Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With Michael Glanville-Smith
(Stereo)
Presented by Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With RICHARD QUEST
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Each Tuesday morning, Nick and his studio guests are on hand to discuss, with you, a topic or issue that's hit the headlines.
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from & 00am
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 8. 15pm)
Peploe's Maid by DAVID BLACK Read by Tom Criddle Producer BRUCE YOUNG BBC Scotland
New Every Morning, page 13; Jesus shall reign (BBC HB 460); Psalm 121; Luke 18, vv 9-17; Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258) Stereo
Bruce Sandison talks of fishing, wildlife and history with Christopher Lowell. Toftingall Loch, Caithness
Whooper swans and greylag geese gather now where once highland lairds pillaged and murdered.
Producer CHRISTOPHER LOWELL (First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland)
Presented by Susan Rae
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge John Julius Norwich and Peter Oppenheimer
BBC Manchester
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Mr and Mrs Hay the Horse by ALLAN AHLBERG Stereo (R)
2.05 History Lost and Found We Were There Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT A teenage resource magazine for GCSE students with reports from schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Coursework and assessment; examiner phone-link; creative work; issue for discussion; real world applications: career and course opportunities 3: Music Reporting team ROD MACRAE PAUL CLARK , CLIVE WILLIAMSON Stereo (e)
by TONY BAGLEY
Life with Hugo has its moments. Louise should know - she has cared for him for nearly 40 years. But, for all that time, her true story has been a well-kept secret.
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER Stereo
Richard Baker invites well-known musicians to talk about themselves, the people they work with and the profession as they see it. Today his guests are the clarinettists Jack Brymer , whose long and varied career began under the baton of Sir
Thomas Beecham , and Emma Johnson , BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1984. Producers JUDITH ROLES and NIGEL WILKINSON. Stereo
On the occasion of his
80th birthday earlier this month, Lord Hailsham of St
Marylebone, Lord Chancellor 1970-4 and 1979-87, answered questions about his legal and political careers from John Eidinow.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (R)
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.5-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Stereo (Details Thursday at 12.25pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 4. 05pm)
An addict's guide to good listening presented by Laurie Taylor
Under Review: Radio Active (Radio 4,17 October):
A Laugh, a Tear, a Song (Radio 4,16 October) Producer JENNY DANKS
In 1937 Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge founded 'mass observation'. They aimed to make a complete inventory of human activity. Their first project was a study of working-class life in Bolton - its pubs, funeral customs and voting habits. Harry Thompson examines this 1930s anthropological extravaganza.
The programme for blind and partially-sighted people or anyone who wears spectacles or contact lenses and wants to know what's new in hi-tech or low-vision aids and the latest research and ideas about eyes and eyesight.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open from 8.30 to 10. 15pm
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
Tarka the Otter (7)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Geography: Our Changing World Written and narrated by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK
12.30 Xi’an and at 12.50 Yichang Gorges Producer LAMBROS ATTESHLIS (R) (e)
