Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TIM FINNEY , REBECCA POW
With KATE COMPSTON 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 EUGENE FRASER
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Nick and his studio guests are on hand to discuss, with you, a topic or issue that's hit the headlines.
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.0am
by Edgar Allan Poe
Read by Brian Gear
BBC Bristol
New Every Morning, page 106; How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (BBC HB 142); Psalm 95; Isaiah 40, vv 3-5, 9-11; The Lord my pasture shall prepare (BBC HB 477) Stereo
by STEVE MAY
Trevor, on a youth training scheme, meets Cook, a know-it-all from the Silver Spoon
Restaurant. Cook wants Trevor to think big-time crime but Trevor wants to be home in time for tea.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY. Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9. Opm)
Presented by Jeremy Cherfas
Why do elephants have wrinkly skin? Why do elephant seals, the deepest diving seals, spend 85 per cent of their life in the ocean depths? Were our immediate ancestors more ape-like than we had previously thought? Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
investigates your complaints and provides help, advice, news and information about your day-to-day concerns.
Presented by Susan Rae
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson First Round: Scotland William Campbell (briefing officer) Ian Cameron
(retired primary school head) Alan W. Lear
(freelance writer) Simon Durrant (schoolmaster)
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
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6.30pm)
Presented by Gordon Clough
Today's story: Going to the Launderette (R)
by Veronica Richards, based on the story by Albert Camus
An occasional series of plays for radio
[Starring] Sylvia Syms
Life with Edmund hadn't exactly been exciting and his proposal that Janine should accompany him on a business trip to the Algerian interior didn't imbue her with enthusiasm. But she found excitement and love in a most unexpected place.
(Stereo) (R)
(Camus's 'La Peste' Radio 3, 7.30pm)
Presented by Anthony Smith 3: Power and Responsibility
The Balbina dam in the Amazon Basin is due to flood an area the size of Devon, to provide hydroelectricity insufficient to power the nearest town. Within cable distance is an even bigger installation, using only a fraction of its power capacity, as there is no demand for the electricity it produces.
Anthony Smith visits some of the most threatening projects in the Amazon Basin, and examines the motives of their Brazilian developers.
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continuedon VHFjFM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Stereo
(Details on Friday at 12.25pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Reporter Hugh Prysor-Jones Producer JOHN FORSYTH Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
In which Jeremy Siepmann recounts the adventures and reflections of musicians abroad. 10: Busoni in America with Edward Petherbridge as Busoni Producer
RAY ABBOTT. Stereo
Where Are They Now?
Marjorie Lofthouse takes a look at some of the companies which have been featured in Enterprise. Have they all been successful or have some of them simply become part of the bankruptcy statistics?
(New Series starting on Sunday)
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
Presented by Christopher Cook Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
I'm the King of the Castle (7)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
