Farming, food and countryside news. market trends, weather
With THE REV ANDREW WYLIE Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Bill Frost
6.30.7.30.8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Six views on different aspects of being a man emerge from guests in conversation with Anne Brown
1: Enoch Powell
He was Scowelly Powelly ' to his classmates, and Greek was his passion. Later, it was a love affair with Nietzsche, poetry and the Raj - but when
Bridgadier Powell turned political maverick, the romantic still flourished within the male-dominated fortress of Westminster. Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Birmingham
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BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.30pm)
Stranger in the Bed by JOHN KERR
Read by George Parsons
'It was my house, my wife, my duvet.... but kicking out in no uncertain terms was the....' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 13; Awake, awake; fling off the night (100 HFT 9); Psalm 8; John 20, vv 24-30; Lord of all power (100 HFT 62) Stereo
The lion, king of the jungle - or is he? Brian Bertram talks about the largest of all cats and points out that even for this magnificent beast, life remains tough at the top.
Producer MEUNDA BAKER BBC Bristol (R)
Plastic Power
Derek Cooper tests the strength of the packaging industry. Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Hijack
And now a live statement from the terrorist guru:
'Always remember that "if" is the middle word of "life" and "eat" is the middle word of "death", and that "ickynacky" is the middle word of "nicky nacky noo".'
Starring The Bodgers
MORAY HUNTER. JOHN STEELE
GORDON KENNEDY. PETE BAIKIE with Morwenna Banks and John Sparkes
Music by PETE BAIKIE and THE JIM BAIKIE BIG BAND Written by MORAY HUNTER and JOHN DOCHERTY with MORWENNABANKS and JOHN SPARKES
Producer ALAN NIXON Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines
IRENE HANDL reads Grandma and Bopper Go Caravaning by JANET SORENSEN
Introduced from Bristol by Sandi Marshall
Ups and Downs: three-day eventing through the eyes of champion British rider VIRGINIA HOLGATE. She defends her title at the Badminton Horse Trials this weekend - wearing odd socks! Round and Round: POLLY LLOYD turns quite dizzy watching Bath artist ROGER HALLETT complete his giant Panorama of the city.
It is 200 feet long and 24 feet high and after a spell in its own mobile rotunda, will go on a round-the-world tour. Producer JILL MARSHALL BBC Bristol
Serial: The Man of Property (10)
by HENRY FIELDING
The first of four parts Stereo
Roy Hudd laughs at the news with June Whitfield Chris Emmett and THE HUDDLINERS Stereo
Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
continued on VHFtFM5.50-5.55pm
With CLIVE ROSLIN
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 2-Litre Prelude Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer JOHN POWELL Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)
Nigel Rees examines what the newpapers have been on about this week.
Producer EMLY BUCHANAN
Ray Whitney , mp,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Brenda Dean ,
General Secretary SOGAT '82 Sir Alex Jarrett , Chairman, Smiths Industries pic
Oliver Walston , farmer tackle the issues raised by the audience in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer ROBIN HICKS BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10 pm)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
US attack on Libya
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Britain is the only Western European country to back US air strikes against terrorism headquarters in Libya. Show more
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Robert Hewison presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN (Re-broadcast next Monday)
The Battle of Pollock's Crossing by J. L. CARR abridged in ten episodes by RONALD BANCROFT
Read by Keith Drinkel (10) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting on Monday: 'Mr Wakefield 's Crusade by Bernice Rubens )
Presented by Richard Kershaw 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 , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DAVIES. RICHARD QUICK STUART SILVER . PETE SINCLAIR DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY STEVE PUNT . MIKE COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)
followed by an interlude