Stereo

with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev David Winter
8.35Yesterday in Parliament

Six programmes. Laughter-makers, opinion-formers or satirical observers?
Frank Whitford meets the personalities behind some well-known signatures and discovers how seriously they take the art of humour.
1: Mel Caiman
Producer Judith Bumpus. Stereo

Producers Howard Rogers and David Powell

Sungura by Tracey Lloyd.
Reader Garard Green. Producer Anne-Marie Cole BBC Pebble Mill

I Will Worship the Lord (J Rutter ); The Head
That Once Was Crowned with Thorns (St Magnus, BBC HB 132); John 17, w 1-10; 0 God the King of Glory (Purcell); God of Glory, We Exalt Your Name (D Fellingham) Director of Music Tim Dean. Stereo

with Michael Rosen.
From picture books and pop-ups to flaps and fairy tales, Robin Blake and Emma Dally look at new offerings for the under-6s.
Producer Jill Burridge

with Margaret Collins

with Derek Cooper Research Ros Brown
Producers Sheila Dillon and Marie Helly

Presenter Nick Clarke

Neighbours. Stereo (R)

from Belfast with Wendy Austin. Back to the Future - offering help and advice to women wanting to return to work after a career break — visits
Northern Ireland. Short story:
Naming the Names (2) t PHONE: [number removed] - all afternoon, with advice on childcare, retraining, money management, running your own business, flexible working and job-hunting

2.05 Let's Join In The Three Mohammeds (Tunisian folktale) (R)
2.25 The Song Tree Drums, Dragons and Dreams (3) by Barry Gibson. With Hilary James and Simon Mayor with Pyewackett. Stereo (R)
2.40 The Friday Story Woo/? (1) by Allan Ahlberg. Reader Martin Jarvis.

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy dramatised in six parts by Nick McCarty. 4: Sergeant Troy
'I like soldiers, but not this one. His cleverness in his calling may have tempted him astray.
What's mirth to his neighbours is ruin to a woman ... turn away from him.'
Storyteller Garard Green
Flute Maurice Cambridge Director Marilyn Imrie. Stereo

with Patrick Hannan and guests
Producer Richard Thomas

Stereo

with Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams

and Financial Report

with Peter Hobday Producer Jill Thomas

by Sally Wainwright.
BBC Pebble Mill

with Margaret Howard Producer Mark Savage
Stereo

Including: Lady Hollis and Neil McIntosh , Director, Voluntary Service Overseas. From Ely,
Cambridgeshire Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Anna Carragher

Andrew Marr presents a personal view of the week's newspapers.
Producer Andrew Denwood

In the week of Memorial Day, Alistair Cooke looks at the effect that an upcoming holiday has on Congress and examines the legislation affecting the arms and tobacco industries.

Where do thriller writers get their ideas? Colin Forbes, Jack Higgins, Ken Follett, Ted Allbeury and Craig Thomas, five best-selling thriller writers, meet for a discussion with Ed Thomason.

BBC Pebble Mill
(Stereo)

by Alistair Cooke

with Richard Kershaw Stereo

Riding High (2) compiled by Phyllida Barstow

with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace. Script Barry Atkins.
Peter Baynham. Simon Bullivant ,
Michael Dines. Julian Dutton. Robert Linford , Bill Matthews. Ged Parsons, Oleh Stepaniuk. Colin Swash. Peter Hickey and others
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo

with Vincent Duggleby

Bob Copper recalls his time as one of the first BBC folk song collectors in the 1950s.
BBC South and East, Elstree (R)

12.30 Communication Dealing with a Crisis ( by Michael Lawton. Presenter Brian Redhead (R)
12.45 Dealing with a Crisis (2) by David Williams (R)