Farming, food and countryside news. market trends and weather t.25 Shipping forecast long wave onlu
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45 Prayer for the Day THE REV GEORGE MULRAIN
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Dau
8.57 Weather; travel
Veteran Interviewer
Libby Purves Invites the birthday guest to reveal all and Cfare introduces you to some unfamiliar and fascinating personalities.
Producer JENNY OANKS
visits Buckinghamshire, where members of the Ballinger Hall
Horticultural Society put their questions to Bill Sowerbutts
Professor Alan Gemmell and Clay Jones
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
(Broadcat Sun 2.2pm)
NEM, p 71; Be thou my guardian and my guide (BBC hb 135); Canticle 7; Acts 17, v 28 to 18, v 4 (Rsv); Songs of praise the angels sang (Bp 77) long wave onlu
The Good Corn by H. E. BATES
Read by Mary Wimbush ' She laughed again, and shook herself, twisting her body. He tried to kiss her again and she said. " Not here I keep telling you. Sometime if you like, but not here. Not in broad daylight.
Some other time. There'll be another time." '
Producer MITCH RAPER
followed by travel
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon
by JOHN LE CARRE adapted in seven parts by RENt BASILICO
2: Alan Turner , searching for Leo Harting. a missing diplomat, begins his
Inquiry Inside the British Embassy in Bonn.
Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Bernard Heplon and Marcia Worren are in - Seasons Greetings ' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast
(long wave only)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week:
John Simmons , curator of the Royal Botanical Gardens. Kew.
Magazine for Millions; DANNY DANZIGER Visits Woman's Oun
Tea and Tranquillisers - the Diary of a Happy Housewife (2)
Watch This Space by PAUL ALLEN
When railway worker Eddie Thorpe gets his early retirement notice along with his long-service award, he doesn t fail to see the irony. But the shock goes deeper than perhaps those who know him could have foreseen.
Directed by DAVID SHEASSY BBC Manchester
The last of six programmes presented by the poet Kit Wright Gawl Horrop
Readers HUGH DICKSON and PATIENCE TOMLINSON Producer ALEC REID
Tim Sebastian , for three years BBC Correspondent in Warsaw, recalls some of the people for and against change in Poland. 2. The Dissenters
Major issues, changing attitudes. Important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Libby Purves Producer DIANA GOODMAN BBC Manchester
\olccs in the Garden (in
with Susannah Simons and Peter Ruff on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Mulr challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated; Fri 12.27 pm)
Written by WATSON GOULD
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birminflham
The first of nine weekly investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the second half of a series in 26 parts. Narrator David Attenborough. 19: Instrumental Chorus.
Just as there is incredible diversity in insect size and shape, so too there is a wide range of sounds and sound production. David Aldley of the University of East Anglia, Henry Bennet Clark and Martin Birch of Oxford University, Arthur Ewing of Edinburgh University, Brian Lewis of the City of London Polytechnic, and David Ragge of the British Museum (Natural History), reveal how cicadas, crickets, grasshoppers, bark beetles and fruit flies communicate sound. Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Talking About Music
Each week ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
Edwin Mullins reappraises the 16th-century Spanish painter on the occasion of the major exhibition of his work at the Prado in Madrid.
Producer CARROLL MOORE (Revised repeat)
When Sir Ian Trethowan retires next week from the top BBC job, the new Director-General will be Alasdalr Milne , one of tv's toughest and most respected professionals. What sort of Impact and effect will the new boss have on a corporation facing one of the most crucial periods in its
60-year history? Anthony Howard traces his career and assesses his management style through conversations with colleagues and friends, including The Rt lion George Younger. mp, Secretary of State for Scotland, Sir Huw Wheldon and Fyfe Robertson.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
includes reviews of Windy City, a new musical based on the play The Front Page, starring
Dennis Waterman at the Victoria Palace in London; and Oh, What a Paradise it
Seems, the last published novel by John Cheever who died in June.
Presenter Paul Allen Producer ANNE WINDER
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
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