Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TIM FINNEY
REBECCA POW. DAVID ADDIS
with SISTER MARIE CONNOR. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Chris Lowe in London with Brian Redhead in West Berlin
6.30, 7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
'When Election Call was founded in 1974, it introduced a new dimension to election broadcasting - and when it was televised simultaneously in 1983, it was the most widely praised series of election broadcasts of all. I hope, with the listeners' and viewers' help, to bring you that success again. Remember - it is your Election Call.'
Sir Robin Day introduces your questions to the party politicians seeking your votes. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Linesopen from 8.0am
A A simultaneous broadcast with BBCI
Summer Pool by CYNTHIA THOMAS
Read by Deirdre Edwards Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
NEM, p 46; Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137); Psalm 146; Luke 24, vv 36-53; Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire (BBC HB 126). Stereo
Lifetime by NIGEL D. MOFFATT with Rudolph Walker as Archie Archie spends his days on a park bench looking back on a long life spent in Jamaica and Britain with his wife, the formidable Marcy.
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
Seals and seabirds feature when Jenny Devitt visits the Sea Mammal Research Unit and British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, where she finds that albatrosses are very choosy about their mate,
Mediterranean monk seals are down to their last few hundred, and Macaroni penguins need to catch at least six shrimps on every dive in order to survive. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol
Susan Rae with the latest news and advice for consumers.
Listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman Robert Robinson First Round:
Midlands and East Anglia Christopher Argyle (author/proof reader) Michael Rutt (teacher) Robert Raybould
(chartered engineer)
George Manchester (teacher) 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
Presented by Gordon Clough
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon Stereo
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Science in Schools: to integrate or not? That is one of the many questions being asked about science teaching in schools.
Should children begin at 5? How much will they lose if the three traditional subjects - physics, chemistry and biology - are not taught separately?
Anna Grayson investigates what is going on in the lab. Story: More Malgudi Days 3: Selvi
Hello Out There by KEITH HAGENBACH US astronauts make contact, in space, with their Russian counterparts - only to find that their contact is interrupted by other voices....
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING Stereo (R)
What are the real choices on Polling Day on the issues which will affect our everyday lives? Geoffrey Goodman steps back from the politicians' rhetoric to identify the alternatives. Families talk about what matters to them and independent experts throw light on the parties' policies away from the heat of the campaign. Producer SHEILA COOK.
Presented by Robert Williams and Phil Longman continuedon 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 6: Spy Story starring with and Why does the bear suck his paw in winter? And what does the answer have to do with the First Secretary's dinner suit? Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Major issues, important events Reporter Helen Boaden Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
in which Jeremy Siepmann recounts the adventures and reflections of musicians abroad. 3: Weber in London with Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo
(Details on Friday at 11.0 am)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer SUSAN DENNY Phone on [number removed]Linesopen from & 30 to 10.15pm Details of the 'In Touch
Handbook' in print, tape, moon and Braille, from
Broadcasting Support Service, PO Box 7, London W3 6XJ
Christopher Cook presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
Four Stories by FRANK TUOHY Read by Penelope Wilton 1: Thunderbolt
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presenter Alexander MacLeod National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Extracts from the major political speeches of the day from constituencies round the country.
followed by an interlude
