Prices, practical farming, politics and the countryside.

With THE REV KERR SPEIRS. Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys 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
7.25, 8.25 Sport
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament

Four atrabilious peregrinations around Wales by Ray Gosling. 1: Wiping It Up with the Cat Having been sacked from a teaching job by Gwent County Council, Mr G. vents his spleen on the folks next door.... Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producers CAROLE LACEY and ADAM RAPHAEL

A Very Understanding Man by MURIEL ROSS.
Read by Anest Wiliam
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

NEM p 110; Rise up, 0 men of God (BBC HB 364); Psalm 119, vv 33-40; Mark 12, w 28-34; God is love (BBC HB 7) Stereo

Presented by John Howard
0 FURTHER INFORMATION: write for Foctsheet No 10 to You and Yours, BBC, London WIA 1AA

with Derek Cooper
Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Auntie Aggie Makes a Clootie Dumpling by DORRITH M. SIM Stereo (R)
2.05 Let's Join In Jeremiah in the Dark Woods by JANET AND ALLAN AHLBERG Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree The Music Menagerie (9) by BARRY GIBSON Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR. With PYEWACKETT Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 The Friday Serial by ROALD DAHL. A Drive in the Motorcar (e)

from Manchester.
Helen Boaden and guests explore love, life and laughter in the programme no woman can afford to miss.
Serial: Driving in the Dark (2)

by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY translated by DAVID MAGARSHACK. dramatised in eight parts by MICHELENE WANDOR. With and 5: An Arrest Is Made
The father of the three brothers is dead - murdered by blows from a brass pestle to his skull. When Mitya is seen leaving the town with bloodstained clothes, Makarov, the Police Inspector, is informed.
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

A series of sixprogrammes. Continuing his infiltration of the Lancashire milltown of Colne, Phil Smith gets to the heart of things with some market-stall holders. 2: Gossip
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Stereo

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

including Financial Report

with Clive Jacobs ,
Tom Boswell and Alanah Martin Producer MOLLY PRICE OWEN

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer FIONA COOPER Stereo

Lord Prior, GEC Chairman, Frances Morrell , author and broadcaster
John Elliott , Chairman and Chief Executive of Elders and Geoffrey Robertson , qc.
From West Raynham, Norfolk. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Last in the present series.
Marcel Berlins takes a weekly look at events in the courts.
He talks to judges, barristers, solicitors and members of the public who come into contact with the legal system - both civil and criminal. Producer GARETH BUTLER

The continuing case of John Tower, the surprising support of Senator Strom Thurman, and the drinking habits of Winston Churchill.

by Alistair Cooke

Scene Setters
During the past decade sets and theatre design have become a more dominant part of the theatrical experience.
Michael Billington talks to the actors who have to fit within them, the producers and directors who commission them, and to the designers themselves, as they transform empty space into
'a scaffold for the imagination'. With director John Caird , designer Bill Dudley , impresario Cameron Mackintosh and actress Fiona Shaw. Producer LIS EDWARDS. Stereo

The Man in Black
The writer imagines a macabre history for the man sitting opposite her on a train. Stereo

Presented by David Sells

with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace.
Written by MIKE COLEMAN
BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT LINFORD MAX HANDLEY. GED
PARSONS SIMON BULLIVANT , MARK BRISENDEN DAVID BADDIEL. ROB NEWMAN BARRY ATKINS , MICHAEL DINES OLEH STEPANIUK, PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer BILL DARE. Stereo