with Carolyn Butler.

with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.

by Gordon West. Abridged and read in eight episodes by Leonard Pearcey.
1: The Call of the Sun
A couple contact Thomas Cook and ask to be sent somewhere where they organise no tours.
Producer Tony Cliff. Stereo

with Melvyn Bragg. stereo

Mattliew. The fourth of ten parts read by Derek Jacobi. Director Alison Bogle

with Jenni Murray.
Mairead Devlin reports on the growing campaign to curb female circumcision. (Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Story:
Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother by Margaret Atwood.
The first of four stories from Bluebeard's Egg.
Read by Shelley Thompson. Abridged by Delia Paton
Music: Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman

with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Frances Macdonald •LINES OPEN from 10.00am

with John Howard.

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson. First Round - London and Home Counties.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo

with James Naughtie.

Confronted within an hour by two murderers, Albert Samson , Michael Z Lewin 's off-beat private eye, wonders if it isn't time to hang up his gumshoes.
Music by Thomas Johnson , performed by David Mowat and Pete Rosser
Director Andy Jordan Stereo

Alan Judd talks to Margaret Forster about her work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Daphne du Maurier in this round-robin series of biographers in conversation. Producer Ed Thomason. Stereo

Natalie Wheen discusses the new Alan Ayckbourn play Time of My Life; while Nick Baker is at the major radio awards of the year, the Sony Awards, from the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
(Stereo)
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

The German Cuckoo by Michael Carson. Benson blames the Germans for sweet rations, but his shock on discovering one living in his neighbourhood soon turns to something else.... Read by Crawford Logan. Producer Tim Gebbels

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.

Preparations are afoot for Le Taureau en Français!

Phil Smith on making the most of your sunset years. 4: Looking on the Dark Side

Eden Must Go
Martin Worth's play comes from his experiences of going up to Cambridge in 1945, and examines the effect of war on young men.
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

Stereo I (Revised repeat of 4.05pm) j

with Roger White. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw. Stereo

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F Scott Fitzgerald.
At school, John T Unger befriends the enigmatic Percy Washington. But friendship involves John in a scandalous secret.
First of five episodes read by Garrick Hagon.
Abridged by Andrew Simpson
Producer Duncan Minshull

Third of a six-part epic adventure in time and space, written by Douglas Adams Our heroes have the chance to chew the fat with some old enemies.
Producer Geoffrey Perkins Stereo

The third of four programmes in which the singer Adelaide Hall talks to June Knox-Mawer.
Adelaide settled in London in 1938, began to appear in West End musicals, and before long had a club once again. Fats Waller came to see her and invited her to record again. Producer Derek Drescher