Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
With SARAH JONES. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FTNIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Coruscating conversation on the premise that the guests turn up
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo
from Birmingham, where members of the Wythall and Hollywood Horticultural
Society put their questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Les Jones and Geoffrey Smith
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Sitting Tight by GEOFFREY KILNER
Read by David Davies
The travelling families were being moved on from the lay-by. But Tommy had seen the hen with her clutch of eggs nestling in a dump. His family couldn't go yet....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
nem, p 110; Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258); Psalm 31; Acts 10, vv 34-48; Christ for the world we sing (BBC HB 172) Stereo
William Davis offers you mastery of the media's messages by eliciting explanations from the erudite. Producer JANET THOMAS
Presented by John Howard
by Agatha Christie, dramatised in six parts by Michael Bakewell
3: A Meeting at the Villa Marguerite
En route to stay with her cousin, Lady Tamplin, at her luxurious villa on the Riviera, quiet Miss Grey suddenly finds herself involved with a murder mystery and the legendary Hercule Poirot, on board the Blue Train.
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP reads Walter Crumpton and the Two Muddy Lions by KATE WILKINSON
2.5 Looking at Nature Gulls Stereo
2.20 Quest Jesus
2: The World Jesus Knew (RV) Written by GEOFF MARSHALL -TAYLOR Stereo
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) If We Had Wings Poems by LESLIE NORRIS (R)
2.50 Something to Think About Slugs Crossing by ZOE BAILEY (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: play and scriptwriter
Hanif Kureishi - author of the film My Beautiful Laundrette Serial: Crampton Hodnet by BARBARA PYM abridged in 12 episodes by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by Patricia Routledge (12) (Music: Schumann's
Marchenerzahlungen)
by ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT with June Barry
Gwyn's sharp humour and indomitable spirit have always risen above the tragedies in her life. But the events about to occur will call on every ounce of her strength of purpose.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester. Stereo
The second in the series in which Graham Webster presents poems about the theatre. Actors
Readers HUGH DICKSON
JILL BALCON , CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALED REID BBCBristol. Stereo
(Revised broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Robert Williams and Jon Silverman
continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
The Brains Trust
Formation Display Team, Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich , challenge a United States team of writer Shana Alexander and theatre critic Brendan Gill. Questionmasters
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrowat 12.27pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
A series in which Bernard
Rutherford talks to two people with a common link about what's influenced their lives.
Today he's in conversation with writers Katharine Whitehorn and Bel Mooney.
I think in a general way, you can slightly, slightly change the climate in which people see themselves.
(KATHARINE WHITEHORN )
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBCBristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.35am)
From an accountant's office in Middlesbrough in the 40s, to accompanying Lord
Beaverbrook in the liner Queen Elizabeth in the 50s; from Lord David Cecil 's study at Oxford, to the editor's chair at Truth magazine; and from interviewing on Panorama to presenting some of Radio 4's most popular current affairs programmes of the 70s.... these are some of the other times and other places George Scott recalls in this series of four programmes using music of the day to jog his memory and recreate the atmosphere. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Hardly a day goes by without large advertisements in the newspapers urging people either to accept or reject a takeover bid for a large company: Allied Lyons, British Home Stores, Distillers,
Imperial Group, Plessey. Britain is experiencing the greatest takeover boom in its history. Why? What will be the result? John Roberts reports. Producer FRANCINE STOCK
(Rebroadcasttomorrow at 11.0am)
The Illusion by REINHARD LETTAU Stereo
(Broadcastyesterday at 11. 0 am)
Second often programmes
Fritz Spiegl lifts the veil on the perils of musical matrimony. Today: Mrs Mozart
Producer PIERS BURTON-PAGE (First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
(Rev broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35 pm)
The Blush
The first of three stories by ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Read by Lolly Cockerell
Mrs Allen has her own little ways of cossetting herself through the lonely hours till that afternoon came with its prelude to disaster.
Producer PENNY LEICESTER
with Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Radio Geography - Our Changing World The Yorkshire Coalfield Written and presented by HUGH SAXBY and at 12.50 The Vale of York Written and presented by MICHAEL PICKSTOCK
