from the Royal Smithfield Show. Earls Court. London
With MOTHER FRANCES DOMINICA Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Chris Lowe
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
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The programme where you set the agenda
Radio 4 offers you the opportunity to sort out what s bugging you. Nigel Farrell and Susan Marling are on hand with support, advice and a touch of humorous observation. You ask the question the professionals wouldn't dare to. Producers JO DOBRY and MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
If you would like to take part in 'Punters'unite,withaddressana telephone number. to: Punters, BBC Radio 4. Bristol BS8 2LR or phone: Bristol (0272) [number removed]
Sheila Minto is 81. On her dining-room wall there are photographs of the eight Prime
Ministers to whom she has been secretary at No. 10.
She calls the display her 'rogues' gallery'.
In this series of three programmes, she reminisces with Jock Gallagher about 'her Prime Ministers from Stanley Baldwin to Harold Wilson. Producer ANNE MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill (R)
Presented by Fergus Keeling Reports on what is happening in the natural world. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
reflecting the issues of the day. Introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
Sue MacGregor talks to
Alan Price , singer, pianist and song-writer, about his life and work and invites him to reflect a little on both.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
Mike Jenner looks out from his home in the heart of Bristol and casts an architect's eye over the splendours of Clifton. BBC Bristol (R)
Help, advice and information about your consumer concerns. Presented by John Howard
by James Hendrie and Ian Brown
Lots more yummy sketches and quickies this week, some of which are really quite good. Incidentally, a humorous misspelling of 'quickies' is 'quiches', which could come in handy for any budding scriptwriters out there!
Starring Robert Bathurst, Brenda Blethyn, Mike Grady and Jonathan Kydd
(Stereo)
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55 Listening Corner WILLIE RUSHTON reads King Jolly and the Christmas Cards Stereo (R)
2.00 GCSE Religious Studies Belief and the Rites of Passage (e) Patterns of Language at 2.30
7: A Faire Felde Ful ofFolke Compiled by RODERICK HUNT (R)(e) and at 2.45
8: Hear What I Say Compiled by PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL (RXe)
Introduced by Jenni Murray In the programme where women tell their own stories, Sue Mavgolis meets some women who left their children behind when they walked out on their marriages. What are the effects on themselves and their children, and can they ever hope to get them back?
A series of five magical plays
4: Ivan the Fool and Vasilisa the Wise by STEPHEN MULRINE
Narrated by Nicholas McArdle
'This is a very peculiar story....' And so it is, with a man-eating witch, a talking doll, a dead princess and a live skeleton - the source of all the world's evil. But the course of true love never did run smooth and Ivan the Fool is determined to marry the beautiful Vasilisa, no matter what the obstacles.
Technical assistance by JOHN WHITEHALL and WILFRED ACOSTA
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS
Stereo
This week in Radio 4's good books programme, Gabriel's Lament - a powerful study of bereavement as obsession - eccentric, original and comic. Nigel Forde talks to the acclaimed novelist Paul Bailey about this and his earlier works.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT
(Revised broadcast of yesterday 's programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID SYMONDS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents : around the world including Financial Report
devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J.MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
Last year Britain's premier scientific organisation, the Royal Society, set up a committee on the public understanding of science, in the belief that widespread scientific ignorance and lack of public support have contributed to a decline of British research. Its objective: to find a way of saving British science from the cultural ghetto.
With the help of an opinion poll commissioned by Radio 4, Georgina Ferry assesses public attitudes to science, and conducts a wide-ranging debate over the state of science education in Britain's schools, the adequacy of scientific coverage in the media, and whether scientists do enough to promote the importance and excitement of their own subject. Talking part Robert Jackson mp, Professor Dennis Noble , Dr Joan Solomon and Bernard Dixon
Producer JULIAN BROWN
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presented by Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: Does He Take Sugar?
BBC, London W1A 4WW Phone [number removed]
Lines open from 10.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday
Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SALLY MARMION
Jackdaw Cake (4) Stereo
Presented by Richard Kershaw National and international news
Radio 4's international business report: market trends
followed by an interlude
