Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
S.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45' Prayer for the Day
With THE REV DERRYCK EVANS t 55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read bv PETER DONALDSON
7.25*-8.25*Sport
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
Part 4
8.57 Weather; travel
A series of 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
A magazine edition with news of wildlife from around the world.
Presenter Peter France
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Gerry Mont * talks to six people who, though not Welsh, have chosen to make Wales their home. Ian Skidmore came to
Wales to escape what he describes as the boredom of the night-desk on a national newspaper. He now lives in ' genteel poverty ' on the island of Anglesey writing biographies and novels. and occasionally crossing the Menai Straits to do a little broadcasting to nost the island's economy.
Producer EIFION EVANS BBC Wales
NEM. p 79; 0 food of men wayfaring (BBC HB 209); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; Acts 29, vv 11-22 (NEB); Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heavens (BBC HB482) long wave only
with TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR The penultimate edition of the journey. As the seconds tick by, will we ever find out when. where or what the treasure is? Does Tim know? Last clues today!
followed by travel
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer KATE FENTON
including
Credit Where Credit's Due 4: Your Home and JILL TODD with the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenter Jennl Mills
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Peter Hobday with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside: or is it no longer a nice place to be? SYLVIA HORN examines the debris and waste-matter which is soiling our beaches.
Skin Deep: the first in a series of guides to herbal beauty with KITTY LITTLE. Three Stories by MICHAEL GILBERT abridged by JACK SINGLETON
Read by Garard Green 1: Early Warning
That Girl in 27 by GRAHAM BLACKETT
The neighbours are all a little disturbed by the arrival of a new couple to live in No 27 - a house with a recent all-too-tragic past ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Robert Overton recalls some bizarre experiences as a circuit judge in long-gone outposts of Empire. 3: A Break in the Circuit Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
Teresa McGonagle invites Julian Critchley and Anthony Price to pick some paperbacks.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Treasure Island (9)
Presenters Robert Williams and Paul Burden on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
With COLIN DORAN
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Terry Wogan , mindful of his mother's warnings on the uncertainties of showbusiness, searches for a secure day job, preferably one with prospects and a late-morning start.
Reluctant to lose all the glamour In his life,
Terry dons his red suede jacket and tries his hand as a TV weatherman.
Research LIBBY SPURRIER Producer HELEN FRY
Written by MARGARET PHELAN
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC,Birmingham
Andrew Keener looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)
attrib Haydn Oboe Concerto in C major
In the first of three programmes presented by poets, Charles Causley introduces a choice of his favourite poems and explains some of their attraction for him.
Readers HUGH DICKSON
FRANCES HOROVITZ and CHRISTIAN RODSKA
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
Beethoven Symphony No 4, in B flat
(as Radio 3)
includes reviews of the first novel by playwright John Arden, Silence Among the Weapons. The central character, an actor's agent, finds himself caught up in the turmoil of the first century BC republic of Rome. Also a new play with an all-woman cast by Caryl Churchill, Top Girls, at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Presenter Christopher Bigsby
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Madame Bovary (4) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Gillian Weir talks to
Margaret Howard about her musical life and plays records of some ot the musicians who have influenced her.
' I loathe noise myself and I once said to someone, " I'm goinp to join the Noise Abatement Society" " and they said rather bitterly, " What a very strange thing for an organist to say! " ' Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(First broadcast on World Service) long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an interlude
