An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers Producers ALLAN WRIGHT andTIMFTNNEY
A meditation for the beginning of a new day With ANNE SEMPLE BBC Scotland Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Jon Silverman
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY
A look ahead with Laurie Macmillan
by MARK WALLINGTON abridged in eight parts by BRIAN GEAR
Read by James Saxon 6: South Cornwall - the slow bit
Fifty-five minutes of unpredictable and lively conversation from the personalities who will be in the news this week
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo
Country matters, Araucanas to zinc baths and the uses thereof, are explored in Jeanine McMulIen 's pot-pourri of life in the sticks. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
The Courtship by H. E. BATES
Read by Hugh Dickson
A chance meeting in a London street leads to the telling of a story.... a love story. But there is something odd about the courtship of the two lovers. Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 17; The God whom earth and sea and sky (BBC HB 239); Canticle of the Blessed Virgin Mary;
Luke 1, w 39-49; Virgin born, we bow before thee (BBC HB 240) Stereo
At Bridgwater in Somerset Brian Johnston investigates secret goings-on behind a pub, gets to grips with the invisible, and resorts to star-gazing to find out if England's cricketers will beat Australia this winter in the Test series.
Producer JILL MARSHALL BBCBristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Vemon Scannell Readers JUNE barrie and JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. BristolBS82LR
The only national radio programme for consumers Presented by John Waite Editor GRAHAM ELUS
A general musical knowledge quiz in three movements, featuring anything from Bach to the Beatles
Chairman Ned Sherrin The Final
Robert Eccles
(musical instrument repairer) Barbara Hall (housewife)
Valerie Roud Mayne
(freelance publisher's editor)
Programme devised and questions set by EDWARD COLE
Producer RICHARD EDIS Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6. 30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
Presented by GARY TAYLOR Bradley the Bear by SUE LIMB (1) Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
invites you to join an action-packed session of ideas and emotions; paradigms and practicalities; fellowship and fun; news and views - some of them your own.
Serial: On the Other Side by MATHILDE WOLFF-MONCKEBERG abridged in 12 episodes by ANN REES-JONES
Read by Margaret Tyzack (6) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
by KEITH GOODALL. Stereo
Presented by Robert Hewison
Presented by Valerie Singleton and John Sergeant
Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm
With PAUUNE BUSHNELL Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
* RECIPE TIMES: page 77
(Revised broadcast of Saturday at 7.15 am)
Good ideas, plus pencil and paper, jars of chemicals or greenhouses of plants are no longer enough to make a scientist. To carry out research today, nearly all scientists, from theoretical physicists to experimental psychologists, need the support of an institute or university.
In the last of six programmes, Colin Tudge passes through a leading laboratory and discovers what makes it and its staff tick.
Transport and Road Research Laboratory Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
The Well of Life by PETER TEGEL with The Nazis wanted to breed a master race. 'The Well of Life' was one place where it might have happened....
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo
Barry Paine unfolds the petals of the rose to glean the mysteries hidden at the heart of the queen of flowers. Reader DOUGLAS LEACH Written and compiled by ALISON MCGHEE
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
An Ulster Childhood by LYNN DOYLE abridged in fiveepisodes and read by Denys Hawthorne 1: A Farm in the County DownWritten in the 1920s, this is a gently humorous account of a County Down childhood at the end of the last century.
Lynn Doyle looks at the hves of ploughmen and kitchen maids with great wisdom and affection.
Producer PETER KAVANAGH
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
