Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
with THE REV JOHN GILYEAD. Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with smoN ROSE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL 7 20* Your Letters 7 25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
2: On the Cheep
Crime and the Community
Your chance to put your point of view to the Home Secretary, The Rt Hon Douglas Hurd , mp Jenni Murray is in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 0 am
Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's worldwide team of foreign correspondents
Eastern Promise by ALEXANDER CORDELL
Read by Dillwyn Owen
'Only five-feet-high, she was just the right size for little Patrick, and people said she was a dream in miniature, with a split cheongsam skirt on her....' Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
nem, p 75; From the eastern mountains (BBC HB 65); Psalm
36; Isaiah 49, w 1-7; The Father's sole-begotten Son (BBC HB 67) Stereo
Let's 's Hear it Again
A selection of extracts from listeners' favourite Living
World programmes broadcast during the past year
Presented by Peter France Producer JOHN HARRISON BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news and advice for consumers
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner VICTORIA WOOD reads Captain Betty and the Pirates (2) by JOE DUNLOP
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago The 20s and 30s (RV) Producer NICHOLAS WHINES (R)
2.25 Contact: A Newcomer (RV) by ARTHUR SCHOLEY Presented by PAUL MCDOWELL
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) The Magpie and the Silver Bird by EILEEN HYDE AND MICHAEL HYDE Producer PADDY BECHELY (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Women criminals are treated either as evil witches or as misunderstood little girls.... The British judicial system was designed by men for men: women are just fitted in. How do they fare in our courts of law? Are they punished more severely or more leniently? JENNY cuFFE investigates. Serial: Crampton Hodnet (6)
Tansy by RUTH GORING
Left a derelict country cottage by an aunt who has mysteriously vanished, Tansy and her new boyfriend Martin take on the enormous task of making it habitable.
But owning the cottage has an effect on Tansy that Martin cannot have anticipated.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY. Stereo (Neville Jason is in 'Mutiny! at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)
Derek Cooper rings in the new with a taste of what's to come in 1986. What delights has the food industry in store?
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
(Stereo)
Written by SIMON FRITH Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
New York and Chicago are vying with one another to build skyscrapers that could make the Empire State Building seem like a bungalow. Is there a limit, practical or prudent, on how far up they can go?
William Davis reports from America on real estate in the sky.
Producer HELEN ROBSON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory to the GP's surgery.
Producer MILES BARTON
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am)
The Glennie Determination Last summer Evelyn Glennie graduated from the Royal
Academy of Music. She received the Queen's Commendation for All-Round Excellence. Now she plans to make her career as a professional percussionist. Yet she can't hear the music she performs.
Antony Hopkins traces the progress of this remarkable young woman who has refused to be handicapped by deafness. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open 8.30-10 10.0 pm
A series of six combative talks by Howard Jacobson 5:Bernard's Baboons
'Anybody who has watched a baboon gazing with awe at that part of his fellow which even Miranda might have thought twice about admiring can entertain no doubts as to the absolutely arbitrary nature of beauty.'
Presented by Paul Allen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Vice Versa (7)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
Joanna Hickson looks at two craft workshops which have established high reputations, one in tapestry in Edinburgh, the other in printmaking in Aberdeen.
Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland (R)
followed by an interlude
A-level English The 'Unseen' Criticism Paper
