Presented from Bristol by Robin Hicks
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
With CANON FRANK WRIGHT BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Harriet Cass
goes into the Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
Producer ANDY PARFITT
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
who invites you to meet some of the names who are hitting the headlines this week.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Richard Todd talks about this national organisation, and its need for Poppy Appeal Collectors. Volunteers can ring [number removed].
Presented by Louise Botting and featuring The 1984-5 Unit Trust Investor of the Year.
It's been a difficult year for investors as growth on stockmarkets around the world faltered, but as usual competition has been intense, with the result in doubt right up to the last minute.
The winner receives a cut glass piggy bank specially created for the event and inscribed by Wedgewood Glass which will be presented by Clive Fenn Smith , Chairman of the Unit Trust Association at a celebration lunch in London.
Hear what the Unit Trust
In vestor of the Year has to say and make sure you get your entry in for this year's competition before the closing date, 1 November 1985.
Details from Money Box, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Katia by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
It was the dark sweep of Katia's hair that bewitched the young writer. But was there a case of business before pleasure? Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 62; All hail the power of Jesus' name (BBC HB 118); Psalm 121; Isaiah 51, vv 1-8; To the name of our salvation (BBC HB 284) Stereo
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Fleur Adcock Readers PENELOPE LEE and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR
Presented by John Howard Editor KEN VASS
The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools First round 7: North 2
Greenlands High School for
Girls, Blackpool v Thorncliffe School, Barrow-in-Furness Questionmasters
Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Questions set by NIGEL RICHARDSON and DAVID SELF Producer GRAHAM FROST
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner
This week: Cats and Mice Presented by KENNETH SHANLEY Storyteller Pam AYRES Today's story: The Patchwork Cat by WILLIAM MAYNE Script by MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.5 Playtime: Friends
Presenters LOLA YOUNG and ANDREW BRANCH (Re-broadcast on Thurs at 10.10 am)
2.20 Introducing Science Unit 2. Programme 1: I'm Hungry
2.40 Radio Shop
A weekly review of educational material on sale
For information ring [number removed]
2.45 Radio Club
TOMMY BOYD and the Radio Club team find interesting items for Radio Club members. (Re-broadcast on Wed at 11. 45 am)
Introduced by television reporter Lucy Mathen
Female circumcision was recently outlawed in this country, although it is still widely practised in many parts of the world and, ironically, it is largely women who support the tradition. Gabrielle McPhedran investigates. Serial:
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE abridged in three parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Richard Leech
'In the third week of November, in the year of 1895, a dense fog settled down upon London.
Holmes paced restlessly about our sitting-room ...'
(Music: Franck's Piece Heroique) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Odysseus on an Iceberg by ALICK ROWE
Stereo
Presented by Nigel Andrews
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID HITCHINSON including Financial Report
The news of the last seven days examined by the people who write it, with searching questions put in a curious way by Barry Took to Alan Coren , Richard Ingrams Joe Haines and Angela Gordon Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDONandthe producer HARRY THOMPSON
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
When the RNIB launched its
Talking Books service in 1935, it offered a choice of just 55 titles - transcribed on to long-playing records - to its 369 subscribers. Now celebrating its Golden
Jubilee, the library boasts 6,000 books on tape and a membership of 60,000. Ten new books are recorded every week in the RNIB's own studio and lendings amount to two million a year.
Marjorie Lofthouse looks at how the service has developed and joins readers and listeners in celebrating 50 golden years. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
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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
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Whale Music by ANTHONY MINGHELLA with Juliet Stevenson as Caroline Jill Gascoine as Stella Alison Steadman as Kate Theresa Streatfield as Fran and Anna Lindup as D Caroline , pregnant by one of her two boyfriends, escapes to her seaside birthplace, taking a room in Stella's flat. She is looking for space to make so many important decisions. But then Fran. an old schoolfriend, comes back into her life and Kate arrives with D, her young pupil and lover.
Songs by ANTHONY MINGHELLA , arranged and produced by BARRINGTON PHELOUNG
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Stereo (Juliet Stevenson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
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Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
by MAYA ANGELOU abridged in ten parts by JANE MARSHALL
Read by Carmen Munro (1) Maya Angelou 's moving autobiography about growing up in the southern United States in the 1920s. Living with her grandmother, Uncle Willy and her brother Bailey in Stamps, Arkansas, she learns to endure racial intolerance and as she grows and travels a little, to fight against it.
Producer VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
Presented by David Sells Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
Horizons de France Teachers' programme Written and presented by TONY STAPLES
