Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With MARGARET HEBBLETHWAITE Stereo

Presented by John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With Jeremy Bowen
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by Pauline Bushnell
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With Charles Colvile
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Fifty-five minutes of verbal corybantics. Sometimes.
Producer LAN STRACHAN. Stereo

This week the team travels to the Isle of Man where members of the Manx Rose Society put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Sid Robertson and Geoffrey Smith Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

byL P. HARTLEY
Read by Hugh Dickson
It starts with a postcard - friendly but puzzling. Who is 'W.S.'? And why do other postcards follow - each more sinister than the one before? Producer MITCH RAPER

nem p 62: Put thou thy trust in God (BBC HB 313); Psalm 36;
Daniel 3, w 13-26; Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell (BP 11) Stereo

Stereo

Last of the present series
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.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT :

Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.
Presented by John Howard

Moonshine is an unreliable, non-committal, unsentimental and inconsistent light, such as is shed by this inconclusive and distracting assemblage of verse, songs, stories and archival oddments on cars.
Presented by Judi Dench with additional readings by Joss Ackland
Music from DAVE SKITANI AND THE
GARAGE HANDS
With KEITH NICHOLS ' BLUE FOUR Written and compiled by RUSSELL DAVIES
Producer JONATHAN James-moohe Stereo (R)

Presented by Sir Robin Day with news and topics in and behind the headlines

3: Captain Betty and the Pirates (R)

Presented by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Nigerian novelist Chinua
Achebe, author of Things Fall
Apart, and a former nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature Three stories by PENELOPE LIVELY abridged by MONICA GREY Read by Angela Down 1:Corruption
'The judge and his wife, driving to Aldeburgh, carried with them in the back of the car a Wine Society carton filled with pornographic magazines....'

In Time of War by HUGH JENKINS
Paul Davies , a distinguished elder statesman, remembers the turbulent years of the last war - years that threatened his own life as dramatically as the world at large.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo

Journalist Ferdi Dennis visits another capital in his journey round five countries of East and Southern Africa. 2: Dar-es-Salaam
Under the care of an irrepressible taxi driver who turns out to be poet, philosopher and political pundit, Ferdi Dennis explores Tanzania's capital city. He discovers it lives up to its name City of Peace.

First Performance
Natalie Wheen talks to composers receiving a first performance in this year's Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Presented by Robert Williams and Michael Stewart
continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With BRYAN MARTIN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

A trivia game based on the rules of cricket.
Umpire Brian Johnston Team captains
Tim Rice , Willie Rushton Spinners Robin Bailey Michael Bentine
Statisticians PETER HICKEY and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
Groundsman PAUL SPENCER. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

(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 and SIMON WESTROP Editor ken vass
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am LW)

The first of two programmes 1: Born Thieves
When Dr Sarnoff Mednick , an American criminologist, recently discovered that a significant proportion of thieves are biologically predisposed towards a life of crime, his colleagues found the results so disturbing they advised him to burn them.
Peter Evans discusses with Dr Mednick and other criminologists his and others' ideas about the causes of stealing and considers how biological research can contribute to the prevention of crime.
Producer JULIAN BROWN

Sheep Safely Graze
It is three months since the Soviet reactor burnt at Chernobyl spreading its radioactivity onto the pastures of Europe. So where does nuclear power go from here?
Before it goes anywhere those who buy, who build and who license nuclear power stations have to clear two hurdles. One is to convince the public that nuclear power is indispensable if we do not wish to revert to candles in the dark. The other is to persuade the public that the risks are acceptable.
Mary Goldring looks at the options.
Producer ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0 am)

Blue Moon by GURMEET KASBA Stereo

Colin Semper this week meets Phil Povey , a lifelong trade unionist, who has just retired as regional Officer of the Amalgamated Engineering
Union. Did union leaders have too much power in the boom years and is Coventry now paying the price?
Producer ROGER hutchings BBC Birmingham

Presented by Paul Allen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)

The Third Policeman (3)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

followed by an interlude