Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With BROTHER RAMON. SSF Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
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
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Matutinal conversation of an angular kind
Producer LAN STRACHAN . Stereo
This week, members of the Southern Gardeners' Club on the Isle of Man put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki Sid Robertson and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
Mr Anders is playing Hamlet at a small school in Minnesota. It's a performance that Minnesota is unlikely to forget!
NEM, p 54; Come, ye people, rise and sing (BBC HB 270); Psalm 16; I John 3, w 11-24; There's a spirit in the air (bp 88). Stereo
A look into youth adventure-training by Derek Wilson
Six programmes in which well-known people reveal to
Ron Alldridge the three 'secrets of life' they would feel compelled to pass on to their nearest and dearest if they knew they had but ten minutes left on earth. Today: Esther Rantzen
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Presented by John Howard
Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake
by the Liberal Party
Today's story: Walter Crumpton Has Eggs for Breakfast. Stereo
Soldier Boy by PAUL ABBOTT Maggie made the crucial decision about the future of her handicapped son six years ago but she hasn't told the new man in her life, Gareth, anything about it.
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
Harare
In the fourth of five talks about a journey to east and southern African cities, Ferdi Dennis finds a part of England tucked away in the suburbs of the Zimbabwean capital.
Producer MARINA SALANDY-BROWN
Talking a Look at Art
Mike Catto presents his impressions of the visual arts scene in Northern Ireland.
'Some artists I know want to be identified with the locality, because that's where their art is rooted; in the land, in the city, in myths ancient and modern. Others feel that any label, whether Irish or Northern Irish, marks them down as provincials, when what they want to be is just "artist" full stop.' Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55 pm
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
A trivia game based on the rules of cricket
Umpire Brian Johnston Team Captains Tim Rice Willie Rushton
Spinners William Franklyn Martin Jarvis
Statisticians PETER HICKEY and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON Groundsman PAUL SPENCER Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm) (Martin Jarvis is in 'Woman in Mind' at the Richmond Theatre)
(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
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am LW)
When Cheerleader Productions first brought American football to British television screens, it expected the game to have a fairly limited appeal. But it has captured a considerable audience, and many enthusiasts, not satisfied with just watching the game, are now playing it.
Presented by Frances Ratchford Producer SALLY THOMPSON
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The second of two documentary reports by Bernard Jackson Faith in Fidel
For the greater part of the past 27 years, Christianity has been in the doghouse in Cuba. But now Castro has published a book applauding certain aspects of religious faith and it seems the Pope could soon visit Cuba. What has brought this about, and how much influence do
Christian ideas have in the first Communist state in the West? Producer MICHAEL WORKMAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0 am) (Two further reports on Cuba in 'Options 'from next Sunday)
Hidden Depths by ALEXANDRA MELNICK Stereo
First of five programmes in which Phil Smith goes prowling at unsociable hours and finds all manner of people awake.... The Night of the Identified Flying Objects
Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Birmingham
The Chapel Fields Fighters
Fifty years ago, the area near St Malachy's Chapel in Belfast was the place where boxing fans congregated in their thousands. The fights were organised by the redoubtable 'Ma Copley', first in the open air and then in a boxing arena.
Liam O'Callaghan presents recollections of the place where 3d bought a night's boxing to see fighters like Spider Kelly , Jackie Quinn , Al Littler and Rinty Monaghan. Producer CHRIS SPURR
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster)
Under a Monsoon Cloud (3)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
Rabbi Lionel Blue talks about three of his favourite humorous characters from fiction. Reader BONNIE HURREN (R)
followed by an interlude
