direct from the Royal Show Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.
Producers REBECCA POW . TIM FINNEY
with KEITH CLEMENTS. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead featuring this week the winners of the Best of British Youth Awards
Today: Rachel Sharman , aged 19 from Salisbury, Wiltshire. Rachel has been blind since birth and is currently spending a year as a Community Service Volunteer before going to college to read for a sociology degree.
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAUUNE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to talk to John and his studio guests.
Producer NICK UTECMN Lines open from 8. Oam
The Game by PETER FINCH Read by Ray Smith
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
New Every Morning, page 9;
Praise to the Lord (BBC HB 17); Psalm 8; Genesis 1, vv 26-31b; For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272). Stereo
by Marjorie Wilson
An Edinburgh lawyer's office between the wars. A story of a love affair that never quite makes it and of unrealised dreams.
BBC Scotland.
(Stereo) (R)
Why is some seaweed red, some brown and some green? David Nichols joins the holiday makers on Torquay beach to answer their wildlife questions. Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
John Howard visits a self-contained retirement village in the United States where the elderly inhabitants need never set foot in the outside world. He asks a leading British authority on accommodation for the elderly whether plans to introduce similar schemes here will succeed.
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson
First Round: West, Wales and Northern Ireland Colin Fearon
(commercial manager)
Malcolm Bielby (credit analyst) Bob Collier (civil servant) Patrick McGarry
(NHS administrator)
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Programme devised by JOHN P WYNN Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines
WILLIE RUSHTON reads King Jolly on the Beach Stereo (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Lips red as the rose, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow: could the mirror have known that Walt Disney's first feature-length cartoon would still be delighting and terrifying audiences 50 years on? Brian Sibley re-discovers 'Disney's folly'.
Serial: Reasonable Doubts (6)
The British Abroad
A series of plays for radio Present Continuous by SONJA LYNDON with and It's very flattering to the ego to be able to change someone else's life and to help them to rebel against an old-established system. But it involves a degree of responsibility that Jane, a visiting English teacher to a small Japanese village, didn't really understand.
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo (R)
2: The Frontier Spirit
Anthony Smith meets the people living in the Amazon Basin - the peasants working tiny plots on islands in the river, the entrepreneurs carving fortunes from great tracts of forest lands, and displaced forest Indians, drinking and gambling in city bars. Can forests and people mix? What are the human costs and benefits of development in the jungle?
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continuedon VHF/FM5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Stereo. (Details on Friday at 12.25pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer NICKY WHITFIELD Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
In which Jeremy Siepmann recounts the adventures and reflections of musicians abroad. 9: Glinka in Italy and Spain with Edward de Souza as Glinka Producer RAY ABBOTT . Stereo
Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, is one of the most important saints of the North of England. In troubled times he consolidated the conversion of Northumbria to Christianity, and Durham Cathedral was built as his shrine.
In this 1,300th year since his death, Rosemary Hartill , the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent, travels through Northumberland tracing the life and legacy of this extraordinary saint. With Anthony Jackson as The Venerable Bede Music by DR MARY BERRY Producer CAROLINE DONNE
Researcher DENIS NOWLAN. Stereo
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White Producer SUSAN DENNY
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open from 8.30 to 10. 15pm Details of the 'In Touch
Handbook' in print, tape, moon and Braille, from
Broadcasting Support Services, PO Box 7, London W3 6XJ
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JULIAN MAY
I'm the King of the Castle (2)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
