Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
with GENERAL EVA BURROWS Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Peterr Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
2: In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast
Your chance to get advice, information and insight into your current concerns. Each week Nick directs your questions and comments to the experts and policy-makers on everything from drugs to disarmament, justice to journalism, maternity to eternity.
Producer JENNY DANKS
I Dream of England byBILLTORDOFF
Read by Jenny Howe
'It all came to a head one
Saturday in February, when the market seemed the coldest place on earth and the coldest things in it were my feet.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
NEM, p 17; As with gladness men of old (BBC HB 62); Psalm 100; Matthew 2, w 1-12; The son of God his glory hides (BBC HB 68) Stereo
Parish Magazine: First Edition by JOAN BAKEWELL with As the Vicar sits earnestly editing the Parish Magazine, he little realises the events he chronicles are very far from being the simple rural doings that they seem. In fact, the arrival of the new curate is bringing about not only the subtle disintegration of the peaceful parochial scene, but of his own domestic bliss!
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON (R)
Kith and Kin
Why should mating with your first cousin be advantageous if you're a quail?
Jeremy Cherfas looks into the relative problems of how animals and birds recognise their nearest and dearest. Producer MILES BARTON BBCBristol
Awkward Customers
People in some kinds of jobs always seem to come in for more than their fair share of criticism - like shop assistants, doctors' receptionists, or men who dig holes in the road. But what's their side of the story?
Susan Rae invites members of some much-abused service industries and professions to turn the tables and say what annoys them about the public. Producer GILL UNSCOTT
A musical panel game devised by TONY SHYRANE 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 Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Stories from Piggery Green Today Uncle Grumpy to the Rescue
Introduced by Sue MacGregor In Builth Wells, mid-Wales, news is traded over the counter in more ways than one. Nancy Durham reports on some of the women in the know.... the newsagents who deal in the national, regional but, most important of all, the local news. Serial: Equal Rites (2)
by Susan Boyd
When you're out on the street because your boyfriend's sold the lease on your flat and pocketed the money - that's the time you discover that what you need in this world is property. For Christine the answer is a crash course in survival and the techniques of acquisition in the jungle of modern London.
(Stereo)
Anthony Burton sets out on a journey into the past in the footsteps of five literary travellers, whose inquiring spirit found excitement in what to 20th-century eyes seems everyday.
1: Wool and Warships
Sidesaddle through Devon in 1698 with Celia Fiennes.
'If all persons would spend some of their time in Journeys and be curious to inform themselves of their native Land, it would be a sovereign remedy to cure or preserve from these epidemic diseases of Vapours....' With Jennifer Piercey as Celia Fiennes
Producer SIMON ELMES. Stereo
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Cliff Michelmore previews the 33rd London International Boat Show. The special features this year include a riverside village, The African Queen - the boat made famous by Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn , and a history of HM's Royal Yacht Britannia.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
Every day, thousands of people drive cars under the influence of drugs. They are neither wicked nor stupid - they are taking prescriptions. Geoff Watts explores the effects of common medicines on the ability to control a car, and considers whether measures are needed to prevent drugged driving. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
After Many Cares and Bitter Sorrows by MORAG HOOD with and Charlotte Bronte's unexpected late marriage seemed to mirror for a time the happy endings of her fiction, but through her correspondence and the memoirs of Mrs Gaskell, it appears that it led to her early death.
Directed by NED CHAILLET
0 WODDIS ON: page 81
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Ian Macrae Producer THENA HESHEL
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Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer MARY SHARP
The Hottentot Room (2)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
A tribute to Arthur Waley
(1889-1966), translator from the Chinese and Japanese, by his widow Alison, who, with John Watts , introduces and reads from his work.
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo (R)
followed by an interlude
