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
A meditation for the beginning of a new day
With MARGARET HEBBLETHWAITE Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by clive ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY
A look ahead with Kate Moon
Year 6
The Goat Personality - gentle, peace-loving, sociable and warm ...
A wander through the BBC's
Sound Archives with comments from guest Goats Sue Nicholls and Eddie Shah
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
who invites you to meet some of the names who are hitting the headlines this week.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo
In the second of four programmes about people who have an effect on Britain's eating habits, Marjorie Lofthouse talks to
Colin Spencer , playwright, novelist, artist and poet. Today, he's best known as a crusading vegetarian, whose cook books have lifted the nut cutlet to the level of gourmet cuisine. Producer JULIA PARKER BBC Birmingham
Food for Thought by JANET S. GOLDFINCH
Read by Caroline John
Mrs Stephenson claimed to have killed her husband. Young Miss Hill was frightened by her mother. One of them knew all about growing plants and the properties of fungi. The other was a good cook. Then Mrs Hill came to lunch.... but the result was not entirely predictable. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
New Every Morning, page 118; Bright the vision that delighted (BBC HB 269); Psalm 121; Daniel 2, w 12-25; 0 thou in all thy might so far (BBC HB 312). Stereo
Brian Johnston visits
BeUingham in Northumberland and discovers not only the largest artificial forest in Europe, but also the largest artificial lake.
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 BS82LR
The only national radio programme for consumers
Presented by Cindy Robinson Editor PAT TAYLOR
A general musical knowledge quiz in three movements, featuring anything from Bach to the Beatles
Chairman Ned Sherrin First Round: Heat 1 Valerie Roud Mayne
(freelance publisher's editor) Victor Gersten (solicitor) Jennifer Ellis
(chartered surveyor)
Programme devised and questions set by EDWARD COLE
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
VICTORIA WOOD reads Captain Betty and the Pirates by JOE DUNLOP (1) Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
and Jenni Murray 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 (6) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Remaining Strangers by BARBARA ANN VlLLIERS. Stereo
Presented by Nigel Andrews
Presented by Gordon dough and Carole West
Editor DEREK LEWIS
continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.5Spm
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
The return of the mighty John Wells , plus the 'queen of the box', Nina Myskow , as Richard Ingrams of Private Eye and Alan Coren of Punch slug it out in the battle of the column inches.
Barry Took , as ever, is the man with the questions.
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
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Naming the Names by ANNE DEVLIN
Finn, a young woman in her early 30s, is curiously withdrawn. Someone or something in her past has caused her to lock away her mind, to protect herself from pain.
When Henry Kirk , a beautiful, vulnerable young man, enters her life she finds that he has a strange power over her. As he unlocks her mind her terrible secret begins to unfold - he can give her time but can he save her?
Directed by SUSAN HOGG
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Hazel Lewthwaite selects from the correspondence between FRIEDRICH ENGELS and KARL MARX to provide a glimpse of a famous friendship. Readers
CHRIS KAY and PAUL WEBSTER Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN POWELL
Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
The Third Policeman by FLANN O'BRIEN abridged in ten parts by ERICEWENS
Read by Patrick Magee (1)
A murder thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an Irish village police force and a tender story about the unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle
Producer MAURICE LEITCH (R)
Presented by David Sells Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
