Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
with FR MICHAEL CHILD . Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
3: 'Now I'm an unemployed teacher I spend a lot of time in Egnep; that's Penge spelt backwards. What I call the other Penge. the hidden Penge. The one the visitor or unobservant native never sees.'
Sand, sea and a professor of sociology - Midweek comes live from the Theatre in the Round in Scarborough.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH
This week the team travels to
North Wales, where members of the Corwen Gardening Club put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
Another chapter in the saga of Miz Taylor, the city-dweller who moved to the back of beyond and found peace of mind - marriage - and now a slight brush with the law!
NEM, p 71; Hills of the north rejoice (BBC his 33); Psalm 19;
I Corinthians 9, vv 19-27; Teach me, my God and king (BP 80) Stereo
Compiled by SHELLEY THOMPSON A biographical impression of Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), author of Anne of Green Gables. Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston , editors of Montgomery's recently released diaries, and their publisher, William Toye , talk about the complex creator of one of the best-loved characters in children's fiction.
Narrated by BERNARD BRADEN Reader SHELLEY THOMPSON Producer ED THOMASON
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve, but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds. Let Neil Landor , with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out the answers.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Enquire Within.
BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you
Presented by John Howard
The last of six programmes in which 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: Corsica
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Presented by Sir Robin Day
Presented by LOUIS ROBINSON
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Penny Chuter , top woman in the world of rowing
Serial: Among the Quiet Folks 3: Mr Catesby Brings it Off
Not That Sort of Beach by JIM HITCHMOUGH
The Cooper annual caravan holiday to the South of France is established as a relaxing routine of sun, sand and savoirfaire. Doreen's bikini top was discarded three years ago at Frejus and now she wants to shed the bottom. But George's modesty is a problem, as is a reminder of home, lurking in the sand dunes....
Directed by TONY CLIFF
An estimated two million adults in Britain have reading problems. David Crystal looks at the work of the Adult
Literacy Campaign and talks to David Hargreaves , television producer of On the Move. Producer ALAN WILDING
Writer's Block
Sometimes I've had it so bad all the verbal faculties are crippled and it's difficult to put one word after another, like a difficulty in walking almost. (DOUGLAS DUNN) Maggie Norden explores the problem of writer's block with Kingsley Amis,
Beryl Bainbridge , Mary Brown ,
Douglas Dunn , Zachary Leader and Anthony Storr , and finds out how writers cope, and that it's not always a reason to panic. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN (R)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55pm
With Charlotte Green including Financial Report
Robert Cushman presents his personal view of the British theatre during his period as drama critic of The Observer from 1973 to 1984. 6: Directors
He talks to Mike Alfreds Michael Blakemore
Simon Callow , Lindsay Duncan Paul Eddington , William Gaskill Mike Leigh , Anna Massey
Jonathan Miller , Harold Prince Antony Sher , Max Stafford-Clark, Janet Suzman with performance extracts from Three Sisters (NIGEL DAVENPORT and JANET SUZMAN )
Goose Pimples (JIM BROADBENT. PAUL JESSON and JILL BAKER ) Pacific Overtures and Gypsy (ANGELA LANSBURY ) Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Peter Smith goes into the world of business to report on the latest initiatives and problems. Producer MARGARET BUDY
Britain's environmental groups come in all shapes and sizes and many political hues. There is plenty of inter-group rivalry and antagonism. Is this a help or a hindrance to environmental improvement?
Presented by Hugh Sykes Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
Paradise Postponed
Plenty of rice and plenty of oil - Indonesia in the first half of the 1980s seemed to be safely on its way to a bright future. But now, with the population growing at an annual rate of over two per cent and oil revenues falling rapidly, the country's US-trained planners, known as the 'Berkeley mafia', have to think again.
David Wheeler examines how the government in Jakarta proposes to save the Indonesian economic miracle. Producer PETER BROD
Ode for St Cecilia by GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI. Stereo
Presented by Mike HoUingworth
Presented by Christopher Cook Producer KATHRYN PORTER
Three Short Stories by ELIZABETH BOWEN
Read by Angela Thorne 1: Coming Home
Rosalind's essay had been such a success at school. Now she hurried home to tell Darlingest all about it, but there was no face at the window.
Producer ENYD WILLIAMS
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
