Leslie Cottington and Martin Small report from the Royal Show at the National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6 45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
6,55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE macmillan
7.25«, 8.25* Sport
7,30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather: travel: continental travel
by Anthony Smith
A 13-part series which looks at our environment: ways to save M, improve It, enjoy it.
Stephen Bradshaw examines the controversy surrounding issues like nuclear power, pollution, and the competing demands on the countryside, both at home and abroad.
He also examines efforts being made by groups all over the country to look after their own patch and to persuade the rest of us to do the same.
Producers SIMON major, GAYNOR SHUTTE and MICK WEBB
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nem, p 30: When Christ was lifted from the earth (bp 100); Canticle 5; Acts 13. vv 1-12 (rsv); It is a thinemostwonderful
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Bones by PAUL R. HYDE itead by Diana Olsson
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
loilowed by travel
Six of the Best!
For the next six weeks you can enjoy selected repeats of some personal experiences with wild creatures.
This week Malcolm Coe talks about foam frogs.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presenter Bill Brcckon with voices and opinions from around the world
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced from Bristol by Jennl Murray
Music Around the World; a preview of the 15th World Conference on Music Education to be held in Bristol on 21 July. The Minack Theatre
Golden Jubilee Year: set in the granite cliffs at
Porthcurno its dramatic open-air setting makes it unique. DOUGLAS MOUNCE reports.
Producer SARAII PITT BBC Bristol
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (5)
Scrape Off the Black by TUNDI IKOLI
Rose came up from grass Cornwall, green She married an African and by the time Andy and Trevor were born she'd learned a thing or two. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
with Michael Clark, a farmer in Avon.
Producer SARAH PITT
Why are we as a society so reticent about death? Why do so many people find their first contact with a dying person a deeply unsettling experience?
Margaret Percy talks to people who are facing up to the prospect of their own death, or have experienced the death of someone close to them. and finds out what services are available to support both the dying and the bereaved.
(Six programmes on Life and Death start next Sunday on R4 VHF at 5pm)
Voices in the Garden (3)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs
Tom Boswell tests the Honda Accord Executive Producer IRENE MALLIS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer helen FRY
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
Rosemary Hartlll reports on the week's proceedings In the General Synod, the Church of England's Parliament.
Producer DAVID WINTER
John Mortimer , «c
Peter Jay. Lord Hesketh and Joan Hall tackle ithe issues raised by the audience in Brands Hatch, Kent
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
includes reviews of the collected stories of Nobel Prize-winning author
Isaac Bashevis Singer; and a new record of some of the Andrews Sisters' greatest hits. Presenter
Michael Billington
Producer CARROLL MOORE
John Morgan reporting
with David Jason. Bill Wallis. David Tate and Sheila Steafel
Written by BOB SINFIELD TONY SARCHET ,
JAMES HENDRIE , JOHN REVELL , JOHN LANGDON. RICHARD QUICK. PETER HICKEY , ANDREA SOLOMONS, IAN BROWN and others Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude