Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With DAVID LAWRENCE Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB KINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Christopher Dunkley , of The Financial Times, airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about the BBC, its programmes and policies. Send them to:
Feedback, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Producer JOHN EDWARDS (Re-broadcast tomorrow at
4.45pm LW)

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

Ringing for Martin by BRENDAN O'BYRNE
Read by Geoffrey Beevers In the village church the bell-ringers have gathered to say an affectionate farewell. Martin had come to them as a stranger but stayed to become a part of their lives. Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 93; 0 for a heart to praise my God (BBC HB 334); Psalm 11;
Ephesians 3, vv 7-14; All my hope on God is founded (BP 3). Stereo

One Mean Lady
She precedes the softest skinned maids and the daintiest and most beautiful strumpets. She has fingers that the most gallant virgins desire.
(THf; REV E. TOPSELL, 1604)
Roger Worsley reveals that there's more to the spider than meets the skin.
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol

Fast Food Finish
Derek Cooper hears about a competition to find Britain's answer to the hamburger. Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by BEN BAZELL Script by JANET SORENSEN Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.5 Let's Join In The King of the Golden River (1) by JOHN RUSKIN
2.25 Topic Songbook (5) Stereo (R)
2.30 Let's Make a Story! 5: The Hungry Dragons Storyteller PETER cutts 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 5 by VICKY IRELAND. Stereo

Mary Marquis introduces this edition from Scotland.
A group of folk singers from the Borders are touring the local schools encouraging children to bring their own history to life by singing the Border ballads and to rekindle their interest in 'diddling'. JENNY STEWART reports from BBC Radio Tweed in Selkirk. They say that if a woman knew how painful childbirth was going to be she would never conceive. But two Edinburgh women have concluded that it was even more horrific in the past.
Margaret Collins has been talking to them about their research. Producer COLIN CALEY BBC Scotland
Serial: Sisters by Rite (3)

A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, dramatised in four parts by Peter Buckman with the Radio Drama Company
'It was an evening like the end of the world. The sky was full of - feathers.'
And so begins Gabriel Syme's adventures with the Supreme Council of Anarchists, a body determined to destroy the world.
(Stereo)
'Hear This' page 37 and Woddis On: page 105

remembers a lifetime in show business.
2: The TV Spectacular -
A Contradiction in Terms
A story that will confirm the truth of a lot of what you'd always suspected, and the place in showbusiness history of the liver-sausage sandwich.

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55pm

With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report

The first of six programmes
Lord Soper cheerfully digs up the half-dozen pieces of music he never wants to hear again - and explains why. The music is surprisingly good. His reasons are just surprising!
Devised and presented by Derek Robinson
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN Stereo

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from
BBC programmes over the past seven days.
Producer JUUAN HALE. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

It's better to be bawled out for something you've done than for something you haven't done! A journalistic maxim from David Nicholas. who tells Martyn Williams about the path that took him from Rugby League reporting to the hot seat at ITN.

(First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales)

The Rt Hon George Younger , mp. Secretary of State for Defence The Rt Hon David Steel , mp, Leader. Liberal Party
Helen Liddell, Secretary of the Scottish Council of the Labour Party
The Rev Jack Macarthur ,
Chairman of the Trustees of Sabhal Mor Ostaig College tackle the issues raised by the audience in Portree, Isle of Skye Chairman John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Resurgence of American bookings to European holiday spots as terrorism fears abate. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Robert Hewison presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Under the Net (5)

Presented by David Sells
National and international news, background, analysis and comment

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 Celia Imrie 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
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm)

followed by an interlude

Voix de France: French VI
10: Problèmes contemporains Compiled by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE