Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE RT REV NIGEL MCCULLOCH Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to get advice, information and insight into your current concerns. John Howard puts your questions and comments to the experts. Lines apenfrom 8.0am
The Hunter by lain PATIENCE Read by Graham Blockey 'The sound of the night....
When he heard that faltering cry, he could be anywhere - out in the open country, miles from the city....'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
from St Paul's Church, Birmingham, led by The Rev Rosemary Wakelin, with Handsworth Mass Choir, music director Millicent Lindsay
"When I survey the wondrous Cross"; "O magnify the Lord with me"; "The Lord is my Light"; I Corinthians 1, w 18-28.
Stereo
The first of five programmes in which Ian Skidmore talks to five people about their lives.
Today, Richard Evans , former cox of the Moelfre Lifeboat and holder of two RNLI gold medals. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Presented by Susan Rae
A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Noisy Natalie Goes to the Theatre. Stereo
2.5 History Long Ago The Siege of Troy
2: The Wooden Horse, with ALUN ARMSTRONG as Odysseus PAUL MORIARTY as Diores and CLIVE MERRlSON as Priam Written by JOHN TAYLOR. Stereo (E)
2.25 Contact: Death by CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP (E)
2.40 Radiovision History of Britain: Homefront (RV) (R) (E)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Dying for a Drink
We are all aware of Government campaigns against the use of heroin and cocaine and other illegal drugs, but the drug that is universally recognised as doing more damage than any other is alcohol, and more young professional women are beginning to drink regularly.
Gabrielle MacPhedran reports. Serial: The Soul of Kindness (7)
The Fairy-feller's Master-stroke by MICK MANGAN
1843: Richard Dadd killed his father, believing him to be the devil. 1986: a young girl, unsure of her feelings towards her own father whose intense relationship is beginning to distress her, becomes increasingly obsessed with Dadd and his fairy pictures.
Directed by CAROLINE RAPHAEL Stereo
Tomorrow, at midnight, the whistles will blow and this year's Beaujolais Nouveau will be released from French warehouses. By Thursday people will be drinking it all over the world. Joe Reid traces the story of the wine and the region.
Producer ALAN WILDING
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40 pm)
BBC Pebble Mill
Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Geoff Watts on medical care Producer JENNY WALKER
The Ironmonger
The greatest living designer of popular cars, Sir Alec Issigonis , describes himself as an ironmonger who built tin boxes to get people from A to B. Working on the backs of envelopes and on restaurant tablecloths, he conceived the two most successful British cars of all time - the Morris Minor and the Mini. On his 80th birthday he reflects ruefully on a motor industry dominated by computers and committees. 'All cars look exactly the same now,' he insists, 'except the Mini.' Sir Alec's arrogant and autocratic approach to his work was the key to his success, but, as Maxwell Boyd reveals, it was also the cause of his downfall. Producer BRIAN KING. BBC Pebble Mill
For people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone on [number removed]
Four programmes reflecting life in the capital as depicted in letters and diaries of the period. 2: Politicians. Written and presented by Sean Street Readers JUNE BARRIE and PETER JEFFREY
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
A House for Mr Biswas (5)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Choices 86
12.30 3: Choosing Sixth-form Level Exams (Age: 16-18) (R) (E)
12.50 4: After School, What Then? (Age: post-18) (R) (E)
