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 GERAINT FIELDER BBC Wales. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Bill Frost
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY
A look ahead with Eugene Fraser
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
Producer ANGELA HIND
Fifty-five minutes of unpredictable and lively conversation from the personalities who will be in the news this week
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo
In the third of four programmes about people who influence
Britain's eating habits, Marjorie Lofthouse talks to the actress Madhur Jaffrey , an international authority on Indian food. With her many cookbooks, she is spreading a knowledge of Indian home cookery, a world beyond the 'curry' as experienced by most Westerners.
Producer JULIA PARKER BBC Birmingham
The Silver Pencil by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
It starts with a snatch-and-grab raid and ends in a passionate embrace. In between comes a car chase - and a curious message in the daily paper. Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 5;
We come unto our fathers' God (BBC HB 255); Psalm 139;
Daniel 6, w 1-11; For the might of thine arm (BBC HB 242). Stereo
A narrative of the marvellous travels and campaigns of Baron Munchausen, a heroic German officer who fought with the Russians against the Turks.
Freely adapted by COLIN MCLAREN from the book by RUDOLF ERICH RASPE with and Music composed by ELIZABETH PARKER Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by JUDITH BUMPUS and PIERS PLOWRIGHT
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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
The only national radio programme for consumers Presented by Susan Rae Editor PAT TAYLOR
A general musical knowledge quiz in three movements Chairman Ned Sherrin First Round: Heat 2
Rhoda Grimmer (veterinary surgeon's receptionist). Tony Allison (croupier) Ian White (civil servant)
Programme devised and questions set by EDWARD COLE
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
Mr Antonio at the Supermarket by DAVID WILLMOTT Read by BEN BAZELL Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
Presented by Jenni Murray
Lifting the Veil
'Passive', 'submissive' and 'oppressed' are some of the labels often attached to Asian women living in Britain. Yasmin Alibhai looks behind these stereotypes and meets some of the women who are fighting back.
Serial: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, abridged in 15 episodes by Meg Clarke. Read by Gayle Hunnicutt (1)
The Spraggs have come to New York for one purpose only - to marry their beautiful, spoilt daughter Undine into old New York society. After a fruitless and lonely two years, they are beginning to give up hope.
Then, at a party, Undine meets Ralph Marvell, whose mother 'was a Dagonet', one of the 'first' families.
(Music: Schulhoffs Esquisses de Jazz)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
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Shadows in the Sun by J. R. DEVLIN. Stereo
The first of ten reports on the Scottish arts scene
Something for Everyone
The Burrell Collection may be just down the road, but the real place to go for lively arts is the Priesthill/Nitshill area of Glasgow. Their local arts association includes everything from painting and puppets to circus and singing, and encourages everyone in the community to join in. Producer CAROLINE ADAM BBC Scotland
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Presented by Gordon Clough and Carole West Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
(Revised broadcast of Sat at 7. 15 am)
Presented by Peter Evans Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN (Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Voyages by TED MOORE
Late February 1939: a small town on the north-east coast of England.
Lizzie Scott, three months pregnant and widowed eight hours, joins her relatives, all unsettled by the death and all the talk of war; a whole family shaken by their own small tragedy and the gathering shadows of a great one to come. Narrator CHRISTIAN RODSKA
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
Ray Boston traces the link between the contemporary American investigative journalist and a group of 'foreign liars' who left Britain for the USA in the 1790s. BBC Manchester
Art for Art's Sake
Douglas Young casts a commercial eye over the prospects for young Scottish painters trying to establish a reputation in the contemporary art market. With contributions from Steven Campbell ,
Lys Hansen , Caroline McNairn and Adrian Wisnziewski Producer BRUCE YOUNG
The Third Policeman by FLANN O'BRIEN abridged in ten parts by ERIC EWENS
Read by Patrick Magee (6)
Presented by David Sells Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
