Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
Producers ALLAN WRIGHT and TIM FTNNEY
With SISTER CAROL
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Presented by John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
written by MARY DUNN abridged in eight parts by DONALD BANCROFT read by Margot Boyd (8) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
takes the chair for 55 minutes of lively and unpredictable conversation with people from all walks of life.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo
Clay Jones , Geoffrey Smith Stefan Buczacki and Daphne Ledward answer listeners' letters and share their ideas for your garden this autumn.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time BBC. PO Box 27
Manchester M60 1SJ
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
No Longer Celia.... by NAN WOODHOUSE
Read by Jill Balcon
In many schools, drama was an optional extra. Celia, whose job was to examine the students, often thought that she was an optional extra too. Central in nobody's life. A stranger to herself.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
from St George 's Church, Brandon Hill , Bristol with the choir of Bruton School for Girls
Hymns (A & M New Standard): Lord Christ, who on thy heart (388): Come, my way, my truth, my life (Vaughan Williams); We are your people (519)
Reading: Romans 12, w 1-13 Musicaldirector JONATHAN PALMER BBC Bristol. Stereo
Patricia Carroll introduces and plays music from her Victorian collection of pieces composed by famous pianists of the day. This week: Adolf Henselt Producer ANDREW MUSSETT Stereo
Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
by PALMA HARCOURT dramatised in six parts by NEVILLE TELLER
2: Grand Master's Gambit
At an embassy reception Neil Tarrent is shocked to discover the identity of the man who wants to defect.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING (Moray Watson is appearing in Two Into One at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London)
Stereo
Presented by Gordon Clough
Listening Corner Meeting with Remarkable Cats (3)
2.0 Salut les jeunes! French 5: La boum and at 2.15 6:Al'usine by MADELEINE LE CUNFF
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Twelfth Night (3) Stereo
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: knitwear designer Kaffe Fassett Serial: Persuasion (7)
Coping by HUGH HOUSDON DAVID
After his brother's death Ken is keen to be supportive of his sister-in-law. However, circumstances soon cause their roles to be reversed.
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
A personal selection of poems presented by the poet and novelist John Wain
Readers GEOFFREY COLLINS and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID (R)
Just Williams (3)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
with DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report
A musical panel game in which John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Programme devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Producer PETE ATKIN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm) Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
By the year 2000 over i 100,000 million a year will be needed to fund house purchase. Mortgages are big business! Insurance companies, foreign banks, merchant banks and high-street banks are queueing up behind the building societies to offer us more and more money. They value the business but how do they value the house? Bill Breckon , with the help of financial expert Tom Tickell and reporter Susan Marling , investigates.
Editor ROGER MACDONALD Producer HELEN ROBSON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.35 am)
0 HELPLINES: page 77
Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. This week: Borodin Symphony No 2, in B minor.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER. Stereo
The old adage that Reading's water today is London's tomorrow contains a drop of truth. Every glassful has been through people's digestive systems, industrial machinery and water treatment plants many times.
Peter Evans follows the course from spring to sewage farm, and discovers how we get our clean drops to drink.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN (R)
Tom Salmon continues his journey along the Cornish coast, first practising cliff rescues with the helicopters ofRNAS
Culdrose, then to Falmouth, the headquarters of the rescue services, with its busy docks, professional diving and pleasure boats and then by way of the King Harry Ferry to St Mawes. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at
11.0am) Stereo
A solo show of songs, stories and humour in the company of East End lad made good Richard Digance
Producer ALAN NIXON (R)
(First broadcast on Radio 2) Stereo
Presented by Paul Allen Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
For Whom the Bell Tolls (3)
Presenter Tim Llewellyn including a report from the Liberal Party Assembly in Dundee
followed by an interlude
