An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry, followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers
Producers TIM FINNEY and REBECCA POW
A meditation for the beginning of a new day With KATE COMPSTON BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER COLUNS
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
A look ahead with Peter Donaldson
sifts the BBC Sound Archives for news of the past with a meaning for the present. Producer SIMON ELMES
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!
Start the Week with a team of medics - Graeme Garden , Alan Maryon Davis and Gillian Rice - as they examine and probe into . the activities and preoccupations of their guests, who all have something new in their lives this week.
Producers ROD MACRAE and JULIA BICKNELL. Stereo
A series of four programmes. In an area where 'Sudan makan?' ('Have you eaten?') is as common a greeting as Hello, Derek Cooper looks beyond the flavours and fragrances of Singapore and Malaysia to the nutritional problems, the agricultural breakthroughs and the time-honoured beliefs which add the real spice to eating in the tropics.
2: The Forests of Plenty
Should they grow crops for cash, or food for the table? Malaysian farmers explain why one of the most fertile lands on earth has to import its food.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON
Pointed Toes by HELEN LAMB
Read by Patti Love Producer SHEILA FOX
from Harrogate Ladies' College, North Yorkshire
Led by THE REV NORMAN WINTER NEM, p4 God is love (BBC HB 7)
Be strong in the Lord (Nicholson) Isaiah 40, w 25-31 (jb); The spacious firmament (BBC HB 21)
Choirmaster DAVID ANDREWS BBC North West. Stereo
Driffield
In an age which contrives to standardise life in Britain, there's still much to be found that's special, even unique, about our towns and villages. It may lurk in their local history and folklore, or the style of their buildings. Perhaps it's just the way they talk. It's all a matter of knowing what to look and listen for In the first of four radio walkabouts, Tim Schadla-Hall , John Grundy and Stanley Ellis share a passion for past and present in the town known as the capital of the Yorkshire
Wolds - 'a pretty brick island' in a sea of produce, once famed for its high-stepping hackneys and where old bargees still speak a language bearing more than a hint of Scandinavian. Producer GRAEME ALDOUS BBC North East
Written and introduced by Benjamin Whitrow with Patricia Routledge as Mary Russell Mitford
For 30 years, from 1820 onwards,
Mary Russell Mitford lived in a cottage near Basingstoke, writing in order to keep both herself and her aged father.
In her lifetime she was one of the most popular writers after Jane Austen.
Producer BRIAN MILLER. BBC Bristol
The only daily consumer programme on network radio. Presented by Susan Rae Editor KEN VASS
If you are concerned about health, education, housing or financial matters or if you are the victim of incompetent or unhelpful traders or authorities, write to: You and Yours,
BBC, London W144WW
A trivia game based on the rules of cricket.
Umpire Brian Johnston Team Captains
Tim Rice , Willie Rushton Spinners Barry Johnston and Bill Tidy
Statisticians PETER HICKEY and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON Groundsman PAUL SPENCER Stereo
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines Editor DEREK LEWIS
Adelaide's Naughty Granny Today's story: The Picnic by HILARY SHARPE Read by Molly Weir Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
Introduced by Jenni Murray
In June 1947, the musical Annie Get Your Gun opened in London with a young, unknown singer in the leading role. In a matter of months, gun-toting
Dolores Gray had won the hearts of all who saw her. Returning to
London in a star-studded West-End show, she looks back over 40 years of stardom.
Serial: Reasonable Doubts by JOAN LINGARD abridged in 11 parts by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE Read by Colette O'Neil (10)
(Music: Glazunov's 'Serenade No 2' for hom and string orchestra) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Humanity Farm by JOHN KIRKMORRIS. Stereo
CD or Not CD, DAT Is the Question
David Roper investigates the dilemmas facing the music business as Japan launches the first DAT recorders on the market.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Michael Woodhead Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHF/FM 5.50-J.5.55
With EUGENE FRASER
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
John Waite and his team with the last in their current series investigating your complaints of injustice, sharp practice, and the abuse of authority.
by Bloke Modisane
After 30 years on Robben Island Kei Amatola, the hero of black South Africa, comes home to New Sophiatown. Then the statue in the township square is defaced. Is this a symbolic attack on the people's leader?
Have they lost faith in his policy of non-violence? And what of Kalamazoo, who will stop at nothing to become a Somebody?
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
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Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
I'm the King of the Castle by SUSAN HILL abridged in ten parts by TREVORROYLE
Read by Lynn Farleigh (6) Producer MARILYN IMRIE BBC Scotland (R)
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
