Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

with SYLVIA SANDYS. Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
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 GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Did you miss last week's
Drogramme? It was excellent. Producer LAN STRACHAN . Stereo

This week the team travels to Gloucestershire where members of the Brimpsfield and Mid-Cotswold Garden Society put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Cassette. 'Through the Seasons'. £7.99, from: [address removed] Make cheques/POs payable to: Gardeners' Question Time

The Watch by EUE WIESEL
Read by Robert Rietty
It was a very special watch, buried, for safety's sake, under a tree in the garden. And now, years later, the owner returns to claim it.
Producer mitch RAPER

NEM, p 79; Holy, holy, holy (BBC HB 169); Psalm 84;
John 6, vv 28-41; The Church's one foundation (BBC HB 184) Stereo

We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries that we mean to resolve, but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds. Let Neil Landor , with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out the answers.
Questions, on postcards only, please. to: Enquire Within,
BBC. London WL4 4WW
Producer ANDREW PARFITT

Presented by John Howard

A serial in six parts by John Fletcher
with Nick Chilvers as Andy

Two giant multinationals, Afco and Natural International, are locked in a bitter take-over fight. Andy Smith, small-time ecology journalist, has somehow got himself mixed up in a dangerous business....
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
(Broadcast on Sunday at 9pm)

Presented by Nick Worrall

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Walter Crumpton and the Two Muddy Lions
2.0 French D A propos (1) Written and presented by MARC CHEMAU and REGIS SALADO Producer TONY STAPLES (R) (e)
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems A Man for All Seasons (3) (R) (e)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: poet Elizabeth Jennings Serial: Equal Rites (8)

Crackers by CHRIS CURRY
Premonitions of doom, panic attacks, a feeling that something, somewhere is just waiting to get you? Don't worry, it could be seasonal and now's the only safe time to think about it.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester. Stereo

Minor Victorians
The last of six programmes compiled and presented by Kingsley Amis
6: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Readers ISABEL DEAN
MARTIN JARVIS and PAUL GREGORY Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol. Stereo
(Martin Jarvis is in 'Woman in Mind' at the Vaudeville Theatre: Isabel Dean is in 'Breaking the Code at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London)

In the mid-17th century,
Scotsmen became active in the Canadian fur trade. Locked in a wilderness thousands of miles from home, separated from their families, they developed complex liaisons with the Canadian Indians. These relationships matured in isolation until Scottish women made the arduous transatlantic journey and began to penetrate the Canadian forests. They disturbed an already delicate cultural balance.
Using contemporary records, letters and music, Lynn ten
Kate has put together a study of family life of the time. Readers PAUL YOUNG
JOHN SHEDDEN and ROSE MCBAIN Singer CHRISTINE COULSON Producer ELAINE MACLEAN
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland)

Dedicated to the Clarinet Gervase de Peyer, founder member of the Melos Ensemble and virtuoso clarinettist, returns to London next month for two concerts after ten years in New York. He talks to Michael Oliver about his encouragement of composers to write for the clarinet, such as Miklos Rozsa. who has dedicated his new sonata to de Peyer.

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm

with CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report

An entertainment in words and music designed to help you beat the weather with David Barlow , Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon Davis , and their special guests
The Hot Club of London
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrowat 1.40pm)

John Waite and his team of investigators tackle another case of injustice, fraud, abuse of power or bungling bureaucracy. If you have any information about major abuses, write to: Face the Facts, BBC, London W1A 4WW Production team
SHARON BANOFF. GRAHAM ELLIS ROBERT DEL MAESTRO
SIMON WESTROP , LOUISE HIBBINS Editor KEN VASS

In 1917 when Oliver St John Gogarty bought Renvyle in Connemara, he turned the 'sea-grey house' into a meeting place for writers and artists.
Augustus John painted there, W. B. Yeats presented his plays and found a ghost at Renvyle, and the rebirth of the house in 1930 after its burning by the IRA filled its owner with new enthusiasms.
Producer CHRIS SPURR

'People think we've got bars on the windows and locks on the doors - that we've done something terrible to be here.' At the edge of a Hampshire village, you can catch a glimpse of a large Victorian house -
'Southdowns'. The front door is always open but not many people know what lies behind it. Nigel Farrell looks behind the stern facade of life in a children's home to spend a week with the children and the staff of a remarkable community.
He learns of the problems and the joys, the routine and the unexpected - the secret life at 'Southdowns'.
Producer SHARON BANOFF

Parish Magazine: Second Edition by JOAN BAKEWELL. Stereo

Serious, and not so serious, poetry from the pen of Nigel Forde
Producer VICTOR LEWIS smith

Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer HANS PIETSCH

The Hottentot Room (8)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

followed by an interlude