Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead with Peter Hobday at the SDP Conference in Buxton
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
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 7
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Sue MacGregor introduces a subject of current interest. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people. Producer ZAREER MASANI
by RONALD FRAME
Read by Robert Trotter Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland
NEM, p 118; Come ye faithful, raise the anthem (BBC HB 123); Psalm 119, w 1-8; Acts 9, w
10-18; Dear Lord and Father of mankind (BBC HB 351) Stereo
'Just as the eggs hatched in our blackbirds' nest a cat killed the hen - yet before the day was out another hen joined the male and cared for the young. Is this unusual?' The team answers your wildlife questions.
Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 5.0 pm)
Paul Heiney with the latest news and advice for consumers.
26: SOUTH AND WEST
ENGLAND - Semi-final Robert Robinson
FeUks Kwiatkowski
(barrister) . Mark Dobson (airline pilot) Peter Bates
(local government officer)
Daphne Hudson (secretary)
The programme includes 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
Presenter John Harrison
Maureen Morris and David Peart with rhymes and poems.
by VERONICA CECIL
Perdita goes alone on holiday to Cornwall to try and re-capture something of her childhood by the sea in South Africa with her adoring father, whose character has to some extent confused her adult relationships with men.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON Stereo
2: Senor de los Milagros
The second programme in this four-part series on the church in Peru investigates the popular religiosity of the Peruvian people.
The Lord of the Miracles procession held in Lima each year is one of the world's largest religious festivals.
After centuries of oppression, devastated by malnutrition, disease and natural disasters, the people find a powerful symbol for their sufferings in the figure of the crucified Lord. But is their devotion purely Christian or a mixture of Indian magic, myth and Catholicism?
Presented and produced by David Peet
(First broadcast on Radio Wales)
Act of Mercy (7)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including
Financial Report
The last of six programmes United We Stand ...
Last week the Trades Union Congress at Brighton saw itself as under attack from all quarters, and planned its fight back in its relations with government, and its response to trade union legislation.
Peter Paterson asks how the trade union movement proposes to approach its uncertain future. He talks to The Rt Hon Len Murray ,
General Secretary of the TUC for the last nine years, and to some of the rank and file trade union members who were at the Brighton conference.
Music performed by SAM RICHARDS and TISH STUBBS
Series editor CAROLINE MUJJNGTON
David Bean observes some branches of sporting life, which don't make international - or even national - headlines, but which absorb the spare time and energies of their devotees.
This week he goes to the dogs in West Cumberland.
5: One Town and Its Dogs Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
A magazine edition with news of what's happening to wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Peter France Producer MEUNDA BARKER BBC Bristol
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]8.30-10.0 Book, £2.95, from [address removed]
Free quarterly bulletin from
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In the manner of Lewis Carroll's Alice, Richard Stanley disappears down a series of holes in the ground to investigate the subterranean world of tunnels, caverns and conduits that thread their way across the country unseen beneath our feet.
This week our hero, aided and abetted by Anthony Burton, finds himself in the depths of a Cornish tin mine and a Welsh coalpit.
(Stereo/Binaural - The full binaural effect can only be heard through stereo headphones)
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Wide Sargasso Sea (7)
with Alexander MacLeod in London and Peter Paterson at the SDP Conference in Buxton
11.0 Headlines on VHFIFM until 11.0
The Noises That Annoy ... can come from the skies, the roads, industrial machinery or the neighbours. clive JACOBS listens to some everyday noises and examines their effect on our hearing and our sanity, and what can be done to make life quieter. Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
