Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With DIANA MCCLATCHEY Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday 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 CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Conversation's answer to 'A trip to the moon on gossamer wings'
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo

by RAHILA KHAN
Read by Shireen Shah
Fatima had to plead with her father to allow her to join the school trip to the theatre. There she met Colin, another lonely pupil. Friendship blossomed, with unintended consequences.... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

NEM, p 21; Soldiers of Christ arise (BBC HB 365); Benedictus
Dominus Deus Israel; Acts 11, vv 19-30; Spread, 0 spread, thou mighty word (BBC HB 182) Stereo

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 W1A 1AA
Producer ANDREW PARFITT

Radio 4's consumer programme visits Glasgow to find out the issues north of the Border. Presented by Jimmy Mack Producer ELAINE BEDELL

Alistair Cooke presents a selection of favourite records from his private collection. The American Musical: The Great Age (2)

Presented by Sir Robin Day with news and topics in and behind the headlines

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Andrew McAndrew and the Red Bike by BERNARD MACLAVERTY Stereo (R)
2.5 Looking at Nature Beach. Stereo
2.20 Discovery Surprise, Surprise by BOB DOCHERTY Presented by FLOELLA BENJAMIN
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Come on in, the Water's Lovely by GARETH OWEN (R)
2.50 Something to Think About Magic Words by JEAN KENWARD. Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor This week's special guest is
Anne Mueller , one of only three women ever to have achieved top grade in the Civil Service. Serial: Sisters by Rite (6)

by Michael Sharp
With Isabel Dean as Evelyn Ashcroft and Bryan Pringle as Ken Meadows

Becoming a widow does not mean finishing with life. Evelyn Ashcroft, recently bereaved, decides that she must get out and about; become involved in the world around her. For a start, she begins working on her husband's allotment - and meets Ken.
(Stereo)
Hear This! page 16

The programme for anyone interested in the English language
Do you know the origin of 'plonk', or 'cravat' or 'robot'? David Crystal takes a look at etymology and talks to John Dodgson about the origins of some English placenames. Producer ALAN WILDING

'The kind of novel that first attracted me was the long 19th-century novel.... those old-fashioned things with narrative, and characters who grow on the reader - and, if you like it, why not continue?'
John Irving , wrestler, lover of bears and author of The World
According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby Producer CARROLL MOORE

Presented by Robert Williamsand Susannah Simons continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With BRIAN PERKINS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

'Cheese must be eaten forwards, but it can only be understood backwards.'
Another round of quizzical quotations with Nigel Rees at the helm. Answering the questions this week: actress and wit Eleanor Bron ; columnist and editor of the Literary Review Auberon Waugh ; journalist and presenter of Tele-Journal Chantal Cuer; actor and comedian Roy Kinnear. Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

In the first of two programmes on business relations between Britain and Japan, Peter Smith looks at what the Japanese are up to in Britain.
Producer MARGARET BUDY

Increasingly hostile comment about the use of chemicals and destructive modern farming methods have put Britain's farmers on the defensive. They claim that they are taking the environment seriously now. But how much progress has there been? Groundswell investigates. Presented by Hugh Sykes Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE

Beer and Skittles
Life is looking good for the Germans: their prices are falling, their unemployment is falling. Unlike the Japanese their prosperity arouses no global resentment. Unlike the Americans they have no global responsibility. Grubby political scandals don't really rise above the level of tittle-tattle. On the surface it's all beer and skittles. But being the richest biergarten in Europe has its own strains.
Mary Goldring reports on what success is doing to West
Germany and the Germans. Producer PETER BROD

This Golden Land by DOROTHY OSBORNE. Stereo

In the second of eight programmes about contemporary Coventry and its leaders, Colin Semper talks to the Director of the city's polytechnic.
Geoffrey Holroyde worked in industry until he became headmaster of a community comprehensive school.
A self-confessed non-political man, he nevertheless enters with gusto into the current debates and disputes in education.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Birmingham

Presented by Paul Allen
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

Under the Net (8)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

Radio History: A-level Red Clydeside Written and presented by DR MURDOCH RODGERS