Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV DAVID COHEN

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary 6 45* Business News
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7 45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Your Letters

5: The Parsons Tale

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon

NEM, p 38: Light's glittering mom (BBC HB 108); Psalm 36;
Revelation 21 vv 1-7; I heard the voice of Jesus say (BBC HB 143) Stereo

The cases of over 2.000 potential saints are now under the consideration of the Vatican in Rome. Whether they become examples of 'heroic virtue' to set before the faithful, or sink into obscurity, depends largely on the strength of the claims made by their supporters. The scales, however, can be tipped either way by less predictable factors. Libby Purves considers the painstaking inquiry that assesses sanctity and can turn heroes into saints.

BBC North West

5: An Apple for the Preacher Intrepid traveller of the 60s
Fred Basnett has arrived in the apple country of Turkey, plus vintage car and friend. As usual, their stay is not uneventful.

John Howard with the latest news and advice for consumers For information about this week's programme, write for Factsheet No 32, [address removed] Please send sae

Stereo

Presented by Gordon Clough with news and topics in and behind the headlines

MICHAEL ROSEN reads Tongue Twisters. Stereo

Introduced from Cardiff by Sian Roberts
Spending hours getting cold and wet in pitch darkness under tons of rock may sound like living hell, but for a caver it's more like heaven. So what makes caving so exciting?
Woman's Hour dons wetsuits and helmets and goes underground, to try to find the answer.
Producer us EDWARDS BBC Wales
Serial: Charters and Caldicott (2)

by Jane Austen.
Dramatised in three parts by Michelene Wandor
2: Accidents and Encounters.
Captain Wentworth has returned to the village of Uppercross and has become the centre of social life for the Musgrove family. Only Anne Elliot appears to remember the past and her rejection of his love eight years ago. But is it coldness of indifference which she now senses in his attitude towards her? Square piano (William Rolfe and Sons C1810) played by Kenneth Mobbs

Directed by Vanessa Whttburn.
BBC Pebble Mill.
Stereo

Six lives, and six perpectives of North America, emerge in conversation with Anne Brown 2: Jesse Jackson
To be born poor, illegitimate and black in America's deep south was hardly an auspicious start for a presidential candidate. Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by Robert Williams and Bill Frost continuedon VHF/FM5.50-5.55

With PETE DONALDSON
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 MALUS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer BRIDGET CARTER. Stereo

I remember hearing somewhere, as a child, 'a noise rose from the orchestra as the leader drew across the intestines of the timid cat the tail of the noble horse ...'
The cellist Jacqueline du Pre presents, before an audience at the Upottery Festival, a selection of her favourite poetry and prose.
Readers PENELOPE LEE and JOHN CARSON
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol Stereo (R)

Glyn Worsnip casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

President Reagan decides to stick with the old catchphrase about where the buck stops - to everyone's relief. Show more

byAlistairCooke

Kaleidoscope in Edinburgh
Rosemary Hill presents news and reviews from the 1987 Edinburgh Festival; including the Raun Raun Theatre from New Guinea, a staging of Schiller's play Mary Stuart and highlights from the Fringe. Producer JOHN BOUNDY

A Classical Education by RICHARD COBB abridged in ten episodes by JOHN SCOTNEY Read by John Franklyn-Robbins 10:Epilogue
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting on Monday: 'In Custody)

Presented by David Sells
National and international news, background, analysis and comment

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

The first of two programmes.
Songs, sketches and stand-up - a selection of the best of 1987 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, recorded at the Fringe Club. Compered by Paul Merton Producer PAUL SPENCER Stereo

followed by an interlude