Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With FR MICHAEL CHILD 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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
4: 'Making a purchase at Chubbs department store was a very deliberate business. Something like buying a pig in West
Donegal. Choice was not a problem of course, since the range in most departments was not so much narrow as microscopic.'
How can farms be made attractive to wildlife? How do farmers feel about the way they are regarded by the public? Fergus Keeling and Lionel Kelleway visit the Bath and West Show to answer these and other questions. Producer MILES BARTON
(Broadcaston Tuesday at 8.0pm)
The Miracle by ALEXANDER IRVINE
Read by Patrick Brannigan
'Poor folk like us were adept in the art of getting along on little, but living on nothing is something only fairies can accomplish.
It was a Wednesday morning. I was up early because a gnawing at the pit of my stomach would not permit me to sleep.
"Is there any hope today?" I asked mother, as I was about to start for work.
"Oh ay, dear," she said cheerfully.
"There's always the chance of a miracle.'"
Producer KATHRYN PORTER
reflecting the issues of the day Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
20th-Century War Poetry
Six programmes compiled and presented by Andrew Motion 1: World War 1, 1914-18 Readers RONALD PICKUP and GEOFFREY BEEVERS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Stereo
Presented by John Howard
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Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Presented by LOUIS ROBINSON
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Cooks' Tours:
Italian cookery writer Valentina Harris answers the first of a series of listeners' requests for lost holiday recipes. Today it's a dish with an 'extraordinary combination of aubergines and chocolate', from Sicily.
Serial: Among the Quiet Folks 4: The Octopus
by Michael Toft
Ronnie Ashworth is a Yorkshire miner who believes passionately in the 1984 strike, no matter what it costs him and his family. His younger brother Paul isn't so convinced. Their differences reach a crisis on their first picket in Nottinghamshire.
'On the morning of 19 August
1936, in the hills above Granada, near to a spring, called the Fountain of Tears, four men were shot dead. Two were thought to be small-time bullfighters, one a schoolmaster, with only one leg, and the fourth wore an artist's 's bow tie. '
Trader Faulkner, together with Ian Gibson ,
Helen Oppenheimer.
Gwynne Edwards and Natalia Jimenez de Cossio explore the life and work of Spain's greatest 20th-century poet and dramatist who was killed, at the age of 38, just half a century ago - Federico Garcia Lorca.
Introduced by Hunter Davies Producer JOHN POWELL
(Revised broadcast of yesterday programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55pm
With HARRIET CASS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Cast for the week:
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions?
Introduced by John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
British, and European, agriculture is a victim of its own success. Financial encouragement and technological advance have been embraced but the result today is that too much food is being produced and the cost of storing surpluses is getting out of hand. Bitter Harvest looks at the history behind the success story that's going wrong, discusses what can be done to correct the balance between supply and demand, and ponders the future for farmers.
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by John Mills Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to:
Derek Jones , honorary spokesman for the natural world, bids for some stories, personalities and sounds from the West Country. Producer JULIAN HALE
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Three Short Stories by ELIZABETH BOWEN 2: Her Table Spread
The castle belonged to Miss
Cuffe. They were all her guests and tonight there was a destroyer in the estuary.
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
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