Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
with FR JOHN MCCULLAGH
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 CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
"hen it comes to conversation nothing is better.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Clay Jones calls on the expertise of Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Dowham and Geoffrey Smith to answer listeners' gardening Queries sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, POBax27 Manchester M60 ISJ producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Lobster and Chips by KEN REAY
Read by Shaun Prendergast 'If he'd been sober, he might have walked away. If he'd been sober, he'd still have E15 left from his Giro ... he wouldn't be behind a bush at midnight looking at a bag stuffed with money....'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 54; Brightest and best (BBC HB 63); Psalm 16; Acts 2, vv 42-47; May the grace of Christ our Saviour (BBC HB 375) 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 W1A 4 WW
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
Presented by John Howard
by JOHN FLETCHER (3)
Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: The Gingerbread Man, adapted by KATE WILKINSON Stereo
2.5 Looking at Nature The Body (RV) TIMMY MALLETT sends the Timmymobile round your body in search of primary science projects. Stereo (e)
2.20 Listening and Reading 1: The Great Sharp Scissors by PHILIPPA PEARCE Read by JOHN HOLLIS (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Cry Wolf by GARETH OWEN Senes producer PADDY BECHELY (R) (e)
2.40 Real World A short course on problem-solving and decision-making, linked to BTEC's Common Skills and Core Themes
1: Teacher's Programme Using the Series: BTEC Common Skills Presented and produced by GRAHAM TAYAR (e)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Donald Broom , Professor of Animal Welfare at the Cambridge School of Veterinary Medicine
Five Tales of Suspense 3: Tenants
Read by Heather Bell
The Leaving is All by HARRIET O'CARROLL
What are the exports of the upper Ruhr? What was
Mazarin's role in the Fronde?
The Leaving is looming, and as an Irish Convent school prepares for its equivalent to A-levels, Mary Rose realises that her whole future is at stake.
Other parts played by the girls Of ST LOUISE'S COMPREHENSIVE
COLLEGE. BELFAST
EDDIE FRIEL (piano)
Directed by JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland Stereo
HEAR THIS! page 10
The poet Alexis Lykiard presents a series of seven programmes on the subject of dreams and nightmares. 1: Pains and Comforts Readers LIANE AUKIN
GORDON REID , CHRISTOPHER SCOTT Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol Stereo
1987 National Story-telling Festival
Throughout this week storytellers from across the world are taking part in a London festival celebrating the richness and diversity of our oral traditions. Natalie Wheen meets the tellers and listens to their tales. Producer MARY SHARP
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continuedon VHFjFM5.50-5.55pm
With PETER DONALDSON
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
The last in the series of entertainments in words and music designed to help you beat the weather as David Barlow , Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together again, with their special guest: Barney Bates
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
with John Waite and his team of investigators.
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
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am L W)
A History of the Crusades
A series of eight programmes presented by Malcolm Billings 1: What was it in the late
11th-century that motivated so many knights and ordinary people to take the cross and set off on the overland journey to Jerusalem?
With crusades historian,
Jonathan Riley-Smith , Malcolm Billings visits sites associated with the Crusaders along their routes to the Holy Land. The story begins in Clermont-Ferrand, now a busy industrial city in Central
France, but in November 1095 the scene of Pope Urban II's first appeal to Christendom to regain the holy places of Palestine. Series consultant
PROFESSOR JONATHAN RILEYSMITH Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE Stereo
• INFO: page 77and FEATURE: page 82
An everyday story of fox-hunting folk
'Good hunting country? Good grassland, good jumps - and farmers who'll tolerate us ...'
'It's just like a cocktail party on horseback - if you get bored, you can always trot off....'
As the Bicester Hunt rode across the countryside between Daventry and Banbury they were wired for sound, to discover who hunts, why they do it and the social milieu of the present day fox-hunting classes ...
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11.0am L W)
Parish Magazine: Third Edition by JOAN BAKEWELL
Serious, and not so serious, poetry from the pen of Nigel Forde.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS smith
Presented by Tony Palmer Producer CARROLL MOORE
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)
The Stalled Ox by SAKI
Read by Michael Cochrane Theophil Eshley , an artist renowned for his studies of dun cows, is suddenly called upon to study the ox - but at rather closer quarters than normal
(and with quite extraordinary results!).
Producer MICHELE TIDY
Presented by Michael Vestey including a special report from West Germany on the run-up to the parliamentary elections next Sunday
followed by an interlude
English Resources
12.30 Introducing Thomas Hardy (RV) by JESSICA JAMES Producer COLIN SMITH. Stereo (e)
12.50 Jane Austen (rv) Producer PETER FOZZARD (e)
