Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE RT REV MGEL MCCULLOCH Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with JEREMY BOWEN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The positive conversational antidote to autumnal blues. Producer LAN STRACHAN. Stereo
This week the team travels to Essex where members of the Rayleigh Horticultural Society put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Miss Lavender by BRENDAN O'BYRNE
Read by William Eedle
She could be just another lonely old lady in a pub. But Miss
Lavender has a 'gift' ... and a very unusual gift indeed. A matter of life and death, in fact. Producer MITCH RAPER
from St Paul 's Church,
Birmingham, led by The Rev Canon Lorys Davies , with Birmingham Cathedral Choir
Director of music MARCUS HUXLEY Son of God, eternal Saviour
(BBC HB 377); Psalm 113 (Turle) Strengthen for service
(BBC HB 536); Matthew 20, w 20-28. Stereo
3: Knuckle Down Stonkers!
Down at the end of No 1 runway at Gatwick Airport the Hand Cross Rebels fight the 49ers, while the Tinsley Tarts go down to the Black Dog Boozers - all in the name of the world marble championships.
Bob Symes was there to meet the gamesters and fudge his way through the challenge of the year.
Producer MARY PRICE BBCBristol
Presented by John Howard
by Jeffrey Archer, dramatised in seven episodes by Brian Sibley
In Russia, Major Romanov is tracking down the Tsar's Icon. In England, Adam Scott has received a strange bequest.
(Stereo)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Noisy Natalie and the Baby Stereo
2.5 Looking at Nature Food Chain Call in at the Natural Investigator's Office and discover 'who eats who, or what' with the food web mobile. Stereo (E)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! 8: The Magic Balloons Written by RON JAMES Stereo (E)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Switch on the Night (R) (E)
2.40 Using Unemployment A series for YTS students and school and college leavers Presented by CHRIS SERLE 8: The Informal Economy (R) (E) For tutors' notes send sae to: UsingUnemployment,[address removed]
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Clare Boothe Luce , playwright, journalist, actress, Congress woman and ambassador
Serial: The Soul of Kindness (8)
The Frog Princess A modem fairy tale by ANNE GORING
A beautiful princess from a far-away land is bewitched as a baby by a wicked godmother and transported to the dreary suburbs of a dreary industrial city. But as Brenda enters middle age she discovers within herself a talent that might after all take her back to Fairy Land.
Wicked godmother .PAULINE LETTS
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo
(Patricia Routledge is in 'When We
Are Married' at the Whitehall Theatre, London)
Children
The last of seven programmes compiled and presented by Roy Fuller
The Child's World Readers JILL BALCON and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol Stereo
Lutoslawski in Huddersfield For many years, music in Huddersfield has been associated with the Huddersfield Choral Society and Messiah. But this week the eighth annual Contemporary Music Festival begins and the town plays host to leading musicians from all over the world.
Michael Berkeley reports on the Festival and talks to the distinguished Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm
with PAULINE BUSHNELL Halfanhourof reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over more cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge Fred Nicholls and Jack Jones.
Researcher KAREN OSTLE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Peter Smith goes into the world of business to report on the latest initiatives and problems there.
Producer GUDRUN DALIBOR
Six talks about Law, Justice and Democracy by Lord McCluskey, Scottish High Court Judge, Solicitor-General for Scotland 1974-9
3: Hard Cases and Bad Law
'In a common law tradition like ours the judges have to fill the gaps and make law. But it is the proper function of governments and democratically elected legislators to consider and make policy choices, not the proper function of judges.'
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on Radio 3)
(Lecture 4, 'Trusting the Judges', next Wednesday on Radio 4)
The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in The Listener
An Island of Happiness
Pope Paul VI called Austria 'an island of happiness' - for 30 years a model of close political partnership and prosperity. But the government coalition has collapsed and the economy is under severe strain.
On the eve of the country's elections, Chris Cviic examines the future of the Austrian way. Producer MARK LAITY
The Positive Approach by LOUISE SPENCER Stereo
David Bean reports on his encounters with animals and those who cherish them. 3: The Cockers
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
A House for Mr Biswas (6)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Dance Workshop Presented by NICK MERCER Written by KATE HARRISON Producer BRIAN SCOTT HUGHES
12.301: 1: Action Workshop Stereo (E)
12.50 2: Shaping the Action Stereo (E)
