Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather

With SISTER CAROL BBC Birmingham Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 7

Climb every mountain
- or take to the hills in your walking-boots...
Chris Bonington and mountain guide Brede Arkliss answer your questions on climbing and mountain-walking.
In the Chair, Judith Chalmers. Produced by the Woman 's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am

Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's worldwide team of foreign correspondents

Second Fiddle by BARRY DAVIS
Read by Renny Krupinski
'He was moustached, mature and confident. Wise in the ways of the world, oozing charm and easy conversation, he represented all the things to which I aspired.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

from St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol with the choir of St Brendan's College, Brislington
O worship the Lord (BBC hb 267); Praise to the holiest (BBC HB 88); Holy, Holy, Holy (Schubert)
Reading: Exodus 3, vv 1-6 (JB)
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)

Why have the geese deserted their breeding-ground this year? Why are badgers fatter and bats more bedraggled than usual? Derek Jones and a panel of naturalists consider the losses and gains incurred by a wet summer.
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

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 Wales represented by Fred Nicholls and Jack Jones Chaired by Gordon Clough and Louis Allen
Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)

Presented by Susannah Simons

1.55 Listening Corner Meetings with Remarkable Cats (2)
2.0Salutlesjeunes! (French II)
3: Les vacances de Pâques and at 2.15 4: La solitude by MADELEINE LE CUNFF
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Twelfth Night (2) Stereo

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Community radio is going legal in Britain shortly. What will it sound like?
CAROLE PITHER samples what's available on her radio in France, where there are already well over 1,000 community stations. Serial: Persuasion (6)

Feelings by EDWIN PEARCE
Pauline is running: from her children, from her friends, above all from Charlie, her husband. But she's going to have to stop running some time, and both of them must face the truth and each other.
Directed by TIM SUTER Stereo
(Bill Nighy is a National Theatre Player)

Some people like to think they can take it in their stride, others carry white heather, many find themselves reduced to jelly, and most think 'could do better'. So why is a job interview such an ordeal - and how can you polish up your performance? With the help of three volunteers and a studio audience, Margaret Korving gets the answers from
Joshua Fox and John Kellett. Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS

Just Williams (2)

Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Major issues, important events, changing attitudes at home and abroad.
Reporter Stuart Simon Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. Opm)

A series of six programmes about the ways in which families influence their members and help to turn them into the people they eventually become. 2: Two's Company
Presented by Dr Christopher Dare , Family Therapist and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am)

This week Margaret Percy explores the way children watch television: is it an 'evil influence' - or can children be taught 'visual literacy' and watch the box with a trained and critical eye?
Also: the disappearing apprenticeship. Pilkingtons
Glass used to have apprentices; under a new scheme they don't employ anyone under the age of 18. Who benefits? Producer SIMON MAJOR

Presented by Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments on [number removed]Lines open 8.30-10.0pm

3: No 2 Dalton Square, Lancaster
50 years ago this week, this elegant Georgian residence was the scene of a most grisly crime. Roger Wilkes revisits the house, meets the present occupants and recalls the notorious Ruxton murders.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

For Whom the Bell Tolls (2)

Presenter Tim Llewellyn including a report from the Liberal Party Assembly in Dundee

followed by an interlude