With PHILIP HAYDEN BBC Pebble Mill Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead andSueMacGregor
6.30, 7,30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Talk to Nick and his studio guests.
Producer NICK UTECHIN
What's new in medical science? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN
Waiting Room byCORINNE RENSHAW Read by Dilys Price
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
New Every Morning, page 5; Hark, the glad sound (BBC HB 490);
Adam lay ybounden (Warlock); Judges 13, vv 1-7, 24; o come, 0 come, Emmanuel (BBC HB 36) Stereo
Bruce Sandison talks of fishing, wildlife and history with Christopher Lowell. The Great Glen
A glen famous for its monsters, not all of them fish.
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland)
Presented by Susan Rae
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics.
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge John Julius Norwich and Peter Oppenheimer Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
Presented by Nick Worrall
Written by SIMON FRITH
Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Moving Molly by SHIRLEY HUGHES
2.05 History Lost and Found Three Generations (2) by MARYA BURGESS. Stereo (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT A teenage resource magazine for GCSE students 5: History. Stereo (e)
In the programme that puts you in touch with politics and public affairs, fashion, finance and food, Jenni Murray asks Clare Tomalin and Jonathan Raban whether you can enjoy literature you don't admire.
by JIM CARTWRIGHT
A fat man and his skinny friend, an old buffer and some likely lads, some giggly girls and a wistful old lady: all are strangely united in the watery community of a public swimming bath.
Directed by PENNY GOLD . Stereo
Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sir Arthur Bliss were two of the leading English composers of their generation.
This afternoon, Richard Baker talks about their varied work to their widows, Ursula Vaughan Williams and Lady Bliss, and plays some of their music. Producer NIGEL WILKINSON Stereo
The weekly magazine about running a business.
Introduced by David Lomax Finished at 40?
The technology of management is changing and with it the old pyramid structure of management. The result is redundant managers whose experience nobody wants. But other countries don't see it that way. So, is Britain being shortsighted? Researcher SIAN JARVIS
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 4.05pm)
An addicts' guide to good listening presented by Laurie Taylor
This week Anne Karpf ,
Radio Critic of the Observer, considers women on radio. Plus, / Was There - another winner in the competition for listeners.
All creatures great and small.... must be fed. In the religions of the East, insects, gods, worshippers and spirits alike, are catered for in elaborate rituals.
Throughout Singapore and Malaysia, Derek Cooper samples the mystic ways of finding grace in a grain of rice. Producer VANESSA HARRISON
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 8.30to 10. 15pm
Christopher Cook presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer RACHEL YORKE
The Leaf-Sweeper by MURIEL SPARK
Read by Diana Olsson
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Biotechnology
12.30 Crop Plant Developments <RV) Science behind the potato crisp Stereo (R) (e) and at 12.50 Antibiotics Versus the Microbes (RV) The story of development and manufacture of Augmentin Stereo (R) (e)