Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, and weather
Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
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* Thought for the Day
Part 2
Whether you're mad about Hollywood musicals, wild about westerns, or just fascinated by the world of cinema, here's your chance to pit your wits against the experts and find out what goes on behind the big screen. Barry Norman is in the Chair and you can put your questions to him and his two guests, Verity Lambert , director of production at Thorn EMI, and film critic Tom Hutchinson.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8. am
Reflections on life and politics abroad
A Nice Long Chat by NORA WINDRIDGE
Read by June Barrie
'Two little girls so alike that they might have been sisters....' Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 46; Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27); Psalm 143; John 4, vv 46-54; Soldiers of Christ arise (BBC HB 366). Stereo
The Dead with Anna Liffey Knockers by TONY BROWNE
It is one thing to go on about Joyce and complain about vulgarity in present-day suburban Dublin. It is quite another to be faced with a local radio presenter who has turned up to broadcast live from your home.
Directed by PETER KAVANAGH BBC Northern Ireland
'Why do domestic cats bring back their prey to the house?'
'Are nest sites used by the same pair of birds each year?'
Michael Clegg , Alan Davison and Peter Evans claw their way through another batch of listeners' questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday) Stereo
Paul Clark with the latest news and advice for consumers
A further series of the programme Descartes never missed ... in which Irene Thomas and Eric Korn indulge in cerebral callisthenics with a team from Scotland represented by Robin Duff and Douglas Gifford
Chaired by Gordon Clough and Louis Allen
Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6. 30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Sally and the Magic Rattle 2: The Crying Baby
Introduced by Sue MacGregor How do you teach 5-year-old children to protect themselves against something they don't understand - sexual assault?
JUDI SWALLOW reports on Michele Eliot 's Child Assault Prevention Programme, which has already been taught to 1,500 children in schools in Britain. Serial: Bilgewater(9)
Monkeyman by BERNARD BROWN
There are cheaper private dicks than Dan Daner - and better. But could they unravel the mystery of the station locker, the dirty pictures and the porcelain monkey? Someone must be lying; is it the actress, the film producer, the night-club boss or the big-shot industrialist?
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN Stereo
Last month 300 people who work in radio spent two days in Bristol at the 1985 Radio
Festival, discussing the state of broadcasting and its future. At the end they were joined by a group of listeners to thrash out issues on both sides of the microphone in a debate moderated by Paul Sieghart. Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Birmingham
Slow Boats to China (7)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
A series of three features on the work of George S. Kaufman
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
More and more young people are being tempted to experiment with heroin. Some become firm addicts - and for them the consequences are severe. But how can they be helped, and what kind of experience are they likely to go through?
Frances Donnelly talks to former addicts and to people who work in treatment centres about the process of breaking the habit, where the real problem is not so much to cleanse the body as to commit the mind. As one man puts it: 'I liked being not myself.'
Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS (R)
A series which profiles some of Britain's privately-owned stately homes.
2: Holker Hall , Cumbria
The home of Mr and Mrs Hugh Cavendish offers a busy schedule of events which include hot-air ballooning, carriage-driving trials and historic vehicle rallies.
Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Birmingham
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am)
Margaret Percy investigates different aspects of education. This week:
Teacher Appraisal from Haywards Heath to Little Rock, Arkansas.
The 'Action Plan' in Scotland: confusion looms over the new-style exam.
And, for the literary hedonist as well as the serious researcher, a reader's ticket to some less than public libraries.
Producer SIMON MAJOR
(Re-broadcast next Saturday on VHF/FM)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL
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'It's escapism, it's adventure, the adrenalin's flowing....'
Brede Arkless, mother of eight children and an Alpine guide, explains the joys of mountaineering to Ian Skidmore.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Dr Wortle's School (9)
Presented by Tim Llewelyn
11.0 Headlines
followed by an interlude
