Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TIM FINNEY
REBECCA POW , DAVID ADDIS
With THE REV PRYDERI LLWYD JONES Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead 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 PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to get advice, information and insight into your current concerns. Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.0 am
A Touch of St Patrick written and read by Jude Collins
When Nipper McGrath plans to spend a school holiday at the pictures with Biddy the kitchen-maid he needs a bit of luck - the sort you get from St Patrick's toe....
Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland
New Every Morning, page 110; Be thou my vision (BBC HB 316); Psalm 100; Matthew 19, W16-26; I bind unto myself (BBC HB 170) Stereo
Jeremy Cherfas discovers a smell which sends wasps wild and finds out how gorilla daughters follow in their mother's footsteps.
Producer MILES BARTON. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Presented by Susan Rae including The Protectors
Malcolm Stacey continues his weekly look at professional bodies and trade organisations. Do they protectyou, the customer, or shield the guilty?
Stereo (Details Thursday at 6.30 pm)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's songs: Favourite Things
2.5 History Long Ago Emperors and Empire
2: Claudius and Caractacus by TERRY JAMES. Stereo (e)
2.25 Contact Guru Gobind Singh Story by DAVID SELF (e) .
2.40 Listening to Music 1 (11-13) Saint-Saens Symphonic Poem Danse Macabre (Part 2) Stereo (R) (e)
Introduced by Sarah Dunant
Neve Shalom: Martin Benedyk visits the village of Neve Shalom in Israel - a thriving community where Jewish and Arab families are proving that, despite the divisions of the Middle East, co-existence can work.
Serial: Pack of Cards by Penelope Lively, abridged in six episodes by Elizabeth Bradbury.
1: A Long Night at Abu Simbel Read by Sheila Mitchell
'In Cairo they had complained about the traffic and at Saqqara Mrs Marriot-Smith and Lady Hacking had wanted a lavatory and blamed her when eventually they had to retire, bleating, behind a sand-dune....'
(Music: Arnold's Trumpet Concerto)
Recollections of John Stewart Collis who, in 1940, rejected an army post and instead went to work on the land.
Read by Brian Gear. BBC Bristol
With PETER DONALDSON followed by further discussions of the Budget proposals with contributions from
The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , mp, The Rt Hon David Steel , mp and representatives of industry and business.
Editors FRANCIS HALEWOOD MARTIN COX. ALAN BEECHAM
A PM and Radio News production
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5 pm)
(Re-broadcast Thursday at 10.0am LW)
Behind the Mask
The identity of the 'Man in the Iron Mask', who died in the Bastille in Paris on 19 November 1703, has intrigued historians and writers for over two centuries but remains a mystery. Drawing on contemporary documents, diaries and letters,
Harry Thompson attempts to prove the indentity of the prisoner and the reasons for his long and secret confinement.
Narrator Peter France with Peter Jeffrey as the Marquis de Louvois
Roy Kinnear as M de Saint-Mars and other parts played by GWEN CHERELL. GORDON CLYDE
ARNOLD DIAMOND. DAVID GARTH
GARARD GREEN. TREVOR NICHOLS and JONATHAN SCOTT
Historical adviser ROBIN BRIGGS
Producer ROSEMARY HART. Stereo (R)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open from 8.30 to 10. 15pm
Presented by Michael Oliver Producer RACHEL YORKE
Love Lies Bleeding (7)
Presented by David Sells (continued at 10.50*)
A statement on the Budget by The Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Rt Hon Nigel Lawson , mp
The City's verdict on the Budget.
Presented by John Roberts
followed by an interlude
Consumer Education: Value for Money
12.30 3: Health, Housing and Rights and at 12.50 4: Money Stereo (R) (e)
