Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE REV STANLEY BRINKMAN Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Did you miss last week's programme? It was excellent. Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
This week the team are guests of the British Forces based in Miinster, West Germany, who put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Excepting Mrs Pentherby bysAKi
Read by Hugh Dickson
Nobody at 'The Limes' seems to like Mrs Pentherby - none of the ladies, that is. She has a knack for rubbing them up the wrong way in the subtlest possible way. But Mrs Pentherby is a valuable asset, as her host finally reveals.
Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 67; Lord Christ, who on thy heart didst bear
(BBC HB 380); Psalm 29; .
Matthew 5,w 1-16; Here in Christ we gather (Bp 23). Stereo
The last in the present series. We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries that 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.
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Enquire Within,
BBC, London WIA 4WW
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
by G. K. Chesterton
Five stories dramatised by John Scotney
Does the machine ever lie; the prison governor arrest a convict; or a tramp dine on caviar? Just a few questions for Father Brown to answer as he makes his way across America.
BBC Bristol. (Stereo)
(Andrew Sachs is in "Kafka's Dick" at the Royal Court Theatre, London)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Wind Blew by PAT HUTCHINS. Stereo
2.5 Looking at Nature Whose Harvest? How to search for clues to the way animals and birds make their winter food stores. Stereo (E)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! 5: The Hallowe 'en Party Written by uz PINDAR. Stereo (E)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Sally Go Round The Stars by KENNETH BAILEY (R) (E)
2.40 Using Unemployment A series for YTS students and school and college leavers Presented by CHRIS SERLE 5: Voluntary Work (R) (E) Tutors' Notes available Send sae to: [address removed]
and Sue MacGregor invite you to join them for an action-packed session of ideas and emotions.
Guest of the Week: the West End theatre producer Michael Codron
Serial: Gal Audrey (3)
A Sense of Sin
A fable by JAMES DOUGLAS
A rambling rodent infiltrates the small town bank of Ballyfadden, causing panic among the employees.
Visions of chewed up fivers and massive withdrawals are the least of their problems as the fate of the rat becomes inexorably linked with their own.
Directed by CLIVE BRILL
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
Children
Seven programmes compiled and presented by Roy Fuller 3: Naughtiness
Readers JILL BALCON , HUGH DICKSON and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol. Stereo
Het Muziektheater
A number of European capitals have been planning new opera houses for some time.
Amsterdam won the race:
Het Muziektheater , home of both the Netherlands Opera and the Dutch National Ballet, with its curved glass frontage facing the River Amstel, was opened recently to much critical acclaim. Paul Allen reports on the new building and the first productions.
Producer HANS PIETSCH
(Rev re-broadcast of yesterday at
9.45pm)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm
With Pauline Bushnell
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge Patrick Nuttgens and Brian Thompson Researcher KAREN OSTLE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 40pm)
Peter Smith goes into the world of business to report on the latest initiatives and problems there.
Producer GUDRUN DALIBOR
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9. S am L W)
Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT. Stereo
A Sort of Revolution
The delicate balance of power in France has not prevented Jacques Chirac and his government from initiating policies which challenge the legacy of their socialist predecessors and the traditional centralising role of the French state.
How real are the 'new values' which they are offering - and will they tip the scales of French political life?
Presented by Richard Mayne Producer FRASER STEEL (Re-broadcast tomorrow atll.OamLW)
A Man from Soho by TONY MCHALE Stereo
Leonard Barras reads two of his fairly likely stories: Ambition 's Debt and A Sanctified Artefact
'Calpurnia had put an end to our trysts, which was a disappointment to the science mistress, who had predicted we were genetically equipped to found a dynasty of nincompoops.'
Producer GILLANHUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast on Friday at 9.45 am)
Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer CARROLL MOORE
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrowat 4. 35pm)
Hangover Square (13)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
French E: Horizons de France
12.30 3a: La France rurale (1) Vivre a la campagne (E)
12.50 3b: La France rurale (2) Le Midi (RV) Written by RÉGIS SALADO Narrated by CATHERINEGRAHAM and MARK CHEMALI (E)
