Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV RALPH SMITH Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

The second of two programmes Selections from the writings Of JANET ROSS
Introduced by Brian Gear
Continuing the lively account of a young Englishwoman's encounter with the Egypt of the mid-19th century.
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBCBristol

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3. 30pm)

Thirsty Work by ASIF ZUBAIRY
Read by Sean Barrett
The new landlord at the pub is all for giving the place a face-lift. But the opposition to his plans is a little too hot to handle!
Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 62; Ye watchers and ye holy ones (BBC HB 288);
Psalm 103; Romans 6, vv 1-11; King of glory, King of peace (BBC HB 325) Stereo

Stoddart Down Under
It stands 300 feet high, can burst into flames, and can alleviate the symptoms of colds and flu. Mike Stoddart of Hobart
University, Tasmania, reveals the gum tree. BBCBristol

A Matter of Taste
Derek Cooper hears about the flavour industry's latest attempts to tickle our taste buds.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

'Entertainment'
Including a history of great radio quiz shows, with such favourites as - 'What's the question?' 'What's the point?'
'Where's the cheque to go to?' 'How's Frank Muir ?'
'Where's Frank Muir ?' 'Here's Frank Muir. ' Starring The Bodgers
MORAY HUNTER. JOHN STEELE
GORDON KENNEDY. PETE BAlKIE with Morwenna Banks and John Sparkes
Music by PETE BAIKIE AND THE JIM BAIKIE BIG BAND
Written by MORAY HUNTER and JOHN DOCHERTY with MORWENNA BANKS and JOHN SPARKES
Producer ALAN NIXON Stereo

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

A Week with Grandfather Archibald Friday (R)

Introduced from Belfast by Wendy Austin
Brian Herd is the former
Anglican Bishop of Karamoja in northern Uganda. He and his wife talk about what happened when he was expelled by Idi Amin in 1978 and how members of the family have coped with their return to a troubled Northern Ireland. Producer COLIN LEWIS BBC Northern Ireland Serial:
The Man of Property (5)

The Bishop's Wife by FREDERICK BRADNUM
The Dean and some of the Chapter have doubts about the morality of the Bishop's young wife. Her nephew and niece are unwillingly employed as detectives.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD 'Stereo (R)

Roy Hudd laughs at the news
June Whitfield Chris Emmett and THE HUDDLINERS
(Stereo)

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
continued on VHFjFM5.50-5.55pm

With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report

At midnight tonight Heathrow Airport's new Terminal Four starts operating. Built at a cost of E200 million to handle 22 aircraft at a time and up to eight million passengers a year, it is seen by the British Airports Authority as a great step forward. But a step is what passengers won't see, as lifts and travelators whisk them on board their aircraft.
Going P/acesjoins the removal vans as the airlines move in and takes an inside look at this new gateway.
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes.
Producer SIMON ELMES Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

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

The Rt Hon Tom King , mp Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Rt Hon Denis Healey , mp The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins , mp
Bel Mooney , writer journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Bath, Avon
Chairman John Timpson Producer ROBIN HICKS BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

When religion clashes with real-life fixtures, which wins? Does watching violent television or film lead to real acts of violence?

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Sheridan Morley presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, news and reviews.
Producer KEVIN JACKSON
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

The Battle of Pollock's Crossing (5)

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. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)

followed by an interlude