featuring the Royal Smithfield Show in London and the latest market prices and trends

Presenters Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

The Sunday Treat by ALPHONSE DAUDET translated by HARRY BELL Read by David March

Advent Calendar: Israel in Egypt nem, p 62; According to thy gracious word (BBC HB 196); Haste thee 0 Lord (Anthems for Choirs 1); Exodus 1, w 8-22; As pants the hart for cooling streams (BBC HB 451) Stereo

Michael Jordan endures the grunts and grumbles of red deer, groans of Atlantic seals and the unmistakeable sounds of elephants' stomachs rumbling in a round of after-dinner noises from the archives of natural history. Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Presenter Paul Heiney

Presenter Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Adelaide's Naughty Granny 5: Naughty Gardeners
2.0 Education Now Phone-in [number removed]What are the Options at 16 LIBBY PURVES talks tO JANET elliott. Joint Secretary of the Joint Board for Pre-vocational Education.
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Julius Caesar (5) With EDWARD DE SOUZA . DENYS HAWTHORNE and DAVID BRIERLEY

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
The Milk Run: providing breast milk for special care baby units involves a wide network of volunteers, but still hospitals go short.
CAROLYN HARTMAN reports on the expressed dairy.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN BBC Bristol
Life's Rich Pageant (2)

An 18-part serialisation of JOHN MASTERS' saga of the Savage family from 1825 to 1946.
Book Three: The Lotus and the Wind dramatised in four parts by DAVID WADE with and John Bott and Irene Sutcliffe as Mr and Mrs Hildreth 1: Death of a Tribesman
Barren rocks, bullets, the law of the hawk, the dust and the piercing, lonely wind. 1879. Lt Robin Savage marches to the relief of Kabul while Anne kneels by the dying man. Narrator JOHN ROWE
BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by PENNY LEICESTER
(Juliet Stevenson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Stereo

with Ashley Hutchings , leader of the Albion Band and founder of Fairport
Convention and Steeleye Span. Producer JULIAN HALE

A series of five programmes exploring current thinking in psychology
4: Intelligence
'Intelligence' is one of the most controversial terms in the psychologist's vocabulary. What does it mean and how is it recognised? Is it one attribute or many? And how far is a person's intelligence inherent or acquired?
Peter Evans introduces the topic, and chairs a discussion between Brian Foss , Professor of Psychology at the New
College of Bedford and Royal Holloway;
Steven Rose , Professor of Biology at the Open University; and Helen Weinreich-Haste , Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bath.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN

Laugh with Lardner 5: Mr and Mrs Fixit
Read by Peter Marinker
We've all met them sometime, the people who want to run your life for you.

Presenters Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs brings you the stories behind the scenes in the travel world with help from ALANAH MARTIN. TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS Producer JOHN BELL
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television over the past week.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON
(Repeated: Sat 10.30 am) Stereo

Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Jeffrey Archer , writer Jill Knight. mp
Jenny Kirkpatrick , General
Secretary, National Association of Probation Officers Jack Straw , mp from Dagenham, Essex
(Repeated: Saturday 1.10 pm)

Not your average university - the Texas A&M does things on a grander scale. Show more

(Repeated: Sunday 9.15 am)

with Michael Billington Producer BRIAN BARFIELD

Mr Facey Romford's Hounds 10: The Dalberry Lees Uproar

Presented by Charles Wheeler

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by IAN BROWN. RICHARD QUICK . PAUL B DAVIES .
MARTIN BOOTH . PETE SINCLAIR.
STUART SILVER . DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER
(Repeated: Saturday 5.25 pm)

followed by an interlude