Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Rosemary Hartill
6.55 Weather: travel; programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
Norman Tozer with how to get the best from your hard-earned cash.
7.55 Weather: travel; programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Lewis kicks off Radio 4's week in Merseyside from
Liverpool in a programme reflecting the varied aspects of the area's many sporting interests. Former England cricketer David Sheppard. now Bishop of Liverpool, 1-3 just one of the guests, and we also take a look at the life of a young football apprentice In one of the League's least glamorous clubs.
Producer JOANNE WATSON 0 BACK PAGE: 86 (The Rt Rev
David Sheppard , Bishop of Liverpool, is answering
Any Questions? on Friday,
8.30 pm)
8.57 Weather; travel
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with help from SUSAN marling and IAN LYON taking a critical look at the holiday. travel and leisure scene. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Frances Donnelly takes a look at the weekly magazines, their views on the news and the special Interests they reflect.
Producer SHARON banoff
John Harrtson views the past week through the eyes of backbench mps and peers.
Producer ELLIE upmle
New Every Morning, page 58; Soldiers of Christ, arise (BBC HB 366);
Psalm 150; Isaiah 6, vv
1-8 (gnb); Soldiers of the cross, arise! (BBC hb 367)
with Margaret Howard
BBC correspondents throughout the world talkaboutthecountries they work In - the politics and the people.
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
A Question of Money
At the invitation of the Stock Exchange the Money Box team takes to the road to answer questions on personal finance put by listeners in Liverpool, as part of Radio 4's week on Merseyside.
The panel
Louise Botting
Philip Hardman
Christopher Gilchrlst and Vincent Duggleby A Financial World Tonight production
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
1; mon Hoggart Stan McMurtry Michael White
Writtenandcompiledby JOHN LANGDON and DANNY GREENSTONE Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news
Arthur Scargill
Lord Soper, Ann Leslie and The Rt Hon
Edward du Cann. MP
Chairman David Jacobs
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Beagle, Sproat and the Beigists by DICK DIVERS with
It's Reagle and Sproat versus the rest....a pair united by an obsessive hatred of beige which they consider to stand for all that's insipid and negative in life. To proclaim their passionate beliefs and banish the beigists they will paint Mrs Thwaite's house bright red all over! Unfortunately things get out of hand with chaotic results.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
Geoff Watts reports
Your questions answered
A ten-part adventure serial In time and space by JAMES FOLLETT
Tilson and Darv have taken the shuttle up into orbit in an attempt to find signs of the mvsterious android that killed Darv and Astra's son. Instead they have spotted an enormous starship bearing the legend Voyager Thirty. Twenty-Third Earth
Trans-Galactic Survey Mission '. 2: Flood
Directed by GLYN dearman
BBC correspondents from around the world cast a collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presenter
William Forrester
Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Tel: [number removed], Ext 7048
Royal Flush
In the third of six programmes
Anthony Curtis interviews
Elizabeth Longford
Frances Donaldson and Robert Blake - three distinguished biographers of the royal and the great. Are there particular difficulties in approaching the life of a Queen, or a Prime Minister? Are such biographies not closer to the writing of history? Reader RONALD BADDILEY Series producer FRUDENCE SMITH
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: travel: programme news
with CHARLES COLVILE Including
Sports Round-up
Amiably competitive conversationInspiredby current public and private preoccupations.
Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved withthelessfamiliar and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
Who Shot Ada Tansey? by PETER WHALLEY
We are behind the scenes of a long-running, much-loved Northern soap opera. The leading lady is suddenly and dramatically murdered. Who shot Ada Tansey ? And why?
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH
BBC Manchester
Kenneth Matthews , pointing out that washing-up must be as old as eating, Is surprised that no provision was made for it in the Garden of Eden or in Utopia, and thinks It has quite a promising future.
Roger McGough presents his personal choice of poetry and prose with Polly James and Bill Nighy recorded before an invited audience at the Liverpool Playhouse.
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Evening pravers led by Angela Tilby
Noel Edmonds presents a six-part series tracing the development of pop music broadcasting, with recollections from
Influential DJs and rare archiverecordings.
3:Roll Over BeethovenAlan Freed and the US radio revolution. Brian Matthew , David Jacobs and Jimmy Savile recalls the British response to rock 'n' roll, including Saturday Club, Pick of the Pops. and the Teen & Twenty Disc Club on 208 and the Light
Programme. Radio
Caroline sails onto the air leading the pirate radio armada.
Researcher BRIAN THOMPSON Written and produced by TREVOR DANN
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am
Shipping forecast; inshore forecast
