direct from the farming event of the year, the Royal Show at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. Producers TIM FINNEY and REBECCA POW
with CANON JOHN DAVIES Stereo
Presented by John Timpson 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 LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
An opportunity for listeners to express their views and question the experts on a subject of current interest.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 0 am
The Boot's on the Other Foot by J. L. BURTON
Read by Neil Stacey
'Two of the happiest days of my life have been ruined by inappropriate footwear.' Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
nem, p 93; My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC HB 12); Psalm 16; Exodus 3, w 1-12; Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us (BBC HB 307). Stereo
A comedy by Diana Souhami
with Prunella Scales as June Bloom
June Bloom is fat and 40, and is not having it easy. Gross disasters of the domestic kind loom from every corner. Her husband is a ham, her daughter is a punk, and the cat's crazy. And that's just for starters.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.0 pm)
(Prunella Scales is in "When We Are Married" at the Whitehall Theatre, London)
A Treasure Hunt
Take an unknown piece of land: how do you find out what is of wildlife interest there?
David Streeter , Jim Flegg and Peter France go delving into the ditches, meadows and hedges of a run-down farm in the hope of finding treasure. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news and advice for consumers.
A nationwide general knowledge contest.
Second Round: South
Chairman Robert Robinson Alan Glencross
(retired librarian) Richard Pennicard (research chemist) Donald Morrison (bookseller)
Stephen Gore
(internal auditor)
The programme includes Beat the Brains.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Gordon Clough
Today's story: Uncle Grumpy to the Rescue
Introduced by Sue MacGregor The House in the Hospital:
When a child is ill in hospital, parents need to be close at hand. At Guy's Hospital in London, a house is about to be built to accommodate the families of young patients.
Barbara Myers talks to staff, and to parents, about how this will change their lives....
Serial: The Village Doctor (9)
by Michael Bartlett.
With Sean Arnold as Stuart Bligh and Stevan Rimkus as Andy Duggan.
"Tune in to Radio Sarum, your friendly commercial radio station, to hear our in-house battle between the new programme controller, Stuart Bligh, a middle-of-the-road man, and that young up-and-coming DJ Andy Duggan!"
Friendly Radio Sarum?
(Stereo)
Last of the present series in which Paul Heiney , with the help of the BBC's local radio newsrooms all over the country, gets a fresh perspective on a topic of current interest. Producer DAVID BENNETT Editor TIM PITT
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Museum Pieces by DAVID LUCK
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Reporter Helen Boaden Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 5pm)
How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am)
Hunter of Beautiful Words A tribute to Arthur Waley
(1889-1966), translator from the Chinese and Japanese, by his widow Alison, who, with John Watts , introduces and reads from his work.
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT. Stereo
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]. Lines open from 8.3010 10.0pm Free quarterly bulletin from:
Room 816, Broadcasting House, London WlA 1AA.
(Send four 8, × 12 SAEs for a year's supply)
by Anthony Smith
Last of the present series
Presented by Christopher Cook Producer KEVIN JACKSON
Still Life by RICHARD COBB abridged in 12 episodes byjOHNSCOTNEY
Read by Cyril Luckham (12) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting tomorrow: Unexplained Laughter ' by Alice Thomas Ellis )
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
