Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TM
FINNEY REBECCA POW and DAVID ADDIS
with FR JOHN MCCULLAGH Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter 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
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to get advice, information and insight into your current concerns. 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 Lines open from 8.0am
The Killing of George Boot by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Rex Holdsworth
'I became really worried after the third threatening letter, and that's when I purchased the false moustache.' producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
NEM, p 50; Rejoice, the Lord is king (BBC HB 128); Psalm 85;
Luke 15, w 1-10; Spirit of mercy, truth and love (BBC HB 163) Stereo
The Green Isle
Each winter thousands of geese and other northern birds find refuge on the Scottish island of Islay. It also has Britain's most thriving colony of choughs.
Michael Scott tries to find out why Islay attracts more than its fair share of birds.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Presented by Susan Rae
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
Presented by Gordon Clough
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Goldilocks and the Three Bears adapted by ANGELA GARNER. Stereo
2.5 History Long Ago Chinese Civilisation (RV) Narrated by DAVID YIP Producer JANET WHITAKER (e)
2.25 Contact The Newcomer (rv) Written by ARTHUR SCHOLEY Narrated by BARNABY GRIFFIN (R) (e)
2.40 Listening to Music 1: 11-13 Rossini's Overture: William Tell (1) With TERESA FINZI and DAVID HOCKINGS Presented by ROBERT PRIZEMAN and HELEN SPEIRS Producer BARRY GIBSON Stereo (R) (e)
The Cost of Equality:
If you wish to take a case of sex discrimination to court, who pays the legal fees? Sometimes the Equal Opportunities
Commission can help. More often, it falls to the trade unions to bear the costs. But for most people there is no provision at all - and that means many cases are simply not brought. Sue
MacGregor chairs a discussion. Five Tales of Suspense 2: Business Lunch
Read by David McAlister
On the Yankee Station by WILLIAM BOYD with and The grim world of American pilots on bombing raids in Vietnam. Also grim are the bullying tactics of one of the officers towards Lydecker, a member of his ground crew. It is a situation which calls for revenge....
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo (R)
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.
3: Through Snowstorms to the Scaffold
Across the north of England in the 1720s with Daniel Defoe. 'This one trading, manufacturing part of the country supports all the countries round it, and the numbers of people settle here as bees about a hive.'
With Edward de Souza as Daniel Defoe
Producer SIMON ELMES. Stereo
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer JOHN DRURY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
What's new in medical science? 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 NICHOLAS MORGAN (Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am LW)
Last year the members of the Medici Quartet performed the world premiere of a new work by William Mathias, his Quartet No 3. The BBC eavesdropped on the rehearsals, from the first rough read-through to the moment, weeks later, when Mathias and the Medici wished each other luck. The programme provides a record of how four dedicated musicians came to grips with a new work that nobody had played before.
(e)
(Re-broadcast Friday 11am LW)
(The Medici Quartet play Mathias's Quartet No 3 next Sunday at 9.30pm on Radio 3)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Linesopenfrom 8.30 to 10.0pm
The 'In Touch Handbook; £4.95, is now available from [address removed], in print, tape, moon. Braille edition available from late February.
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer MARY SHARP
The Hottentot Room by CHRISTOPHER HOPE abridged in12 episodes by JOHNS COTNEY
Read by Jack Klaff (12) Producer A. J. QUINN
Presenter Alexander MacLeod including a special report from West Germany on the run-up to the Parliamentary elections next Sunday.
followed by an interlude
Advanced-level English Marlowe: Dr Faustus Stereo (e)
