with special reports from the Royal Ulster Show
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Tlmpson pnd Peter Hobday
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 PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.251, 8.25. Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35. Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
8.57 Weather: travel
long wave only
(Repeated: Sat 4.2 pm) long wave only
The Good Corn by it. E. BATES. Read Mary Wimbush long wave only
neh, p 25: Thou art the way; by thee alone (BBC HB 338); Psalm 9; Judges 7, vv 9-18 (rsv): Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC HB 481)
followed by travel long wave only
The wheat in bread, the potatoes in chips, and the corn in breakfast cereal are all the results of many years interbreeding different varieties of plants. But some characteristics useful to growers, such as pest resistance, still elude the efforts of the plant breeders. Now genetic engineering offers a time-saving method of overcoming the limitations of traditional plant-breeding.
Colin Tudge explores the prospects that, in the future, man-made plants will be the source of our daily bread.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN long wave only
Jim Flegg looks at the swift our most aerial bird: and the similar but unrelated house martin. Producer JOHN HARRISON UBC Bristol long wave only
with Paul Heiney and Pattie Coldwell
Today It's a Bargain - Norman Tozer investigates buying sleeping-bags.
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
i.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long, wave only
Introduced from Bristol by Sandi Marshall
Twins: double trouble or twice the Joy? Diane Shelley Investigates the dilemma.
Truckin' Together: travel tales from international transporters Joan and Don Wilmot.
BBC Bristol
The King's General (12) long wave only
by Wilkie Collins, dramatised for radio in six parts by Brian Gear
With music composed by Sidney Sager
With John Sharp as Gabriel Betteredge, Geoffrey Beevers as Godfrey Ablewhite, John Telfer as Franklin Blake, Sally Baxter as Rachel Verinder
Still under suspicion by public opinion for having stolen her own jewel, the moonstone, Rachel turns for consolation to the arms of Godfrey Ablewhite , and has just accepted a proposal of marriage from him....
BBC Bristol
Painting by Radio 4. The End
Employment in the 80s Six programmes
2: Will the Jobs Come Back!
The impact of microelectronics has scmetimes been blamed for the rapid decline of jobs but new technology fias also created opportunities - though of a different sort.
Brian Bedhead , with the help of John Atkinson , of the institute of Manpower Studies assesses the pros and cons and asks when will traditional employers begin large. scale recruitment again - if ever?
Consultant JOHN ATKINSON Producer
CHRISTOPHER STONE
Stories from the RaJ Karma by KHUSHWANT SINGH Read by Sam Dastor
Sir Mohan Lai , barrister, once of Oxford
University, with Savile Row suit, carnation in buttonhole, travels first class on the railway. His uneducated wife, chewing betel leaves, travels pecond. But pride, for
Sir Mohan. comes literally before a fall.
presenters Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Radio and TV extracts with Margaret Howard Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Sut 10.45 am)
A personal portrait
Tonight comes from Twickenham. An audience puts questions to a panel of four distinguished people.
The programme is chaired by David Jacobs.
(Repeated, Sat 1.10 pm)
includes reviews of Beethoven's Tenth at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, a new play written by and starring Peter Ustinov as Ludwig van Beethoven who returns to visit a modern music critic in his home; and The Eastern Carpet in the Western World, a major exhibition of oriental carpets at the Hayward Gallery, London. Presenter
Michael Billington
Producer CARROLL MOORE
with Alexander MacLeod
with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Nicky Henson and Sally Grace
Written by JAMES hendrie IAN BROWN , NICK REVELL
ANDREA SOLOMONS , ROY APPS RICHARD QUICK,
JOHN LANGDON , JOHN COLLEE ROGER PLANER , PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PETER ATKIN
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
The Hooligan Nights (3) long wave only
lonfl wave only
long wave only
(Broadcast Mon 8.43 am)
(long wave only)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
