Prices, practical farming, politics and the countryside. Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom

with Stewart Lamont

Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer

Two programmes in which Ted Allbeury , thriller writer and former intelligence officer, reflects on spies and spying with the help of the BBC Sound
Archives.
1: Fact and Fiction
Producer Mark Savage. Stereo

Lively and stimulating conversation with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

A Thousand Days for Mohktar by Paul Bowles. A story set in Morocco and read by John Moffatt.
Producer Duncan Minshull (R)

from St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast. Led by the Rev Dr Robert Tosh, with the choir of Grosvenor High School, conducted by Ronald Lee.
Of the Father's Heart Begotten; Isaiah 9, vv 2-7; Hark a Thrilling Voice.

Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers Emma Fielding and Damian Jennings , winners of this year's BP Speak a Poem competition. And today's guest, Betty Mulcahy , talks about the reading of poetry. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo

with John Waite Editor Ken Vass

The second of three semi-finals in the general knowledge music competition.
Chairman Ned Sherrin.
Producer Diane Messias. Stereo

with Nick Clarke Editor Roger Mosey

with Jenni Murray.
Story: Oh, What Avails The final story from Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro.
The first of two parts read by Margaret Robertson. Abridged by Meg Clarke Editor Clare Selerie-Grey

When Albert absconds with money left in his minicab by a passenger, Det Sgt Hardie leads the pursuit. Over the radio late at night, pursuer and fugitive develop a surprising kinship.
By Barry Wasserman and Patrick Carroll.
Director Ned Chaillet. Stereo (R)

Paul Vaughan shudders his way through a new collection of ghost stories; and Simon Evans reports on ancient mummers' plays still being performed in Kent. Producer Adrian Washbourne

with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes Editor Kevin Marsh

and Financial Report

Stereo

The Rock
Carol has a crush on Mr Bean , her tutor in mythology. When his wife leaves him, Carol is convinced he's going mad. Especially when he finds a rock that he says has magic powers ... Written by Jonathan Wolfman.
Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Dr Zoltan Frankl now lives in north London, a successful career as a Harley Street surgeon behind him. But as a young Jewish doctor, he was swept up in the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Hungary. He survived three concentration camps where he helped save lives, but after the war his troubles were not over. Producers Claire Randall and Piers Plowright

Stereo

with Nigel Cassidy Stereo

with Richard Kershaw Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

My Uncle Silas by H E Bates.
Nine short stories abridged and read by David Neal.
8: The Death of Uncle Silas
Producer Cherry Cookson (R)

The first of two programmes featuring songs on the subject of parents and children, adults and childhood.
Performers: Tim Brown , Janice Cramer ,
Robert Cushman and Brenda Longman. Piano Colin Sell.
With Alan Grahame and Brian Brocklehurst. Producer
Jonathan James-Moore . Stereo (R)