Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TIM FINNEY
REBECCA POW , DAVID ADDIS
With THE REV JOHN CONGDON Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
by ELIZABETH BOWEN 2: The Needlecase
Your chance to make your points to Nick and his guests
(Lines open from 8.0 am)
Last Gasp by MICHAEL A. PEARSON Read by Timothy Kightley Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
New Every Morning, page 34; Light's glittering morn
(BBC HB 108); 0 taste and see (Vaughan Williams); John 20, vv 19-30; Jesus lives (BBC HB 106) Stereo
The Brotherhood by EDGAR WALLACE adapted by JOHN scotney with and Inspector Pine doesn't confine his considerable energies to the Force. He's a lay preacher, a temperance orator and Secretary of the Racehorse Elevation Brotherhood for the Suppression of Gambling. So he's not exactly going to admire Educated Evans, who's no stranger to the cosy or the course.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9. 0pm)
Presented by Derek Jones Clegg and Coe
'A wren, heading towards an island, flopped down into the sea just five yards short. It floated like a duck and then took off and flew on. Is it usual for wrens to float? Can't they fly very far without a rest?'
Michael Clegg and Malcolm Coe attempt to answer another batch of listeners' questions. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Susan Rae with the latest news and advice for consumers
A special invitation challenge match featuring the winners andrunners-upofthe 1986 Brain of Britain and Mastermind competitions. Chairman Robert Robinson Taking part Stephen Gore (Brain of Britain 1986)
Arthur Naylor (Runner-up, Brain of Britain 1986) Jennifer Keaveney (Mastermind 1986) Philip McDonald
(Runner-up, Mastermind 1986) The programme includes specialist rounds on subjects chosen by the contestants: the French Revolution, the Royal Navy in World War II, the Life and Works of Jane Austen , the Life and Works of James Brindley
Questions set by LAN GILLIES BOSWELLTAYLOR and PATRICK BEAVER Mycroft LAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo (R)
Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Today's story: Tales from the Tub (2) Stereo
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Families in Crisis: how do families cope when a young child has a critical illness?
Jenny Cuffe talks to
Monica Dickens , author of a recent book on the subject, and to some of the families who have been through such an experience. Serial:
In the Springtime of the Year by SUSAN HILL abridged in nine episodes by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by Lois Baxter (1)
When Ruth's much-loved husband Ben is killed in a forestry accident, her sense of isolation is profound - only
Ben's 14-year-old brother, Jo, seems able to understand.
(Music: Janacek's 'Capriccio for piano and wind instruments')
Widowers
The second of two plays by ALUN OWEN with and
Brothers Dave and Morgan Roberts are both widowers struggling to maintain good relations with their children.
Dave is a garage owner, Morgan a university lecturer. They rarely meet.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS Stereo (R)
The programme about what's new in the world of work and enterprise returns for a ten-week series.
Rodney Smith highlights the concept of profit-related pay.
Can it produce the flexibility in the workforce that the Chancellor hoped for, and what are the pitfalls for those introducing such a scheme? Plus the usual mixture of comment and advice from the people whose business is business.
Producer ANDREW VIVIEN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 7.20pm)
Presented by Robert Williams and Carole West continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
by ALEX SHEARER starring with and 1: Favours
In which the repair of the embassy typewriter plays a part in the mating of seals, the extermination of bugs, and the silencing of little birds. Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
A quarterly report on the world of employment introduced by Brian Redhead
Employment issues remain a hotly debated talking point. But what is really happening in the world of work? With reports from around the country, and news of employment trends, Brian Redhead reflects on innovations and changes that affect the British workforce, including the changing role of the service industries and the implications of what is known as 'telework'.
Consultant JOHN ATKINSON
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE (R) revised
Background notes available from: Workforce, BBC Villiers House, London W52PA
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory to the operating theatre.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0am)
Waiting for Mrs Forbes
A tale of ecclesiastical life in the diocese of Fulham and Gibraltar (Details on Friday at 11.0am)
For people with a visual handicap
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
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Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Presenter Alexander MacLeod National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Trader Faulkner traces the history of Flamenco: a culture and philosophy of life which has its origins in the gypsy population of southern Spain. Producer ANNE HOWELLS (R)
followed by an interlude
