An interview with a leader of the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers. Producer TIM FINNEY
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with THE REV DAVID CHILLINGWORTH BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday andSueMacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
A look ahead with Edward Cole
sifts the BBC Sound Archives for news of the past with a meaning for the present. Producer SIMON ELMES
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30 pm)
Who or what is likely to cause a bit of stir, amusement or annoyance this week? A host of relevant studio guests help to preview some of the forthcoming attractions. Producers ROD MACRAE and MARINA SALANDY-BROWN. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting Browned-off with building societies? Puzzling over pensions? Stumped by social security? Tied up in tax knots? The Money Box team is here to help.
Taking Care by RAMLA KHAN
Read by Shireen Shah
An old man has chosen a husband for his daughter, according to custom. He needs her promise so he can die in peace.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
from the Digby Stuart College of Higher Education, Roehampton, London, for the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.
Hail to the Lord's anointed (BBC HB 457); Sing of him softly (Bob Dufford , sj); Luke 2, w 21-35; Let us with a gladsome mind (BBC HB 461)
Presented by Fr James Cronin Choir director SARAH COWLEY Organist ANDREW RAMSEY
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers JILL BALCON and RONALD PICKUP
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The only national radio programme for consumers Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS
by Jim Eldridge starring Peter Davison an Eric Brown, and James Grout as Mr Beeston, the Headmaster.
The school concert .... and the preparations for Mrs Rudd's big day are a combination of molto agitato and doloroso.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
(Vivienne Martin is in "Cabaret" at the Strand Theatre, London)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner This week: Paws, Claws and Whiskers Presented by MYFANWY TALOG and CHRIS STUART Today's story: Olga da Polga 's New Home by MICHAEL BOND Script by LEE PRESSMAN Producer ELERI JONES. Stereo
2.5 Playtime: My Family Presented by KEN SHANLEY and LIZ WATTS. Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.20am VHF/FM)
2.20 Science Scope
3: Keeping Track. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) A Walk in wolf wood 1: The Wolf Hunt by MARY STEWART adapted by PADDY BECHELY (R) (e)
Introduced by Jenni Murray
The presses roll this month for yet another newspaper - Robert Maxwell 's London Daily News. With a first edition at breakfast time and others throughout the day, its coverage will reach beyond the Home Counties.
Judy Swallow follows the build up to the publication of Britain's first 24-hour paper. Serial:
The Beiderbecke Affair (6) by ALAN PLATER abridged in ten episodes byPATMCLOUGHLIN
Read by James Bolam Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
The Envy of the Stranger
A thriller by CAROLINE GRAHAM Stereo
The State of the National
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 National
Theatre's resident companies.
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHFIFM5.5Ø-5.55pm
With PETER DONALDSON
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
The alternative view of the week's news live from KGB headquarters, Moscow, with Chairman Took.
Under interrogation this week Richard Ingrams of Private Eye, Gillian Reynolds of the Daily Telegraph. Punch Editor Alan Coren and his sidekick David Taylor
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON with the Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
(Details on Friday at 4. 5pm)
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
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
by Andrew Tyrrell
Stephen has been fascinated by exotic fish since childhood and now owns a tropical fish shop where he lives with his mother Molly, a former opera star. But then Delia arrives to trouble the uneasy tranquility of their strange world....
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
with Diana Bishop and Richard Durden
In the early part of this century, the famous restaurateur, gourmet and wit,
MarceU X. Boulestin , strove to rescue the English palate.
These poems are a tribute to his belief that food which is worth eating, is worth talking about. Written by DIANA BISHOP
Producer JOHN THEOCHAIUS (R)
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer RACHEL YORKE Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 30pm)
Missing Persons by DAVID COOK abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Patricia Routledge 1: Apple Strudel
Hetty Wainthropp decides to enliven the declining years of her best friends by tracking down an abandoned child.
Delighted with her success in re-opening the deep old wounds of desertion and bigamy, Hetty embarks on a very belated career as a private detective. Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester Stereo
Presented by David Sells Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
Deutsch fur die Oberstufe Producer TONY STAPLES (e)
12.30 11: Politik und die Massenmedien Compiled by DONALD RICHARDS and at
12.50 12: Universitatsabschluss. Und was dann? Compiled by WOLFGANG KEINHORST
