News, weather, papers and sport

Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather

with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Part 5

Susan Marling confronts producers and management with your criticisms and Tomments about BBC radio and television.
Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio and teleuision to: Feedback, BBC
Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

Head of Clay by ALAN WYKES
Read by David Ashford

NEM p 5; Brightest and best of the sons of the morning (BBC HB 63); Three kings {Oxford
Book of Carols 193); Matthew 2, w 1-12; What star is this with beams so bright (BBC HB 69)

Jesus of Nazareth is the most widely revered figure in human history yet surprising little is known about him. For example, although his
'birthday' has recently been celebrated by his one-and-a-half billion followers, no one can conclusively prove the year of his birth, let alone the date.
Even the most basic questions about his identity remain a matter of fierce dispute: was he, as the Church claims, Son of God? Or, as others argue, a blasphemer? Did the first
Christians see him as king of kings or suffering servant?
David Winter invites Canon Michael Green. Hubert Richards , Sister Cecily Boulding , op. and Geza Vermes to attempt an answer to the question. 'Who was Jesus?'
Producer FRANCES GUMLEY

'The servants, having observed Jacko's talent (for catching mice) reasoned to themselves as follows: cats catch mice in the dark; monkeys catch mice in the dark; therefore monkies are cats....'
Thus observed Francis Trevelyan Buckland, 19th-century naturalist, and if guardian of a very naughty if clever monkey!
Barry Paine reads a selection of highlights from Buckland's Curiosities of Natural History.
BBC Bristol

John Howard with the latest news for consumers.
Norman Tozer looks for a bargain buy among car tow ropes and tests their strengths and weaknesses.

Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines

Introduced from Northern Ireland by Wendy Austin
The Fair Employment Agency was set up in 1976 with the aim of removing religious discrimination in employment BOB COOPER is its Chairman and he talks about the task of running a body which is continually surrounded by controversy. Producer COLIN I. EWIS Over the Bridge (5)

by HENRY JAMES (1)

Faith and Food claire FRANKEL considers the influence of religious immigrant groups on American cooking.
4: The Shakers
BBC Manchester

A series of six programmes in which Caribbeans in Britain talk about their continuing links with the places from which they have come. 1: Guyana
'Ladies and gentlemen, there are some of you who do not know what the West Indies are all about. All you know is plenty of bananas, coconuts, we play cricket, we have fast bowlers....'
This challenge from a Hyde
Park Corner soapbox is taken up by Juliet Alexander , whose birthplace is a Caribbean state as far from Jamaica as Britain is from Russia, where over half the people are of South Asian descent, where cities of canals and bicycles were founded by the Dutch, and which isn't even an island.
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS
Book, £1.50, from [address removed]& HELPLINES: page 87

The Wind in the Willows by KENNETH GRAHAME abridged for radio in 12 parts by ANGELA THOMAB
Read by BERNARD CRIBINS (12) Producer MARTIN JENKINS

with Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

from Hong Kong
One British airline, Cathay Pacific, already competes on equal terms with the best in the world - but could its days in Hong Kong be numbered? Reporter
Richard Hudson-Evans Editor roger MACDONALD

(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)

with Margaret Howard Producer JAN TAYLOR
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)

A personal portrait of a public figure or the story of a private individual.

Lord Chalfont Joan Ruddock
Frederic Raphael and Jean Rook from Westgate-on-Sea, Kent Chairman David Jacobs
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol

A celebration of cats in song and verse, and a little of their natural history besides.
Narrated by Paul Vaughan Readings by DEREK JONES Compiled by KATE TIFFIN
Producer CHRISTOPHER LOWELL BBC Bristol

Christopher Frayling presents tonight's edition, including interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD

Nineteen Eighty-four (5)

reporting the news and the background to the news from around the world
10.30 Headlines
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight

with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace Written by IAN BROWN , JAMES HENDRIE
RICHARD QUICK. JOHN LANGDON
JOHN COLLEE , ROGER PLANER PAUL DAVTES ,
MARTIN DAVE DIXON , BARRY FAULKNER PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER

This week Andy Price found himself caught up in the enthusiasm of sale time and has been bidding for bargains in the BBC's Sound Archives. Producer SALLY LUNN