Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
Producer MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Now in its fifth year, this series about people who are successful against the odds features the finalists in a new small business award competition.
Sponsored by Radio 4 and RADIO TIMES, the award represents a £10,000 prize for the man or woman who has shown the most courage and entrepreneurial skill in developing their own company.
The judges in the competition are
David Trippier , mp, Minister for Small Businesses, Jeffrey Archer , bestselling author, Alan Stote of the CBI, and Stuart Young ,
Chairman of the BBC.
Reporting on the first of the 12 finalists is
Marjorie Lofthouse.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
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Fish on a Cold Slab by MURIEL ROSS
Read by Dilys Price
'Suddenly she screamed.
The sound seemed to come from outside herself, drowning the tinny radio. The fish arched like a snake in her hand....'
Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales
The Power of Prayer
NEM, p 75; Lord, teach us how to pray aright (BBC HB 344); African Sanctus and Lord's Prayer; Mark 9, w
14.29; Christian, dost thou see them (BBC HB 339)
Ellie Bagg 's Account by AUSON PRINCE
A special edition with subjects suggested by you - the listener. We read your letters, play your favourite sounds and give you another chance to win our mystery sound competition.
Presenter Derek Jones
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)
Presenter Paul Heiney with the latest news and advice for consumers. Phone comments on [number removed]after 11.0
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain Chairman
Robert Robinson 3: HOME COUNTIES
Geoffrey Reynolds (retired engineer)
Martyn Berry (teacher) Harvey Brown (dental surgeon) Graham Page (accountant) including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by JOHN p WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer richard EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
with Michael Charlton
Introduced by Gillian Reynolds From Rock to Rachmaninov:
BOB PRIZEMAN investigates the controversial method of music teaching for children.
The Birds Fall Down (13)
Servants
A play for radio by DONALD CAMPBELL
In their fine Edinburgh house, Sylvia and Henry Wishart lead a life of ordered comfort, with a cook, a nanny and a housemaid. But it is 1936, and there is a war in Spain....
A subtle, atmospheric production
(TIMES EDUCATIONAL
SUPPLEMENT)
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
by ROBIN WHITWORTH Narrated by Michael Hordern Geoffrey Whitworth was born in 1883. A much-neglected figure, he was not only the founder of the British Drama
League, but also one of the chief pioneers in the movement to establish a National Theatre. In this tribute PETER HALL ,
CLIFFORD WILLIAMS , JOHN ELSOM , ROBIN WHITWORTH and FRANCES BRIGGS explore his personality and assess his achievement. With readings by MICHAEL BILTON and TIMOTHY BATESON
Producer JAMES RUNCIE (Revised repeat)
(Michael Hordern and Michael Bryant are
National Theatre players)
Futility (2)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton 5.50-5.55
with BRYAN MARTIN including
Financial Report
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm) Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Reporter
Michael Robinson
Producer PETER SALMON Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.0 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the gp's surgery.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed] 8.30-10.0 pm Handbooks of aids and publications, [address removed]
Six programmes of recollections of working-class childhood 60 years and more ago, selected from oral history collections throughout Britain by Stephen Humphries with music arranged and performed by SANDRA KERR and with additional recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives.
Additional research
ALISON JOHNSTON
6: The Community
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer kevin JACKSON
I'm Not Complaining (2)
Headlines analysis and comment.
11.0 Headlines long wave only from 11.0
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
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