Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
A meditation for the beginning ofanewday with PHILIP HAYDEN Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by clive ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Nine out often cats said their owners prefer it. Producer LIZ BANO
Stereo
This week the team visits Gloucestershire, where members of the Wotton-under-Edge Horticultural Society put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Daphne Ledward and Fred Downham. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Plant lists and topical tips on Ceefax page 188
Eating Grapes Downwards by DIANA BISHOP
Read by Katherine Pan -Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM, p 9; Hail to the Lord's anointed (BBC HB 457);
Lead me, Lord (Wesley);
I Samuel 1, vv 4-20; Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30) Stereo
'Spring 1957. Headmaster's Report: Good - but would be better if she were less talkative and noisy.'
In the last of the present series, Robert Booth summons Glenys Kinnock to his study for a quiet word about her school reports. Producer NIGEL ACHESON
tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family.
Presented by John Buckley
by G. K. CHESTERTON
The Absence of Mr Glass Stereo
Presented by Nick WorraU with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Lizard's Song by GEORGE SHANNON (R)
2.05 Wavelength Plus WPFM The weekly radio magazine for under-20s, with news, reviews, information and music. Tune in from home, college, workshops or training centres. Stereo (e) Ring [number removed] during the programme for free referral service
In the programme that puts a female perspective on people, politics and places,
Jenni Murray talks to the pianist
Bernard d'Ascoli , who learns all his major scores by Braille.
by NIGEL BALDWIN
A world-weary, middle-aged newspaper editor sends a young and pretty reporter on a muck-raking mission. He feels guilty because he loves her and has led her into danger.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Stereo
Six programmes chosen and presented by Wendy Cope 3: Couples Readers
PETER JEFFREY. ELIZABETH PROUD
STEVE HODSON and MARGARET WARD Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. '
Reporter Michael Robinson
Producer GUDRUN DALIBOR
Editor BRIAN WALKER
BBC Manchester
The Art of Subsidy
The Dutch Government has subsidised artists by buying the work that they cannot sell on the private market. That policy has ended - the 'painting heaps' and 'sculpture mountains' must stop growing. Artistic quality will be the criterion for grants in the future. But who decides? And do subsidies produce good work? Christopher Cook reports.
Producer RACHEL YORKE
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With EUGENE FRASER
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
6: Elizabeth Taylor This is the story of a turbulent lady. A sexy lady.
A resilient lady.
An enormously wealthy lady. A much, much married lady.
A lady whose life off-screen has been of more consuming interest to millions of people than many of the roles she has played on it.
Producer WENDY CLAY (R)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
4: Into the Lion's Den Stereo
Canaletto, old bones, a stuffed dodo and the French Impressionists have aU inspired poets visiting Cardiff s main gallery.
The actors William Roberts and Sue Jones-Davies read some of the verse that's been produced there, and take a look for themselves.
Compiled by DOUGLAS BASSETT Producer ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo
The Survival of the Symphony Six talks by the composer
Alexander Goehr , Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, about what musicians have done to music. 3: Past and Present
More and more music crops up in more and more places, some where it is most unwelcome. This creates employment for composers and performers of all kinds, yet stultifies live concerts and may undermine the ability to listen closely to any of it.
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on R3) ('A Licence for Licence', next Wednesday on Radio 4)
'The Reith Lectures' are printed weekly in the 'Listener'
Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SALLY MARMION
The First Year of My Life by MURIEL SPARK
Read by Dulcie Gray
0 HEAR THIS! page 25
with Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Biotechnology
12.30 Monoclonal Antibodies (rv) The development of a high-street pregnancy testing kit Written by TIM HAINES Stereo (R) (e) and at 12.50 Job Prospects Presented by LIZ WICKHAM Qualifications and opportunities for young biologists, chemists and engineers. Stereo (R) (e)
