News. weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news. market trends and weather. Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Dau with FR ALBAN MCCOY
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.251, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought /or the Dau
8.57 Weather; travel
Cricket
With the Pakistan Test series just starting, the England side will again be under the close scrutiny of television cameras and cricket commentators. Is the fielding circle right?
What about the over rate? What are the continuing implications for England of cricketers playing in South Africa? Are the reserves of italent at county level properly supported by schemes to encourage younger players into the game? Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Editor of The Cricketer International magazine, and Brian Johnston, the BBC's first cricket correspondent, join Teresa McGonagle to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 93; Christ is alive! Let Christians sing (BP
8); Psalm 11; Acts 19. vv 11-20 (rsv); Christ is the world's light (Bp 9) long wave onlu
A Rusty Kind of Way by JACKIE EDWARDS
Read by Judy Bennett ' This couldn't be the same mother who was always telling me that confidence was everything. What was the matter with her? '
Producer JOANNA TOYE
BBC Birmingham
followed by travel
The Innocent by w. p. JONES and A young girl from the Swansea Valley arrives in London looking for work and accommodation. She Is lonely and apprehensive, but seems to have found a friend.... Directed by ENYO WILLIAMS BBC Wales
The starlings prod the lawn with their beaks wide open. only occasionally gobbling something down. What are they hunting? Food for thought for the team of naturalists. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jennl Mills
by A.C. Macdonell adapted in six episodes by Barry Took
4: Politics - Home and Away with
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced bv Sue MacGregor including
Another Opening,
Another Show: CINDY SELBY meets a touring theatre company.
' The Sex ': was the way Victorian mps referred to women. ELIZABETH loncford presents, a portrait of some of the women.
Tea and Tranquillisers - the Diary of a Happy Housewife (6)
by ANTHONY POWELL (2)
The first of four programmes id great composers live ordinary lives?
Donald James reveals that J. S. Bach was beaten up by one of his choir ... Producer IAN CARSON BBC Bristol
Hever Castle in Kent was the setting for Henry VIII 's courtship of Anne Boleyn in the early 16th century. Hever Castle today, however, is the realisation of a 20th-century dream. In 1903, William Waldorf Astor, an eccentric American millionaire, bought the Hever estate, restored and enlarged the moated castle, and filled It with art treasures. Now the Astor heritage is up for sale, and a whole community's future is at stake.
The story of Hever Castle is told by Sonia Beesley.
The Cosway Miniature (2)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
CHSirman Robert Robinson 23: SCOTLAND
Norman Clark (teacher) Jim Robertson (teacher) Philip Whitaker
(university lecturer)
The Rev Joseph McMahon (priest) including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer Richard EDIS
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
The last of six programmes in which
Barry Cunliffe examines the life and work of pioneers of archaeology - people who enriched our understanding of the past through their endeavours, dreams, visions and obsessions.
Digging Up People a portrait of SIR MORTIMER WHEELER Compiled from contemporary sources by PETER JAMES
Producer- JOHN KNIGHT
Major issues, chancing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Reporter
Michael Robinson
Producer MAX EASTERMAN BBC Manchester
Food allergies
News. views and information for people with a visual handicap. Self-sufficient Sisters
June and Fat Rhodes are both registered blind but maintain a garden which keeps them in fruit and vegetables for most of the year. They talk to ' Hannah Wright about the way they cope with growing and cooking their own food.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relatingtotheprogramme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbook of aids and services £2 95, from [address removed]
Includes reviews of ' Lady Godiva - Images of a Legend in Art and Society ', an exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry; and A Small Town in Germany, the Radio 4 serial based on the book by John le Carre.
Presenter Chris Bigsby Producer CARROLL MOORE
Stephen Milligan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
More raucous fun and a little extra from Robert Bathurst Rory McGrath
Jimmy Mulvllle
Emma Thompson and Griff Rhys Jones Written by RORY MCGRATH ,
JIMMY MULVILLE , JON CANTER and others
Producer
GEOFFREY PERKINS
The Sending (7) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
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