With THE REV NOEL BATTYE
Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe in London with John Humphrys at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 7
Your chance to talk to Nick and his studio guests on an issue of the moment.
Producer NICK UTECHIN
The Whale by GRAHAM JONES
Read by Garard Green
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
New Every Morning, page 5; Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (BBC HB 327); Psalm 67; Deuteronomy 8, vv 1-10; For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272) Stereo
The Queen Rat
Bald, almost blind and deaf, a queen naked mole rat rules over her underground colony of workers and soldiers with chemical smells.
Jeremy Cherfas visits London
Zoo where artificial naked mole rat nests, connected with perspex tubes, have been used to reveal the stunning complexity of these secret creatures' lives.
Producer TIM HAINES BBCBristol
Presented by Susan Rae
Chairman Ned Sherrin First Round: Heat 6
Duncan Dale-Emberton
(chemical plant administrator) Martin Stone (librarian) Roy Mathers
(advertising executive)
Questions set by EDWARD COLE and ROBERT WALTON
Programme devised by EDWARD COLE Producer RICHARD EDIS Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner PAM AYRES reads Piggo and the Nosebag
2.05 History Lost and Found Give Us a Clue Stereo (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT A teenage resource magazine for GCSE students
Introduced by Jenni Murray Your Very Good Health
You might think, as you raise your glass of wine, that what you're about to drink is as natural a product as possible. In fact, very few commercially produced wines are free from additives. Tessa Shaw investigates the rising popularity of organic wine and discovers whether a worthy wine can still be fun.
Serial: Prenez Garde (11)
by Pauline Spender
Nelly is a devastatingly honest teenager. She longs for the truth at all times, especially from her ne'er-do-well father, of whom she is very fond. Until it comes to the matter of his health ....
(Stereo)
In the first of four programmes, Crispian Steele-Perkins talks to Margaret Howard about his musical life and influences and plays some favourite records. Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continuedon VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
Stereo (Details on Friday at 12.25pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 4. 05pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
The search to find the most enterprising small business of 1987 is over and, in a special awards ceremony, the Prime
Minister, The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher , mp presents the winner with the E10,000 prize in the Radio Times/Radio 4 competition. The judges
Marmaduke Hussey
Chairman of the BBC; Carey Labovitch previous winner; and Jean Parker , Chairman of the CBI's Smaller Firms Council Presented by Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
For people with a visual handicap Presented by Ian Macrea Producer THENA HESHEL Phone in on [number removed]
Presented by Mark Steyn Producer WILL CANTOPHER
Behind the Wall written and abridged in 12 parts by COLIN THUBRON
Read by John Rowe 12: To the Gobi
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
Presented by Alexander MacLeod including special coverage by Stuart Simon of the Labour Party Conference in Brighton
followed by an interlude
A-Level English Shakespeare's Problem Plays 1: Measure for Measure by MARGARET HOTINE. Stereo (e)
