Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

with THE REV BARRY MORGAN Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With GREG WOOD
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

In the last of the present series 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

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

The Irish Kids by BRENDAN O'BYRNE
Read by Denys Hawthorne
Sometimes the kindest action can have results that are almost disastrous - especially when the central figure is a homesick child with a will of her own! Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM, p 17; Lord of all being throned afar (BBC HB 11);
Psalm 99; II Chronicles 6, w 12-22; We love the place, 0 God (Bp 95) Stereo

Pecking people, bombing sheep, raiding opticians' stands to build nests out of spectacle frames, the cheeky Indian house crows of the East African coast are surely asking for trouble. Narrated by Barry Paine
BBC Bristol

Did medieval cooks use almond milk or breadcrumbs as a thickener for their sauces?
Derek Cooper immerses himself in The Cooking Medium, subject of this year's Oxford Symposium.
Producer MARK FIELDER
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
0 INFO: page 77

Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough

Today's story: A Wolf at Piggery Green

Introduced from Northern Ireland by Wendy Austin
Celebration is the keyword in today's Woman's Hour.
American Independence Day means a trip to the Irish-
American Folk Park in Omagh for a slice of blueberry pie!
JOSIE MCCAVANA celebrates her Oscar for Out of Africa and another sort of celebration is woven into the programme when an Irish linen firm celebrates 250 years in business. Happy Fourth of July! Producers COLIN LEWIS and ELIZABETH KELLY
BBC Northern Ireland
Serial: The Village Doctor by SHEILA KAYE-SMITH abridged in 12 episodes by JANET HICKSON
Read by Geoffrey Beevers (12)

by ERIC LINKLATER dramatised in three parts by ELIZABETH PROUD
1: Prelude With Cocktails
Set in the 1920s among the world of the well-to-do, Poet's Pub tells what happens when Saturday Keith, rowing blue and minor poet, is hired to run a hotel/pub owned by Lady Mercy Cotton. Before long, he finds himself involved in secrecy, both alcoholic and industrial, and the business of falling in love.
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
(Neville Jason is in Mutiny' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)
* HEAR THIS! page 12

... remembers a lifetime in show business
6: The Rich Brothers
Further demonstrations of the truth and the falsity of many a show business cliche.
(Not recommended for listeners in a certain northern city)

Presented by Robert Williams
continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Alan Price and Jill Townsend cheerfully dig up the half-dozen pieces of music they never want to hear again - and explain why. The music is surprisingly good. Their reasons are just surprising!
Devised and presented by Derek Robinson
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN Stereo

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Mary Goldring , broadcaster
The Rt Hon Cecil Parkinson , mp Rodney Bickerstaffe , General Secretary, National Union of Public Employees (NUPE)
Dr Anthony Clare. Professor of Psychological Medicine tackle the issues raised by the audience in London.
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Alistair Cooke looks at how Americans now celebrate Independence Day; and the current debates on immigration policy at the time of the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

by Alistair Cooke

Presented by Nigel Andrews Producer JOHN POWELL
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Unexplained Laughter (3)

Presented by DAVID SELLS

Satirical sketches on the week's news.
A light hearted quizzical look at the crazy world of unemployment, crime, nuclear destruction, war, famine and political mismanagement.
With Bill Wallis , David Tate
Kerry Shale and Kate Robbins 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 DAVID TYLER. Stereo

followed by an interlude