Farming, food and countryside news, market trends

with Brian Redhead in Blackpool for the Trades Union Congress and John Timpson in London
6.30, 7.30. 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*. 8.251 Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 4

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

Russell Harty and his guest Julian Mitchell choose pieces of music for each other as stepping stones in a conversation that is free-ranging and. sometimes, surprising. Producer IAN GARDHOUSE

A Life
Written and read by Henry Livings Frances buys no newspaper, has no radio, no television. The house is silent. In what form does she build her thoughts? '
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

NEM. p 21; The God whom earth and sea and sky
(BBC HB 239); Psalm 67; Luke 1, vv 39-49 (RSV); Virgin-born, we bow before thee (BBC HB 240)

Alan Bleasdale presents his personal choice of poetry and prose with Julie Walters and Michael Angelis
'At home I was brought up on a literary diet of Chandler and Brian Rix, which may explain the way in which I write and what I think of life - as a sort of violent farce.' Recorded before an invited audience at The Liverpool Playhouse.
BBC Bristol

Let Noil Landor. together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Questions on a postcard please, to Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcastino House, r.ondon WM 4WW
Producer IAN WILLOX

John Howard with the latest news, information and advice for consumers. Today Leslie Cottington reveals the latest trends in food prices with the aid of the BBC Shopping Basket survey. What's new in the food shops? What are the best buys?

The second of six entertainments for an early-autumn lunchtime as David Barlow, Peter Christie, Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together with their special guests The Gay Blades

Presenter Sir Robin Day

Introduced by Sue MacGregor including:
Slay Young and Beautiful: is there age discrimination against women? ANGELLE BRYAN-KANE Investigates. The Little Walls (6)

by Berlie Doherty

with Moir Leslie as Cecilia

Requiem follows the progress of Cecilia through convent school in the 1950s. Like the patron saint after whom she is named, she loves music; but is It a sin to give way to such a love, or is denial better for the soul? With all the intensity of a teenager growing into adulthood Cecilia tries to solve the contradictions she feels surround her.
Members of the choir of LORETO GRAMMAR SCHOOL conducted by MARY PETHICA
Organist LUCINA SWAIN
Directed by KAY PATRICK
BBC Manchester
(Stereo/Binaural)

Margaret Pine has a story of success against the odds. She gave up her job as a social worker to become a writer. Her play, Waltzing to
Jerusalem, took second place In the television section of the Radio
Times Drama Awards. She talks to
Leonard Pearcey

The Transit of Venus (2)

Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams

With CHARLES COLVILLE
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world, including Financial Report

Written by DEBBIE COOK (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

John Amis looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Bartok Divertimento

Mozart Piano Concerto No 12, in A major (K 414)

(as Radio 3)

The last of three programmes
Stanley Williamson opens the file on life in Cambridge 100 years ago, as it was reflected in the local newspapers. Readers KEITH CLIFFORD and SIMON MOLLOY
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Part 2
Mozart Serenata notturna (K 239)
Tchaikovsky Serenade for strings In c major as Radio 3

includes a review of Crime and Punishment, a dramatisation of Dostoevsky's novel, directed by Yuri Lyub 'imov of Moscow's
Taganka Theatre, at the Lyric Theatre.
Hammersmith, starring Michael Pennington as Raskolnikov and Bill
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN

with Alexander MacLeod

The Member of the Wedding (4) long wave only

long wave only

A desert at night - beneath the arched body of Nut. the Egyptian sky goddess, stories from
Bedou legend and culture are told, ghostly glowings reveal camel-spiders and scorpions about their nocturnal hunting ... Presenter Barry Paine
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only

long wave only