News, weather, papers, sport
comes this week direct from the National Agricultural Centre at Stoneleigh, where Leslie Cottington and Ken Pollock report on the livestock. machinery and demonstrations at the Royal Show.
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Introduced by Brian Redhead
With LIBBY PURVES including at
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Readbyjohnmarsh
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
Crafts in the Home
Are you interested in taking up craftwork that you can do at home? Anything from needle-crafttoleatherwork,dyeing, rug and carpet making, candie making, silk printing, paper craft, stone polishing? Or of working with modern materials such as plastics or resins? What can you start with? What equipment can you hire? What are the best crafts for children, or for the family, or for the elderly to take up? And how can you develop your ideas and find new ones? H. E. Laye Andrew, author of the Botsford Encyclopaedia of Crafts, and a lecturer in arts and crafts. answers your queries.
In the Chair Barbara Myers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The lines are open from 8.0 am
Flowers and Trees
Derek Jones introduces the BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS conductor PHILIP MOORE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 30; O Saviour, where shall guilty man (BBC HB 87); Canticle 5; Luke 3, vv 1-11 (NEB); O dearest Lord, thy sacred head (BBC HB 358)
The Flag by SYLVIA HAYMON Read by Sally Mates
Grand Finale by FREDERICK AICKEN
BILLY: Who wants to blow up a shut-down old picture house?
SAM: There's always some eejits around.
Father and son rarely agree about anything these days, whether it be Ulster politics, how to re-open their cinema r .. or how to look for hidden bombs.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
At the small country town of Vergina in Salonica, the discovery of a Macedonian tomb of the Fourth Century B.C. has posed a mystery for archaeologists. Is Vergina the lost burial place of the Macedonian kings? Is this tomb, complete with its rich treasure of royal grave goods, the resting place of Alexander the Great's father, King Philip II who was murdered in 336 B.C.? Professor Richard Tomlinson and Malcolm Billings visit the tomb, examine the evidence, and discuss the implications with Professor Manolis Andronicos of Salonika, who made this important discovery.
BBC Bristol
(Shortened version of Monday's broadcast at 10.30)
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Presented by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor A Small Bite of the ' Big Apple an Independence Day celebration from New York x
2.0-2.2 News
Buy Now But Don't Pay Later: KEITH ALLAN at the ' Earthcare shop in Durham.
Work in Progress: NOEL BARBER talks about the book he's working on. Chalk and Talk: DAVID HAWKSWORTH looks at some current educational issues.
Now Barabbas Was a Rotter (5)
Story: The Day Kevin's Mother Fed a Bumble Bee by CHRISTINE GEARY
medium only from 3.5
medium only
Live from the House of Commons.
medium only
Derek Cooper presents a weekly magazine about food, with Anthony Parkin , the BBC's Agricultural Editor.
Tell me what you eat and I. will tell you who you are.'
(BRILLAT-SAVARIN)
This week: what do we eat? Jenny Salmon , nutritionist, and Chris Righton , farmer, analyse the weekly shopping basket of MRS PAULINE GREEN ; and a cool look at water by Gill Pyrah. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
The Terrific Kemble (2)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Signing On
David Rider considers the mystique of the signature tune. the musicad key which so often opens the door on radio and television as well as in the cinema and the theatre. Producer RAY ABBOTT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report
'twixt Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and David Nixon , Tim Rice Tune Twisters from Steve Race
In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESS1TER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30pm)
A further series of editions in which Christopher Ricks selects poems from the New Oxford Book of English Verse. 13: Body and Soul including poems by Donne and Dylan Thomas
Reader HUGH DICKSON Producer ALEC REID
as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
Presented by Sheridan Morley Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Secret Agent (2)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
