direct from the Devon County Show, Exeter
Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM T1CKELL
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35*Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Susan Marling airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about BBC programmes and policies. Send them to:
Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4 WW
Producer JANET THOMAS
Reports from BBC foreign correspondents
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
A Friendly Woman by LISA TAYLOR
Read by Elizabeth Proud
Carolyn Bridges is more than a good neighbour and, when her friend Patricia's husband goes missing, her shoulder is there to be cried on. But Patricia's sister has now arrived - brisk, practical and hostile.
NEM, p 106; Jesu, thoujov of loving hearts (BBC HB 323);
Psalm 23; I Samuel 16, vv 1, 4-13; Jesus, these eyes have never seen (bp 44). Stereo
Putting Out Feelers
Need to know about food, mates, enemies, temperature, humidity - or just how fast you're going? Antennae can tell. Barry Paine investigates nature's finest information systems.
Producer TIM GROUT SMITH BBC Bristol
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
The last of six entertainments
With David Barlow , Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis and their special guests
The Fine Arts Brass Ensemble Producer RICHARD EDIS
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play It Again Presented by SHEELAGH GILBEY Script by LEE PRESSMAN Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.5 Let's Join In The Turnip-takers Russian folk-tale retold by LEILA BERG
2.25 Mother Tongue: Song and Story
3: Bengali - Fair Shares Storytellers BEULAH CANDAPPA and SUFIA RAHMAN
2.40 Listen! Introduced by BEVERLEY WINTER The Decide-It- Yourself Cliffhanger serial. Schools are invited to participate in creating a serial drama Part 3 by RICHARD PINNER
Marjorie Lofthouse hosts the programme from Lifestyle 85 at the National Exhibition Centre. where the latest home, garden and leisure designs will be on show.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham Leo Days by PATRICIA WENDORF abridged in nine parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by DIANA BISHOP (9)
(Music: Villa-Lobos's Harmonica Concerto)
by IVY COMPTON BURNETT adapted in six parts by JOHN SPURLING with Patricia Lawrence
Ann Mitchell , John Rowe
Robert Lang and Vivian Pickles 2: The Village Play
France Ponsonby has completed her first novel, and the family set off to see a performance of the village play written by an anonymous author.
MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano) Directed by LIANE AUKIN
Stereo
Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport with help from ALANAH MARTIN and TOM BOSWELL
Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
The Past is Myself by CHRISTABEL BIELENBERG abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by ANN MORRISH (10) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBrislol
(Starting on Monday: Dead Men Leading by V S. Pritchett )
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
New variety acts from London's fringe circuit
Stereo
Michael Parkinson presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the last seven days.
Producer HELEN FRY
Stereo
Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
David Waddington. qc, mp
Minister of State, Home Office Austin Mitchell, mp Alan Beith , mp and Rosalind Gilmore ,
Marketing Director for National Giro tackle the questions raised by an audience from Ashington, Northumberland
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Trade deficit with Japan
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Japanese imports soar as American shoppers ignore pleas to buy 'Made in America' goods. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
Presented by Sheridan Morley Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
My Uncle Silas
3: A Funny Thing
Presented by Robert Fox
With Bill Wallis , David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN. richard QUICK. PAUL B. DA VIES. JAMES
HENDRIE. MARTIN BOOTH, PETER SINCLAIR. STUART SILVER. PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER
followed by an interlude
Secondary Science
12.30 Ions and Ionisation (RV) Presented by KIM CLIFFORD and at 12.50 Lenses and Optical Instruments (RV) Presented by EDWARD KELSEY