Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
with ANNE BANCROFT. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS 7 20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Across the United Kingdom 1,347,800 people have now been out of work for over a year.
As part of BBC Radio's Action Special 19 + campaign, The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke , mp.
Minister for Employment, John Prescott , mp. Labour's spokesman; and Richard Wainwright , mp, Alliance spokesman, answer your questions on their Parties' policies and plans for the long-term unemployed.
Nick Ross is in the Chair. Producer BILL MORRIS Lines open from 8. 0 am
If you are out of work and would like personal advice or information, dial 100 and ask for
Free/one Action Special 19 +.
The Blush by ELIZABETH TAYLOR Read by June Barrie
Mrs Allen had no anxieties, unlike her cleaning woman, who, it seemed, had too many. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 93; God of mercy, God of grace (BBC HB 455); Psalm 95; Mark 9, w 33-41; 0 Jesu, king most wonderful (BP 68) Stereo
The second of five programmes in which Ian Skidmore talks to five people about their lives. Today: Ken Williams , former country bobby, now an international conservationist. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Susan Rae with the latest news and advice for consumers.
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
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6. 30pm)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Bopper Goes Swimming
2.5 History Long Ago Ancient Greece
1: Alexander the Great Written by HUGH O'NEILL and LEE GALPIN. Stereo (e)
2.25 Contact Getting On with Other People by BOB DOCHERTY (e)
2.40 Radiovision History of Britain The 50s and 60s (RV) by DEREK FARMER (R) (e)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Housepersons : many men share the housework these days, but is it a fair share? Some draw delicate and illogical demarcation lines.
Andrea Adams explores the division of labour.
Serial: Circles in a Forest by DALENE MATTHEE abridged in 14 parts by PAT MCLOUGHUN
Read by Sean Barrett (1)
In the late 19th century, the beautiful trees of the Knysna Forest are threatened by over-exploitation. So, too, are the elephants who are called 'bigfeet' by the Afrikaner woodcutters. As he grows up, Saul Barnard , a 'child of the woodcutters', fights a lonely battle to save both....
(Music: Hamilton Harty 's In Ireland)
Power Play by DOROTHY GHARBAOUI
To succeed in a man's world
Philippa Barr knows she has to be tough. In business she has won her independence, in marriage she is winning it. But her teenage son wants to show her who is the family boss.
Directed by JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland
Timetable of trouble:
8.0 am Toddler grabs flex of boiling kettle - severely scalded chest.
1.0 pm Harassed mother drops chip pan - fat splashes infant in baby walker.
3.0 pm Afternoon cuppa.
Doorbell rings - child rushed to burns unit.
Skin grafting required.
7.0 pm Fun and bubbles at bathtime. Father runs hot water - telephone distracts him. Six-year-old has scalds on buttocks, legs and feet.
From each of these incidents, which happen in thousands of homes every day, a child is scarred for life. They are patients in the Burns Unit of the Birmingham Accident Hospital, where Barbara Myers traces just one day's emergencies. Producer ANN TENNANT
BBC Pebble Mill (R) revised
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 1.40pm)
The second of two reports from southern Africa.
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer JENNY WALKER
(Re-broadcast Thursday 10.0 am LW)
Windows: Views from Outside by Doris Walker Bagg , window-cleaner
Researcher PAULA KELLY
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo
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News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Ian Macrae Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments on [number removed]Linesopen from 8.30 to 10.0pm Free quarterly bulletin from:
In Touch, BBC, London WIA 4WW (Send four saes (8 1/2 x 12) for a year's supply)
* INFO: page 91
Four programmes reflecting life in the capital as depicted in letters and diaries of the period. 3: Writers
Written and presented by Sean Street
Readers JUNE BARRIE and PETER JEFFREY
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Michael Oliver Producer ANNE WINDER
A House for Mr Biswas (10)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Economics (O-level) Case Studies in Production
12.30 3: Large Firms - British Petroleum pic (R) (e)
12.50 4: Public Enterprise - British Telecom (R) (e)
