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 FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor 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:

BBC Correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon

She has blue eyes and blonde hair... and she's always being held up as the ideal teenager... or so her mother thinks.

NEM, p 84; Thou art the way, by thee alone (BBC HB 338)
Psalm 143; Ephesians 4, vv 25-32: All you who seek for sure relief (BBC HB 289) Stereo

Toadmen
Beneath the Stone Age grave at Toadstown, Roger Worsley is initiated as a toadman. On three successive nights he climbs the cromlech with a toad's bone in his pocket, slowly gaining power over animals.
Producer GEORGE MONTBIOT BBC Bristol

Conservation Grade
A new term is beginning to appear in current food lpromotions. 'Conservation grade' claims to be the immediate answer to consumer demand for organically grown produce. Sheila Dillon investigates the concept. Presenter Derek Cooper Producer VANESSA HARRISON

A taste of some of the top acts on the London cabaret circuit.
Compered by Clive Anderson
Recorded at The Comedy Store, Leicester Square, London
Producer GRAHAM FROST. Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Andrew McAndrew and the Tape Recorder by BERNARD MACLAVERTY Stereo (R)
2.5 Let's Join In The King of the Golden River (2) by JOHN RUSKIN
2.25 Coming Up in Music Presented by ALBERT CHATTERLEY Stereo
2.30 Let's Make a Story! 6: The Giant Who Loved Pancakes Storyteller WILLIE RUSHTON Written by RON JAMES. Stereo
2.40 Listen! The Decide-it- Yourself Cliffhanger serial Schools are invited to participate in a serial drama Part 6 by RICHARD PINNER. Stereo

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
On-shore Oil Exploration: what happens when large amounts of oil are discovered in Hampshire and Dorset? Does it mean the end of the south of England's near immunity from industrial scar tissue? Is public paranoia towards the oil industry justified and who frames the rules for the development of another potential asset for Britain? GORDON COOPER reports. Producer JILL MARSHALL BBC Bristol
Serial: Sisters by Rite (8)

A Nightmare by G. K. CHESTERTON
2: The Man in Spectacles Stereo

... remembers a lifetime in show business 3: Dick Turpin
The story of a scheme to make a fortune from flops which puts The Producers to shame.

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Sheila Steafel cheerfully digs up the half-dozen pieces of music she never wants to hear again - and explains why.
Devised and presented by Derek Robinson
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN Stereo

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANDREW PARFITT

You don't think about the danger at the time.
Angus McDermid , who has reported for the BBC from many a hot spot, talks to Martyn Williams about wars, revolutions, Watergate - and the time he met an Indian brave. Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS

David Nickson , President, CBI TheRtHonSir
Edward du Cann , mp Tom Burke , Director, Green Alliance
The Rt Hon Dame Judith Hart , mp in Sturminster Newton, Dorset. Chairman John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol

Time to stay out of the sun? Special Senate report links ozone loss with increasing skin cancers. Show more

(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Presented by Michael Billington
Producer THOMAS SUTCUFFE

by IRIS MURDOCH abridged in ten episodes by JANE MAYS
Read by Stephen Rea (10)
(Starting next Monday, 'Still Life by Richard Cobb)

Presented by David Sells

with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Jon Glover and Carla Mendonca 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

GCSE History For Teachers (2)

4.0 Nursing History Ten programmes in which MARGARET KORVING traces the growth of the profession. 6: Nurses at War The two world wars saw nurses in the front-line, as well as 'holding the fort' at home during the Blitz - where strange discoveries about nursmg and medical techniques were made. Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS
4.30 Victorian Values A series of six programmes 1: Self-help and Thrift Every man ought so to contrive to live within his means. (SAMUEL SMILES) TERRY JONES asks GARETH STEDMAN JONES whether that was possible in Victorian Britain. Producer JUDE HOWELLS (R)
5.0 So You Want to Be a Writer Ten programmes written and presented by DEREK PARKER 7: Short Story Writing How big a market is there for the short story? Derek Parker talks to William TREVOR about what makes a good short story. Producer DENNIS SIMMONS (R)
5.30 Groundswell investigates the current debate about the environment and the use of chemicals in modern farming practice. Presented by HUGH SYKES