Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
A meditation for the beginning of the new day with JANET MAYO BBC Birmingham
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by cuve ROSUN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
by JUNE SUTTON
Read by Brigit Forsyth Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
reflecting the issues of the day Stereo
4: The Bus Conductor
Tommy Bragg talks to David Willmott about his career. How long before the one-man-operated bus makes the conductor a thing of the past?
Producer JULIAN HITCHCOCK BBC Birmingham
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
This week Leonard Pearcey looks at the concerts inspired by Gerard Hoffnung , and talks to some of those who wrote, arranged and performed the music, including NORMAN DEL MAR
LAWRENCE LEONARD
ELIZABETH POSTON and DONALD SWANN
Producer RICHARD WILLCOX Stereo
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Bopper and the Roadworks
2.5 The Music Box With MICHAEL BURNETT and SANDRA KERR
2.20 Living Language With GEORGE LAYTON Ghost Galleon Read by MARTIN JARVIS
2.40 Newscast Presented by UBBY FAWBERT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Julia Hume is a hired killer - a freelance rat catcher. In between tracking and killing, MARK HOLDSTOCK finds out how and why she does this unusual kind of work.
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (4)
Taptoe Through the Telephones
A comedy thriller by JOHN FLETCHER with and as The Computer
Gerald is a keen young telephone-tapper working for 'Britain's fastest growth industry' - computer espionage. He spends his spare time playing with electronic gadgetry in his attic while his wife consoles herself with the gin bottle downstairs.
Meanwhile, intrigues and conspiracies are afoot at the Computer Centre ...
Radiophonic music and effects by DICK MILLS
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol Stereo
with Neil Landor
Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEY
A Country Doctor's Notebook (3)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Phil Longman
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
(Stereo)
(Repeated: Friday 1.40pm)
Written by GRAHAM HARVEY
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by John Timpson Compiled by LAURIE MASON
Producer MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol
Reports from BBC correspondents.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Friday 10.0 am)
An introduction to political thought
Seven programmes presented by Brian Redhead
4: Hobbes and Locke with Dr Richard Tuck of Jesus College, Cambridge, and John Dunn of King's College, Cambridge.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE A BBC Ariel book Political Thought From Plato to Nato' is available from booksellers
A personal portrait
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners. Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries: BBC Broadcasting House LondonW1A4WW
Phone [number removed](10.0 am-5.0 pm)
The Tin Drum
Just over 25 years ago a novel was published in Germany which told the story of the Third Reich's decline and fall from a fresh perspective - that of a dwarf. The book captured the imagination of a new and complicated generation of Germans who searched for the answers to an unasked question: how did it happen - and why? More than any other book since the war it attracted the attention of critics and readers in America and Britain and found a second life as a film which won both the Palme d'Or at Cannes and a Hollywood Oscar.
Phillip Brady , Reader in German at Birkbeck College talks to Gunter Grass , author of the novel;
Volker Schlondorff , director of the film; critics who reviewed it and writers who were influenced by the largest selling European novel since the war.
Producer CARROLL MOORE
Second from Last in the Sack-Race (4)
Presented by Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Measuring Up Six programmes in which MARGARET KORVING Seeks OUt expert advice about how to assess and improve your employment prospects. 3: Personal Assets and Liabilities
followed by an interlude
Radio Geography: Our Changing World
12.30 Canadian Plains States and at 12.50 Major Energy Scheme: James Bay (RV)
