Farming, food and countryside news. market trends, weather
With DEREK WILSON Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30.8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7 45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
A year in the life of an English village. In the fourth of 12 monthly talks Wilfred De'Ath reports on July in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire. BBC Manchester
BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Legend of Bottle Hill by THOMAS CHOKER
Read by Sean Barrett Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM p 102: 0 thou who earnest from above (BBC HB 362);
Psalm 36; I Peter 3, vv 8-17; 0 praise ye the Lord (BBC HB 279) Stereo
MCC - The Fully Harmonious and Totally Unauthorised History
The story the authorities did not want told. This year Lord's is 200 years old, but only now can it be revealed that there is something rotten at its heart. It is not a harmless and innocent institution dedicated to the playing of cricket. This is just a front.
Peter Tinniswood and his good friend from Witney Scrotum, the Brigadier, have obtained access to the highly classified MCC sound archive and at last are able to tell the full truth, about this unique establishment.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday) 0 HEAR THISIpaffe 16and INFO: page 77
2: Ant- Watching in Azerbaijan The year is 1961. In his journey by vintage car through the Soviet Union. Fred Basnett and friend have reached Azerbaijan, and are in for a long wait at the border.
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A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge
Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell Questions compiled by PETER MOORE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Today's story: A Picnic at the Safari Park Stereo
Introduced from Manchester by Julie Carter who brings together two women who have launched their own newspapers in the north west: Annie Lowey , publisher of the Manx Post on the Isle of Man; and Margaret Loran who runs the Macclesfield Community News.
Woman's Hour also investigates sleeping in the sun. Are siestas just a Continental indulgence or the secret of eternal youth? Producer JENNIFER HOLDEN BBC Manchester
Serial: Just YouWait and See (5)
by MRS HENRY WOOD dramatised in seven parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with 6: An MPfor West Lynne
For Mr Carlyle and Barbara Hare marriage has brought domestic bliss. But for Lady Isabel there is only a misery deepened by her return to East Lynne in disguise to be governess to her own children.
MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano) Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo
Neil Walker and David Clayton link up with Local Radio stations around the country to find the best street musicians One Man.... Banned?
The Good Busking Guide
There has never been such a wealth and variety of music on the streets of Britain, from traditional tin whistlers and pianos on wheels to today's phenomenon - the techno-busker! They can bring life and colour to drab city centres, or be condemned as blatant evidence of a black economy. Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
Presented by Robert Williams and Bill Frost continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer. Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Ken Livingstone presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE. Stereo (Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)
The astronomer
Heather Couper presents, before an audience in the Octagon Room at the Old Royal Observatory, in Greenwich, a selection of her favourite poetry and prose. Readers TIMOTHY WEST and KIKA MARKHAM
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
Makers of law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the Courts and by Parliament.
Presented by John Eidinow Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
UN unanimous on Iran-Iraq
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Russians back out of unanimous United Nations vote over Iran-Iraq conflict. Show more
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
One for the Road
From the earliest days of mule track and trireme to the age of jet flights and travellers' cheques, the experiences of a journey have proved fascinating reading. The travel writers of today are following in the footsteps of a long line of distinguished literary wanderers, from Pausanius to Boswell and Borrow. But what place does travel writing have in a world shrinking under the global scrutiny of a television lens?
Paul Vaughan investigates. Producer MIKE GREENWOOD (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Cannery Row (5)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
A satirical view of the week's news with Bill Wallis ,
David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by PAUL B. DAVIES RICHARD QUICK. STEVE PUNT
MIKE COLEMAN. ALISON RENSHAW PETE SINCLAIR. KEVIN MANDRY GED PARSONS. MAX HANDLEY
BILL MATTHEWS. MARK BURTON
JOHN OFARRELL . ROBERT LINFORD LES PETERS ROWLEY. PETER HICKEY and others
Producer ANDY WILSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)
followed by an interlude