Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV JOHN CONGDON Stereo

Presented by Sue MacGregor 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 LAURIE MACMILLIAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

If you had broken a world record or won the Nobel Prize or been crowned Miss World, would you remember that date as 'the best day of your life'?
I felt like a small boy who has just been given the biggest ice-cream in the world ... for the first hour.
Marjorie Lofthouse talks to Professor Maurice Wilkins. joint winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of the DNA double helix.
Producer SANCHIA BERG BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 10.45pm)

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.0pm LW)

Spontaneity by ANDREW BURNET
Read by Paul Copley Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM, p 67; Good Christian men! Rejoice and sing (BBC HB 103); Gloria in excelsis Dec; John 21, w 15-25; Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (BBC HB 116) Stereo

En attendant Mme Forbes
Ray Gosling presents a tale of ecclesiastical life in the Diocese of Fulham and Gibraltar.
... I went to a service the other day - the altar looked like an Oxo cube and the priests seemed to be dressed in raincoats - it's all terribly sad....
The Rev Kenneth Forrester is chaplain to the dying Anglican community in Pau, in south-west France. His church, St Andrew's, has neither bells, vergers nor jumble sales -just a tiny congregation of ageing expatriates who assemble to hear true-blue 1662 ideas more ancient than modern.... Producer ALASTAIR WILSON

Breaking the rules of professional stereotyping does not make headlines any more. Just occasionally, however, someone surprising crops up. In this second programme
Annette Heaton describes her life as the sole female in the Army's parachute jumping display team, the Red Devils. Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Pebble Mill

Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes.
Now, although the room grows chilly,
I haven the heart topokepoor
Billy.
A profile of humorist
Harry Graham written and presented by Jeremy Nicholas with contributions from Virginia Graham and Miles Kington and readings by Clive Swift Producer PAUL MAYHEW· ARCHER (R) revised

Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines

Today's story: Tales from the Tub (5) Stereo

Introduced from Manchester by Helen Boaden , who hears the chants and escapades of'the Terrible Knitters of Dent', meets trendy award-winning and industrial knitters and a bishop who knits and purls his own mitres. Woman's Hour also hears about the stresses, strains and idiosyncracies of life as Britain's only female consultant neuro-surgeon.
Producer JENNIFER HOLDEN BBC Manchester Serial:
In the Springtime of the Year (4)

by LLOYD C. DOUGLAS
2: The Way to Jerusalem
Stereo

Third of seven programmes on family influences and traditions Holding the Fort
The small fortified town of Galle juts out into the Indian ocean, at the south-western corner of Sri Lanka. Within the ramparts, by the crumbling YWCA building, Mrs Bwldjens is selling her home-made fudge.
She is proud of her Dutch name. In a small room at the back, Gracie Bartholomeus is teaching English elocution to Muslim children; while across the road, inside the old Dutch church, Nesta Brohier polishes a brass plate bearing her daughter's name.
Melanie Butler meets the three remaining members of a disappearing tribe - the last Burghers of Galle.
Local adviser JOHN M. GORNER
Producer NIGEL ACHESON. Stereo

Presented by Gordon dough and Susannah Simons continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport. Producer IRENE MALLIS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer BRIDGET CARTER
Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Rt Hon Kenneth Baker MP, Secretary of State for Education and Science, Frances Morrell, Leader of the ILEA, Anne Sofer, Member of the SDP National Committee, Simon Jenkins, writer and Sunday Times columnist
Chairman John Humphrys
From Thurlby, Lincolnshire

BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Ian Skidmore talks to five people about their lives.
3: Ken Williams , former country bobby, now an international conservationist
Producer ANNE HOWELLS (R)

As former White House aide Michael Deaver's trial begins, a look at how widespread is corruption in government. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Style on Trial
Designers shape our environment. Cars and curtains, washing machines and magazines, should all be pleasing to the eye and functional. But are they? And are Britain's designers helping or hindering manufacturers? David Roper reports. Producer ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh by SAKI
Read by Michael Cochrane
A train speeds Balkanwards, a painting vanishes in Paris and suddenly a stranger tells a tale of another disappearance ... a human disappearance! Producer MICHELE TIDY

Presented by Richard Kershaw

A satirical review of the past week's news and events with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by: PAUL B. DAVIES. STUART SILVER RICHARD QUICK. STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN. ALISON RENSHAW PETER HICKEY. PETE SINCLAIR
KEVIN MANDRY. BILL MATTHEWS MAX HANDLEY. GED PARSONS and others
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25 pm L W)

followed by an interlude