Producers Richard Sanders and John Harvey

with Rev Peter Read.

with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
6.45 Business News
7-25, 8.25 Sports News 7-45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb

Peter Hill , the BBC's former parliamentary correspondent, looks back over 15 years of broadcasting from Westminster.
1: Oratorv and Invective Producer Mark Savage

with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown

An Anthology of Spiritual
Verse
A selection of poetry on the theme of Nature.
Readers Norman Rodway and David Rintoul. Producer Jocelyn Boxall

Introduced by Anna Ford. With cancer among teenagers increasing, Jill Burridge reports on new approaches to treatment, and talks to patients and their families.
Serial: Leaving the Light On by Catherine Merriman. Fifth of 13 episodes read by Deborah Maclaren.
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie

with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Virginia Eastman •Lines open from 10.00am

with Linda Lewis. Editor Ken Vass

The last semi-final in the wide-ranging musical quiz chaired by Ned Sherrin. Producer Gareth Edwards

with James Naughtie.

by B M Gill .
When 12-year-old David is found dead while on a school outing, the headmaster claims it was a terrible accident. But David's father is convinced that it was murder.
Dramatised by Jill Hyem Director Cherry Cookson

In the last of six conversations,
Sue MacGregor meets David Freeman , founder and artistic director of Opera Factory, to talk about his life and work.
Producer Gillian Hush

The new Opera North production of La Bohème at Leeds, and the music
Hitler tried to ban. Natalie Wheen 's studio guest is writer Sara Maitland. Producer John Goudie

The Struggle for Empire by William Palmer.
The volunteer ladies of the Lonsdale Street charity shop were devoted to good works, but the arrival of Gwendolyn sparks off a bitter struggle.
Read by Caroline John. Producer Matthew Walters

with Hugh Sykes and Frank Partridge.

Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains
Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and their guests.

Shake a leg, Tom.

with Derek Cooper.

Woman at Point Zero
Written by Nawal El Saadawi.
Set in Egypt, this is the story of Firdaus, a woman sentenced to death for killing a man.
Nawal El Saadawi was working as a psychiatrist when she met the woman on whom her novel is based. It is a savage story of power and exploitation, love and betrayal - and of how one woman achieved her own kind of freedom.
Dramatised by Rukshana Ahmed Director Anne Edyvean

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White.

with Robin Lustig.

A Straightforward Tale by Leonardo Sciascia.
A five-part investigation into a murder in a remote
Sicilian farmhouse.
Read by Stephen MacDonald.
Translated and abridged by Joseph Farrell
Producer Stewart Conn

Another chance to hear the radio comedy shows that television couldn't resist.
After Henry by Simon Brett.
Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, with Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, Benjamin Whitrow as Russell, Gerry Cowper as Clare, Richard Davies as Clifford and Ellen Mclntosh as Gwen.
The Dinner Party
"So long as she isn't expected to come to it, I think I can confidently say that nothing about this dinner party will upset Clare."
Producer Pete Atkin