Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TIM FINNEY
REBECCA POW. DAVID ADDIS
With THE RT REV GORDON BATES 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* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Make your points on an issue of current concern.
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.0am
by JOHN BENFIELD CURTIS Read by Gabriel Gawin Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
NEM, p 71; The king of love my
Shepherd is (BBC HB 475); Psalm
47; Ephesians l,vv 16-23; King of glory (BBC HB 325). Stereo
Frank Perring and Derek Jones tread lightly between the flowers of a still unspoilt part of England in National Wildflower Week.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol f&^LnextSaturday)
Presented by Sue Rae
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson First Round: South j Philip Evans (mathematician) Mark Webber
(British Rail clerk)
Laurence Bowman (teacher) JohnWindus
(retired Inspector of Taxes)
The programme includes
Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own nuestions 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
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Oliver Button is a Sissy by TOMIE DE PAOLA. Stereo
2.5 Explorers Magellan Written by PAUL COPLEY (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.0am VHF/FM)
2.25 Radio Thin King: Complete Stories Toothday and Birthday (e)
2.40 Listening to Music 3: O-level/CSE/GCSE Unit 4: Melodies Devised by PROFESSOR GEORGE PRATT and BARRY GIBSON Stereo (R)(e)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Reach for the Stars: a star-studded investigation into the worlds of astronomy and astrology.
Do you sneak a peak at your horoscope or follow it slavishly? Do you blush when you confess you are a Virgo or a Pisces out of water? How much do you know about the female stargazers who helped map out the positions of the celestial bodies upon which, so astrologers tell us, our futures depend? Woman's Hour invites you to call in on [number removed]with your own stories and questions in the course of the programme. Serial:
With 6'Leary in the Grave (9)
Before I Am Old by ANTOINE O'FLATHARTA
It is the summer of 1957 and a young English writer goes to Connemara, meets Mary and discovers a way of life which he can never be part of. Directed by MARILYN IMRIE BBC Scotland. Stereo (R)
Introduced by Rodney Smith Get Out There and Export
Low inflation and a competitive pound are said to be creating a golden opportunity for exports. Yet if you are unfamiliar with foreign markets, jumping on the bandwagon can seem a little daunting. Engineers and apple-growers combine to share their experiences.
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 7.20pm)
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Gordon dough continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID SYMONDS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
by ALEX SHEARER
5: Here in the Western World
States Ambassador
Why is the Ambassador's whisky like an American submarine? And is the noble art of moaning really under threat? Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Paul Barker Producer JOHN FORSYTH Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5 pm)
In which Jeremy Siepmann recounts the adventures and reflections of musicians abroad. 2: Offenbach in America with Hugh Dickson as Offenbach
Producer RAY ABBOTT Stereo
(Details on Friday 11.0 am LW)
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 01.[number removed]Lines open from 8.30 to 10.15 pm Free quarterly bulletin from:
In Touch, BBC, London WlA 4WW (Send four saes, 8 1/2 x 12, for a year's supply)
Michelene Wandor presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
A Cure for Serpents (7)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
followed by an interlude
Biotechnology
12.30 Science Behind the Potato Crisp (RV). Stereo (e) and at 12.50 Antibiotics Versus the Microbes (RV) The story of the development and manufacture of Augmentir Stereo (e)
