An interview with James Davidson, Chief Executive of the Royal Highland Show.
A meditation for the beginning of a new day
With PAUL OESTREICHER BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY
A look ahead with David Symonds
Year 5
The Horse Personality - strong, elegant, practical and independent....
A canter through the BBC
Sound Archives with comments from guest Horses Anita Harris and Fred Trueman.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
Famous faces and new voices meet for a not entirely serious talk about subjects that interest them and may surprise you. Producer JENNY DANKS. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance, covering investment, tax, pensions, insurance and a look at some particular money problems sent in by listeners. Details from:
Money Box, Room 4099,
BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
A Taste of Blood by H.E. BATES
Read by Geoffrey Beevers
The slight taste of blood is on Dillon's mouth as he wakes. Vague memories of his attackers return.... motorcycles ... a girl ... but how to piece it together?
Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 102; O happy band of pilgrims
(BBCHB335); Psalm 119, vv 41-48; Ephesians 5, w 1-11; Christ for the world we sing (BBC HB 172) Stereo
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers ELIZABETH BELL and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. BristolBS82LR
The only national radio programme for consumers
Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor PAT TAYLOR
Cut and Blow by NAN WOODHOUSE
Patsy isn't talking to Leila because William's making passes at her and his father won't go away and one of the customers is broken-hearted and his live-in partner Fascia doesn't like the new bath - it's enough to give any hair-stylist a mid-life crisis!
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner Adelaide Naughty Granny by HILARY SHARPE 1: The Picnic Read by MOLLY WEIR Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.0 Teenage Plays
1: Get a Job! by PAUL HURT Producer DAN GARRETT. Stereo (R)
2.30 Patterns of Language 1: Speak for Yourself Compiled by TONY PENMAN Presented by BRIAN REDHEAD Series producer AL WOLFF (R) and at 2.45
2: Passing the Message Compiled by MIKE POULTON (R)
Introduced by Jenni Murray
Chorus Boy: La Cage aux Folles is unique on the West End stage. It is the only musical with eight men, in drag, in the chorus. So what does it take to make it to the front line?
SEBASTIAN SCOTT tries his luck.... Serial: Sisters by Rite by JOAN UNGARD , abridged in 11 episodes by ELIZABETH BRADBURY Read by Frances Tomelty (9) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
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The Last Renaissance Man by T.D. WEBSTER
Presented by Michael Billington
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm
With HARRIET CASS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
The week's news dissected once more. by handsome young Dr Hislop of Private Eye and senior humorist DrCorenofPunch.
Peter McKay and Joan Bakewell are on hand with their scalpels. Your anaesthetist is Barry Took. Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
(Revised broadcast of Saturday at 7.15 am)
When the great Mill Reef shattered a foreleg in an exercise gallop on the Kingsclere Downs his prospects for survival were no better than even. John Oaksey explores the pioneering research work carried out by the Animal Health Trust that enabled racehorses such as Mill Reef to be treated successfully, and he examines the latest methods of racehorse training at
Clive Brittain 's Newmarket stables. Producer NIGEL BRADSHAW
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
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The Tinker's Daughter by PATRICE CHAPLIN with In Edwardian England, Meriel lives a life of privilege on her family's country estate. Her isolated existence is enhanced by the lack of love from her parents, who wanted a son. She becomes obsessed by a local girl - a relationship which starts innocently but develops into her first love-affair.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer KEviN JACKSON Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
Still Life
Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells childhood by RICHARD COBB abridged in 12 episodes by JOHN SCOTNEY
Read by Cyril Luckham (1) Down Poona Road, past the Grove Bowling Club, follow the young Cobb back to the 20s and 30s and to a world in miniature - a place of wonder and discovery. Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by David Sells
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Social Education: Understanding Economics Presented by Linda Thomas Producer JUDITH FAGE
12.30 1: The Price of Food and at 12.50
2: The Holiday Industry
