Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather

With FR MICHAEL CHILD Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.50* Your Letters

5: 'Teenagers in Penge stick to each other like egg stains on an old pullover. Little Reg - Reg's son - is still going around with the same dubious bunch of characters he met on his first day at nursery school.'

Christopher Dunkley , of The Financial Times, airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
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BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

A Ball of Purple Wool Written and read by Sheila Mitchell
'Because she couldn't move or speak didn't mean she was lifeless. How could she let them know she could hear everything they said ... then she remembered Mark.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

NEM, p 79; Let all mortal flesh keep silence (BBC HB 204); Psalm 36; I Corinthians 11, vv 17-26; Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140) Stereo

The 'Go-away' Birds
Flashes of startling crimson wings, glimpses of irridescent greens and blues, strident, anonymous calls of 'go-waa, go-waa' - these are the turacos or louries of the eastern savannahs and central forests of Africa. Presented by Malcolm Coe Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol (R)

Table of Ingredients
Should restaurants be obliged to list the contents of the meals they offer? Barbara Myers tells Derek Cooper the caterers' response.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON

Stereo
(Broadcaston Saturday at 11.30pm)

Presented by Brian Widlake

Presented by LOUIS ROBINSON

Introduced by Sesi McCombie live from the Beaumaris Festival
Aled Jones , the boy treble from Anglesey, talks about life in the public eye. He'll be singing too - accompanied by the celebrated harpist Elinor Bennett.
Star of the festival
Moura Lympany looks back on her career as an internationally-known pianist.
And Woman's Hour finds out what it's like to live in the shadow of Anglesey's nuclear power plant at Wylfa.
Producer JANE STEPHENSON BBC Wales
Serial: Among the Quiet Folks 5: Non Compost Mentis

by NEVIL SHUTE
The last of three parts dramatised by BRIAN GEAR with Under the Foot of the Bear
Having disgraced himself for destroying the undercarriage of the airplane he thought was likely to crash on its next flight, Mr Honey is hardly in a position to give acceptable advice on solving the metal-fatigue problem....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo

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

With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report

With the umbilical cord of the Channel tunnel opening in the mid-1990s, the railway systems of Britain and France will be joined for the first time.
This week Clive Jacobs , with the Going Places team in train, sees how the French railways are 'getting there'. Producer IRENE MALLIS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer JULIAN HALE Stereo

'It becomes difficult if you form a friendship.... you're reluctant to be nasty.'
Alan Watkins , political columnist of The Observer, tells Martyn Williams about the relationship between journalists and politicians. Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS

Edwina Currie , mp
Ron Todd. General Secretary, Transport and General Workers Union
Roy Watts , Chairman,
Thames Water Authority
Jonathon Porritt , Director, Friends of the Earth tackle the issues raised by the audience in London
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

In praise of the little-known name behind the thrilling stunts of many big-name movie stars. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Presented by Nigel Andrews Producer KEVIN JACKSON

Three Short Stories by ELIZABETH BOWEN
3: Firelight in the Flat
There's a lot to be said for an open fire, but this evening
Constance needed a different kind of cheer.

Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment

J. Kingston Platt makes a welcome return to radio with a series of ten reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his experience in show business throughout the past 40 years.
A personal view of one of the most promising careers of recent times.
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Radio 4's international business report; market trends

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 COLEMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL. Stereo

followed by an interlude