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

A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Fr Michael Collins.
Stereo

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

The last of three programmes in which programme-makers, performers and writers remember some of the great radio shows of the past.
The Navy
Lark Jon Pertwee tries on his old Chief Petty Officer's uniform for a between-decks look at BBC Radio's most famous ship, HMS Troutbridge, and its memorable crew of Stephen Murray , Leslie Phillips - and a young Ronnie Barker.
Producer Simon Elmes

Melvyn Bragg and guests in conversation.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

Introduced by Rosemary Watts from St Paul 's
Church, Birmingham.
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir. directed by David Saint. Lord, Thy Word Abideth (NEH 407); Matthew 5, w 1-12; Jesu, Grant Me
This, I Pray (Gibbons, arr Bairstow); Thou, Whose Almighty Word (NEH 466)

Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers
Denys Hawthorne and Barbara Jefford and guest Paul Muldoon. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

with John Howard Editor Ken Vass

Peter Tinniswood 's six-part serial.
5: Figuratively Speaking
Nancy elopes with Roland, while Father declares that he's in love with Mrs
Sunderland - figuratively speaking, of course.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin Stereo

with James Naughtie Editor Roger Mosey

with Jenni Murray. Serial: A Glimpse of Sion's Glory by Isabel Colegate.
The first of three parts read by Rowena Cooper. Alison, an ambassador's wife, has known Raymond since she was a young woman. Now he has written her a long confessional letter.
Abndged by Jack Singleton (Music: Kalhwoda's Morceau de salon)

Frederic Mohr 's play about the great opera singer Mary Garden (1874-1967).
With Eileen McCallum as the older Mary and Miriam Margolyes as her younger self.
'I didn't have an agent. All decisions were mine. Gracious me! If you can read a calendar and you know your worth, what do you need an agent for?'
Director Patrick Rayner. Stereo (R)

In the second of two programmes,
Violet Godfrey remembers her childhood touring with her parents' portable theatre. Producer Gillian Hush (First broadcast on Radio Newcastle)

Lucy Duran discusses the new play A Free Country, which is set in wartime
France; and the virtuoso violinist Nathan Milstein records his journey from Russia to the West.
Producer Anthony Denselow
Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge Editor Kevin Marsh

and Financial Report

Stereo

with Derek Cooper

The story of Dan Leno, the great music-hall star whose short life brought happiness to all except himself...
Written by John Scotney.
Clog dancing by Lawrence Evans
(Stereo)

In the first of three programmes, Phil Smith uncovers a forgotten story buried in the churchyard of St Leonard's,
Chapel-le-Dale.
Producer Gillian Hush (R)

Stereo

with Roger White Stereo

with Richard Kershaw
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

Straight by Dick Francis.
The first of eight parts read by James Aubrey.
'I inherited my brother's life. I inherited his desk, his business, his enemies, his horses and his mistress - and it nearly killed me.' Abridged by Roger Pine
Producer Jeremy Mortimer

Starring Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Home.
With Sam Costa , Maurice Denham , Maureen Riscoe and Helen Hill.
Plus the Dance Orchestra. conducted by Stanley Black . Producer Leslie Bndgmont (First broadcast on the Light Programme in 1949)