Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With FRANCES YOUNG Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 7
Your chance to make your points to Nick and his guests on an issue of current concern. Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8. 00am
Any Eight from Ten by NAN WOODHOUSE
Read by Judith Barker Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
New Every Morning, page 25; Awake my soul (BBC HB 403); Psalm 119. vv 33-40;
Luke 15, vv 11-24; Son of God, eternal Saviour (BBC HB 377) Stereo
In a Gambian Garden
Long-tailed glossy starlings, wood hoopoes, grey hornbills, bulbuls, yellow-bellied parrots, and even the occasional cobra and green mamba - all to be found in Chris White 's back garden. Denis Owen explores the garden of the Chairman of the Gambian Ornithological
Society and spots just some of the 150 bird species and some of the other creatures that visit there each year.
Producer JOHN BURTON BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
investigates your complaints and provides help, advice, news and information about your day-to-day concerns.
Presented by Susan Rae
A general musical knowledge quiz in three movements, featuring anything from Bach to the Beatles
Chairman Ned Sherrin Second Round:
Second Semi-Final
John Haden (solicitor) Mark Radford
(warehouse clerk)
Duncan Dale-Emberton
(chemical plant administrator) Questions set by EDWARD COLE and ROBERT WALTON
Programme devised by EDWARD COLE Producer RICHARD ED1S Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at & 30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Bold Bad Bus Stereo
2.05 History Lost and Found Time Snoop Stereo (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT A teenage resource magazine for GCSE students with reports from schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. 2: Science Stereo (e)
Introduced by Jenni Murray Elizabeth Maconchy is grand dame of a distinguished group of British composers. Her daughter Nicola LeFanu composes too. Mother and daughter talk to Julia Eisner about how they work, the influence they have on each other, and the type of music they enjoy. Serial:
The Fashion in Shrouds (7)
by Andrew RissikThe second of three play based on an illustration on page 23.
It is ten years since the Trojan prince, Paris, stole Helen from the King of Sparta and the long and wasteful war that followed is still no nearer its conclusion.
(Stereo)
(Final play: "A Slight Case of Gratitude" by John Graham on Thursday at 3.00 pm)
Virginia Astley talks to
Margaret Howard about her musical life and influences, and plays some favourite records. Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Robert Williams and Michael Woodhead continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL Halfanhourof reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Details on Thursday at 12.25pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
South Korea in Crisis
The workers of Korea who produced an economic miracle now want democracy and free trade unions. After last summer's riots, the South Korean government unexpectedly promised liberalisation. But will the December elections herald an end to the years of repression? Or is it all just window dressing for next year's Olympic Games? Reporter Hugh Prysor-Jones Producer DAVID LEVY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.05pm)
(Details on Thursday at 10.00am LW)
For more than 25 years, a single population of lions in the Serengeti has been under continuous, daily detailed study by a succession of field biologists who have revealed, with unprecedented precision, just what a lion's life is like. The 'biography' of Split-ear, which is based on this study, follows a male lion from cubhood to bachelor wanderings, to pride proprietorship and beyond. Narrated by Barry Paine and Fergus Keeling
Stereo
The programme for blind and partially-sighted people or anyone who wears spectacles or contact lenses and wants to know the latest research and ideas about eyes and eyesight. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Phone in on [number removed]Lines open from 8.30 to 10.15pm
Presented by Christopher Cook Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Plain Tales from the Hills 7: The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
Last in the series
Moura Lympany plays music by Litolff, Rachmaninov and Chopin. Stereo records
followed by an interlude
History: Using the Evidence The Peasants' Revolt by VINCE CRINNION (R) (e)
