Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather. Producer ALLAN WRIGHT
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With 1OM TICKELL
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
AIDS
Since the beginning of this year AIDS has hardly been out of the news. But is it accurate to describe this virus as 'a plague'? Male homosexuals have been identified as the group in greatest danger, but the disease has been transmitted by blood transfusion. Has this danger now been eliminated? Do nurses, firemen, first aiders run the risks which have been reported?
Dr Anthony Pinching , clinical immunologist at St Mary's Hospital, London, and Tony Whitehead , Chairman of the Terrence Higgins Trust, a charity which provides advice on AIDS, are in the studio. In the Chair Barbara Myers
Produced by the Woman Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am
The Hiding Place by ANN SWAN Read by John Shedden Producer BRUCE YOUNG BBC Scotland
NEM. p 54; Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord (bp 81);
He that shall endure to the end (Mendelssohn); Mark 13, w 1-13; Soldiers of Christ, arise (BBC HB 365). Stereo
Bald blackbirds, sudden mole eruptions and the mystery of the strange appearance of hedgehogs in a lady's bedroom - these and other curious questions are unravelled by Pat Morris , David Thomas and David Streeter
Producer CAROL JEFFERSON DAVIES BBC Bristol
Presented by Paul Heiney
A general knowledge contest.
Chairman Robert Robinson
Peter Biggs (bank clerk)
Sheila Hayward (secretary)
Leon Drucker (bookseller)
John Kinory (photographer/lecturer)
including Beat the Brains
(Stereo)
Presented by John Harrison
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Enormous Turnip adapted by MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 History: Long Ago The Wars Against Napoleon: The Battle of Waterloo by ROY PALMER
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (20)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): The Giant at the Ford by URSULA SYNGE adapted by PADDY BECHELY
Introduced by Sue MacGregor 'It will be their world....
JANE BERTHOUD discovers how an old London bus helps Devon teenagers prepare for a technological future. The Private World of Georgette Heyer (5)
The Bridle Path by FRANCES MCNEIL
In the 1890s the marital dispute between Haughton Jones and Emily Hall made legal history. When their marriage failed, she was determined to live her own life, but he kidnapped her on her way from church and made her a prisoner in her own house. When Emma decides to research the story for her thesis, she finds that Emily's attitudes begin to affect her own.
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester. Stereo
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For more than a century Hong Kong has been a Mecca for the ambitious, and sometimes for the unscrupulous, a place where making money has acquired undue prominence. Many expatriates enjoy a standard of living in the Colony that would be impossible back home. When the Territory returns to China in 1997 what difference will this make to their way of life?
Susan Marling meets bankers and civil servants, policemen and spivs, socialites and social crusaders in another microcosm of the British abroad.
Producer JENNY MALUNSON DUFF
Jennings in Particular (6)
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Stereo
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Roger Finnigan Producer JOHN DRURY Editor BRIAN WALKER
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory to the GP's surgery.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
Five documentary reports by Bernard Jackson
4: The Modern Papacy
'Ask a question about the Vatican and people will always want to tell you about the Popes.'
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
A series of eight programmes 6: Antigua and Barbuda - 100 Dollars US
Arriving in Antigua on his Caribbean journey, novelist Joseph Hone finds the ghost of Nelson in English Harbour and strange rumours on the neighbouring island of Barbuda....
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer DANIEL DODD
The Rich Mrs Robinson (7)
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Daily Express MOLLY PRICE OWEN meets a number of people who travel vast distances to and from work by train, boat and plane! Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
followed by an interlude
Listening to Music (2) Music Projects by ROBERT WALKER
12.30 The Bach Family I
12.50 The Bach Family II
