Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TM FINNEY
REBECCA POW. DAVID ADDIS
With DEREK WILLIAMS Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by simon VANCE 7 20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to make your points to Nick and his guests on an issue of current concern. Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.0am
A Different Dream by JO GILL
Read by Paul Webster Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
New Every Morning, page 93;
Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371); Psalm 15; Exodus 3, vv 1-12; Light's abode, celestial Salem (BBC hb 250) Stereo
The Apple by INEZ BENSUSAN with In 1908 the first meeting took place of the Actresses Franchise League, supporting the 'Votes for Women' campaign. This play was written for the League to perform at public meetings.
In order to leave her dull office job, Helen needs her share of the family inheritance, but Cyril, her brother and the apple of their father's eye, must come first.
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.0pm)
Cherry Orchards
Growing juicy fruit crops in profusion puts temptation in the way of starlings, bullfinches and other birds, but by careful management it is possible to have both cherries and wildlife. Jim Flegg and Peter France visit the orchards of Kent. 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: North
Olive Dewhurst-Maddock (teacher)
Ian Copping
(senior policy officer in local government)
Leo Cullinan (civil servant) Jeffrey Wilson
(company director)
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 Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP reads Walter Crumpton and the Box of Rabbits Stereo (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Whither Our National Parks?
Are we on the right track when it comes to preserving our natural countryside?
Ann and Malcolm MacEwen , authors of a new study, believe it is time for a broader approach to conservation.
Serial: Reasonable Doubts by JOAN UNGARD abridged in 11 episodes by SALLY SKRIMSHlRE
Read by Colette O'Neil (1)
When Thomas turns up on his mistress Claire's doorstep, she knows he has left his wife. But soon Claire, who is an advocate in Edinburgh, has other problems on her mind.
Thomas's friend, Liffey, is up on a rape charge, and she is to defend him.
(Music: Glazunov's Serenade No 2, for horn and string orchestra)
(Colette O'Neil is in 'When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout' at the Whitehall Theatre, London)
The Pact by HENRY COMOR with and He is 88, she is 80 and life is not easy. They are losing their faculties and wonder why
God does not put them out of their misery.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo (R)
1: In the Jungle
Ten times the size of England, with more trees and more freshwater than anywhere else in the world, the Amazon Basin is still a mass of green and blue on the map. But this greatest natural resource is central to the plans of one of the fastest growing nations.
In the first of five programmes Anthony Smith steps into the shrouded world of the Brazilian jungle, to meet the monkeys, giant frogs, parrots and tarantulas that help to make it so special.
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by Robert Williams and Bill Frost continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Max Easterman Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5 pm)
In which Jeremy Siepmann recounts the adventures and reflections of musicians abroad.
8: Berlioz in Germany with Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo
The Countryside in Summer (Details on Friday at 11.0am)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed] Lines open from 8.30 to 10.15pm
Free quarterly bulletin from: [address removed] (Send four SAEs, 8 1/2" x 12", for a year's supply)
Mark Steyn presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
The Songlines (7)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
