with THE REV JOHN NEWTON. 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
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer MCK UTEcmN Lines open from 8.00 am
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN
Into the Third World:
Morning Story Through the Looking Glass
The Tree by AGNES WEDDERBURN An old man and a tree. The tree of his ancestors. The tree he was bom to and lived by. Around him - progress. A world strewn with empty Cola cans and tag ends. A world withered.
Read by John Matshikiza Producer SHEILA FOX (R)
New Every Morning, page 9; 0 praise ye the Lord
(BBC HB 279); 0, Taste and See (Vaughan Williams); Galatians 3, v 26 to 4, v 7: Be thou my vision (BBC HB 316) Stereo
A series of five programmes.
Writer Alun Richards meets a Japanese ex-soldier who is as much an outsider as he is. 4: The Veteran
Producer JANE DAUNCEY BBC Wales
Presented by John Howard
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the Chair Steve Race Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J MASON.
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: The Rain Puddle by ADELAIDE HOLL. Stereo (R)
2.05 History Lost and Found Two Town Families Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT.
7: Physics. Stereo (e)
Jenni Murray meets Margaret Atwood , the award-winning Canadian poet and novelist. Serial: Breathing Lessons (7)
by PAUL HAWKSBEE.
Dickie, Chairman of the Frankie La Mancha
Appreciation Society, hopes that Frankie's appearance at the annual reunion will swell fading numbers. Not too many people now remember the one-hit rock-and-roll star from the 50s. But Frankie's arrival brings new surprises.... Directed by PETER KAVANAGH Stereo
The Folk Revival
With the advent of modem communications, folk musicians no longer just perform to devoted audiences' in the country village pub. But is this change a good thing? Have the traditions become tarnished by modern commercialism?
Folk performers Alex Atterson , Jacey Bedford and George Norris tell all.
Producer NIGEL WILKINSON. Stereo
Reporters David Clayton and Neil Walker link up with BBC Local Radio stations to investigate....
An Area of High Pressure
Businessman Tony Graham wants to restore Wadbury Mill in Somerset to its former glory. But more than ten pressure groups are challenging his plans, with conflicting ideas.
Is it possible to satisfy everyone, or will the pressure be too much? Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
* YOURS LOCALLY: pages 90-91
Stereo
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
including Financial Report
A series of eight programmes. Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah with Joan Sanderson as Eleanor Benjamin Whitrow as Russell Gerry Cowper as Clare and Fabia Drake as Lady Newby. 2: Relative Movement
'I'm happy to keep the flat waiting for as long as you want. But if, say, you know you're not going to be back for another six months ... or if you've decided you're going to settle permanently in Australia.... well, it could make sense for me to rent the place out.' Written by SIMON BRETT Producer PETE ATKIN
Barry Douglas , who won the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International
Piano Competition in Moscow, talks with June Knox-Mawer about his upbringing in Belfast and about the way his career has progressed. He also introduces his records of the Capriccio in D minor by Brahms and the Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat by Tchaikovsky. Producer DEREK DRESCHER Stereo
The fourth of six programmes in which David Bean travels in the footsteps of George Borrow , who in 1837 began the uphill task of selling Protestant Bibles in Catholic Spain. 4: Santiago
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
News and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White. Producer THENA HESHEL
0 QUESTIONS and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8. 30pm and 10. 15pm.
0 HANDBOOK: a comprehensive guide to services and equipment for blind people, £5.95 from
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Tonight's programme includes Australian author
Helen Garner 's collection of short stories; the Whitbread Book of the Year is announced; and Paul Vaughan visits Cambridge to sit in the choir stalls. Producer JOHN BOUNDY Stereo
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Technology and Design Stereo (R) (e) at 12.30
1: Pneumatics (CSA) at 12.40
2: Electronic Systems (CSA) at 12.50
3: Gearing and Linkages (1) and at 1.00
4: Gearing and Linkages (2) (CSA)
