Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV HAZEL ADDY. Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Dunkley in London with John Timpson at the Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth
6.30,7.30.8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

An opportunity for listeners to express their views and question the experts.
Produced by the woman Hour unit Lines open from 8.0am

Bitter Harvest by JUDITH PHILIPSON
Read by Annest Wiliam
"The timing was always out on this farm. The only routine was to keep going, to continue with the next job.
Would it ever change?'
Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales

NEM, pll4; The Lord is king, lift up thy voice (BBC HB 26);
Psalm 36; Matthew 13, w 24-34; Father of heaven, whose love profound (A & MR 164). Stereo

Are fruit bats more closely related to humans than to a pipistrelle? What do grey seals do when they are at sea? Do dogs and cats deceive us and each other? Jeremy Cherfas finds out.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Presented by John Howard

by GUY JENKIN and the photographer Commercials written by JON CANTER With GUY JENKIN and featuring the voices of SALLY GRACE. MIRIAM MARGOLYES
ENN REITEL. ANTON RODGERS
JOHN SHRAPNEL and DAVID TATE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm) (Christopher Godwin is in 'Noises Off' at the Savoy Theatre, London)

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner
Today's story: What Size is Andy? by MOIRA MILLER (R)

2.5 History Long Ago Ancient Egypt Hori's Goose: 1
Written by ALAN RUSSELL Stereo (E)

2.25 Contact: Moses
Written and presented by CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP (E)

2.40 Radiovision History of Britain: Victorian Children
(RV) by ARTHUR SCHOLEY (R) (E)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor A programme for intelligent women? On 7 October 1946, the first edition of Woman's Hour took to the air. On this 40th anniversary,
Marjorie Anderson , Jean Metcalfe , Olive Shapley and Monica Sims join Sue MacGregor in the studio to look back over the four decades of the magazine designed to
'inform and entertain intelligent women'.
Serial: Under the Red Robe (2)

by Stephen Lavell
with Barry Morse as Jerry, Mary Wimbush as Mary, Tessa Worsley as Jane
and Elaine Claxton, Andrew Branch, Gordon Reid

Jerry and Mary are Americans touring Europe. Their holiday is a reward for years of availability to family, friends and neighbours. Their personal escort is an English aristocrat, Jane Bassett.

(Stereo)

Rita Crowley-Turner sets out to answer the question, 'What did Jesus sound like?'With the help of Aramaic linguists, biblical scholars and historians, she reconstructs what the Lord's
Prayer might have sounded like when Jesus first spoke it. Reader GABRIEL WOOLF Producer DAVID WINTER Stereo (R)

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Drug abuse has become the hottest political issue in the run-up to the US mid-term elections, and President Reagan has ordered the testing of a million Federal employees. But, as Hugh Prysor-Jones reports, American big business has already taken the offensive with its own controversial methods of drug-busting in the workplace.
Producer JOHN DRURY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)

The education magazine presented by Margaret Percy
Regular up-dates from the party conferences on education debates, plus news and features. Producer SIMON MAJOR (E)
(Re-broadcast next Saturday in 'Options')

Dorset's Other Poet
A centenary tribute to
William Barnes (1801-86) Written and presented by Hilary Townsend
Poems read by DOUGLAS LEACH Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
* INFO: page 91

by ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Read by Robert Powell BBCBristol

For people with a visual handicap
Presented by Ian Macrae Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone on [number removed]. Lines open from 8.30 to 10.0pm Free quarterly bulletin from:
In Touch, [address removed](Send four saes (8 1/2 x 12)for a year's supply)

Vincent Kane retells the stories of five of the bard's best-known plays and finds, to his surprise, some peculiarly contemporary resonances. 4: Othello
Producer RICHARD THOMAS BBC Wales

Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Hangover Square (2)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod including a report from the Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

Serenades and lullabies by Schubert, Brahms and Schumann, sung by members of the Songmakers' Almanac Stereo records

followed by an interlude

Deutsch fur die Oberstufe Compiled and produced by AL WOLFF
12.30 3: Siemens - die Geschichte einer Familie - die Geschichte eines deutschen Industriekonzerns (R) (E)
12.50 4: Ist der Main eine Grenze? (R) (E)