Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
A meditation for the beginning of a new day.
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM TICKELL
7.0.8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILLE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
and an eclectic selection of conversationalists.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo
visits Wiltshire, where members of the Hardenhuish
School Parent Staff Association put their questions to Geoffrey Smith
Daphne Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Les Cottington BBC Manchester
3: Penalty for Improper Use In the third Holy Week talk,
Robert Foxcroft continues the disciple's journey by way of the Cross to the Kingdom of God.
NEM, p 30; When I survey the wondrous cross (BBC HB 97);
God so loved the world (Stainer); Mark 15, vv 1-20; 0 sacred head, sore wounded (BBC HB 86) Stereo
Counselling is big business. Throughout the country a burgeoning workforce of semi-trained amateurs and highly-paid professionals offer help to unhappy people suffering from depression, stress, marital breakdown or just loneliness. Factories, schools, churches and universities all have counselling services available.
But by what standards and values do they work? Why is this new industry booming? Is counselling a panacea to replace a friend's advice, a priest's confessional, or even a doctor's prescription?
Presented by Peter Wheeler Written and researched by JUDIROSE
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
... or in this case, who's in a name such as Mendelism,
Darwinism and Huntingdon's chorea?
Denis Owen explains how to achieve immortality.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
John Howard reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.
by COLIN SHAW
4: Callers at the Mission
(Broadcaston Sunday at 7.0pm) Stereo
Presented by John Harrison
Today's story: King Jolly and the Spring-clean
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Norman Willis, General Secretary of the TUC
The Private World of Georgette Heyer (11)
by Jim Hitchmough
with Sue Jenkins as Brenda and Bernard Latham as Malcolm
When Brenda tipped Malcolm's drink over in the pub she was hoping to get a ride on his pillion to a bikers' bust-up in Rhyl. What she hadn't bargained for was a trip in what she called a one-wheeled bidet to some marsh on the Wirral.
BBC Manchester
(Stereo)
A personal selection of poems compiled and presented by Dannie Abse
Readers FREDA DOWIE
DAVID BRIERLEY and BRIAN CARROLL Producer ALEC REID
Down these Mean Streets....
They don't carry guns or solve murders, but they do need to be able to follow a suspect, handle a fast car and duck a punch; and they meet some very strange people.
An investigation into the day-to-day work of private detectives in Liverpool and Manchester.
...set high standards in atmospheric radio verite. (YORKSHIRE POST) Researcher JULIE SIMMONS Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
A Gun for Sale (3)
Presented by Robert Williams and Phil Longman continued on VHFIFM5.5fJ.5.55
with CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
With Kenneth Williams Peter Jones , Barry Cryer and Tim Rice
Chairman Nicholas Parsons Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
Stereo
The second of four programmes George Galloway
George Galloway is the young broom at War on Want.
A Scottish socialist who drove corruption out of Dundee, he is now the full-time boss of an organisation committed to raising money for the relief of poverty and hunger throughout the world.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
The fourth of six programmes in which Derek Parker asks a well-known personality to choose and discuss a book written this century which they consider to be of significance. This week he talks to novelist Kingsley Amis about Evelyn Waugh 's Decline and Fall. Reader BRIAN SMITH
Producer DENNIS SIMMONS
Peter Hobday , with news, views and stories from the business world, in the first of a new series of ten programmes. This week: Could British companies improve their export record? How one company has profited from the time difference between the UK and the USA. Producer ROSALIND BEW
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Ray Howard-Jones , now in her 80s, has energy that would shame people a third of her age. In company with Roger Worsley , Ray explores the places that have shaped her development as painter, poet and mystic-from the dockland scenes where she worked as war artist, to the rocky isolation of Skomer Island.
Producer PHIL GEORGE
(First broadcast on BBC Wales)
Stereo
A new chapter in Jewish history has been written: for many, Passover 1985 will mean the realisation of an age-long prayer '... next year in Jerusalem'. Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks reflects on the significance of the Passover in this year 5745.
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer DANIEL DODD
The Magic Toyshop (3)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines onVHFIF Muntilll.O
When Language Breaks Down The third of four programmes on language disorders. We often take speaking and understanding our mother tongue for granted. DAVID CRYSTAL looks at what can happen to language when adults suffer brain damage, as a result of a stroke or an accident, and become 'dysphasic'. W ith MARGARET FAWCUS
followed by an interlude
