Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With TOM TICKELL
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by DAVID HITCHINSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Who's Who and What's What in the Ancient World
Greek and Roman names ot people and places are in everyday use, but why is it Rich as Croesus and an Achilles heel a Herculean task, a Gladiatorial clash, an Oedipus complex and Platonic love?
Kenneth MacLeish , the writer who specialises in the Classics, and Pat EasterUng , Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, answer your questions.
Sue MacGregor is in the Chair
Produced by the Woman * Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am
Ring of Bells by MURIEL ROSS Read by Dilys Price
'Emily tried to find in herself a proper sense of loss, but could feel only a kind of relief.... Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
NEM, p 102: For all thy saints,
0 Lord (BBC HB 228); Holy is the true light (Harris); Acts 11, vv 19-26; Rejoice in-God s saints (bp 73). Stereo
'Does your robin reject the red-carpet treatment?' and 'Why did braised bear-meat terrify a terrier?'
Margaret Kennedy , Stephanie Tyler and Jeremy Thomas unravel your Wildlife questions. Presented by Derek Jones Producer TIM GROUT SMITH BBC Bristol
Paul Heiney with the latest news and advice for consumers
A nationwide general knowledge contest
Second round: London
Chairman Robert Robinson Robert Collier (civil servant)
William Joseph Moult (courier) Sheila Hayward (secretary) Peter Biggs (bank clerk) including Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Bad- Tempered Ladybird by ERIC CARLE
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago The Country Child by FRANK E. HUGGETT
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (Complete Stories): Dame Doze and the Tale of a Tub by DEREK FARMER Narrated by SEAN BARRETT
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): A Wind from Nowhere by NICHOLAS STUART GREY
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Every Mother Must Have One.... that is, a quick and appealing dish to put in front of a hungry family. MARY BERRY is the judge in a competition to discover the best 'mother's rush'.
Owl by WILLIAM SERVICE abridged in four episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Garrick Hagon (1)
'An owl is an odd creature to keep about the house. An odd creature anywhere....'
(Music: Copland's Four Piano Blues)
Antibodies by GEORGE TARRY with and
Elaine Pearce arrives in a village school as a new and potentially invigorating headmistress. But new educational ideas aren't the only surprises in store....
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham. Stereo
... in the orchard, when the lifetime's collection of bric-a-brac, chicken coops and just plain junk assembled by William H. Dolphin Esq, deceased, comes under the hammer at his cottage near Tewkesbury.
Anthony Parkin is at the auctioneer's elbow - also at a sale of sheep and cattle in Shropshire, in the Vale of Evesham as the asparagus crop comes in, and elsewhere. Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
Comic Quintet
2: A Visitor in the Piano Warehouse by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read by Tom Hunsinger 'Being famous the way
Mr Spezzafly 's famous, that's being really famous.' Producer BERT COULES
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
The World of Nature
Stereo
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer JOHN DRURY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
A series of four programmes in which Jenni Mills highlights some of the emotional and practical problems that can occur after the death of a partner.
2: Daphne and Jim
Daphne's husband died unexpectedly four years ago when she was in her mid-50s. She suffered all the characteristic feelings of bereavement and at one stage even planned her suicide. Jim was also in his mid-50s when he lost his wife two years ago. At that time Jim thought his life had come to an end - but after a year he decided that his wife would not have wanted him to mope around and is picking up his social life again. Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
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News, views and information for people with a visual handicap
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open 8. 30-10. 0pm
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by Anthony Smith
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
The Life of Riley (2)
Presenter Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines onVHFIFMuntilll.O
Central American Journey 5: Nicaragua 'A Communist tyranny' was President Reagan's recent description of Nicaragua, but how far is this borne out by the facts? HUGH O'SHAUGHNESSY examines the Sandinista revolution and finds out how the Nicaraguans are coping with shortages of food and fuel, a war going on within their territory, and opposition from one of the world's most powerful countries. For booklist, send SAE to: [address removed]
followed by an interlude
Consumer Education: Value for Money
12.30 3: Health, Housing and Rights and at 12.50 4: Money
