Stereo

with Peter Hobday and John Humphrys. Details as Spring
Bank Holiday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr David Cook

Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor (4) (R)

Four programmes with Barry Norman.
3: Do heroes reflect or create a mood in society? With James Fox David Puttnam
Michael Winner and Lady Antonia Fraser. Producer Amanda Hancox Editor David Coomes

Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm eavesdrop on the bush babies of Tanzania.
Producer John Harrison
BBC Bristol

Stereo

Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday at 6.25pm)

John Humphrys talks to four people who have weathered major storms in their careers.
2: Audrey Slaughter , who attempted to break the mould of women's magazines ...
Producer Brian King BBC Pebble Mill

Sally Vernon was a student of Chinese in London at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests. A year on, she recalls the experience.

Presenter John Howard

Stereo

with Nick Clarke in London and James Naughtie at the Superpower Summit in Washington.

Abigail and the Scouts' Jumble Sale. Stereo (R)

with Jenni Murray. Story:
Concerning Virgins
4: A Particular Calling

by Sam Jacobs.
The Silver Slipper
Dancing Academy was David's home. In bleak post-war Birmingham he danced away his childhood to the sounds of Jo Stafford and Vera Lynn. To him it was paradise. But his mother had different ideas.
Director Ruth Patterson BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

Nigel Forde discovers the trials of a Northumbrian farrier as depicted by author and cartoonist
Henry Brewis ; Feminist Book Fortnight kicks off with a discussion; Romanian poet Nina Cassian visits Britain; and Ken Livingstone reveals his bookshelf to the world. Producer Belinda Sample

Stereo

with Robert Williams and Libby Fawbert

and Financial Report

Stereo

Business is brisk at
Big Pit, Blaenavon, but today's output is measured in people not coal, because the pit has become a museum.
The South Wales valleys are turning green again, and ex-miners now guide tourists round the underworld.
Producer Kate Fenton BBC Wales (R)

Whitehall Unbound?
More and more parts of the Civil Service are becoming commercial agencies, with greater independence from Government.
Peter Hennessy asks if this process heralds freedom for the bureaucrats or merely disguises
'business as usual'. Producer Simon Coates Editor Caroline Anstey

Presenter Kati Whitaker Producer Marlene Pease

Kaleidoscope in Venice Venice may be threatened by erosion but once again it is host to leading international artists as it mounts the Venice Biennale.
Scottish artists are represented for the first time and England has despatched
Anish Kapoor 's huge stone sculptures. Preserving Venice for the 21st century is also under discussion, and there's a musical reminder of its 16th-century splendour. With Nigel Andrews.
Producer John Boundy. Stereo

with Roger White

with Alexander MacLeod Stereo

An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress (1) by Thomas Hardy abridged in eight parts by Sandra Willingham and Gareth Gwyn-Jones .
Reader Richard Pasco. Producer Janet Whitaker

by Colin Watson dramatised in six parts by Christopher Denys.
3: The clients of the Handclasp House Marriage Bureau come under police scrutiny.
Director Tony Cliff BBC North. Stereo

Roy Dean considers the work of some lesser-known American lyric writers. 4: Leo Robin
(1900-84) - Thanks for the Memory (R)

Dead of Night (part 4) Bob Peck reads a thriller serial by five bestselling writers - each picking up the story where the last one left off.
Ted Allbeury continues the story.

Help Yourself: Very Small Business Presenter Dilly Barlow. Producer Graham Tayar
12.30 1: Getting the Idea
12.40 2: Developing / the Idea
12.50 3: Can the Jdea Pay?
1.00
4: Raising the Capital /