An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers Producers ALLAN WRIGHT and TIM FINNEY

With THE REV R. ALUN EVANS BBC Wales. 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 clive rosun
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

A look ahead with Eugene Fraser

satisfies his sense of adventure by armchair exploring in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer ANNE HOWELLS

The live talk programme which takes its own distinctive look at some of the topics and personalities of this coming week
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo

In the first of four programmes about people who have an effect on Britain's eating habits,
Marjorie Lofthouse talks to Prue Leith, the cook, restaurateur, teacher, journalist and author.
From a small catering business operating from her bed-sitter in London's Earls Court,
Prue Leith has now developed a company that includes an up-market restaurant, a cookery school and even its own farm. She was also responsible for changing the style of British Rail's station catering. Producer JULIA PARKER BBC Birmingham
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Cutting Loose by ELIZABETH EVANS
Read by Mary Wimbush The strangest things can happen after a funeral - especially with a mother like Mrs Henry and a son like Laurie!
Producer MITCH RAPER

New Every Morning, page 4;
Love of the Father (BBC HB 522); Psalm 8; John 3, w 13-22;
Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC Hb 328) Stereo

Brian Johnston goes to
Northern Ireland and spends a day at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at
Holywood, County Down. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Kingsley Amis Readers RICHARD PASCO and BARBARA LEIGH HUNT
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

The only national radio programme for consumers
Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor PAT TAYLOR

Parachutes and Greenhouses by BRIAN THOMPSON
Barry is unemployed. He tries to get a job as an ambulance driver, gardener, sales representative, life model and parachutist. But nobody wants him, even though he has a degree in Comparative Religions.
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester. Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS

Walter Crumpton and the Missing Polar Bear by KATE WILKINSON Read by CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP Producer MARY KALEMKERLAN

Mothers on Heroin
Babies can be born addicted to heroin. While still inside the womb, some foetuses show distinct withdrawal symptoms. Addicted mothers often resort to theft and prostitution to feed their habit. Jenny Cuffe investigates.

Serial: The Perfect Stranger by P.J. Kavanagh, abridged in seven episodes by Sally Skrimshire
Read by Charles Kay (1)
First published in 1966, this account of the poet P.J. Kavanagh's early life tells of his schooling during the War, his time as a redcoat at Butlin's, his experiences while working for French radio in Paris. Then National Service, followed by Oxford, where he was to meet an extraordinary girl - Sally Lehmann - 'the perfect stranger', and his future wife.
(Music: Ireland's Summer Evening)

Charlie Muffin
The novel by BRIAN FREEMANTLE dramatised by GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS. Stereo

Presented by Nigel Andrews

Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report

Radio 4's weekly look at the news and all who sail in her, with Barry Took at the helm. Private Eye Editor Richard Ingrams and his Punch counterpart Alan Coren continue their struggle to be first before the mast.
Compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

(Revised broadcast of Saturday at 7.15 am)

Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN

by Max Frisch, dramatised by Jane Beeson
with Michael Pennington as Faber, Sylvestra le Touzel as Sabeth, Elizabeth Bell as Hanna.
It is the 1950s and Faber is part of the new technological revolution. He distrusts emotions and believes only in the calculable, but when his plane crashlands in the Mexican desert he experiences a series of coincidences.
He meets a lost friend, a former lover and a daughter he has never known...
BBC Bristol
Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Unexplained Laughter by ALICE THOMAS ELLIS abridged in eight episodes by DOREEN MAHON
Read by Christine Pritchard (4)

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

followed by an interlude