Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With DAME CHRISTIAN HOWARD 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 DAVID SYMONDS
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 & am
Works of Fiction
Written and read by Annest Wiliam
'Nothing they actually said was at all out of the ordinary, yet they managed to create a climate of delicious wickedness.'
Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales
NEM, p 1; Breathe on me, breath of God (BBC HB 148); Psalm 126; Joel 2, vv 21-29; Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176) Stereo
The Swiftlet Caves
Crying snakes that catch bats in the dark; blind white crabs that climb walls like spiders; giant crickets that crack open birds' eggs; and cave swiftlet nests that supply a multi-million-dollar soup industry - all part of the remarkable community of animals living in the world's largest caves in Malaysia. Phil Chapman, of Bristol
Museum, tells of his adventures in the caverns where a foot wrong could mean drowning in a quicksand of water-logged guano.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Radio 4's daily consumer programme visits Belfast Presented by Paul Clark Producer ELAINE BEDELL
A nationwide general knowledge contest
First Round: North West
Chairman Robert Robinson Arthur Naylor
(retired schoolmaster)
Graham Smith (headmaster) Andrew Francis (lecturer) The programme includes Beat the Brains.
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: Rain, Rain, Go to Spain by JOHN BETT (R)
2.5 History: Not So Long Ago Into Oil by ASTLEY JONES (R)
2.25 Popalong (3) Presented by ROY CASTLE Written by ROBERT PENMAN Stereo
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) The Water Horse of Barra A Hebridean folk tale retold by WINIFRED FINLAY adapted by PADDY BECHELY (R)
and Sue MacGregor invite you to join them for an action-packed session.
Serial: Watcher in the Shadows by GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD abridged in nine episodes and read by David McAlister (1)
When, ten years after the War, someone tries to kill
Charles Dennim , it soon becomes clear that his wartime role as a British agent is catching up with him. But how, in peacetime, to lure the man into the open?
(Music: Wilson's Sinfonietta)
by Juliet Ace
Kydleigh used to be a grimy fishing port. Now it has become a glamorous film set. Jonathon George is shocked by what he sees. He decides to do something about it.
JUNE BARRIE. WILLIAM EEDLE, TREVOR NICHOLS, CONRAD PHILLIPS
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
(Peter Jeffrey is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Paul Heiney , with the help of the BBC's Local Radio newsrooms all over the country, gets a fresh perspective on a topic of current interest. Producer DAVID BENNETT Editor TIM pitt
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continuedon VHFiFM5.50-5.55pm
with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
by JOHN LE CARRE (3) Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40 pm)
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? 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 - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre, to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer NIGEL BRADSHAW
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0 am)
The Thomas the Tank Engine Man
Thomas, Gordon, Henry and the Fat Controller are just a few of the Railway Series characters who have become near legends in the lifetime of their creator, The Rev W. Awdry. He now lives in retirement from parish work, but his stories chronicling life among the engines on the island of Sodor are as popular with children and their parents today as they were when first published in 1945. In recent years, Thomas's rise to television stardom has introduced a new dimension to the well-loved books. Brian Sibley meets The
Rev W. Awdry and looks at the man behind those really useful engines.
Readings from the Railway Series by ALISON DRAPER Producer JOHN FORREST Stereo
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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]. Lines open from 8.30 to 10.0 pm
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(Send four 8 1/2 x 12" SAEs for a year's supply)
by Anthony Smith
The Artists of Terezin
Terezin (Theresienstadt), in Bohemia, was a ghetto created by the Nazis to deceive public opinion. There were shops, a coffee house and a special bank, while the SS even made a film showing happy Jews in a Jewish city. For the inmates, it was little more than a staging-post for Auschwitz. To propagate the lie, the Nazis permitted a lively cultural life.
Christopher Cook visits Terezin and talks to survivors of the ghetto about art, music and theatre created by artists facing almost certain death.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
The Love Child (2)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Hallo! Wie geht's?
12.30 3: Am Morgen Written by MILO SPERBER (R) and at 12.45 4: Zu Mittag Written by SONJA EICHHOLZ (R)
1.0 Graded Objectives: German Levels 3 and 4 (2)
