Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE RT REV THOMAS BUTLER , Bishop of Willesden Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys 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 CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 3

Dame Janet Baker talks to Dr Anthony Clare about the major influences which have shaped her private and professional life.
Researcher RONNI DAVIS Producer MICHAEL EMBER
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

One winter's day in 1911 a French bank messenger was robbed of the consignment of money he was carrying through the streets of Paris. To the astonishment of passers-by, the armed thief and his accomplices made their escape in a motor car Such a thing had never happened before, but in the weeks that followed it was to happen again and again.
Mitch Raper tells the story of the bandits' reign of terror with Geoffrey Beevers
Frank Duncan , William Eedle Jon Glover , Garard Green and John Westbrook Written by MITCH RAPER
Producer SALLY THOMPSON. Stereo

Jeanine McMullen with a programme full of surprises to be found in the countryside.
There's up-to-date news on laws, fashions and information affecting those who live in rural Britain and What's On offers a guide to this week's shows and demonstrations. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Afree information sheet can be obtained at the end of the series by sending a stamped addressed envelope (9! x 6!) to., [address removed]

The Death of the Little Finger by WILLIAM PALMER
Read by Emrys James Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM, p 93; God is love (BBC HB 7); Te Deum ; Mark 10, vv 13-22; Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277) Stereo

The last of seven programmes with whose Golden Jubilee was celebrated 100 years ago.
A life of the woman who was Queen during one of the most momentous periods in Britain's history, with first-hand accounts from some of those who knew her. 7: Sunset Years
Compiled and written by RICHARD MULLEN and JAMES MUNSON Narrator Robert Powell
With SANDRA CLARK.
DONALD DOUGLAS. GARARD GREEN. PAULINE LETTS. SHAUN PRENDERGAST and BRIAN SOUTHWOOD. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday).

Last programme in the series
From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure,
Dilly Barlow , together with specialist experts and help from the BBC Reference Library, attempts to answer your questions. Easy picking for those with jackdaw minds. Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Enquire Within. BBC. London WIA 4WW

tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day could affect you and your family.
Presented by John Buckley

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. 3: Dirk Bogarde
'Never go into the cinema.... never compromise',
Noel Coward advised the young Dirk Bogarde after an early stage success, but, seduced by a film-fan following, he promptly broke both commandments.
The Rank Organisation's most popular male star eventually found prestige abroad, but for at least half his career he resented the compromise forced on him by the commercial cinema. Producer WENDY CLAY

Presented by Nick Worrall

JOHNNY MORRIS reads The Loose Tooth (R)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor A Good Gossip: the original meaning of gossip was 'God's Sib', or 'related to God' - the term given to women companions to those in labour. Gabrielle MacPhedran meets some mothers who have chosen to return to this tradition by looking for the support of friends during childbirth.
Serial: Just You Wait and See (8)

The Unquiet Heart
Three very private stories 1: Getting Stratford by DAVE SHEASBY with Clive Swift as Bernard
For 20 years Bernard has been criss-crossing the country with a great cultural heritage in his boot. And thanks to Bernard's selling skills there isn't a historical edifice in England without a Mansionprint in its shop. Except one.
Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester. Stereo
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Poets Laureate
Ten programmes about some famous and some forgotten holders of the office, compiled and presented by Sean Street 8: William Wordsworth (1770-1843)
Readers MARTIN JARVIS ADRIAN CAIRNS and DAVID GOODLAND
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo

Writing on the Box
First Sight and ScreenPlay are two important series of new television plays on Channel
Four and BBC2. Paul Allen talks to the authors about their work as television dramatists, and the process of transferring ideas from page to small screen. Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Presented by Robert Williams and Michael Woodhead continuedon VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With SIMON VANCE including Financial Report

starring and 2: A Death in the Family
When Caroline's curtains stay closed for three days,
Kit decides it's time to get in touch with a medium's answerphone ... Stereo (R)
(Third programme next Monday)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

The first in a series of fourprogrammes.
Anthony Hopkins can remember asking, as an indolent 4-year-old, 'What age must you be to retire?'
Not surprisingly, he was a slow learner at school, but since then his pace has hotted up. He gives Martyn Williams his thoughts on California, doom-laden Celts and bullying directors.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales)
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The last in the series in which Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic. Producer PATRICK LAMBERT. Stereo

Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 11. Oam)

The Vicar Trick by COLIN HAYDN EVANS
Stereo

The ten-part story of Lord Byron's tempestuous romances in the years 1812-16, as told in the poet's own letters of the time. With
8: The Matrimonial Army Selected and introduced by Brian Gear
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol

Presented by Christopher Cook Producer WILL CANTOPHER
(Rev re broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)

Cannery Row (8)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

followed by an interlude