With The Rev Valerie Watson
(Stereo)

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
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 mendacious peregrinations through Wales by Rav Gosling.
2: From Pant- Y-Hose <o Llantisiliogogodancer
Mr G. burrows deeper into
Y Cymro - through the trousers of Tom Jones , up the tonsils and into the democratic Ca)vinist spirit.... producerALASTAIR wiLSON BBCNort/! tVMt
(Repeated nerf Sunday

BBC correspondents and reporters from around the world reflect the major issues of the day.
Producers HOWARD ROGERS and CAROLE LACEY

for St Patrick's Day. The Coast of Malibar byjOHNMAHER
Read by Dermot Crowtey.
The scene: An 'Irish' pub in South London.
The hero: DiUon, silent by the bar....
Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM p 110; We sing the praise of him who died (BBC HB 95);
Lord for thy tender mercy's sake (Farrant); Mark 14. w 43-53; AU for Jesus (Bp 2) SMrm

In days of yore when men went to war, the officers did so strapped into a Sam Browne belt - but who was Sam Browne and why his belt?
Dilly Barlow attempts to find the answer with the help of the experts at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London.
Producer W)LL CANTOPHER fBroadoMt on Sunday at <t4!'pmLtV,)
W QUESTIONS ?; Enoutre Within, BBC. London tVM MTt

News and advice for consumers presented by John Howard.
< INFORMATION: send sae for Factsheet No 11 [address removed]

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.
(Repeated next Monday)

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner
Today's story: Farmer Coombes's Revenge.
(Stereo) (R)

2.05 Let's Join In: The Singer and the Wizard
Finnish Traditional story
(Stereo) (e)

2.25 The Song Tree
The Music Menagerie (10) by Barry Gibson.
Presented by Hilary James and Simon Mayor
With Pye Wackett.
(Stereo) (R) (e)

2.40 The Friday Serial: Boy: Going to the Big School
by Roald Dahl:
(Stereo) (e)

from Bristol.
Serial: Driving in the Dark (7) Presenter Jenni Mills

by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY translated by DAviD MAGARSHACK dramatised in eight parts by MICHELENE WANDOR. With
6: T'/;e Questions Begin
Mitya has been brought before the examining magistrate, Nelyudov. Although all evidence points to his guilt, Mitya denies the murder of his father.
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBCPeoNeM;;;. Stereo

A series of six programmes.
Phil Smith 's ceaseless search into the character of Cotne, the Lancashire milltown, this week takes him from the working men's club to the choral society to find men who know how to enjoy themselves. 3: Male Harmony
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Stereo

Presented by Robert Williams and Libby Fawbert
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters; 5.31 City News conftnMed on FAf5.50-5.M

including Financial Report

with Clive Jacobs, Tom Boswell and Alanah Martin

Cast for the week: [see below]

BBC Pebble Mill

(Repeated next Monday)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Stereo repeated ne.rf Sunday

Rt Hon Norman Lamont , Mp, Financial Secretary to the Treasury Tony B)air. Mp Alan Beith , Mp and Bridget Rosewell. economic consultant. From Margate. Kent.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBhsto;

Geoffrey Goodman presents a personal view of the week's newspapers and talks to the people behind the headlines. ProducerGARETH BUTLER

After two grapes imported from Chile are found to have been injected with cyanide, Alistair Cooke details the role of the EPA and FDA in maintaining food safety and standards.

by Alistair Cooke repeated nea'< Sunday)

Le Mot juste
For some writers the search for the right one can take days. For others they tumble out ina stream.
Paul Vaughan talks to poets, novelists and lexicographers about the basic tool of their trade - the word.
Producer JULIAN MAY
Stereo repeated ne.rt Monday)

Appteby at AUington (5)

Presented by David Sells

Weekly satire with Bill Wallis David Tate and Sally Grace. Written byMIKECOLEMAN
BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT UNFORD 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 repeated tomorrow af 5.25pm LW)