farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

with James Butterworth
(Stereo)

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With Simon Rose
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Bryan Martin
7.25* 8.25* Sport with Charles Colvile
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

(Stereo)

This week the team travels to South Wirral, where members of the University of Liverpool Amateur Gardening Society and the Friends of Ness Gardens put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki, Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith.
Chairman Clay Jones

BBC Manchester

by Celia Fremun. Read by Mary Wimbush.

Malcolm and Maisie are spending a nostalgic holiday by the sea - the little resort where they first met. Malcolm is in his 70s and Maisie tends to boss him about. But a visit to Dead Man's Rock fills him with a sense of challenge too strong to ignore - whatever the outcome.

NEM, p 21; The King of love my shepherd is (BBC HB 475); Psalm 8; Mark 8. vv 27-38;
Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371). Stereo

The fourth of five programmes in which David Willmott explores a familiar trade, which could disappear in the near future.

This time he talks to Horace Foster, a third generation Staffordshire blacksmith, who shoed his first horse at the age of 16. With his father, he would get through a dozen cart horses a day and still find time to repair ploughs and harrows.

BBC Pebble Mill

Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family
Presented by John Howard

by Dick Francis
Dramatised in eight parts by Ernest Dudley

A party at a racing stable has been shattered by a tragic accident and the deaths of a number of guests.
(Stereo)

Presented by Sir Robin Day with news and topics in and behind the headlines

by the Conservative Party

1.55 Listening Corner
Today's story: Ribbit in Winter by David Taft

2.5 Looking at Nature: Birds
Build a classroom birdtable for 'eyeball-to-eyeball' birdwatching.
(Stereo) (e)

2.20 Listening and Reading: 5: Chocolate Cake
Written and read by Michael Rosen
(e)

2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): A Friend for the Wind
by Libby Houston
(R) (e)

2.40 Real World: 5: What Do I Do with All This Information?
Information skills - how to use them
(e)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor

Guest of the Week: Commander Thelma Wagstaff of the Metropolitan Police, who has special responsibility for the protection of women and for rape.

Serial: In Chancery by John Galsworthy, abridged in 14 parts by Ann Rees Jones
Read by John Bennett (1)
This third volume of The Forsyte Saga opens in the year 1899. Soames and Irene have been separated for 12 years - and Soames is restless. He has met a young French girl, Annette, and wants to be free to remarry.
(Music: Hanson's First Symphony)

A ghost story by Alanna Knight.

Edward meets the mysterious and beautiful Jeannie by chance and falls in love with her. Her memory haunts him, but is she real? Will he ever find her again?

BBC Scotland
(Stereo)

Alexis Lykiard continues his series of seven programmes of dreams and nightmares.

BBC Bristol
(Stereo)

The image of the ballet dancer effortlessly moving through space is still potent, but this week a frank autobiography by American ballerina Gelsey Kirkland uncovers the pressures and anxieties of a dancer's life, and a recent conference highlights the medical and physical dangers. Presented by Christopher Cook.

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons

(continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55pm)

With Pauline Bushnell
including Financial Report

By John Antrobus.
Starring Spike Milligan, John Bluthal, Chris Langham and John Antrobus.
Beleaguered Britain in 1941 and a team of British scientists are working on a new bomb which will harness the power of the prune. Now read on.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Presented by John Waite
(Details tomorrow at 9.5 am LW)

A series of eight programmes presented by Malcolm Billings

During the 1200s the papacy preached crusades not only against the Muslims but also against the northern pagans, heretical Christian sects and political enemies. These crusades were financed by taxes on church income, a measure which led to mounting criticism. Crusades to the East did continue, however, and they included the Children's Crusade and the Shepherd's Crusade, as well as two led by St Louis, King of France. But would any of them recover Jerusalem?

(Stereo) (e)

Ian Davidson chairs a discussion on the issues arising from the Iran-Iraq war, now in its seventh year.

(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11.0am LW)

by Brett Usher.

(Stereo)

by Anthony Smith

Presented by Paul Allen

(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

by Michael Runnicles
(e)