Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom

Stereo

with Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe.
Details as Spring Bank Holiday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day:
Rt Rev Richard Harries

Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor (final part) (R)

Six programmes. Laughter-makers. opinion formers or satirical observers?
They give us the picture but where do their funny ideas come from? Frank Whitford meets the personalities behind some well-known signatures and discovers how seriously they take the art of humour.
2: Paula Youens
Producer Judith Bumpus. Stereo

Producers Howard Rogers and David Powell

The Interview by Mary Gladstone.
Reader Gerda Stevenson. Producer Bruce Young BBC Scotland

Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus (Lux Eoi); John 15, w 12-20; Jesus, Guide Our Way (Seelenbrautigam, BBC HB 144); Jesus, the Name High Over All (Lydia)
Director of Music
Stephen Layton. Stereo

with Michael Rosen.
From Puddle Lane to
Frankenstein, baby's first words to the combustion engine, for
50 years Ladybird Books have dominated cheap mass marketing for children. Jill Burridge investigates this publishing phenomenon. Producer Sally Feldman

with Margaret Collins Editor Ken Vass

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

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

Abigail Has a Day Stereo (R)

from Manchester with Helen Boaden.
Story:
Concerning Virgins 5: The Miracle of Life

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy dramatised in six parts by Nick McCarty. 5: Autumn
'This woman is more to me, dead as she is, than ever you were or can be ... I should have married her.'
Storyteller Garard Green.
Flute Maurice Cambridge Director Marilyn Imrie. Stereo

with Patrick Hannan and guests.

BBC Wales

Stereo

with Robert Williams and Libby Fawbert

and Financial Report

with Peter Hobday Producer Jill Thomas

by Paul Burns.
BBC Pebble Mill

with Margaret Howard
Producer Mark Savage. Stereo

This week's panel includes Jack Dromey , National Secretary of the TGWU, and Sara Parkin ,
International Secretary, the Green Party tackling the issues raised by an audience in the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, London. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Anna Carragher

The second of four programmes.
Andrew Marr presents a personal view of the week's newspapers and talks to the people behind the headlines. Producer Andrew Denwood

The spontaneous walkabouts of Mr Gorbachev, and an aborted attempt on the life of President Kennedy by Richard Paul Pavlik in Palm Beach, Florida in December 1960.

A Nightingale Sang ... Tonight, 5,000 nightingales will be singing in Britain. Why has a small, drab bird with a grating song enraptured Europe's poets, writers and composers for centuries?
Producer Tim Dee. Stereo

by Alistair Cooke

with Richard Kershaw Stereo

An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress
(part 2) by Thomas Hardy
(Fordetailsseeyesterday)

with Bill Wallis , David Tate , John Baddeley 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

Dead of Night (5) Bob Peck reads a thriller serial by five bestselling writers - each picking up the story where the last one left off.
Tonight Craig Thomas writes the final chapter, bringing the whole story to an exciting climax.

Help Yourself: Very Small Business Presenter Dilly Barlow
12.30 5: Start-up
12.40 6: Advice and Assistance
12.50
7: Advertising and Promotion
1.00 8: How Is It Going?