An interview with a prominent figure in agriculture, followed by a five-day weather forecast Producer TIM FINNEY
With BISHOP RICHARD HOLLOWAY BBC Scotland. Stereo
Presented by Chris Lowe and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
with David Symonds
by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON abridged in five episodes by TREVOR ROYLE
Read by Paul Young (1)
In 1879 the young Stevenson left Scotland, at odds with his family and in anxious pursuit of his future wife. This is his classic account of his passage to the New World.
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland (R)
In the first of a special summer season, Noel Edmonds heads a team of television personalities, including Janet Street-Porter and Ian McCaskill , into a later than usual breakfast encounter. Will they deliver some 'golden eggs' or be left with egg on their faces as they meet guests for whom the week holds something a bit special?
Later in the series teams of comedy writers, novelists, columnists, reporters and scientists will take up the challenge as the home team. Producers ROD MACRAE and JULIA BICKNELL. Stereo
Louise Botting asks the experts how the Election result will affect your finances.
The End of the Flight by SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Read by William Eedle
from St Andrew's and St George's Parish Church, Edinburgh
Like a Shepherd; God is working his purpose out; Blessing and honour and glory and power Presented by John Arnott Organist TOM LAING-REILLY
Choir director PETER DOUGLAS
3: Breaking the Spell
In which June Knox-Mawer ends her series of recollections of British people who once lived and worked in the Arabian
Peninsular. Early oil explorers, missionaries, doctors and many others recall the times before wealth and nationalism thrust Araby into the modem age. Producer JULIAN HALE
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Listeners' poetry requests Presented by D. J. Enright Readers SHEILA MITCHELL and DENYS HAWTHORNE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR
Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS
Umpire Brian Johnston
Team captains Tim Rice, Willie Rushton
Spinners Bernard Cribbins and Stephen Fry
Statisticians PETER HICKEY and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
Groundsman PAUL SPENCER.
Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6. 30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
WENDY RICHARD reads Matilda's New Home by THIRZA ASHELFORD Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN. Stereo
Introduced from the North East by Julia Shaw
To while away the long hours in their crane cabs three Sheffield women took to communicating in verse - poems on anything from "The Men Below' to 'No
Time to Go'. Now their collected works are being published to the amusement of some and the embarrassment of others.
Sonia Beesley talks to some of the newly-elected women
MPs.... looking forward to their first day in Parliament. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
Serial: No More than Human by MAURA LAVERTY abridged in 12 episodes by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by Maureen O'Brien (2) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Tom and Jerry by JOAN SADLER Stereo
An American in London Michael Tilson-Thomas,
Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Gershwin's death with an ambitious festival at London's Barbican Centre. Michael Berkeley talks to him about his musical discoveries in the Gershwin family archives.
Presented by Susannah Simons and Bill Frost
Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
John Waite and his team tackle another case from their postbag.
If you have any information about major abuses, write to: Face the Facts, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Dreams, Secrets, Beautiful Lies by ROBERT FERGUSON
(winner of a Giles Cooper Award) with An idyllic English village in autumn sunshine seems the perfect setting for a family outing to buy a country cottage, but things don't always work planned, especiallyout during the 11 'lost' days of Directed by RICHARD IMISON. Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 3)
'Best Radio Plays of 1986; the Giles Cooper Award Winners, £12.95from booksellers
A year in the life of an English village, In the third of 12 monthly talks Wilfred De'Ath reports on June in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire. BBC Manchester
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RACHEL YORKE Editor ANNE WINDER
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The Love Child by EDITH OUVIER abridged and read in five parts by Lynn Farleigh (1)
At 32, her mother dead,
Agatha Bodenham finds herself quite alone. She summons back to life the only friend she ever knew, Clarissa, the dream companion of her childhood.
Producer MARILYN IMRIE BBC Scotland (R)
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
When in Spain A 40-minute compilation from the new series recently broadcast in Options. ANDREW SACHS learns about Spain and the Spanish language from CRISTINA LAGO and MIGUEL PENARANDA. Producer ALAN WILDING (e)
