Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE REV DR R. TUDUR JONES Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Instant poetry, unrehearsed conversation, erudition and Libby Purves. producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
This week the team visits Avon where members of the Bathampton Gardeners'
Association put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
by Jill Norris
Read by Fleur Chandler
To the little girl, the woods near her home are a place of mystery and excitement. But for her married friend, Kate, it's a very different story...
nem, p 114; King of glory, King of peace (BBC HB 325); Psalm 84; Luke 14, w 15-25; Thy kingdom come on bended knee (BBC HB 28). Stereo
A portrait of George Leigh Mallory Stereo
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve, but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds. Let Neil Landor , with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out the answers.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Enquire Within,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
Presented by John Howard
The last of six programmes in which Alistair Cooke presents a selection of favourite records An Album of Eccentrics and Oddities
Producer ALAN OWEN
Presented by Sir Robin Day
Today's story: Walter Crumpton and the Cockatoo with No Voice
and Sue MacGregor invite you to join them for an action-packed session of ideas and emotions; paradigms and practicalities; fellowship and fun; news and views - some of them your own.
Serial; The Perfect Stranger (3)
The Old Ladies at the Zoo by DAVID ASHTON
Joint prize-winner
RADIO TIMES Drama Awards 1985 with and Every Monday they go to the zoo, look at the animals, talk about their lives and loves and share a joke or two. Sometimes Bruno's jokes are a bit too vulgar for Lily's liking. On one particular Monday, they have something rather important to say to each other.
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo
* FEATURE: page 4
Two years spent teaching in Nigeria left journalist
Ferdi Dennis with an abiding curiosity about Africa.
In this series of five talks he gives a personal account of his return to that mysterious and troubled continent. 1: Nairobi
Kenya is the success story of East Africa, but what lies behind the apparent prosperity and beneath the political calm? Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN
Catfish Row in Sussex
'If I am successful, Porgy and Bess will resemble a combination of the drama and romance of Carmen and the beauty of Die Meistersinger.'
Paul Allen talks to the cast and the production team of the new Glyndebourne staging of George Gershwin 's popular opera. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
There must be a better way to earn a living than this.
The last in the present series
Nigel Rees puts the questions to Eric Anderson , headmaster of Eton, Steve Race , musical expert, Ann Mallalieu , campaigning barrister and Michael Aspel , man of many parts.
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised by NIGEL REES
Producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Margo MacDonald investigates another case of serious injustice, incompetence, fraud or public danger.
If you have information about major abuses, write to:
Face the Facts. BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA Production team
SHARON BANOFF. GRAHAM ELLIS ROBERT DEL MAESTRO SIMON WESTROP Editor KEN VASS
In the last of a four-part series, Juliet Alexander investigates what lies beyond the beaches, the folklore, the carnivals, even the cricket.
Edward Kamau Brathwaite In a year that has seen the publication of The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, the poet traces in his own work the stages by which a truly Caribbean voice has emancipated itself from the colonial English of 'The boy stood on the burning deck' and 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ... ' to convey the experiences and insights of its own region.
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS Book list available from:
Caribbean Focus, [address removed]
Please send a SAE (8 x 12)
Roland Dumas , French Foreign Minister in the last Socialist government and a close associate of President
Mitterand, talks about issues of French policy in conversation with Ian Davidson.
Producer DAVID MORTON
Pairing Off by ALMA CULLEN Stereo
Colin Semper continues his conversations with community leaders in the city.
Tonight he meets Chief
Inspector David Green of the West Midlands Police, who has lived and worked in Coventry for more than 20 years. The crime rate, he says, has trebled in that time and the police have responded with new and sophisticated methods. Producer ROGER HUTCMNGS BBC Birmingham
Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer KEVIN JACKSON
Unexplained Laughter (6)
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
