Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

with FR MICHAEL HARDING Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8 35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

BBC correspondents report from around the world Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

by BETTY HASKELL
Read by Peter Tuddenham
The village school has a new headmistress - a determined young woman. The school caretaker knows his job, and has a challenge in his eyes.... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

NEM, p 89; Immortal, invisible (BBC HB 10); Psalm 93;
I Corinthians 1, vv 18-31;
Now thank we all our God (BBCHB277) Stereo

Glyn Worsnip gets away from it all to his home overlooking two great rivers, the Wye and the Severn - but his peace is shortlived.... BBCBristol

Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON

written by IAN BROWN and JAMES HENDRIE
4: The Turn of the Knob
'A woman! Pah!' ejaculates The Hon Clarence Green. 'This surely is the queerest club in London.' Miss Primrose takes on the task of Governess to two precocious children.
Music by MAX HARRIS Producer PAUL SPENCER Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines

1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by FRED HARRIS (R)
2.5 Let's Join In Franz the Garden Boy A Danish folktale and SOUNDBOX (e)
2.25 Toy Theatre Puss in Boots adapted by COLIN SMITH (e)
2.40 Listen! Dangerous Holiday (2) by ROB GITTlNS (e)

Introduced from Manchester by Helen Boaden
'She was the most gentle person I have ever met. I was fascinated by her low voice and speedwell-blue eyes which, though they twinkled at you when she spoke, seemed to gaze into distances - as though she was looking out to sea.'
Writer and broadcaster Phoebe Hesketh remembers her extraordinary Aunt Edith, the leading Preston suffragette whose dedication to the movement turned her life and her marriage upside down. Also, a glimpse of what may possibly be England's last surviving mackintosh, the smells, the squeaks and the explosions that went with it. Producer JENNIFER HOLDEN BBC Manchester Serial:
The Beiderbecke Affair (5)

Letter From an Unknown Woman by STEFAN ZWEIG adapted by ELIZABETH TROOP
'R' is a successful novelist. He has wealth, fame and any woman he desires.
Nineteenth-century Vienna is at his feet. He even has a mysterious admirer who regularly sends him white roses on his birthday. Then, one year, the roses don't appear....
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo (R)

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm

with CLIVE ROSLIN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer. Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer JULIAN HALE

The Rt Rev Hugh Montefiore , Bishop of Birmingham The Rt Hon Norman St John Stevas, mp Peter Snape, mp and Patricia Morison, historian, and Daily Telegraph art journalist, tackle the issues raised by the audience in Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Anthony Smith casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

byAlistairCooke

The State of the National What is the future for the National Theatre? Its grant is standing still, its management is changing and the fashion seems to be for devolution. David Roper reports on the people and the plays in the three auditoria on London's South
Bank and the effect new policies will have on the theatre's resident companies. Producer JOHN BOUNDY

The Quarry by FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT abridged in five parts by ANDREW SIMPSON
Read by Gavin Campbell (5)
(Starting Monday: 'Missing Persons' by David Cook )

Presented by Richard Kershaw

with Bill Wallis , David Tate Jon Glover and Sally Grace He thatjokes confesses.
(ITALIAN PROVERB)
Exposing themselves this week are MARTIN BOOTH. PAUL B. DAVIES STUART SILVER . RICHARD QUICK STEVE PUNT . MIKE COLEMAN
AUSON RENSHAW. PETER HICKEY PETE SINCLAIR , KEVIN MANDRY GED PARSONS. MAX HANDLEY BILL MATTHEWS and others Producer ANDY WILSON
Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25 pm LW)

followed by an interlude

Radio Geography: Our Changing World Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK (e) Slide resource pack available
12.30 China and World Trade Written and presented by KEITH HINDELL and at
12.50 Tourism Written and presented by MARY CHERRY