Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TIM FINNEY
REBECCA POW , DAVID ADDIS
with JOHN ROUSSEL. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys 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 EUGENE FRASER
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to make your points to John and his guests Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.0 0 am
His Wedded Wife from Plain Tales from the Hills by RUDYARD KIPLING
Read by Brian Gear
Producer PAMELA HOWE
BBC Bristol
NEM, p 110; Morning glory, starlit sky (A&MNS 496); Psalm 1; n Corinthians 9, w 6-15; Tell out my soul (BP 81) Stereo
Phil Drabble , Stephanie Tyler and Maurice Waterhouse go to a wildlife festival to tackle questions from members and friends of the Staffordshire Nature Conservation Trust. Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Susan Rae with the latest news and advice for consumers
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson First Round: South
John Montgomery (lecturer) Brian Evans
(company secretary) Ann Ellis (housewife) David Camidge (wine merchant)
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Sir Robin Day with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Maybe it's a Tiger by KATHLEEN HERSOM. Stereo (R)
2.5 Explorers Christopher Columbus Written by EDWARD KELSEY (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.0am VHFIFM)
2.25 Radio Thin King: Complete Stories Ding Dong Baby (e)
2.40 Listening to Music 3: O-level/GSE/GCSE Unit 3: Pitch Devised by PROFESSOR GEORGE PRATT and BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (R) (e)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
In 1945 most of Germany's cities lay in ruins; many of the German men were dead, missing or prisoners of war. So it fell to the women to clear away the rubble and begin rebuilding the towns. Rosie Goldsmith investigates the story of the Trummerfrauen, or 'rubble women', who quite literally laid the foundations of much of modern Germany. Serial:
With O'Leary in the Grave (4)
For Personal Reasons by ROD TINSON with and 'There was a man in accounts who left to go and live in a converted motor torpedo boat but you'll be the first man I know of to give up local government to look after a baby.'
A jolly good play (THE LISTENER) Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo (R)
Rodney Smith presents the programme about what's new in the world of work and enterprise. Getting Listed
Appearing on the Stock
Exchange may give a company a desirable public profile, but is it necessarily a good idea?
Companies who have taken the plunge, and some who have decided not to, share their experiences.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 7.20pm)
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
4: Compromising Positions Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 4.5pm)
In which Jeremy Siepmann recounts the adventures and reflections of musicians abroad. 1: Pablo Casals , a citizen of the world with Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo
A series of six programmes illustrating the changes in public and private attitudes to sex within living memory A mixture of reminiscence, opinion and voices from the archives
1: The Facts of Life
This first programme explores the theory and practice of sex education from the contemplation of tadpoles to the goings-on behind the bikeshed, and looks beyond the hysterical headlines about 'teenage sex' to the real sexual history of the British adolescent.
Reporter Helen Boaden Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast on Friday 11. 0 am L W)
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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. Details of the 'In Touch
Handbook' in print, tape, moon and Braille, from
Broadcasting Support Service, PO Box 7, London W36XJ
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
A Cure for Serpents (2)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Deutsches Magazin
12.30 3: Mein HeimjZimmer (R)(e) and at 12.45 4: Was ich gem mache (R) (e)
1.0 Authentic German for GCSE 2: Wer ich bin und wo ich wohne (e)
