An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers
Producer TIM FINNEY
A meditation for the beginning of a new day With DR HENRY TANKEL BBC Scotland Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary 6,45* Business News with GREG WOOD
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVENDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Laurie Macmillan
Sir Robin Day introduces your questions to the party politicians seeking your votes. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE open from 8.0am
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC1
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Presented by Louise Botting
Every week Money Box reports on the latest developments in the fields of investment, insurance, mortgages, social security and tax, and takes a look at the financial problems that crop up in everyone's lives.
The Great Dardanelles Adventure by IAN MOORE
Read by Clive Russell Producer SHEILA FOX
(Clive Russell is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
from Cardiff led by John Stuart Roberts
Christ whose glory (BBC HB 137); I Corinthians 1, vv 18-31; We sing the praise of him who died
(BBC HB 95); Thine for ever, God of love
BBC Wales. Stereo
Presented by Fleur Adcock Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and GEOFFREY COLLINS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS
A trivia game based on the rules of cricket
Umpire Brian Johnston Team captains
Tim Rice , Willie Rushton Spinners Leslie Crowther and Peter Jones
Statisticians PETER HICKEY and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
Groundsman PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Listening Corner This week: What a Lot of Noise! Presented by BILL TORRANCE Today's story: Noisy Natalie Goes Shopping written and read by WENDY CRAIG Script by CHRIS WARDE Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo (R)
2.5 Playtime: Up and Down Presented by SANDRA KERR and BEN THOMAS. Stereo (e) (Re-broadcast on Friday at
11.20am VHFIFM)
2.20 Introducing Science Extra Computers at Work Calculation and Control by JULIAN COLEMAN (R) (e)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): The Greek Legend of the Golden Ram re-told by ALARIC COTTER (R) (e)
Introduced by Sarah Dunant Other People's Lives: as Literary Editor of the Times, Philip Howard 's life is dominated by books. While he proclaims that he is a man of the written word, he does admit that when faced with a political biography he would normally prefer to browse through a telephone directory.
Ruth Dudley Edwards challenges his boredom threshold.
Serial: Duplicate Keys by JANE SMILEY , abridged in 11 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Shelley Thompson (4) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Rivers by BRIAN THOMPSON
The Burtiwit
David Moreau attempts once more to come to grips with life. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol (R)
At Cost to Culture?
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
The lifestyle of Arab women remains mysterious to outsiders. It conjures up visions of The Arabian Nights, veils, belly-dancers, seclusion and polygamy. But these Western images are challenged by Arab women, both veiled and unveiled. Nadia Hijab reveals some surprising aspects of the modern 'women's domain'. Producer CELIA MARKS BBC Pebble Mill
The Railway Station Man by JENNIFER JOHNSTON adapted for radio by DENYS HAWTHORNE with and After the death of her husband, Helen Cuffe moves to Donegal in search of peace and solitude.
Nearby, an English war veteran pursues his crazy ambition to restore the disused railway station. Their ensuing relationship is unexpected, unlikely and all too shortlived.
Directed by CUVE BRILL BBC Northern Ireland
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer JUUAN MAY Editor ANNE WINDER
Bevis: The Story of a Boy by RICHARD JEFFERIES (1848-1887) abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Michael Williams (1) Never were the horizons of boyhood so limitless in imagination as the adventures of Mark and Bevis on their wide stretch of water, 'The New Sea'. Producer MAURICE LEITCH (R)
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Extracts from the major political speeches of the day from constituencies round the country
followed by an interlude
A-level French: Voix de France 6: Quelques écrivains modemes Written by MADELEINE LE CUNFF (e)
