Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With DR ALAN WILLIAMS 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 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

In the last of six programmes different aspects of being a man emerge from a final guest in conversation with Anne Brown. Ian Dury
Severely disabled by polio at the age of 7, Ian Dury didn't have a lot going for him, except a sense of style. Artist, rock singer, actor and master of the hard-hitting lyric, Dury looks in the mirror.
Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Birmingham

Pear-shaped from the West
The last of four programmes is not a description of intrepid
TV weatherman Ian McCaskill and veteran balloonist
Anthony Smith , but Ian's account of the weather they face together in a hot-air balloon. Hear them go!
Producer TIM GROUT-SMITH BBCBristol

BBC Correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.30pm)

by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon

A class reunion, at an American school, brings back memories of Ed Miller. Ed was 'the golden boy' - an ironic title when you look back on it.

NEM, p 114; At the name of Jesus (BBC HB 120); Psalm 95; Acts 11, vv 19-30; God of mercy, God of grace (BBC HB 455). Stereo

The Pigeon House
Fat squabs in the colomendy, a skin of wine and leeks in the racking shed. Roger Worsley comes out of a Welsh winter with the help of his Norman pigeon house. Bristol

Spray Safe?
Why are pesticides used on our food and what is their effect on our health? Is present legislation adequate? Derek Cooper hears the latest views on pest control. Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Stereo
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Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's 's Play It Again Presented by FRED HARRIS Script by RUTH CRAFT Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.5 Let's Join In The Three Lemons A Czechoslovakian folk tale
2.25 Topic Songbook (4) Stereo
2.30 Let's Make a Story! 4: Adventure on the Beach Storyteller PATRICK TROUGHTON Written by RON JAMES Stereo
2.40 Listen! The Decide-it- Yourself Cliffhanger serial. Schools are invited to participate in creating a serial drama Part 4 by RICHARD PINNER Stereo

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse Women cyclists welcome
On the eve of National Bike Week, AVRIL CARSON discovers how the Birmingham Cycling Campaign plans to mark the occasion for enthusiasts and beginners alike.
Producer ANN TENNANT
BBC Birmingham
Serial: Watcher in the Shadows by GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD abridged in nine episodes and read by David McAlister (9)
(Music: Wilson's Sinfonietta)

by NEVIL SHUTE dramatised in three parts by BRIAN GEAR
2: The Point of No Return
On board a Rutland Reindeer on a transatlantic crossing in 1947, Mr Honey learns that the tailplane may crack at any moment; there is a very special passenger whom he feels he must save at all costs ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER. BBCBristol Stereo

Last of the present series in which Roy Hudd laughs at the news with June Whitfield Chris Emmett and THE HUDDLINERS Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
continued on VHF FM 5.50-5.55 pm

With DAVID SYMONDS
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 Fiat Croma 2000 ie. Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

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

'I became the great campaigner. It was irresistible.... On the whole journalists aren't shrinking violets. There's a bit of the Terry Wogan in them all.'
Lord (Hugh) Cudlipp, who became a Fleet Street editor at 24, talks to Martyn Williams.Â
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales)
Hear This! page 31 and Info: page 93

Heather Couper. President, British Astronomical Association
Richard Needham, mp,
Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Rt Hon Dr Dickson Mabon , industrialist
Lord Parry, Chairman, 'Keep Britain Tidy' tackle the issues raised by the audience in Cosheston, Pembroke Dock, Wales
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm)

Alistair Cooke on the political aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, differences in its reporting, and what lessons Gorbachev and Reagan can learn from the disaster.

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Christopher Cook presents tonight s edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
10.15 A Book at Bedtime
The Girl in His Past (5)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

11.30 Week Ending
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate Jon Glover and Susie Blake
Written by MARTIN BOOTH
PAUL B. DAVIES , RICHARD QUICK . STUART SILVER . PETE SINCLAIR. DAVID COHEN. PETER HICKEY. STEVE PUNT , MIKE COLMAN.
ALISON RENSHAW , JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25 pm)

followed by an interlude

Help Yourself to Biology Human Physiology
12.30 The pump at work - and in trouble (R) and at 12.50 Wiping the slate clean (liver and kidneys) (R)