Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With HAZEL HUGHES Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with GREG WOOD
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
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:
Feedback, BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.45pm)

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

The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by MARK TWAIN
Read by Jon Glover
A longish title for a shortish jump - and this from the local champion-jumper! What's gotten into the crittur? .. This fa'mous American story tells all! Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 46; The star of morn has risen (BBC HB 410); Psalm 40; Hebrews 5, vv 1-11; 0 thou who makest souls to shine (BBC HB 225) Stereo

A Journey into the American Farm Crisis
Agriculture in the United States is in deep trouble and getting worse. But despite the huge stock-piled surpluses of food, it was planting as usual across the corn belt this spring.
John Roberts drove west from Chicago to find out why. Producer PETER DAY

The Waterslob
On a lazy afternoon above the Redmire pool, where barrel-sized carp nudge through the lilies and wallow in the reeds, Chris Yates - who landed the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded in Britain - reflects upon the special qualities of the scaly 'English hippo'.
Produced by GEORGE MONBIOT BBCBristol

Jacket and Pie
Derek Cooper invites you to a celebration of 400 years of the potato
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

5: King Jolly Has a Party (R)

from Manchester with presenter Judy Merry who invites you to meet Sister 'Sorrow'
Macguinness, a tuneful group of gifted children, and the man who bought Morecambe Pier. Producer DIANA STENSON
BBC Manchester
Serial: The Village Doctor (7)

A Nightmare by G. K. CHESTERTON dramatised by PETER BUCKMAN with the Radio Drama Company The last of four parts
The Pursuit of the President
It has been revealed that all the members of the Supreme Council of Anarchists are policemen with the exception of its president, Sunday. He must be destroyed - but first he must be caught....
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN. Stereo

... remembers a lifetime in show business
5: Hollywood and Back The touching story of unexpected devotion, enduring loyalty and the tragic outcome of one of the worst screen performances never seen.

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm

With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report

Deryck Guyler 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 RA YVERN ALLEN Stereo

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days
Producer NIGEL ACHESON
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Makers of law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Rt Hon Kenneth Baker , mp. Secretary of State for Education The Rt Hon John Smith , mp Paddy Ashdown , mp
Joan Barrell , Publisher, Company magazine tackle the issues raised by the audience in Elham, Canterbury, Kent Chairman John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBCBristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

An expert opinion on why Americans can't sound English - and the English can't sound American. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Presented by David Roper
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Still Life (10)

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

Competition time!
How many rude words can you make out of the phrase:
'Government Economic Policy'? Satirical sketches on 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 COLMAN.
ALISON RENSHAW , JOHN MORRISH and others
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25 pm)

followed by an interlude

This week: programmes affected by transmitter'breakdown earlier in the term may be re-broadcast.