Adopted farmers report in from all over the country, plus interviews with prominent gepple in the week ahead.
"Oducers TIM FINNEY and DYLAN WINTER

With MICHAEL SHOESMITH BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45 Business News with MARTIN CRASS
7.00,8.00 Today's News
7.25,8.25 Sport
7.45 Thoughtfor the Day

seeks enlightenment in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer viv BLACK

With George Melly and guests. Researcher JANE NUNNELEY
Producer MARINA SALANDY-BROWN Stereo

Beethoven's Cat by BARRY DAVIES. Read by Paul Jesson Producer SHEILA FOX

from the Chapel of Strathallan School, Perthshire led by the Chaplain,
THE REV GRAEME LONGMUIR.
Reading: St Matthew 13, w 31-33 and 44-49. Hymns (CH 3):
Son of the Lord most high (219); Courage, brother (484) Organist F. N. REED BBC Scotland. Stereo

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presenter Dannie Abse Readers DAVID GOODLAND and ROSALIND SHANKS.
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBCBristol
0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Presented by Debbie Thrower Editor KEN VASS
0 WRITE to: You and Yours,
BBC. London W1A 1AA. ifyouare concerned about health, education, housingorfinancialmatters,orifyou are the victim of incompetent or unhelpful traders or authorities.

A series of eightclassic comedy profiles introduced by Barry Cryer.
1:Laurel and HardyTwo minds without a single thought.
Compiled and researched by MICHAEL POINTON
Producer SONIA BELDOM. Stereo

Presented by James Naughtie Editor MARTIN COX

1.55 Listening Comer This week: Busy Places, Quiet Places Presented by JANE HARDY and ALVIN STARDUST. Today's story: Sophie Gets a New Puppy by ALTHEA BRATTHWAITE Script written and produced by MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo (R)
2.05 Playtime Weather All Around Presenters JANE HARDY and TONY AITKEN. Stereo (e)
2.20 Science Scope Shirley Holmes and the Case of the Disappearing Salt by STEVE ROBIN. With FRED HARRIS and JULIE RICHMOND. Stereo (e)
2.40 Whirligig Unit 2: Nuts and Bolts HAZEL O'CONNOR in 'Beryl and the Brainstormers : Smoke Signal. Stereo (R) (e)
2.50 Let's Make a Story! The Secret Cave by JUDY TAYLOR. Storyteller SIMON BULLOCK Stereo (e)

Jenni Murray and guests invite you to share the hour that highlights women's interests and colours men's thinking. Serial: The Honey Ant (13) by DUNCAN KYLE abridged in 13 episodes byPATMCLOUGHLIN.
Read by Nigel Graham Editor CLARE SELERIE GREY

A play by KEN WHITMORE. Stereo

Half Madman, Half Monster Vincent Price, the American film actor, has had more than his fair share of characters whose primary aim was to freeze the audience into terrified immobility.
Nigel Andrews talks to him about his career.
Stereo

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes.
Including this week the five finalists in the TimesjPM
Environment Award scheme. The BBC's Environment
Correspondent, Alex Kirby , meets the people who need your votes to win the E5,000 first prize.
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News
Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5.55
0 LETTERS to: PM, BBC, London W1A 1AA

including Financial Report

The antidote to panel games. Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton with Graeme Garden and Bill Tidy. Chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton
Accompanied by COLIN SELL Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo

Derek Cooper 's weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.

(Broadcast Saturday at 4.30pm L 49

by EDGAR WHITE. With and Nancy Cunard was one of the most glamorous and outrageous figures of the 20s. At the centre of her life (and of the scandals surrounding it) was her enduring love for the black musician Henry Crowder.
Directed by PENNY GOLD
Stereo

American playwright
David Mamet directs the new feature film Things Change in which Don Ameche falls foul of the Mafia; and in a new touring production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, things do change as the play is reworked from Cleopatra's point of view.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CAROLINE YOUNG
Stereo

Opposite the Cross Keys (1) by SYLVIA HAYMON abridged in 12 episodes byDOREENMAHON.
Read by Pam Ferris.
In a humorous, unsentimental, crystal-clear memory of her childhood, award-winning crime novelist Sylvia Haymon recalls how, as the 7-year-old darling of a middle-class
Norwich family, she could scarcely believe her luck at being allowed to stay with her nurserymaid's family in their cottage opposite the Cross Keys pub. But Sylvia's mother had understood nothing of the fierce rural poverty of the 1920s.... Producer NIGEL BRYANT BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by David Sells Editor MARGARET BUDY

FM joins at 12.10

Urdu Boliye! Spoken Urdu: Episodes 1-5. A course of 20 lively and entertaining ten-minute episodes offering examples as an aid to understanding and speaking Urdu in everyday practical and social situations. Written by TASAWWUR KHAN and WASEEM SIDDIQUI. Producer WASEEM SIDDIQUI Stereo (R) (e) ● TEACHERS' NOTES: £5.30. Send cheques, payable to Brighton Polytechnic to [address removed]