Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV CRAWFORD ANDERSON Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Diana Goodman
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

The final episode
'This was the battle to determine the fate of the Universe: Giant brain against Giant brain; fighting turtle against gallant cockroach.' Stereo

The first of two programmes Selections from the writings Of JANET ROSS
Introduced by Brian Gear with Cherie Lunghi as Janet Ross Parti
In 1861, just before her 19th birthday, Janet Ross went with her husband to Alexandria which was to be her home for the next six years. Her vivid and evocative letters and writings give a lively account of her expeditions with, among others, the great builder of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Producer BRIAN MILLER
BBCBristol
(Part 2 next Friday)

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.0pm)

by LISA TAYLOR
Read by Fleur Chandler
'The lady is travelling light, and looks like any other commuter on the train. But this is the most important journey of her life....'
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 93; Christ the Lord is risen again (BBC HB 101); 0 taste and see (Vaughan Williams);
I Peter 1, vv 3-9; Christ is alive (BP8) Stereo

A quarterly report on the world of employment, with Brian Redhead.

'They would extend the long forelegs and touch one another, but always, at this point, when they were closest and the excitement greatest, a panic would seize him and he would make haste to get to a safe distance.'
P. J. Kavanagh reads w H. HUDSON 'S account of spider courtship. BBCBristol (R)

The last of five profiles by Ray Gosling
'In the rush of modernism,
Laura Ashley went back to the Maypole with teatowels, aprons and puffed sleeves for the pregnant. She brought
Ambridge to Weybridge - and Dusseldorf and Tokyo too....' Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

John Docherty (jokes) Moray Hunter (jokes)
Pete Baikie (hummings)
Gordon Kennedy (wardrobe) Producer ALAN NIXON (red pen) Stereo (R)
Classic radio ideas (PUNCH) As funny as a Took (BARRY HAGGIS)

Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines.

5: Anansi and the Magic Cooking-pot Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo

Introduced from Manchester by Judy Merry
Taking Steps: SUE TALBOT joins an experimental dance class devised to solve emotional problems between mother and child.
Meet MARION platt, at 80 the oldest woman mayor in Britain. BBC Manchester
Serial: the last of eight
Stories by Women Writers Not Like the Old Days by GILLIAN TINDALL
(Music: Hahn's Premiere etude)

by ALESSANDRO MANZONI
A tale of 17th-century Milan translated and dramatised in four parts by r B. AMOS
Narrated by Richard Bebb with and 4: The Black Death
A bad harvest, trampling, looting armies and now the plague - it seems there is to be no mercy on the poor people of the Duchy of Milan. And Renzo and Lucia, still unwed, seem to be among the least lucky of them all.
Other parts played by GRAHAM BLOCKEY
CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS
ADRIAN EGAN , DAVID LEARNER
NATASHA PYNE , BRIAN SMITH
MIA SOTERIOU, ALAN THOMPSON and TESSA WORSLEY
Directed by JOHN CARDY. Stereo
(Starting on 13Aprilat 7.0pm: 'Joseph Andrews ' by Henry Fielding)

Roy Hudd laughs at the news with June Whitfield Chris Emmett and THE HUDDUNERS. Stereo

Presented by Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough continuedon VHF/FM5.50-5.55 pm

With DAVID SYMONDS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world, including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer.
This week Tom Boswell tests the Honda Two-litre Prelude Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
This week's selection by Ian Skidmore
Producer SIMON ELMES
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Geoffrey Goodman examines what the papers have been on about this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Marcus Fox. mp
Austin Mitchell, mp
Roland Long , industrialist
Claire Brooks , member of the Liberal Party National Executive Committee tackle the issues raised by the audience in Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

After US-Libya stand-off, the threat of terrorism - aided by low fuel prices at home - see American travellers stick to their own continent. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Michael Billington presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer KATHRYN PORTER (Re-broadcast next Monday)

A Perfect Spy abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Written and read by John le Carre (15)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting on Monday: The Battle of Pollock Crossing'by J. L. Carr )

Presented by Tim Llewellyn National and international news, background, analysis and comment.

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , Phil Cornwell Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by MARTIN BOOTH .
PAUL B. DAVIES , RICHARD QUICK. STUART SILVER. PETE SINCLAIR. DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY.
JOHN MORRISH. ALISON RENSHAW STEVE PUNT. MIKE COLEMAN and others
Producer HARRY THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)

followed by an interlude