Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter

with the Most Rev
Thomas Winning.

with Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.

by Janet Frame. In 1951 Janet
Frame was only days away from a leucotomy when she won the Hubert Church Literary Award. The operation was cancelled, and she went on to become known as New Zealand's greatest living author, and a 1992 Nobel Literature Prize Nominee.
Tiger, Tiger and The Secret delve into the delight and pain of childhood. Read by Nicolette McKenzie.
(Music by Don McGlashan from the film Angel at My Table
Producer Faynia Williams. Stereo

Charles Kennedy is joined by Suzanne Moore and Dominic Lawson.
Armando lannucci supplies some laughs.
Producer Cathie Mahoney. Stereo

The Letter to the Hebrews
Read by Virginia McKenna from the Revised English Bible. Introduced by Fr John Deehan, lecturer in scripture at Heythrop College.
1: Perfect through Sufferings.
Producer Denis Nowlan

with Sally Magnusson. Serial: Letters from
Constance by Mary Hocking.
The ninth of 13 episodes read by Sarah Badel. Abridged by Monica Grey Editors Clare Selene and Sally Feldman

4: Picking winners on the stock market ... buying shares for the first time.

with John Howard.

Chairman Robert Robinson.
Third Semi-Final. Patrick Taylor
(clergyman); Robert Currie (police officer); Dr David Hill (hospital doctor); James Roberts (retired education technician)
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo

with Nick Clarke.

Isaac Asimov, the father of modern science fiction, died earlier this year. As a tribute this is a repeat of his classic SF detective thriller set in New York in the distant future. The murder of a "spacer" creates a crisis that could destroy the earth.
(Stereo)

Sue MacGregor goes to York to meet
George Smith , flower arranger, lecturer and international judge, to talk about his life and work.
Producer Gillian Hush. Stereo

Paul Vaughan talks to author Bill Morris about his book Biography of a Buick, listens to contemporary music from Australia and reports on the Salzburg Festival.
Producer Alasdair Cross. Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Beyond the Blue Mountains
A specially commissioned story by Penelope Lively. Out of Sydney the going gets wilder. And the looming presence of the mountain range has a powerful effect on Myra's plan ...
Read by Hannah Gordon. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Valerie Singleton and Wendy Austin.

Recorded at the Industrial
Society headquarters in London. Panel: Janet Cohen , Peter Day , Alastair Ross Goobey, Nigel Whittaker. Chairman Nigel Cassidy. Producer Neil Koenig

A fete worse than death. Stereo

First of four programmes in which Sara Parker meets people who do other people's jobs.
1: The Stand-In Doctors On the rounds with two different locum GPs, one in the country, the other in the inner city.
Producer Sukey Firth. Stereo

The Blasphemer
George Rosie 's play, set in Edinburgh in 1701, about a blasphemy charge brought against Thomas Aitkenhead.
Director Stewart Conn. Stereo
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Tim Bowler. stereo

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

Lucky
Jim Kingsley Amis 's comic novel of academic life.
First of 12 parts read by Martin Jarvis.
Abridged and produced by Pat McLoughlin
(First broadcast in 1976)

Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton. With Tim Brooke-Taylor ,
Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton. At the piano Colin Sell.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo

The literary panel game with Gill Pyrah and guests Craig Brown , Irma Kurtz , Germaine Greer and Katharine Whitehom.
Producer Gareth Edwards. Stereo