Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter

with the Rev John Morgan.

with Chris Lowe and Sue MacGregor.
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day: Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.

Written and read in seven parts by Daniel Menaker. 5: Last Lessons
Abridged by Frank Delaney
Producer David Bened ictus. Stereo

Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Marina Salandy-Brown
Stereo

Genesis. The 11th of 13 parts read from the Authorised Version byJohnGielgud.
Director JohnTheocharis

with Jenni Murray.
Mermaid, siren, lorelei-is she desirable and attractive, or a monstrous evil creature tempting men to drown?
Reporter Libby Spurrier fishes for myth and reality. Serial: Mansfield Park byJaneAusten.
The 11 th of 20 episodes read by Maria Aitken. Abridged by Meg Clarke Editor Clare Selerie-Grey

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with Debbie Thrower. Editor Ken Vass

Irishmen Justin Keating and Dr Patrick Fitzpatrick face the resident London team of Irene Thomas and Eric Korn. Chairmen Louis Allen and Gordon Clough. Producer PaulZJackson. Stereo

with Nick Clarke. Editor Roger Mosey

A dramatisation for radio by Michael Bakewell of Ian Fleming's classic story.
James Bond 's wife Tracey has been murdered by his deadly enemy, Blofeld. He has gone completely to pieces and is drafting his resignation. But M is prepared to give him one last chance - on a mission which will lead him to a fatal encounter...
(Stereo)

Six programmes in which John Miller talks to eminent historians about their work, why they were drawn to it, and why they feel it is relevant to the modern world. This week he meets
Elizabeth Longford and discovers why she agrees with Disraeli who said 'Read no history - nothing but biography, for that is life without theory'. Producer John Knight

Natalie Wheen welcomes the pan pipers of the Bolivian group Rumijatta to the studio, talks to the author of the biography of playwright and president Vaclav Havel , and discusses Radio 4's David Copperfieldund Nicholas Maw's much-praised
90-minute musical Odyssey. Producer Hamish Mykura. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

A week of bittersweet comedies by Shena Mackay. 1: Dreams of Dead
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'It was a black evening bag sequined with salt, open-mouthed under a rusted marcasite clasp; a relic stranded in the wrack of tarry pebbles, rubbery weed, and a brittle blackhorned mermaid's purse.' Read by Brenda Bruce. Abridged by Meg Clarke
Producer Pat McLoughlin

Presented by Valerie Singleton. Editor Kevin Marsh
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Stereo

More bad news for Tom.

The second half of Derek Cooper 's visit to Ireland - this week he asks if the Irish can keep their land unpolluted and still expand their food and agriculture industries to provide much needed jobs.

Arms and the Man
Bernard Shaw 's anti-war comedy which is set in a fantasy Balkan State in 1885. Director John Tydeman Stereo

A look at the strained relations between Israel and the US, the plight of refugees in the Middle East, and the global misconception about the state of US finances.

The final part of Peter Tinniswood 's serial.
The Hitchhiker
Narrator Christian Rodska.
Producer Pete Atkin
0 CASSETTE: Uncle Mort's South Country, from retailers.

Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

Turning Back the Sun by Colin Thubron.
The sixth of ten parts read by Ian Holm.
Abridged by Alan England Producer Duncan Minshull

Hope Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of hope, with jokes, quotes and comedy clips.
Producer Richard Edis Stereo

Simon Rae and Nicola
Da vies snooze to poems on the topic of sleep and dreams, and eavesdrop on new poems being written by young writers from
Pimlico Secondary School, London. Guest poet Roger McGough answers the Talking Poetry questionnaire.
Producers Susan Roberts and Lorna Baker. Stereo
(First broadcast on Radio 5)