Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, and weather
With SYLVIA SANDYS Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
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
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
An opportunity for listeners to express their views, and question the experts on a subject of current interest.
Produced by the Woman 's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am
The Dance of the Little Swans by JENNY HURSELL
Read by Valerie Windsor
'The girls had been sworn to secrecy. Ideas were precious. One misplaced word on a street corner and the Red Shoes Ballet Academy would poach their routine.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
NEM, p 93; Ye servants of God (BBC HB 372); Psalm 16;
Luke 10, vv 38-42; When morning gilds the skies (BP 101) Stereo
The Cachalot
The sperm whale is the largest and most powerful predator in the sea. It dives deeper than any other whale; locates and zaps its prey with ultrasound; and communicates across a school of up to a hundred animals using individually patterned 'clicks'. Scientists in the Indian and Pacific Oceans are slowly revealing the secret life of the sperm whale, but have yet to record the titanic battles that take place in the deep sea when the sperm whale encounters a giant squid.
Presented by Peter France Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
with Pattie Coldwell
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Gordon Clough
1.55 Listening Corner Today: Andrew McAndrew and Grandad's Fiddle by BERNARD MACLAVERTY Stereo
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago Homefront (RV) (R)
2.25 Contact: Friendship by CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP Presented by PAUL MCDOWELL
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) Little Stick and Big Who by PAMELA ROGERS adapted for radio by PADDY BECHELY (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor MARGARET HORSFIELD visits the Nanoose Peace Camp on Vancouver Island in Canada where the residents live in Indian tepees. Serial:
Blue Remembered Hills (4)
The Penrhyn Summer by ALISON LEONARD with The legacy of Britain's longest industrial strike hangs over an idealistic university student as she goes about her holiday job. Eighty years on, the scars are still evident in Penrhyn, but they are starting to infect Madeleine, too.
Other parts played by DEREK RICHARDS
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales
W HEAR THIS! poffe 19
A series of four programmes. What is it that holds a community together? It is only in a crisis that the skeleton of a community is exposed.
Margaret Percy looks at how communities have coped with very different types of crisis. 1: Shutdown
The development of steel production in Corby had turned a small village into a thriving town. When the steelworks were shut down in 1980, thousands were thrown out of work and the future looked bleak.
But Corby proved resilient; there were those who could see a future for the town. Producer BRIAN KING BBC Birmingham
Presented by Robert Williams and Carole West
continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55pm
with DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report
Stereo. (Broadcastyesterday, 12.27pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Stuart Simon Producer JOHN DRURY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
What's new in medical science? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am)
Culture Shock
Working abroad is often not as wonderful as those who stay at home may like to believe. For instance, one in three
Americans and one in seven Europeans fail to complete their tour of duty. Repatriation is very costly, yet many companies seem unwilling or unable to make the comparatively small capital investment required to prepare their staff for foreign postings. But, for the victims of culture shock, the costs are in more human terms.
'Half the wives there were showing some form of tension ... infidelity was rife.'
Molly Price-Owen reports. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Presented by Peter White Producer ANNE THEAKSTONE
Series producer THENA HESHEL
Nigel Rees talks about three of his favourite humorous characters from fiction. Reader JONATHAN NEWTH
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presenter Christopher Cook Producer CARROLL MOORE
Bengal Lancer (2)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Rehearsing for Work
12.303: The First Few Days Learning skills; meeting people
12.50 4: Finding your Feet - if things go wrong
