Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With THE REV DAVID LAPSLEY

Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor in London and Brian Redhead at the TUC in Blackpool.
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

Part 5

'As in marriage, so in fishing; one's choice is made by accident. One opens the door of a room; and there, for better or worse, the lady sits. One sees a river from a train, a car, one halts to stretch one's legs and is lost.'
Fishing a Highland Stream - A Love Affair with a River. Michael Hordern reads the first of three extracts from JOHN INGLIS HALLS classic Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Wednesday)

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Mirage by SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Read by Hugh Dickson Producer MITCH RAPER

NEM p71; Christ, whose glory (BBC hb 137); Psalm 139;
John 19, w 23-30; The head that once was crowned with thorns (BBC HB 132) Stereo

Writer John Burrows traces the story of the famous motor-racing circuit from its construction in 1907 to the hey-days of the 1930s. With Dudley Gahagan, Jimmy McClintock, Kay Petre, Mortimer Goodall and George Harvey-Noble.
Reader, Michael Tudor Barnes
(Stereo)

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. 2: A Night Out in the Jungle

British Rail's services, which are always under scrutiny. It says it's getting there but what do its customers think?
Chris Green of BR defends its performance.
Presented by John Howard. For information about this week's programme. write for Factsheet No 36, [address removed] Please send sae

Iain Johnstone snaps his clapper-board on another reel of cinema clips for the movie buffs.
In the 2/6ds are Joan Sims, Michael Winner, Marjorie Bilbow and Dick Vosburgh.
(Stereo)

Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics in and behind the headlines

IRENE HANDL reads Grandma and Boppergo Caravaning (R)

Introduced from Northern Ireland by Wendy Austin , who talks to a female oil prospector from
Belfast who has struck it rich in Dallas, Texas; and considers why the Equal Opportunities Commission in Northern Ireland has a better track record than its counterpart across the water.
Producer IAN KIRK-SMITH BBC Northern Ireland Serial:
A Parents' Survival Guide (7)

by ALEXANDRE DUMAS dramatised for radio in seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL starring
3: The Return
Betrayed by those he thought to be his friends, Edmond Dantes spent 14 years in the dungeons of the Chateau d'lf. Having escaped, by taking the place of the dead Abbe Faria , Dantes has succeeded in recovering the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo. Now in disguise, he begins to seek those who caused him to be imprisoned.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo

Six lives and six perspectives of North America emerge in conversation with Anne Brown. 6: Studs Terkel
Social observer, writer and doyen of broadcasting, Studs Terkel has spent his life listening to the ordinary men and women of America.
At 75, he celebrates and mourns what he has learned. Producer LIZ JENSEN BBC Pebble Mill
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Gordon dough and Nick Worrall continuedon VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With LAURIE MACMILLAN 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 JUUAN HALE. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Rt Hon Malcolm Rifkind , mp, Secretary of State for Scotland
John Monks, Deputy General Secretary, TUC
Graham Day , Chairman and Chief Executive, Rover Group and Sue Slipman , Director, National Council for One Parent Families tackle the issues raised by the audience at
Tarporley in Cheshire
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Rebroadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm)

Ed Pearce casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Papal visit crosses the entire continent to face all manner of religious problems from some 52 million US Catholics. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

The Most Perfect Instrument.... Over 22 years the Edinburgh Festival Chorus have built a reputation for musicianship of the highest standard, founded on what chorusmaster Arthur Oldham describes as a unique blend of discipline and temperament. Robert Dawson Scott follows these dedicated amateurs through preparation and performance.
Producer CAROLINE ADAM BBC Scotland
(Re-broadcast next Monday)

The Moon and the Bonfire by CESARE PAVESE translated by LOUISE SINCLAIR abridged in ten parts by DOREEN MAHON
Read by Sean Barrett (10) Producer JEREMY MORTIMER
(Starting on Monday: 'Behind the Wall' by Colin Thubron )

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

Radio 4's international business report; market trends

A series of investigative reports
Supergrasses are criminals. Criminals are liars. Policeman believe supergrasses. Why? David Lander looks at the supergrass system and in particular the career of Billy 'Stick' Adams.
Studio production by Stephen Fry assisted by Brenda Blethyn, Robert Bathurst and Janine Duvitski
Dramatic reconstructions by Julia Hills, Phil Pope, Clive Mantle and Mark Arden
Research by Tony Sarchet
Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer
(Rebroadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L.W.)

followed by an interlude