An interview with a leader of the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers Producer TIM FTONEY
A meditation for the beginning of a new day With THE REV HARM PARRI BBC Wales. Stereo
Presented by Chris Lowe and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With Peter Day
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by Harriet Cass
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Garry Richardson
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Rosanne Macmillan
explores the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Producers ROD MACRAE and MARINA SALANDY-BROWN. Stereo
talks about gardens open to the Public, raising funds for District Nurses; the elderly, the sick and those suffering from the stresses and strains of working for us.
The scheme also helps charities associated with gardens.
Send for the famous 1987 Yellow Book giving details of the gardens to: [address removed]
Presented by Louise Botting ('Money Box Budget Call' is on Wednesday at 9.5 am)
Requiem for Eddie by JOHN PILKINGTON
Read by Crawford Logan
The red-headed woman was in the hotel again, listening to the resident trio playing 'Fools rush in'. Eddie nearly dropped his sticks.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
from St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol with the choir of ST MARY REDCUFFE AND TEMPLE
SCHOOL.
0 Christ, whom we may love and know (A&MR 450); He became like a man (Kenneth Jones );
I am the bread of life (mp 80); Reading: (GNB) Philippians 2, wl-11
Musical Director PHILIP WEAVER Conducted by STEPHEN LYNAS BBCBristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by Alan Brownjohn Readers ROSALIND SHANKS and GEOFFREY BEEVERS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. BristolBS82LR
Presented by Susan Rae
Tax cuts are expected to be the highlight of tomorrow's Budget speech by the Chancellor. But do the British people really want tax cuts - or would they rather see their money spent on bigger pensions or better services such as education and job creation? Today, You and Yours brings you the results of a national poll which reveals whether lower taxes really is a vote winner. Editor KEN VASS
A quiz game about the theatre. Two teams of stage and screen actors try to answer questions harder than 'Who wrote
Hamlet?' and easier than 'Why?' In the Chair Sheila Hancock with Penelope Wilton and Joss Ackland v Denise Coffey and Ian Charleson
Questions researched by JENNY BAYNES and BRIAN HAYWARD producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo (R)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Comer This week: Old Songs, New Songs Songs and rhymes with SANDRA KERR and TONY AITKEN Today's songs: Rise and Shine Producer MARY KALEMXERIAN (e)
2.5 Playtime Seeds and Flowers Presented by TONY AITKEN and LOLA YOUNG. Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at
11.20am VHF/FM)
2.20 Science Scope
8: Lifting Off. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) A Horse for Maggie by DOROTHY HORGAN (R) (e)
Introduced by Jenni Murray
Pyrrhic Victories ... those long drawn out battles with so little gain at the end is how many women who have won sex-discrimination and equal pay cases describe the outcome. Jenny Cuffe talks to some of them and to Alice Leonard , who today publishes an EOC report in which she has interviewed all successful plaintiffs over the past five years.
Serial: In Chancery by JOHN GALSWORTHY abridged in 14 episodes by ANN REES JONES
Read by John Bennett (14)
(Music: Hanson's First Symphony) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Alphabetical Order by MICHAEL FRAYN. Stereo
The Rhythm Method: A Philosophy in Music
Christopher Cook talks to
Sarolta Kodaly , the composer Zoltan Kodaly 's widow, about her husband's beliefs and meets teachers and musicians in Hungary who put the Kodaly Method into practice.
Presented by Gordon Clough and Phil Longman Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pm
With PAULINE BUSHNELL Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Chairman Barry Took
Regular team captains Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren are joined by elfish satirist John Wells and the editor of the Sunday Mirror, Mike Molloy. Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON with the producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
In the last of six programmes offering an intimate view of working life in Lancashire Phil Smith listens to the experiences of the Tarmackers. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
A black comedy set in Belfast by Robin Glendinning
If you take the following ingredients: a woman obsessed with brass bed brazing, her potentially alcoholic husband, his potentially fascist boss, and his boss's potentially paramilitary wife, and mix them with a member of the Alliance party and his militant moderate wife, what will you get? A recipe for a potentially explosive party.
Where'er You Walk
David Moreau attempts, once more, to come to grips with life. BBC Bristol
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ANNE WINDER
Love Lies Bleeding by EDMUND CRISPIN abridged in ten parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by David March (6)
Presented by David Sells Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Consumer Education: Value for Money Presented by VALERIE BETHELL of the Consumers' Association
12.301: 1: Buying Things and at
12.50 2: Leisure and Pleasure Producer GRAHAM TAYAR Stereo (R) (e)
