News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
Presented by Peter Hobday and Michael Stewart with Brian Redhead from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in New Delhi, India
6.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25* 8.25* Sport
7.45" Thought for the Day
8.35' Yesterday in Parliament
invites you to join him and Libby Purves for conversation with the people who are in and out of the news this week. Producer PIPPA BURSTON
Harry by WILLIAM SAROYAN Read by Peter Craze
NEM, p 79; God of grace <BBC HB 391); Psalm 90; Matthew 6, vv 16-24;
Blest be the everlasting God <BBC HB 486) long wave only
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that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweett
Names descriptive, collective, classical or colloquial have some very strange origins and in the first of a new series of six programmes, Denis Owen rejoices in names that sound like a ' money changer ', an ' old squaw ' and the insistent cry of ' chuck-will's-widow '...
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
Paul Heiney with more news and advice for consumers. If you have any comments on today's items, ring [number removed]after 11.0 am.
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and opinions from around the world
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week: baby-care expert and child psychologist Penelope Leach.
A Tiger for Malgudi (5) long wave only
The Investigators
A series of six plays
4: Endangered Species by JOHN WAINWRIGHT with Peter Woodthorpe as Constable Roberts George A. Cooper as Inspector Palmer and Christopher Fairbank as Sergeant Adams
In the interview room of a local police station Constable Roberts is being questioned by his superiors. The interrogation always comes back to the same issue: race. Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
The Song of Hiawatha Six extracts from the epic poem by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. chosen and read by Johnny Morris
2: Hiawatha's Wooing BBC Bristol
Take a Spare Truss 2: Transport and Accommodation
' Notwithstanding the care of the cook, I seldom sit down to dinner without eating two or three cockroaches by mistake - especially if stewed prunes happened to be served.'
Simon Brett continues his investigation into journeying abroad with some travel tips for the 19th-century traveller.
flow Green Was My Valley (8)
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain Second Round 12: Scotland
Selkirk High School v North 2
Durham School
Questionmasters
TIM GUDGIN and PADDY FEENY Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY , NIGEL RICHARDSON and PADDY FEENY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation into the problems of listeners.
Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated; Thurs 9.5 am)
Government and the Governed
Six talks by Sir Douglas Wass, GCB, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and Joint Head of the Home Civil Service until his retirement in spring this year.
3: The Privileged Adviser
By tradition, the British civil servant is politically neutral: he offers impartial advice and criticism to his political chiefs and pursues their policies with energy even when he disagrees with them. In the real world, however, the definition is not so clear cut.
Ministers and civil servants are inextricably mixed up with each other and the partnership can only work if there is mutual trust. Now that that trust is in question, which Civil Service reforms would strengthen it and which weaken it? The transcript of this lecture is in THE LISTENER published tomorrow
The last in the present series with Peter Hobday Producer ROGER PARRY
(Repeated: Thurs 10.0 am)
The Most Triumphant City Paul Vaughan explores the glories of 16th-century Venetian art at the Genius of Venice Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. He also journeys to that most triumphant city in the sea which, in its golden age, gave inspiration and the livelihood to some of the greatest Renaissance painters, sculptors, musicians and poets. Producer JOHN POWELL
John Morgan reporting
by Dorothy L. Sayers
The last of six episodes adapted by Alistair Beaton
starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter, Sarah Badel as Lady Peter Wimsey, Peter Jones as Bunter, with special guest Peter Vaughan as Superintendent Kirk
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