Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom

with Sylvia Sands

with John Humphrys and Jennie Bond.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr John McDade

by Joseph Wechsberg. Read in seven parts by Peter Jones. 6: The Last Waltz
Abridged by Gary Yershon
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo

Eight discussions hosted by Denise Robertson.
6: Cold Comfort Farming Is Britain farming itself to death? Viewing the state of agriculture are: Colin Spedding , Prof of Agricultural Systems at Reading University; Andy Langford , of the organisation
'Permaculture'; Oliver Walston , farmer; and Robert Whelan , of the Institute of Agricultural Affairs.
Producer Amanda Mares

Four extraordinary and little-known true stories, told by Anthony Smith. 2: Two Survived Producer David Perry

Ray Gosling visits four manufacturing communities.
2: Ebbw Vale
Once a nationalised steel works kept the valley's inhabitants in jobs. Now it's a slimmed-down operation producing tin plate.
Producer Joy Hatwood

Beggars Would Ride
Beryl Bainbridge 's story about two middle-aged men, an ordinary game of tennis and an extraordinary result. Reader David Tate.
Producer Sarah Kilgarriff (R)

from Down Cathedral,
Downpatrick, led by the Rev Trevor Williams.
Ye Servants of the Lord; Isaiah 49, w 1-7; How Lovely Are the Messengers
(Mendelssohn); Ye Servants of God.

Michael Buerk chairs the first of six 'live' investigations - in the form of a parliamentary select committee - into the moral questions behind the week's news. Each week the witnesses face cross-examination from
Professor Jennifer Temkin, Dean of the Law School, Buckingham University;
Lord Brian Morris, Chairman of the Museum and Galleries' Commission;
Rabbi Hugo Gryn, Senior Rabbi at the West London Synagogue;
and Edward Pearce, columnist on The Guardian.
Producer Stephen Oliver. Stereo

Simon Rae asks guest Sheila Hancock to choose a favourite poem. Readers Ronald Pickup and Elizabeth Bell. Producers Susan Roberts and Kate McAII. Stereo

Presenter John Waite Editor Ken Vass

Eight classic comedy profiles with Barry Cryer. 3: Morecambe and Wise Producer Tim Sturgeon

with Nick Clarke Editor Roger Mosey

Sarah and the Birthday Party Producer David Ian Neville Stereo (R)

Prize-winning dancer Lloyd Newson tells Jenni Murray why his style of choreography is intellectual as well as physical.
Serial: Henrietta Who ? (8) by Catherine Aird
Read in nine episodes by Douglas Blackwell. Abridged by Delia Paton

Stereo

at the Edinburgh Festival, with Paul Allen.
Behind every door there's a fringe group waiting to entertain you; at the National Gallery on Princes Street hang masterpieces by Cezanne; and in the main theatres are visiting companies from India, Japan and Russia.
Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Bill Frost Editor Kevin Marsh

and Financial Report

Stereo

Dora
Set in the town where she grew up, Port Elizabeth in South Africa, this is Agnes Sam 's story of a young black woman who suddenly finds herself thrust into the tragedy of turbulent township life.
Director Tracey Neale. Stereo

Wild at Heart, the prize-winning film by David Lynch ; Abiding
Passions on the stage in Scarborough; and arts news from Taiwan.
With Tony Rayns.
Producer Mike Greenwood Stereo

with Roger White. Stereo

Presenter David Sells Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

Cloak Without Dagger Michael Denison reads eight selections from Rupert Grayson 's reminiscences of his time as the King's Foreign
Service Messenger in the Second World War.
1: The King's Messenger at Large
Abridged by Bob Scholfield
Producer John Theochahs. Stereo

The Marx Brothers'
Lost Radio Shows
Back on the radio after nearly 60 years, the classic comedy team are re-created in the fourth of six adventures.
with the vocal talents of Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello. Music David Firman
Original scripts by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman
Adapted by Mark Brisenden
Producer Dirk Maggs. Stereo (R)