with the Rev Prebendary John Linford
BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

with Peter Hobday and John Humphrys
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Canon Eric James

Five programmes
1: Conservative Party conference organiser
Harvey Thomas recalls the 1984 Brighton bomb. Producer Mark Savage. Stereo

with William Shawcross Research Jayne K Morgan Producer
Marina Salandy-Brown . Stereo

Beggars Would Ride by Beryl Bainbridge. Reader David Tate. Producer Sarah Kilgarriff

from St George 's Church, Belfast, led by Canon Edgar Turner with the St George's Singers. Welcome morning of joy; The earth is the Lord's; Acts 2, w 22-36; Oh God, thy soldiers' great reward.
Director of Music
Jonathan Gregory BBC Northern Ireland

Stereo

with Simon Rae.
Readers Andrew Sachs and Bonnie Hurren.
Guest
Sir Stephen Spender. Producer Susan Roberts BBC Bristol. Stereo

Presenter John Howard

with Robert Robinson in the chair.
First round - the South.
Bob Bascombe (retired personnel manager) Michael Lane
(education administrator) Margaret Stewart (tutor) Tom King (journalist) Devised by John P Wynn Questions Ian Gillies
Producer Richard Edis
Stereo

with James Naughtie

This week Judith Jacob reads Boot Farm Stories by Kate Wilkinson. 1: Boot Farm Loses a Chicken. Stereo

The opera singer
Maria Ewing meets Jenni Murray.
Woman's Hour Book of Short Stories:
5: Nothing Missing but the Samovar by Penelope Lively abridged by Pat McLoughlin.
Reader Charles Kay.

by William Shakespeare adapted by Dickon Reed.
Director Dickon Reed
BBC World Service Drama production (R)

First Moisten Your
Reed Paul Vaughan takes out his clarinet and goes on an instrumental journey with this versatile member of the woodwind family.
Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes.
Including: live from
New York, Sir Crispin Tickell announces the winner of The Times/PM
Environment Award.

and Financial Report

Stereo

with Derek Cooper

by Vaclav Havel.
Radio version by James Saunders from an original translation by Marie Winn.
With Martin Jarvis, Penelope Wilton.

A newly appointed Inspector of Projects promises his workforce freedom to redevelop a medieval castle town. But for how long will this freedom last?

A Radio 4/World Service co-production.
Stereo (R)

R4 A brief season of hope against a repressive regime: Vaclav Havel's drama Redevelopment can be seen as a metaphor for the Prague Spring. First broadcast on Radio 4 last year in the Globe Theatre series and repeated today, the play focuses on a group of architects in Eastern Europe whose creativity is stifled by bureaucratic rigidity - until they are promised a new freedom...

Ironically, the dissident playwright had first endured discrimination not for his politics but because he was born into the wealthy classes; banned from university by the Stalinist government, Havel had originally taken a job as a stagehand. By the time of the 1968 Soviet invasion, he was literary director of an avant-garde theatre, and his plays had earned a reputation outside the country. Ahead of him were years of intimidation, imprisonment, unflagging dedication to his ideals, culminating in this one-time enemy of the state becoming its head - a progression as rich in irony as any of his own absurdist drama (The Monday Play, 7.45pm)

The Lord Mayor and her 'team' look down from their long, high bench on the councillors gathering in the chamber. In the gallery above, a sprinkling of the public await their turn to make a contribution to events. It's 2.00pm on the first Wednesday of the month and it's the Sheffield Town Hall. Ahead lies five and a half hours of proposing, seconding, amending. debating and voting. It's part ritual, part theatre, part sheer hard slog.
Rony Robinson investigates local democracy at work. Producer Dave Sheasby BBC North. Stereo

with Roger White Editors Colin Wilde and Stephen Chilcot

with Alexander MacLeod
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

In the Red Kitchen by Michele Roberts.
The last often episodes abridged by Yvonne Antrobus.
Reader
Sue Jones-Davies.
Producer Alison Hindell BBC Wales

Featuring
Dave Hollins
- Space Cadet.
'I'm six trillion years from earth. I was supposed to spend the journey in suspended animation, but I couldn't sleep.' Starring
Christopher Barrie Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton. Script Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
Producer Alan Nixon Stereo (R)