with the Rev Mark Waters. Stereo

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

Changes in East Anglia: David Self reports.... Producer Simon Elmes

with Melvyn Bragg Producer
Marina Salandy-Brown . Stereo

A Chinese Funeral by Jane Gardam.
Reflections on the troubles in China.
Reader Anna Massey.
Producer Duncan Minshull (First broadcast as 'Something Coming')

from the chapel at Ringway Airport,
Manchester, with the New English Orchestra Singers led by Canon Noel Vincent. Open Thou My Lips;
Beatitudes; Acts 2, w 1-11; How Great Thou Art I Will Sing.

Simon Rae celebrates the 150th anniversary of Thomas Hardy 's birth. Dr Alan Chedzoy reads from the Hardy poems requested by listeners.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
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Presenter John Howard Editor Ken Vass

A nationwide general knowledge quiz with Robert Robinson in the chair.
First round - the North. Brian Daugherty
(postgraduate student) Mark Humphreys
(playleader/teacher) John Gillot
(insurance agent) Margaret Jones (civil servant).
Including 'Beat the Brains', in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Producer Richard Edis
Stereo

Presenter Nick Clarke Editor Roger Mosey

At the Zoo with Roy Hudd and Sandra Kerr. This week's stories by Guy Hutchins.
1: Grannie Lee Helps the Hippo Producer David Ian Neville Stereo (R)

Molly Harris tells
Jenni Murray about the pull of the privy. Serial:
The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley.
The first of seven parts read by William Roberts. Dana and David Hurst are partners in a dental practice. Their marriage seems secure - until
Dana falls in love with someone else ... Editor Clare Selene-Grey

2.05 Playtime: Dream of Dragons
Presenters Vicky Licorish and Iain Lauchlan.
(Stereo) (R)

2.20 Active Science: Fitness
with Carol Vorderman and Fred Harris.
(Stereo)

2.40 Whirligig: Where We live 3: Getting Around
Presenter Joe Hall.
(Stereo) (R)

A play by Michael Hartland Stereo

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? Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes Editor Kevin Marsh
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and Financial Report

Stereo

with Derek Cooper

The Belle of the Belfast City
The women of the Horner family love to celebrate life, even in an atmosphere heavy with the threat of violence.
Written by Christina Reid
Director Susan Hogg. Stereo

Paul Vaughan listens as radio recaptures the Marx Brothers' humour; watches Zoe Wanamaker in The Crucible at the National Theatre; and reports on the British Chinese community. Producer Lesley McAlpine Stereo

with Richard Kershaw Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress by Thomas Hardy.
The third of eight parts read by Richard Pasco. Abridged by Sandra Willingham and Gareth Gwyn-Jones Producer Janet Whitaker

In 1913 Dorothy Foster , a young art teacher, sailed on the SS Andania to a new job in Winnipeg. Her nephew, David Foster , introduces extracts from the letters she wrote as she travelled.
With Jane Slavin as Dorothy.
Producer Gillian Hush (R)

Shop Talk An introduction for students to a career in retailing. Presenter Val Bethell
12.30 1: The Retail World
12.50 2: Small and Large Shops (R)