

A series of six conversations between Cliff Morgan and guests who are invited to talk about the people who have greatly influenced them.
1: George Melly - 'Good time George', Britain's most flamboyant jazz singer. Entertainer, high-liver, collector, lover of shocking suits, raunchy ties and broad hats, teetotaller 'except for wine, port, sherry and champagne', the dean of decadence, he is also much admired as a blues historian, modern-art expert, book critic, film critic and celebrated autobiographer.
Are there people he calls 'heroes'?
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Hugh Sykes
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20* Test Match Report
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

WithCLJVEROSUN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

with Barry Norman
Mike Dicken is on the phone from Cumbria with the Code Cracker clues.
'This week I'll be east and somewhat south of Eden in Cumbria. If you are saddled with the task of finding me, follow the famous bridlepath. Is that fair?'
This week's Code Cracker symbol: X -> + 1
Producer IRENE MALLIS

Written by ROB gittins Cast for the week:

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Rt Hon Barbara Castle, MEP David Willetts ,
Director of Studies,
Centre for Policy Studies Polly Toynbee , journalist and Sir George Young , mp
From Ross-on-Wye, Hereford and Worcester
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby

Geoffrey Goodman 's personal view of the week's newspapers and interviews with the people behind the headlines.
Producer VALERIE SANDERSON

As the West's sport becomes tainted by money-grubbing, the Soviets announce their first golf course. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Raising Your Voice
So the multi-national conglomerates who dominate the publishing industry won't print what you want to read? Do it yourself. You may not get rich but it has never been easier to set up a small press. Paul Allen reports on the independent Newcastle imprint with star poets on its list, the co-op in the Yorkshire coalfield with a burning commitment to the stories of ordinary people, and the one-man poetry publisher from a Pennine valley trying to persuade hard-nosed commercial booksellers to stock his product. Producer DAVE SHEASBY

Riceyman Steps (5)

Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

Sharper than a journalist's pen - swift satire from seven days of news.
With David Tate
Sally Grace , Kerry Shale and Jonathan Kydd.
Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON. JOHN O'FARRELL PETER HICKEY , BILL MATTHEWS ROBERT UNFORD. MAX HANDLEY GED PARSONS. DAVID
BADDIEL BOB NEWMAN. AUSON RENSHAW
SIMON BULLIVANT. MARK BRISENDEN PAUL B. DAVIS and others
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)