Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter

with the Rev Gilbert Marcus.

with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Richard Bewes.

Would Passengers for....
The first of three programmes in which
David Self considers the pains and pleasures of leisure travel in the modern age, with the help of the BBC Sound Archive.
Producer Noah Richler. Stereo

Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

Exodus. The eighth of ten parts read from the Authorised Version by David Kossoff. Director David Hunter

with Christa Ackroyd. Is the menopause a liberation, an irritation, or the end of civilisation?
Germaine Greer gives a personal view of it. And the start of a new series in which professional cooks cure us of ready-made kitchen habits. Today, Thane Prince bans the gravy granules.
Serial: Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler.
"On Waverley Street, everybody knew everybody else. Number Eight was the Bedloe family,
Waverley Street's version of the ideal, apple-pie household."
The first of 15 episodes read by Garrick Hagon. Abridged by Pat McLoughlin Music: Dett's Magnolia Suite Editor Clare Selerie

from the Potteries Centre, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, where Vincent Duggleby joins experts at the Inland Revenue Mobile Enquiry Centre to answer questions on tax.
Producer Frances Macdonald

Presented by John Howard. Editor Ken Vass

A final fixture for
Peter Oppenheimer and John Julius Norwich , against London's Irene Thomas and Eric Korn. Chaired by Gordon Clough and Louis Allen.
Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo

Presented by Nick Clarke.
Editor Roger Mosey

Twenty-five years ago next week, the community of Aberfan was struck by disaster. This play, first broadcast in 1982, tells the story of a woman whose life has already been affected by an accident at Gresford Colliery in 1934, when 265 men were trapped by fire and entombed in the mine. She has to face tragedy again at Aberfan.
Written by Catharine Hughes.
With the children of Penygelli Junior School and the people of Coedpoeth and Wrexham in north Wales.
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

The fifth of six programmes in which John Miller talks to eminent historians about their work.
This week he meets
Christopher Hill , formerly Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and an authority on the English Civil War. ProducerJohn Knight

Natalie Wheen 's studio guest is the composer
Donald Swann who tells his life story in a new biography, a life which memorably teamed him with Michael Flanders in the duo Flanders and Swann; there's poetry from Pauline Melville and Sara Davies reports on an ambitious black art exhibition at the Arnolfini
Gallery in Bristol.
Producer Belinda Sample. Stereo

Dear George by Helen Simpson.
Writing practice letters to your potential boyfriend can have disastrous results.
Read by Alice Arnold. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.

Stereo

Can Mark come up with the right offer?

with Derek Cooper.

Sardonic young graduate James helps out at his family's seaside hotel. An out-of-season guest is more than he or his mother bargained for...
(Stereo)

The second of six programmes in which Ian Mclntyre offers some observations on the passing scene, political and cultural.

Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

The 1991
£20,000 Booker
Prize for Fiction will be awarded on Tuesday 22
October. Over the next six weekday nights, an extract from each of the six shortlisted novels will be broadcast.
Tonight: Time'sArrow by Martin Amis.
Read by Alan Barker. Producer David Hunter

Love
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of love, with jokes, quotes and comedy clips.
Producers Simon Brett and John Lloyd. Stereo