which comes from Scotland where the Royal Highland Show is a major attraction this week Presented by Charlie Allan BBC Scotland
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PARRY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Kate Moon
goes into the Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
Producer HELEN FRY
Famous faces and new voices meet for a not entirely serious talk about subjects that interest them and may surprise you. Producer 1AN STRACHAN. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings, investment, mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life
Address: Money Box, Room 4058 Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW
The Harpsichord by ELIZABETH LEFANU
Read by Elizabeth Proud
A young girl is staying with elderly relatives and finds a harpsichord in a little-used room. Delighted, she finds she can play it - but what has caused the deep scar burnt into the keys?
Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 46: Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost
(BBC HB 153); Psalm 85, vv 1-7;
Luke 15, vv 1-10; Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176) Stereo
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Charles Causley Readers ROSALIND SHANKS and GARARD GREEN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Published this week: 'Poetry Please. £1.50 from booksellers
Pattie Coldwell presents the only national radio programme for consumers. Editor KEN VASS
The World of Nature
This week: Fruit and Vegetables Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from
JOHN FORTUNE. BENNY HILL MARTY FELDMAN and MICHAEL FLANDERS
Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness
(SIR ROBERT HUTCHINSON )
Written by SIMON BRETT Producer RICHARD EDIS
Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner This week: Machines are Fun Presented by SHIREEN SHAH Storyteller FRED HARRIS Today's story: Peter Gets a Hearing Aid by NIGEL SNELL Script by JANET SORENSEN
2.5 Playtime Presented by ANDREW BRANCH and LOLA YOUNG
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 2
3: Your Changing Earth
2.40 Astronomy Telescopes and Planetary Probes (rv) Written and presented by TERENCE MURTAGH
Introduced by Dilly Barlow Pick a Pocket!
Pockets are something to plunge your hands into when you're feeling shy, and put your possessions in when you're travelling light. But what place do they have for clothes designers? How did pockets originate? Are they here to Stay? NICKI HOUSEHOLD investigates....
Exit Lady Masham by LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS abridged in eight parts by MADGE HART
Read by Patricia Hayes (1)
'Don't put it off, Lady Masham, I beg of you. You owe it to history. Some of the mightiest monarchs survive only in the pages of humble scribes. Queen Anne will have Your Ladyship.' (Music: Platti's Oboe Concerto) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Last Bus to Woodstock by COLIN DEXTER
Stereo
... 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
Salad Days
A collection of five stories that pass through the childhood world of make-believe into the land beyond
1: The Potato Gatherers by BRIAN FRIEL
Read by Gerard Murphy Producer PENNY LEICESTER
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
with DAVID HITCHlNSON including Financial Report
The antidote to panel games. Fill in the missing letters and win a -acht
Tim Brooke-Tay -or Willie -ushton, Bill Tidy and-r- C-
-Hairman Humphrey Lytt-lton Pianist MATTHEW scott
Prod— PAUL MAYHEW CHER
Competition closes 1 June 1985
Stereo
Vladimir Ashkenazy talks to Margaret Howard about his musical life and influences and plays some favourite records in the first of a new series of six programmes. Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer MILES BARTON
Real Estate by LOUISE PAGE with Gwen Watford Sorcha Cusack Richard Pascoe and John Duttine
Jenny, at 38, comes back home after walking out on her mother and step-father 20 years earlier. Now a successful career woman, she is pregnant and needs help. But is that help more than her mother is prepared to give? Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham Stereo
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, news. and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
The Life of Riley by ANTHONY CRONIN
Read by JIM NORTON (6)
National and international news, background, analysis, and comment
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF/FM until 11.0
Learning Asian Languages Some Asians came here from a country where the same word is written in 15 different ways on every banknote; others from a country where a word spoken in dozens of different ways is written in only one; and others from a country which annually commemorates its martyrs of this generation who died for their national language. What are these languages? Why do children born here want to learn them? PRABHU GUPTARA investigates these and other questions with the help of Asian parents, teachers and learners.
followed by an interlude
Radio History Presented by DR DAVID STARKEY
12.30 The Tudor World (RV) and at 12.50 The Tudor World
1: Court and Kingship Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
