Cruising the Mississippi Oliver Walston rides the grain barge from
St Louis in the Mid-West to New Orleans and the coast.
Producer TIM FINNEY BBC Pebble Mill

with James Whitboum

with John Humphrys and Joanna Buchan Editor PHILIP HARDING

with Cliff Morgan including a report from Rome - where the 1990 World Cup Draw takes place later today.
Producer GORDON TURNBULL

with Bernard Falk
In her final report from Australia. Alanah
Martin luxuriates on Cockatoo Island, explores a pink mining village and has news of how best to get around. She ends up in Broome, home of Alastair McAlpine , where you can play any sport in the lap of luxury.
Producer CAROLINE DALY

with Ned Sherrin Robert Elms
Victoria Mather and John Walters
Additional material from ANDREW NICKOLDS
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
JANET LEE and CHARLIE BUNCE Stereo

with Andrew Rawnsley of The Guardian
Producer DENNIS SEWELL

In the week that European leaders gather in Strasbourg,
Christiane Collange and Josef Joffe bring you the concerns of the people of Europe.
Produced in Paris by the Europhile team

with Louise Botting and Vincent Duggleby. Producer
FRANCES MACDONALD

with team captains Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren.
Chairman Barry Took. Compiled by JOHN LANGDON Producer ARMANDO IANNUCCI Stereo

John Banham The Rt Hon
John Biffen , MP Chantal Cuer and Jack Straw , mp. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Call Jonathan Dimbleby with views on the issues raised in Any Questions? Producers ANNA CARRAGHER and JAMES STIMPSON
0 LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

by MICHELE CELESTE. Brixton, 1981: as a choir of West Indian grandparents prepares for the Easter Concert, the spectre of a homeland curse on the black youth raises its head.
Directed by MICHAEL cox BBC Manchester. Stereo

Barry Cunliffe presents the last programme in the current series.
This week join him in the Mahogany Room of Goldney House in Bristol for a Victorian musical evening given by the Parlour Quartet with Anthony Hyde and Rosalind Shanks.
Researcher FELICITY GOODALL Producers KATE MCALL and JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol

Sue MacGregor talks to Gerry Marsden about his life and work.

with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sally Grace

and Sports Round-Up

Omnibus edition by SCOTT CHERRY.
Produced and directed by CLIVE BRILL. Stereo

with Robert Robinson. Music by DILLIE KEANE Producer MICHAEL EMBER Stereo

by T.D. Webster
With Bert Parnaby as Jack Roberts

A chance to eavesdrop on a radio play in the making. But someone's preparations have been more meticulous than usual. Murder was definitely not in the script...
BBC Pebble Mill.
(Stereo)

Another selection of irresistible melodies and timeless tunes.
Presenter Brian Kay. Producer JUDITH ROLES Stereo

led by The Rev
Graham James. Stereo

Hugo Young chairs the discussion programme that challenges its participants to think before they speak. Producer ANNE SLOMAN

... with Monty and Ike by BRIAN THOMPSON. Amateur historian and professional
Yorkshireman Claude Jenks recalls brief but vivid encounters in Beckenham with two great military men.
Reader MALCOLM HEBDEN Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

Starring The Bobo Girls , who are Rebecca Front and Sioned Wiliam. The girls present sophisticated songs and witty sketches. Songs written by REBECCA FRONT
Sketches written by JEREMY FRONT .
Musicians SANDY BURNETT. PHILIP HOPKINS and JON MAGNUSSON.
Producer PAUL SPENCER

Starring with Patricia Routledge and John Sessions as a host of other characters.
Another foray into the world of the great J. B. Morton , author of the celebrated Beachcomber column.
This week: Lord
Shortcake takes up amateur dramatics, Captain Foulenough takes us back to his unsavoury childhood, cricket is taken too seriously, and Prodnose is escorted to the graveyard in the hope that he will take the hint.
Announcer
BRIAN PERKINS.
Adapted from the original by MICHAEL BARFIELD with RICHARD INGRAMS
Producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo (R)