An interview with a leader of the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers "OducerTIMFINNEY
A meditation for the Beginning of a new day with FR MICHAEL HARDING
BBC Northern Ireland. 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 PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Simon Vance
Year 12: The Buffalo Personality - hard working, authoritative and a born leader.
Lumbering through the BBC's sound Archives with comments from two famous Buffalo guests.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
(Re broadcast on Thursday at 9.30 pm)
A host of relevant studio guests help to preview some of the forthcoming attractions. Producers ROD MCRAE and MARINA SALANDY BROWN Editor MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
by Jill Norris.
Read by Shirley Dixon
The small American town is holding auditions for the TV talent-show, and the young narrator is determined to win.
New Every Morning, page 21; Awake my soul (BBC HB 403);
Psalm 32; Galatians 1, w 11-24; Praise my soul, the king of heaven (BBC HB 15). Stereo
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers RONALD PICKUP and JILL BALCON
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS
by Jim Eldridge
Starring Peter Davison as Eric Brown, and James Grout as Mr Beeston, the Headmaster
News of an impending retirement leads to general rejoicing in the staffroom - though Miss Lewis has other things on her mind.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Comer This week Scrub a Dub Dub Presented by FRED HARRIS Storyteller WENDY CRAIG Today's story: Harry the Dirty Dog by GENE ZION Script by RUTH CRAFT Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.5 Playtime Growing and Changing Presented by UZ WATTS and TONY AITKEN Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.20am VHFIFM)
2.20 Science Scope 2: On the Move Stereo (R)(e)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) The Wolf Mother by ZOE BAILEY (R)(e)
Introduced by Jenni Murray Teaching English
'Shakespeare never saw an English grammar!' Should today's children parse, learn poetry by heart and study the classics of English literature?
With the views of the Secretary of State for Education in mind, Jenny Cuffe investigates what constitutes a modem English lesson.
Serial: The Beiderbecke Affair by ALAN PLATER abridged in ten episodes by PAT MCLOUGHUN
Read by James Bolam (1)
Trevor Chaplin, woodwork teacher at St Quentin High, has a passion for jazz, football and beautiful platinum blondes - enthusiasms not shared by his girl friend, the English teacher Jill Swinburne. She's more into conservation and local politics....
(Music: Frankie Trumbauer 's Trublology)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Our Sister, Water by URSULA TIGHE HOPKINS. Stereo
Presented by Christopher Cook
Presented by Gordon dough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
It's back! The programme that reveals everything you never wanted to know about the past week.
The wizened former Editor of Private Eye, Richard Ingrams , and his spritely young successor, Ian Hislop , take on Punch's Editor Alan Coren and the BBC's own Martyn Young - with Chairman Barry Took the only barrier between them and fair play.
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
2: Men of the Sea
Readers GARARD GREEN and HENRY STAMPER
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer JULIAN BROWN
Ian Bradley celebrates the centenary of Gilbert and Sullivan's tenth opera,
Ruddigore, which survived a disastrous first night....
'Take off this rot' shouted the audience.... 'Give us The
Mikado' ... to become a firm favourite.
Readers ANN ARIS and DAVID MAHLOWE
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
A centenary tribute to William Barnes (1801-66) written and presented by Hilary Townsend Poems read by DOUGLAS LEACH Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol Stereo (R)
After the First Death by RICHARD STAYTON A searing light! The unthinkable has happened. A nuclear war. In the blackness of a shelter, a boy blinded and a girl crippled, play games to blur reality. The 12-year-old, Jimmy, knows he must prepare
Annalee, his 8-year-old sister, for survival on her own. As the radiation eats into him he weakens. Annalee must learn fast - but she is so young and just a little crazy.
Directed by PETER KING Stereo
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition.
Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT Editor ANNE WINDER
The Quarry by FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT abridged in five parts by ANDREW SIMPSON
Read by Gavin Campbell (1)
Police Commissioner Barlach, with little more than a year to live, suspects that the good Dr Emmenberger, head of a private clinic in Zurich, was at one time an infamous concentration camp surgeon and uses his own body as a trap.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Radio Geography: Our Changing World Slide resource pack available
12.30 Perceptions of China Written and presented by ASTLEY JONES Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (e) and at
12.50 Population Written and presented by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK Producer DAN GARRETT (e)
