Presented from Northern Ireland by John Johnston
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
BBC Northern Ireland

A meditation for the beginning of the new day with David Winter.

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND

A look ahead with Bryan Martin

Part 6

who invites you to meet some of the names hitting the headlines this week. Producer IAN STRACHAN Stereo

Mrs Levy 's Wedding by HILL SLAVID
Read by Cyril Shaps Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM page 71; Come, gracious spirit, heavenly dove (BBC HB 150); Psalm 147, vv 1-12;
1 Samuel 17, w 38-51; Take up thy cross (BBC HB 369) Stereo

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Kingsley Amis Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and MARTIN JARVIS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol

The only national radio programme for consumers.
Pattie Coldwell presents and lends a sympathetic ear to your phone comments and queries on [number removed]. Editor KEN VASS

Johnny Morris recalls some of the places he has visited and the people he has met in a quarter of a century of jaunting.
This week: Patagonia
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tuesday 6.30 pm)

Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS

1.55 Listening Corner Over the Sea and Far Away Presented by BEN BAZELL Storyteller SHIREEN SHAH Today's story What Made Tiddalik Laugh by JOANNA TROUGHTON Script by JANET SORENSEN
2.5 Playtime Presented by JUDY BENNETT With LOLA YOUNG Producer SHEILA FRASER
2.20 Introducing Science The Wood for the Trees Unit 2, Programme 1
2.40 Noticeboard TONY BARNFIELD talks to ELIZABETH CLEAVER about 'Radio History' for Secondary Schools.
2.45 Radio Club TIMMY MALLETT and the Radio Club team bring you more items of interest for 8-12 year olds

Introduced by Liz Mardall with special guest the novelist Norman Mailer
The Tiger and the Rose (5) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS

Jane Clegg by ST JOHN ERVINE

A series of five programmes which take a look inside some of Britain's more unlikely houses.
5: Marjorie Lofthouse visits The Water Tower in Kenilworth and talks to its owner Stephen Drucker Producer ELAINE BEDELL BBC Birmingham

Mr Stone and the Knight's Companion (3)

Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton

With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

Stereo

(Repeated: Tuesday 1.40 pm)

Setting the Standard
How do you measure time to within a few billionths of a second per day, prevent bridges from collapsing in high winds, and ensure one breed of robot can work with another?
Peter Evans examines the research of the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, where scientists are engaged in anything from looking after the everyday constants of life such as the second and the inch to setting the new yardsticks of American technology. Producer JULIAN BROWN

Which influences lead a mother and daughter to find a career in politics?
Carole Stone and Bernard Rutherford invite you to eavesdrop on their intimate conversation with the Lord
Lieutenant of Greater London, Baroness Phillips, jp and Gwyneth Dunwoody , mp Producer STUART HOBDAY BBC Bristol. Stereo

by Jonathan Smith
with

In 1794 Thomas Holcroft, actor, novelist, playwright, radical philosopher and lifelong believer in human perfectability, was indicted on a charge of high treason and held for eight weeks at Newgate Prison. He prepared his own defence. But he also faced a deeper inner trial. He had tried to bring up his son William to be 'the perfect man' and in this he had failed.

BBC Bristol (Stereo)

Bill Fletcher was recently asked a question that has since caused this former Head of the Biology Department at Strathclyde University to ponder on some of the possibilities and problems associated with what has come to be called 'genetic engineering'.
Producer MURDOCH M. MCPHERSON BBC Scotland

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART

I Heard the Owl Call My Name (6)

National and international news, background, analysis and comment presented by Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON VHF/FM until 11.0

People's Theatre Eight programmes on amateur drama in Britain in the 1980s. 3: Community Drama JOHN RUSSELL BROWN looks at some of the different forms of community drama that have developed in recent years and assesses their significance as an art form. Also taking part ANN JELLICOE of the Colway Theatre Trust and members of a community drama group in Telford New Town. Reader STEVE HODSON

followed by an interlude

12.30 1: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Boll
Adapted by Milo Sperber

12.50 2: Zeit der Schuldlosen
by Siegfried Lenz
Adapted by H.F. Garten