An interview with a prominent figure in the agricultural industry. followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers
Producers TIM FINNEY and REBECCA POW
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with FRJOHNMCCULLAGH BBC Northern Ireland
Presented by Chris Lowe and Phil Longman in London with Peter Hobday at the Liberal Party Assembly in Harrogate
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by charlotte GREEN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Sean Maffett
Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Harold Innocent (6)
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
The final programme of the current series comes from Hull, with regulars Steve Brown , Stephen Pile and Mark Miwurdz.
Special guest Jean Rook - 'First Lady of Fleet Street' Producers JULIE SIMMONS and IAN STRACHAN
BBC Manchester
A series of three conversations between Cliff Morgan and guests who are invited to talk about the people who have greatly influenced them. 2 Dr A. J. F. O'Reilly -
Tony O'Reilly .
The darling of British rugby m the 1950s, who was once considered for the leading role in Ben Hur. His success as a sporting hero is only surpassed by his spectacular prowess as a businessman. A lawyer and captain of industry in his 20s, now Chairman of the American food giant Heinz, chairman of Ireland's largest newspaper chain, oil investor and architect of the Ireland Fund, he's been described as 'Ireland's Onassis'. But who are his own heroes? Producer PETER GRIFFITHS
Performer, Performance by WILLIAM PALMER
Read by Michael Tudor Barnes producer SHEILA fox
from St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol
with the CHOIR OF BISHOP FOX'S SCHOOL, TAUNTON
Lift high the cross (HFTC 508); Ave verum (Elgar); Praise to the Holiest in the height (HFTC140) Reading (niv): Philippians 2, vv 5-11
BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Charles Tomlinson
Readers ELIZABETH BELL and ANTHONY HYDE , Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Presented by John Howard
The antidote to panel games starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton and Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden
Accompanied by COLIN SELL Chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton Producer PAUL SPENCER Stereo
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at & 30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner TONY AITKEN reads Wriggly Worm and the Gibble Gobble Gormey by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN. Stereo
2.00 Books, Plays, Poems The Rain Horse by TED HUGHES Series producer PETER FOZZARD Stereo (e)
2.30 Science for All: New for Old Plastic bottles recycled into trousers and insects turned into records. STEVE BLACKNEL puts materials in their place. Written by TONY JAMES Producer LAMBROS ATTESHLIS (e) Stereo/Binaural The full binaural effect can be heard only through stereo headphones
2.50 Authentic German for GCSE 1: Introductory Programme for Teachers Compiled and presented by LOL BRIGGS and BRYAN GOODMAN STEPHENS Series producer GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE (R) (e)
Introduced by Jenni Murray
Blowing Your Top
How often do you hit your nearest and dearest? Andrea Adams talks to some couples about how they let off steam with each other. Serial:
A Parents' Survival Guide by LAURIE GRAHAM abridged in eight episodes by MEG CLARKE
Read by Maggie Steed (8)
(Music: Ibert's 'Trois Pieces breves') Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
Gone to Pot by BRIAN CROOKES Stereo
A year in the life of an English village. In the sixth of 12 monthly talks, Wilfred De 'Ath reports on September in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire. BBC Manchester
The Most Perfect Instrument Robert Dawson Scott listens in to the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Bill Frost
Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Six lives and six perspectives of North America emerge in conversation with Anne Brown. 6: Studs Terkel
* INFO: page 75
The five players of this leading ensemble take the opportunity to remove their tail coats, loosen their bow ties and show off their metal, by displaying the lighter side of their repertoire.
Producer RICHARD EDIS
No End of Blame by HOWARD BARKER with At the close of a world war, a promising art student chooses to dedicate his life to the political cartoon. In attempting to put his gift to the service of reason, he encounters all the irrationality of a disjointed continent. Here is a history of Europe in the 20th century and an epic of personal integrity, which spreads from Habsburg Hungary to Stalin's Russia, to the sleazy offices of a London newspaper in the 1960s.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY. Stereo
Presented by Michael Oliver Producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
Behind the Wall
A journey through China written and abridged in 12 parts by COLIN THUBRON
Read by John Rowe 1: Arriving
A tour of a mental hospital in Shanghai; a night in Mao's bed; a pilgrimage to the Nine-Flower Mountain; memories from victims and perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution.
Ranging from the Burmese frontier to the Gobi Desert and from the Yellow Sea to the edge of Tibet, this book, published today, is a rich mosaic of scenes and encounters with the ordinary people of China today. Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS. Stereo
Presented by David Sells including special coverage of the Liberal Party Assembly in Harrogate by Sally Hardcastle Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
