Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom

with the Rev
David Runcorn

Presenters
John Humphrys and Chris Lowe.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue

Storms and Teacups The first of four programmes in which climatologist Mick Kelly reassesses sound-archive recordings on the British and their weather. Producer Beaty Rubens

with Melvyn Bragg Producer
Marina Salandy-Brown . Stereo

The Promise
W Somerset Maugham's semi-autobiographical short story about a writer who encounters a society lady with a dark past.... Read by Hugh Dickson. Director Peter Kavanagh

from Liverpool Cathedral, led by Canon Noel Vincent , with members of the Liverpool
Philharmonic Choir. Reading: Luke 15, vv 1-10
Introit: View Me Lord (Lloyd)
The King of Love (St Columbus)
0 Jesu So Meek (Bach) I Heard the Voice
(Kingsfold)

with Simon Rae. The last of four programmes from
Grasmere. The special guest is the poet and playwright
Tony Harrison who reads a selection of verse including his own poem A Kumquat for John Keats.
Producer Susan Roberts
0 REQUESTS to: Poetry
Pleasel, BBC Bristol, BS8 2LR

Presenter
John Howard Editor Ken Vass

In the chair
Robert Robinson. First semi-final -
London and the South. Simon Townley (musician)
Tim Folan (librarian) Margaret Stewart (tutor) and Emman Slessenger (solicitor).
Including 'Beat the Brains' in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Producer Richard Edis

with James Naughtie in London, and special reports this week from Gordon Clough in Moscow at the Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. Editor Roger Mosey

Little Old Mrs Pepperpot Producer David Neville Stereo (R)

Jenni Murray meets the Indian novelist
Gita Mehta.
Serial: Love Among the Single Classes
The sixth of 13 episodes read by Maureen O'Brien and Sean Barrett.
Written by Angela Lambert.
Abridged by Janet Hickson Editor Clare Selene-Grey

Stereo

Six days a week the Globe Theatre wakes up at 10.00am and prepares for that day's performance of Alan Ayckbourn 's Man of the Moment. Lights are checked, sound rehearsed, Beerbohm the theatre cat stretches and the swimming pool is cleaned all ready for curtain-up.
Jeremy Front follows the build-up to a performance.

with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes Editor Kevin Marsh

and Financial Report

Stereo

The second of six programmes.
Fifty years after the death of E F Benson, Humphrey Carpenter spotlights two societies devoted to the author who wrote the Mapp and Lucia books: the E F Benson Society and the Tilling Society.

The Last of the Mohicans Walter 's being paid to close down the place where he works and he's quite calm about it. Other people aren't so philosophical about change, though, particularly the old man who gave him his first job. Written by Ted Moore.
Producer Tony Cliff
Director Alfred Bradley. Stereo

'Once the van was on site, Miss Shepherd applied the handbrake with such determination that, like Excalibur, it could never thereafter be released.'
In the second of four talks, Alan Bennett recalls how an unusual visitor took up residence in his garden and turned it into a long-stay car park.
Producer Gillian Hush (R)

'Complete lunatics' was one description of the loud and threatening French circus troupe Archaos. Nick Baker quivers in the front row. Christopher Bigsby is safer reporting on the Royal Opera's
William Tell , and the wood creations of sculptor David Nash.
Producer Nicki Paxman. Stereo

with Roger White. Stereo

Presenter Robin Lustig Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

For the Love of Sang
Rachel Anderson 's story of her family's adoption of Sang, a Vietnamese war orphan.
The final episode, read by Jane Whittenshaw : Working Man
Producer Linda Anderson