An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers Producers ALLAN WRIGHT andTIM FINNEY
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with ROSEMARY FOXCROFT Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY
with Brian Perkins
Year 11: The Rat
Personality - charming, warm-hearted and something of an opportunist....
A scurry through the BBC's
Sound Archives, with comments from guest 'Rats' Lulu and Wayne Sleep
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9. 30pm)
Producer
VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
Pictures by RAHILA KHAN Read by Shireen Shah
Amina wanted her painting up on the classroom wall with the others. Her teacher said she could take it home as a special treat. When her mother saw it, she was angry and tore it to shreds ... Why?
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER (R)
Advent Calendar
God's Promise is Our Hope
New Every Morning, page 9; Judge eternal, throned in splendour (BBC HB 393); Advent prose (R. Lloyd);
Genesis 6, vv 11-22; God is my strong salvation (BBC HB 453) Stereo
Presented by Kevin Crossley-Holland Readers ELIZABETH BELL and GEOFFREY COLUNS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. BristolBS82LR
Presented by Susan Rae including Stars and Gripes, in which celebrities reveal their consumer problems.
The actor Tom Conti describes how his car-phone drives him wild.
Editor KEN VASS
by JIM ELDRIDGE 1: The New School Year Starts Here
The first day of a new school year is pandemonium at the best of times - but a flu epidemic and the arrival of a new teacher do nothing to ease the pressure on Mr Beeston....
And there's more to come.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON Stereo (R)
(Episode 2 tomorrow at 6.30 pm)
Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner
Stories by JILL TOMLINSON Read by JOHN DOWIE
Today's story: It is Cold Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
Stereo
2.0 Education Now
Presented by Libby Purves
The Home School Partnership
If you wish to phone in, ring [number removed](Mon-Fri) Producer SARAH MCNEILL (e) INFO: page 91
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems
Jane Eyre by CHARLOTTE BRONTE adapted in five parts by DENYS HAWTHORNE (1) Producer COLIN SMITH. Stereo (e)
Introduced by Jenni Murray Shop Around!
Do you buy the clothes you need - or the ones you just have to have? Is shopping a comfort, a nightmare, or a passion? Are you one of those people who goes out for a tin of dog food and returns with a cashmere coat? Jenny Cuffe investigates the hidden impulses behind our spending habits - and discovers how to become a more balanced buyer.
Serial: Circles in a Forest by DALENE MATTHEE abridged in 14 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Sean Barrett (10) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Buried Alive by JEREMY THOMAS. Stereo '
Presented by Tony Palmer
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Phil Longman Editor DEREK LEWIS continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With BRIAN PERKINS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
(Revised broadcast of Saturday at 7.15 am)
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN (Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Mock Manoeuvres by DAVID MAIROWITZ
Soldiers are practising manoeuvres in a sleepy French village. A modern young wife, new to the village, challenges the menace she feels they represent.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Saturday) (Clive Morrison is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer MARY SHARP Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
The Fall of Kelvin Walker written and abridged in eight parts by ALASDAIR GRAY Read by Bill Paterson
4: Reaching the Summit
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
This week: programmes affected by transmitter breakdown earlier in the term may be re-broadcast.
