goes to Berwickshire, where variety is the spice of agricultural life. The range is from hill farming to rich arable acres and a big field vegetable industry. Presented and produced by Allan Wright BBC Pebble Mill

with Hope Sealy

Presented by Peter Hobday and John Humphrys
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.20* Letters
7.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45* In Perspective
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING

With winter drawing near, Tony Adamson surveys the world of sport for news, comment, personalities and conversation.
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS

The holiday and travel programme presented by Bernard Falk with travel expert Nigel Coombs Producer IRENE MALLIS

with Ned Sherrin and Robert Elms , Craig Charles and Victoria Mather Additional material from NEIL SHAND
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
JANE BERTHOUD and CHARLIE BUNCE

Presented by Robin Oakley , political editor of The Times Producer DENNIS SEWELL

Producer HOWARD ROGERS

Presented by Louise Botting
Every week Money Box reports on the latest developments in the fields of investment, insurance, mortgages, social security and tax.
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Richard Ingrams , Alan Coren and their cohorts return with a new series of amusing mayhem based on the week's news. Barry Took is in the Chair, ensuring a minimum amount of fair play.
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and producer BILL DARE

Michael Argyle , qc Lord Gifford, qc
Margaret Jay and Lord St John of Fawsley

Join Sarah Dunant and guests for the programme that makes connections between art and design, drama and decor, style and sensibility.
Producer JANICE HADLOW

Maurice Sendak talks to
Penelope Lively about his work, his influences, and his new book. Dear Mili - a newly-discovered Grimm's fairy tale.

by JEREMY RAISON withand
Claire arrives unexpectedly at Jamie's grandfather's funeral. He is still bitter about the break-up of their relationship. Why, he wonders, could she never commit herself? Why was there always someone else?
And what can she want now? With original music composed and performed by JONATHAN WHITEHEAD
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER. Stereo ('The Rain Gathering was developed at the National Theatre, London, and subsequently produced by the Traverse Theatre. Edinburgh in July) and at 4.00
Not Dead But Lifeless by PAT BORAN with and Damien knows angels.
Sometimes he visits them and sometimes they come to his bedroom and play their harps. His mother just wishes he would get up and stop dogs digging up the garden - or maybe get ready for Christmas dinner - in November.
Directed by JEREMY HOWE
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

Dame Josephine Barnes , former president of the British Medical Association and a distinguished obstetrician and gynaecologist, is
Sue MaeGregor's guest in the first of tenprogrammes.

with Sally Grace , David Tate Bill Wallis and Royce Mills

with DAVID SYMONDS including Sports Round-Up

Omnibus edition by MARCIA KAHAN and MARK POWER Directed by DAVID HITCHINSON
Series editor MARILYN IMRIE. Stereo

with Robert Robinson
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

by ANN OGIDI
with and
Simeon was a real ragamuffin. A classic Rastafarian with dreadlocks halfway down his back. But then he decided that he wanted to try and do something to make the streets safe for the old folk, to put criminals behind bars, to become - to his friends it was unthinkable - a policeman.
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER Stereo
and at 8.45:
One Friday Not a Million Miles Past
by RICHARD HAYTON
with
It is another Friday in the life of Oldtown. But to Mazeguy it is his first without Laura, lost to a new lover, and his last as a clerk in the DHSS. Without a job and without a girl, Mazeguy tries to lose himself in the abandon of the provincial city's Friday night.
With LOLLY COCKERELL, ZELAH CLARKE, KEN CUMBERLIDGE, CAROLINE GRUBER, PHILIPPA HOWELL, ANTHONY JACKSON, IAN MICHIE and RICHARD PEARCE
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER Stereo

Richard Baker presents a mid-evening miscellany of words and music. Producer JANE BEVAN Stereo

A reading, a hymn and a reflection led by Fr Michael Child BBC Manchester Stereo

Perfume and Poison Pen
Why do so many authors choose to make their detectives female? Joan Smith unravels a web of references from Miss Marple to mean streets, from Nora Van
Snoop to the 'new woman', and conducts her own investigation among the casebooks of contemporary crimewriters. Producer WILL CANTOPHER Stereo

A series of six programmes
5: Marjorie Lofthouse talks to the explorer Christina DodweU about the best day of her life. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Pebble Mill

Stereo

Stimulatingly controversial and refreshingly original analyses of the infrastructures of four great British institutions.
(Why isn't it on Radio 3 then?) Presented by Patrick Hannan and Chris Stuart
2: The Law - A Brief Encounter Producer MARK OWEN BBC Wales