Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
with THE REV PHILIP RODERICK Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
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 COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters
by DAVID COOK abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Patricia Routledge 10: Tidying Up
Producer ROBERT COOPER
BBC Manchester. Stereo (R)
BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
by Agnes Wedderburn
Read by Carmen Munroe
nem, p71; Rejoice the Lord is
King (BBC HB 128); Psalm 122; Luke 12, w 22-32; Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (BBC HB 116) Stereo
The Shadow Knows
- the sound of Orson Welles A documentary researched and compiled by Geoffrey Heptonstall from archive and library material with contributions from George Coulouris
Joseph Cotton , Benny Green John Houseman , Clancy Sigal and the voices of Orson Welles
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday)
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At the height of the American war in Vietnam, between 1968-70, Roger Martin was political officer in the British Embassy in Saigon.
In a series of three talks, he recalls some of the people he met and places he visited in those three turbulent years. 1: Three Old Men
the Post Office.
Chairman Sir Ron Dearing answers customers' complaints about its service.
Presented by John Howard For information about this week's 's programme. write for Factsheet No 35: [address removed] Please send sae
Iain Johnstone in the director's seat with another reel of movie moments.
Unwrapping their choc ices this week are Stubby Kaye, Angela Douglas, Jenny Hanley and Dick Vosburgh
(Stereo)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines
LIZA GODDARD reads Abigail Has a Day Stereo (R)
Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse who talks to Jane White , a police physical training instructor who's just returned from leading a schools' expedition to some of the remotest parts of Papua New Guinea.
Producer ANNE MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill Serial:
A Parents' Survival Guide(2)
by ALEXANDRE DUMAS dramatised in seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
2: The Abbé Faria
As the result of information laid against him by jealous rivals and the duplicity of the Deputy Prosecutor, de Villefort, Edmond Dantes has been imprisoned in the notorious Chateau d'If.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo
Six lives and six perspectives of North America emerge in conversation with Anne Brown 5: Phyllis Schlafly
Right-wing political campaigner and arch-enemy of sexual equality, Phyllis Schlafly is loved and loathed across 50 states. The mother of six who took on the Women's Movement - and won - argues the case for home and apple pie in a turbulent age.
Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Gordon Clough and Michael Woodhead 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 MALUS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer SIMON ELMES. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)
NEWSERIES
The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit, MP, The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley, MP, Des Wilson, President, Liberal Party and Lady Antonia Fraser tackle the issues raised by the audience at Wash Common, Newbury, Berkshire
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby
BBC Bristol
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
The meaning of Labor Day
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Alistair Cooke looks at the origins of Labor Day established in 1894, the diminishing role of trades unions and a cultural change in employment incentives and benefits in the US.
Anthony Smith casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Works in Progress
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies likes to have more than one thing on the go. As well as conducting, he's just finished one opera,
Resurrection, started another about St Francis of Assisi and he's also writing a series ofconcerti.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley , he talks about composing and the importance of teaching music to children. Producer EDWINA WOLSTENCROFT (Re-broadcast next Monday)
The Moon and the Bonfire (5)
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
A series of investigative reports
'Farming is an industry, and like other industries it pollutes the rivers and poisons our food.' David Lander looks at factory farming and the use of pesticides, and enters the complex world of EEC Agricultural Policy. Studio production by STEPHEN FRY assisted by PHIL POPE and Julia HILLS
Dramatic reconstructions by PHIL NICE . BRENDA BLETHYN
ROBERT BATHURST and JACK KLAFF Research by TONY SARCHET
Editor PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm LW)
followed by an interlude