News. weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter Brian Redhead
with Mike Wolldridge
including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
The Rt Rev Stephen Verney
7.0, 9.0 Today's News
Read by Dilly Barlow
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Book: Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections, £1.35, available from bookshops
8: The Portrait Painter
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary People.
Including The Week so Tar by Russell Davies
Producer JILL FREEMAN
A year of Gardeners' Question Time
KEN FORD recalls some of the places visited, and some of the questions asked during the past year. With FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Producer KEN FORD BBC Manchester
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, available from bookshops
NEM, P 79: Jcsu. thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB 323); Psalm 148; Mark 5, w 1-17 (rsv); 0 food of men (BBC HB 209)
Prayer book, New Every Morning, £1.75 hardback, fl.25 paperback, jro?n bookshops
Missee Lee (5)
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Jenni Mills
A series of marital black comedies starring Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden
with Steven Pacey and Tammy Ustinov
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week: actor Denis Quilley
Reading Your Letters.
New York Report: from HELENE BANFF
A Cure for Loneliness: ANNE MACNAMARA visits the Carr-Gomm Society. Skin Deep
2 Mrs Wingate
Story: A Hut for Betlian by GILL DAMES
by Sue Papworth
Arthur is a master baker with a small business and delighted customers. One day the forces of bureaucracy come to call and change everything.
(BBC Manchester)
(Stereo)
from
Edington Priory Festival
Introit: God be in my Head (Radcliffe) Responses (Byrd)
Office Hymn: Te Saeculorum Principem (Mode 1)
Psalm 104 (Barnby, Longhurst)
Canticles: Short Service (Gibbons)
Lessons: Jonah 3; Matthew 12, vv 38-50
Anthem: See, see, the word is incarnate (Gibbons)
Hymn: Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round (Song 1) Choir conducted by JOHN HARPER
Organist GEOFFREY WEBBER Festival director
JOHN HARDY
BBC Bristol
The Loss by ZORINA ISHMAlL-BIBBY Read by Sally Mates
Anna ached for the sun of her own country far away. She had chosen to marry and come here before ' she was old enough to understand the consequences of exile.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Presenters Joan Bakcwell and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Sounds and scenes from a past year challenge the memories of residents:
Terry Wogan and Ann Meo Guests: Libby Purves and Henry Kelly
Chairman Richard Stilgoe Questions set by MARGARET HOWARD
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Action Desk Edition
The team takes on bureaucracy and business to solve your problems.
Presented by Vincent Kane Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
The weekly phone-in discussion returns with more guests from Britain and around the world, ready to answer your questions and debate with you their attitudes and beliefs. Chairman
Richard Whitmore
Producers JANE MARSHALL and PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 6.30 pm
The Food Aid ' Fraud '
Bangladesh could be the most fertile country in Asia. Yet 60 per cent of its population is permanently malnourished. In what is presented as an act of international charity, the West sends fl40-million of surplus grain every year. Confidential reports show this has undermined self-sufficiency in food. Worse still, most of the aid is never intended to feed the hungry-instead it is distributed through a network of government agents to the politically important in the army and civil service.
David Henshaw reports from the villages of Bangladesh and asks why Western governments continue what one aid official calls a ' con trick
Producer GERRY NORTHAM Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Presenter Chris Fowling Producer CARROLL MOORE
Douglas Stuart reporting
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
In Patagonia (8)
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Edward Cole presents musical nostalgia for late night listening. long wave only
Weather report; forecast long tvave only followed by an interlude
