Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE RT REV MICHAEL BAUGHEN , Bishop of Chester Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Where chat stops and talk starts and continues for 55 minutes.
Stereo
visits Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, where members of the local
Horticultural Society put their questions to
Dr Stefan Buczacki Sid Robertson and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
The Terrors of Basket-weaving by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
Read by Gwen Cherrell
Diane found the basket on the beach, took it home, and repaired it. Her fingers worked instinctively ... But then the terror began to creep up ... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 122; Who are these, like stars appearing (BBC HB 236);
Psalm 27, part 1; Acts 5, vv 27-39; Rise up 0 men of God (BBC HB 364) Stereo
In the last of six programmes
Suzanne Burden reads from the journals and letters of the 19th-century actress Fanny Kemble. On Tour in America
Compiled by MONICA COUGH
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family
Presented by John Howard
Johnny Morris recalls some of the places he has visited and the people he has met in a quarter of a century of jaunting.
This week: South America
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY
BBC Bristol
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today: Mrs Lather 's Laundry by ALLAN AHLBERG (R)
2.5 Looking at Nature Meadow. Stereo
2.20 Discovery Sharing by BOB DOCHERTY Presented by FLOELLA BENJAMIN
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) The Little Red Fish by DORIS HARPER WILLS (R)
2.50 Something to Think About Words. Words. Words
and Sue MacGregor invite you to join them for an action-packed session of ideas and emotions; paradigms and practicalities; fellowship and fun; news and views - some of them your own. Serial:
Watcher in the Shadows (7)
Up Against the Wall by ALLEN SADDLER
Martin, an English lecturer,
'discovers' Pete at a local pub, reciting his unorthodox verses. Promoting Pete, Martin finds he has something of a Frankenstein's monster on his hands ...
Music by SAM RICHARDS Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol Stereo
The programme for anyone with an interest in the English language.
English accents are on the move. But are the influences coming from the upper or lower stratum of society? And what has America got to do with it?
David Crystal talks to phonetics expert John Wells.
Producer ALAN WILDING
A Mirror of the State
Craig Brown , with the help of the BBC Monitoring Service, investigates arts broadcasting on international radio stations. Do the arts as projected by Voice of America, Radio Moscow,
Deutsche Welle and others act as a mirror of the State? Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm
With BRIAN PERKINS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Robert Cushman presents his personal view of the British theatre during his period as drama critic on The Observer from 1973 to 1984. 5: Spaces
He talks to Mike Bradwell
Howard Brenton. Dan Crawford Giles Havergal. Adrian Noble Bob Scott. Antony Sher Max Stafford-Clark
Jenny Topper , Julie Walters Snoo Wilson , Victoria Wood with performance extracts from: The Dresser (TOM COURTENAY and FREDDIE JONES)
Mr Cinders (DENIS LAWSON ) Lucky Bag (VICTORIA WOOD)
Producer JONATHAN JAMES MOORE Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27 pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Peter Smith brings you topical news and stories from shop-floors and boardrooms across the country.
Producer MARGARET BUDY
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5am)
Britain has been accused of being 'the dirty old man of Europe' and of trying to resist European efforts to clean up industrial effluent and sewage in the North Sea.
Eric Robson goes out on a 'dumping expedition' to find out whether the accusations hold water.
Presented by Hugh Sykes Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
0 INFO: page 93
Dr Beryl Sprinkel , Chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, in conversation with Mary Goldring about American economic policy and developments in the world economy
Producer DAVID MORTON (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11. 0 am LW)
Letters from Kim by CAROLE HAYMAN. Stereo
A weekly series for those interested in adventure pursuits - in the hills, in the air, on or under water, or from the comfort of an armchair
Presenter Mike Hollingworth
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)
The Girl in His Past (3)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Help Yourself to Biology Human Physiology Written and produced by PETER WARD
12.30 On Guard Against the Germs (R); and at 12.50 Infection and the Community (R)
