It's farmers' annual week out in London at the Royal Smithfield Show. Farming Today joins them among the meat and machinery at Earls Court, London.
Producers TM FINNEY and REBECCA POW
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with THE REV STEPHEN OLIVER Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor in London and John Humphrys in Washington
As President Reagan and Mr Gorbachev meet on the first day of their summit talks in Washington, Today reports direct from the American capital.
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With Bob Finigan
7.00, 8.00 Today's News
Read by Clive Roslin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with Charles Colvile
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Peter Jefferson
seeks enlightenment in the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
and studio guests, indulging in some lively speculation on the week ahead.
Producers ELAINE BEDELL and IAN GARDHOUSE Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the fast-changing field of personal savings and focuses on the financial problems of everyday life.
The Professor of Sai Yeung Choi Street by GARY POLLARD
Read by Crawford Logan Producer SHEILA fox
from University College, Durham led by The Rev Norman Winter With the COLLEGE CHAPEL CHOIR The race that long in darkness pined (BBC HB 496);
Reading: Isaiah 9, vv 2-7;
A hymn to the Virgin (Britten); Christ is the world's light (HFT 107)
Organist MICHAEL HOLDSWORTH Conductor NICHOLAS MATHER BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Vernon Scannell Readers MARTIN JARVIS and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. BristolBS82LR
Presented by Susan Rae Editor PAT TAYLOR
If you are concerned about health, education, housing or financial matters, or if you are the victim of incompetent or unhelpful traders or authorities, write to: You and Yours, BBC, London W1A 4WW
A serial in three parts by JAMES FOLLETT
1: The Ice Moved....
A laboratory in Antarctica is badly damaged by an icequake. Two scientists suspect a giant iceberg may have 'calved' and be floating out to sea. They risk their lives and careers to investigate. What they find, turns out to be more threatening than their worst imaginings.
Narrator SEAN BARRETT
Other parts played by DAVID GOODLAND. KIM WALL and RACHEL GURNEY Directed by ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presented by Brian Widlake
Editor MARTIN COX
1.55 Listening Corner WILLIE RUSHTON reads King Jolly Goes Christmas Shopping by SARAH MORCOM Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo (R)
2.00 GCSE Religious Studies Belief- Does It Matter? Producer GEOFF MARSHALL TAYLOR (e) Patterns of Language Presented by BRIAN REDHEAD Series Producer AL WOLFF at 2.30
1: Speak for Yourself Compiled by TONY PENMAM (R)(e) and at 2.45
2: Passing the Message Compiled by MIKE POULTON (R) (e)
Facts, fiction and fantasy, finance, fashion and food -
Jenni Murray and guests puzzle out the meaning of life, love and anything women worry about and laugh about together. Serial:
Harriette Wilson 's Memoirs abridged in 15 episodes by HARRIET SMYTH
Read by Patricia Hodge This week: episodes 6-10
Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
by RAY BALL
Stereo
A year in the life of an English village. In the ninth of 12 monthly talks Wilfred De'Ath reports on December in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire. BBC Manchester
Showcase!
For clubland artists and entertainers the 'showcase' is their opportunity to demonstrate their talents to bookers and agents.
David Roper reports on the tensions and hopes of tfte participants and the reactions of those with the dates to fill in clubs, cabaret and summer shows.
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Bill Frost
Editor ROGER MOSEY
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Presented by Derek Cooper
by Elisabeth Bond
With Janette Beverley as Lily and Paul Copley as Colin
Lily and Colin may seem like a mismatched pair but so far their love has kept them warm. Faced with the challenges of London life, will this be enough?
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Michael Oliver presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer WILL CANTOPHER Editor ANNE WINDER
Jackdaw Cake by NORMAN LEWIS abridged in 12 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Ray Smith (1)
From stammering schoolboy to the man Auberon Waugh called 'the greatest travel-writer alive', this is the story of the life of Norman Lewis. Producer PETER KING Stereo
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news, background, analysis and comment, including special coverage of the Reagan/ Gorbachev summit from
Stuart Simon in Washington. Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
Teachers' Talk Special The New National Curriculum GRAHAM TAYAR discusses this matter of major public concern With ANGELA RUMBOLD. MP, DES; SIR WILFRED COCKCROFT , SEC: JOHN SELLARS , BTEC: MIKE PUGH , headmaster and President of the Welsh Secondary Schools' Association; ALLAN AINSWORTH , Personnel Manager and Chairman, CBI Schools Liaison Committee; and PATRICK KELLY , Bishop of Salford, who oversees 250 RC diocesan schools. (e)
