Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE REV JOHNSTON MCKAY Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULLINE BUSHNELL
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
Reflections on life and politics abroad
Producer GUDRUN PALIBOR
by MICHAEL A. PEARSON
Read by Timothy Kightley
Some people go to great lengths to hide the truth about themselves, but the camera always finds it.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(Timothy Kightley is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
NEM, p 122; Come ye faithful, raise the anthem (BBC HB 123); Psalm 27, part 1; John 11, vv 17-27; Jesus lives (BBC HB 106) Stereo
'I have a life-sized stone cat on my patio. The neighbourhood cats stalk it and flirt with it, but the birds ignore it. Why are the cats fooled but not the birds?' The naturalists try to answer more of your wildlife questions. Presented by Derek Jones Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
A nationwide general knowledge contest First Round: West
Chairman Robert Robinson Richard Smith (civil servant) Meg Hamilton
(local history writer)
Leigh Allen (librarian) Norman Livingston
(university administrator)
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Enormous Turnip adapted by MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago The 50s and 60s (RV) Presented by PAUL COPLEY Producer NICHOLAS WHINES (R)
2.25 New series Popalong
1: Warm-ups and Wind-downs Presented by ROY CASTLE . Stereo
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) The Brighton Merman by DOROTHY EDWARDS adapted by PADDY BECHELY (R)
and Sue MacGregor invite you to join them for an action-packed session of ideas and emotions; news and views - some of them your own.
Serial: How Was It For You? abridged in ten parts by PATMCLOUGHLIN
Written and read by Maureen Lipman
1: Zuckerman: A Life
Maureen Lipman begins her autobiography by proposing that the tortoise is the ultimate Jewish pet. 'It knows its place,it doesn't bark, it doesn't tear the Dralon.'
(Music: Adrian Williams 's Jubilypso) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
The Maid's Room by SHELAGH FRASER
Lara is just one of thousands of Filipinos who eke out a life of domestic drudgery here in the West. She's a good, simple woman, but far too naive to cope with the sophisticated
London society that threatens to destroy her.
Directed by DAVip JOHNSTON. Stereo (Mia Soteriou is in 'Lennon at the Astoria Theatre, London)
Paul Heiney. with the help of the BBC's Local Radio newsrooms, looks at a topic of current interest.
This week: Nuclear Energy Producer DAVID BENNETT Editor TIM PITT
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM5.S0-5.55pm
with PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
by JOHN LE CARRE (1)
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Liz Donnelly Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at IO.Oam)
The Emperor in Bath
Fifty years ago, in 1936, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie set up court in a suburban villa on the outskirts of Bath. He was there because the Italians were in his palace in Abyssinia and because the British deemed Bath sufficiently remote to avoid his being a political embarrassment.
Jenni Mills has been discovering how the people of Bath came to terms with having this powerful, yet diminutive, stranger in their midst.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN BBCBristol
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]. Linesopenfrom 8.30 to 10.0pm
by Anthony Smith
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer KEVIN JACKSON
Mr Wakefield 's Crusade (7)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
CSE English Help with Spoken English
12.30 3: For My Talk Today ... and at 12.50
4: Who's There?
