presented from Wales by Handel Jones
A regional view of farming in the week ahead BBC Wales
Presenters John Timpson 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 CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Kate Moon
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Thursday 9.30 pm)
Famous faces and new voices meet for a not entirely serious talk about subjects that interest them and may surprise you.
Fifty-five minutes of conversation from the personalities who will be in the news this week. Producer MICHAEL EMBER Stereo
A Day by the Sea by SCOULAR ANDERSON
Read by Sandra Clark Producer MITCH RAPER
My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC HB 12); Psalm 50; Hebrews 11, w 29-40; Believe not those who say (BBC HB 317) Stereo
Brian Johnston is in Sevenoaks in Kent. It is an old town which developed rapidly with the coming of the railway and is also the home of the Vine Cricket Club, this year celebrating its 250th anniversary. Producer JOHN D. WILSON BBC Bristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Jenny Joseph Readers HUGH DICKSON and DIANA BISHOP
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
with Paul Heiney Editor KEN VASS
goes Round Your Parts
And this week a visit to the old, old, old village of Humpingham to do some quaint and sleepy interviews with its local characters.
Leaving the gate open are:
Written by ANGUS DEAYTON and GEOFFREY PERKINS
Additional material by JON CANTER , MORAY HUNTER and JOHN DOCHERTY
Music by philip POPE and STEVE BROWN
Producer JAMIE RIX
(Repeated: Tuesday 6.30 pm) Stereo
Presenter Brian Widlake Producer DEREK LEWIS
for the under-5s Dave and Toni Arthur with some games to play. Producer PETER HOARE
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Learning to live with teenagers! Does going on a course help? ANDREA ADAMS finds out.
The Greengage Summer by RUMER GODDEN abridged in 12 parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by Fiona Mathieson (1) 'All that hot French August at Les Oeillets, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Ever afterwards, in our family, we called it the greengage summer.'
(Music: Lilburn's Second Symphony)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
The Godwulf Manuscript by ROBERT B. PARKER
Stereo
New series
A series of five programmes 1:The Milkman
Peter Goodall tells
David Willmott about the way his job has changed since the days of the horse-drawn float. But is the milkman's future as rosy as his past?
Producer JULIAN HITCHCOCK BBC Birmingham
The Reverberator (6)
with Gordon Clough and Carole West Editor DEREK LEWIS
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.40 pm)
Presented by Colin Tudge Producer CLIFF SPENCER
A six-part series in which
Stanley Ellis sets out on some of Britain's linguistic B-roads to discover the wealth of ways in which people talk about their lives, their landscape and their local language.
3:Talking the Fishing - Lowestoft
The fishing industry has retained many words which have been in use for 4 or 500 years, as far back as Chaucer.
Field research by DAVID BUTCHER Producer SIMON ELMES (Revised repeat)
Never In My Lifetime by SHIRLEY GEE
The love between a British soldier and a young girl from Belfast is inevitably entangled in the rage of conflicting ideas. The repercussions of a violent incident are felt by six people, who are all, in their different ways, closely involved.
Drums played by NIGEL SHIPWAY Directed by DAVID SPENSER Stereo
Conversations with Domingo The first of two programmes The great Spanish tenor
Placido Domingo has already, at 43, given twice as many performances as Callas, recorded 50 complete operas and developed subsidiary careers as film star, pop singer and orchestral conductor. Daniel Snowman invited
Domingo to reflect upon his career so far, his repertoire and recordings, his attitudes towards film and video, and upon the wider world of music. In the first of two programmes, Domingo talks about some of his major roles and how he approaches them.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
(Programme 2 Tuesday 9.45 pm) Stereo
Among the Russians 6: In Latvia
Presented by Alexander MacLeod in London and David McNeil in Jerusalem with coverage of the Israeli General Election
National and international news, background, analysis, comment
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF until 11.0
Under Pressure A six-part series 5:Stress ManagementPAUL HEINEY joins a group of businessmen learning to control their stress, and finds out what role drugs can play in the treatment of stress. He is joined in the studio by DR ILANA GLASS of the Institute of Psychiatry.
'Stepping in dew, head in the sun, I reached up to touch a greengage. It came off, warm and smooth into my hand.' For the English family the luscious fruit is symbolic of the heat of a French summer.
R4, 2.0 pm Woman's Hour
