Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TIM FINNEY
REBECCA POW and DAVID ADDIS

With FR MICHAEL HARDING. 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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Your chance to get advice, information and insight into vour current concerns. Producer JENNY DANKS Lines open from 8. 0am

Family by ERIC BEAN
Read by Malcolm Hebden
'I'll do my best, of course, but daddies are better at throwing little girls in the air and carrying them on their shoulders and pushing their bicycles and tucking them into bed.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

nem, pll9; Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176)
Psalm 89; Luke 1, w 46-56; Forth in thy name (BBC HB 406) Stereo

Through the Night
4 0 pm Bewicks arrive
6.0 Floodlight feeding at Swan Lake
8 0 Huge flocks of white-fronted geese, wigeon, curlew and teal feed at night on the Dumbles. 9 0 Bewicks roost on islands. In the company of curator Mike Ounsted and duck/radio-tracker David Bell , Derek Jones spends a night at the Wildfowl Trust at
Slimbridge and reveals the nocturnal comings and goings of ducks, geese, foxes, rabbits, and maybe poachers! Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT 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
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6. 30pm) ('The Two Worlds of Joseph Race at
8.30pm)

Presented by Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Mrs Mopple's Washing Line by ANITA HEWETT (R)
2.5 History Long Ago The Poet of Chu byBERLIEDOHERTY China in the third century BC (e)
2.25 Contact The Birthday of Guru Nanak (e)
2.40 Listening to Music 1(11-13) Rossini's Overture William Tell (2) Stereo (R) (e)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor But is it Art?
A one-woman Shakespeare play, a fire-eating feminist and a woman who plays tunes on her nose.... three examples of the new wave of novelty performers who are baffling the late-night cabaret circuit.
Steve James meets them. Serial:
The Beiderbecke Affair (2)

Embroideries
A fairy tale for our time by JULIET ACE
Alison is so pretty, so pert, so industrious, so witty and caring and loving; Andrew is so successful, so fit, so gregarious, so witty and caring and loving; and David and Jonathan are cleverer, more sporting and more interested and interesting then anybody else's children. But have the Goods become a little smug and what do the neighbours think?
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBCBristol. Stereo (R)

Anthony Burton journeys in the footsteps of five literary travellers whose inquiring spirit found excitement in what to 20th-century eyes seems everyday.
4: Cliff-paths and Copper Mines Foot-slogging through Cornwall in 1850 with Wilkie Collins. 'You, who in these days of vehement bustle can still find time to travel for pleasure alone, patronise, I exhort you, the first and oldest established of all conveyances, your own legs...!'
With Anthony Hyde as Wilkie Collins
Producer SIMON ELMES. Stereo

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 40 pm)

Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory to the operating theatre.
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN

The Two Worlds of Joseph Race with Christian Rodska and Elizabeth Proud
'In England I began 1873 by kissing four young ladies. Now, in very different case, I begin my first whole year in the country of my choice.'
The country Joseph Race had chosen was China. At the age of 12, working from 5.30 in the morning till late at night at a lead mine in Weardale, County
Durham, he was one day in chapel when his heart was 'strangely warmed' by the ringing words of the preacher. Then and there he decided to become a Methodist minister himself. The musician, writer and broadcaster Steve Race tells the dramatic story of his grandfather, based on his diaries and letters.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK. Stereo (Re-broadcast Friday 11. 0 am LW)
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Tony Palmer presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON

The Quarry (2)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

Radio Geography: Our Changing World Written and presented by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (e) Slide resource pack available
12.30 Xian Producer JANET WHITAKER and at
12.50 Yichang Gorges Producer LAMBROS ATTESHLIS